This is a bit in advance of the official ECPR website announcement ... but I have pasted in the list of successful workshops below. The Theory 'College' advised on workshops 13, 14 and 15, but bear in mind that other workshops are obviously 'theoretical' and many will be 'theory-friendly' regarding some papers (i.e. many workshops say they will have a mix of 'theoretical' and 'empirical' papers), so when the 'call for papers' goes out in June (with details of each workshop), do consider a wide variety of options. Best wishes, Terrell GRANADA JOINT SESSIONS 14 – 19 April 2005 ACCEPTED WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 1. Democracy and Political Parties Ingrid Van Biezen (University of Birmingham) and Richard S Katz (Johns Hopkins University) 2. Elections and Democracy in Latin America Olivier Dabène (Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence) and Fátima García-Díez (Universidad de Salamanca) 3. Societal Regionalisation in Eastern and Western Europe Jürgen Dieringer (Central European University) and Roland Strum (Universität Erlanger-Nürnberg) 4. Making EU policy work: national strategies for implementing, postponing and evading EU legislation Marco Giuliani (Università di Milano ) and Bernard Steunenberg (Leiden University) 5. The Future of Gender Equality in the European Union Mercedes Mateo Diaz (Université catholique de Louvain) and Susan Millns (University of Kent) 6. Equality of Opportunity Ian Carter (University of Pavia) and David Miller (Oxford University) 7. Evaluating, Comparing and Classifying Legislatures David Arter, (University of Aberdeen) and Matti Wiberg (University of Turku) 8. Foreign Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice Walter Carlsnaes (Uppsala University) 9. The Performance of Democracy in Central Eastern Europe Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Universitat Luneburg) and Vello Pattei (University of Tartu) 10. The Selection and Deselection of Ministers Keith Dowding (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Patrick Dumont (Université catholique de Louvain) 11. Post-Cold War Democratization in the Muslim World: Domestic, Regional and Global Trends Frédéric Volpi (University of Bristol) and Francesco Cavatorta (University College Dublin) 12. Inclusiveness of new forms of local and regional political decision in terms of gender and ethnicity Monique Leyenaar (University Nijmegen) and Elizabeth Meehan (Queen’s University Belfast) 13. New Directions in Cultural Politics Kate Nash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and John Street (University of East Anglia) 14. Metaphor in Political Science Jernej Pikalo (University of Ljubljana) and Terrell Carver (University of Bristol) 15. The Politics of Friendship: Bridging the Gap Between Theoretical and Empirical Studies Preston King (University of East Anglia) and Oleg Kharkhordin (European University at St. Petersburg) 16. Mapping Biopolitics: Medical-Scientific Transformations and the Rise of New Forms of Governance Kathrin Braun (University of Hannover) and Herbert Gottweis (University of Vienna) 17. Initiating Sustainable Development: Patterns of Sub-National Engagement and their Significance Susan Baker (Cardiff University) and Katarina Eckerberg (Umeå University) 18. State Feminism and Women’s Movements: Assessing change of the last decade in Europe Joyce Outshoorn (Leiden University) and Johanna Kantola (University of Helsinki) 19. Local Participation in Different Contexts Angelika Vetter (University of Stuttgart) and Henk van der Kolk (University of Twente) 20. Pioneers and Convergence in National Environmental Policy: Concepts, Causes and Conditions Christoph Knill (Universität Konstanz) and Kerstin Tews (Freie Universität Berlin) 21. Crisis and Politics: Investigations, Accountability and Learning Paul 't Hart (Utrecht University) and Eric Stern (Uppsala University) 22. The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting Bjørn Erik Rasch (University of Oslo) and George Tsebelis (University of California, Los Angeles) 23. Transnational Private Governance in the Global Political Economy Jean-Christophe Graz (University of Lausanne) and Andreas Nölke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 24. Dominant Parties and Democracy Matthijs Bogaards (International University Bremen) and Françoise Boucek (London School of Economics and Political Science) 25. .Intraparty politics and its effects on government formation and duration in parliamentary systems Daniela Giannetti (University of Bologna) and Kenneth Benoit (Trinity College Dublin) 26. The Role of Political Agency in the Constitutional Politics of the European Union Derek Beach (University of Aarhus) and Thomas Christiansen (European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht) 27. Comparing Environmental Movements in the North and South Brian Doherty (University of Keele) and Timothy Doyle (University of Adelaide ) 28. Electoral Processes as Democratizing Element in Maghreb Countries Angustias Parejo (University of Granada) and Rémy Leveau (Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris) 29. Blame-avoidance and blame-management: Institutional and policy implications Christopher Hood (University of Oxford) and Moshe Maor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 30. Patterns of regional democracies: Institution building and policy performance in European autonomous regions Adrian Vatter (Universität Bern) and Lieven De Winter (Université Catholique de Louvain)