GAAS-Conference 2018: Transformation of Democracy – Mobilisation, Representation and Responsiveness
Project no.:
18-085
Date:
Thursday, 15th - Saturday, 17th, November 2018
Venue:
University of Passau, Innstraße 40, 94032 Passau
Partner:
Politikwissenschaft der Universität Passau
German Association for American Studies
Target group:
Political scientists, historians, sociologists as well as a larger interested audience
Participation fee:
10,00 euro (w/o accomodation or food)
Registration:
You can register for this conference online until November 9, 2018 here.
Recommended accomodation:
IBB Hotel Passau City Center, Bahnhofstr. 24, Passau (68 euro per night)
Description:
The USA is the world's oldest working democracy. But two and a half centuries in, it is not the same democracy envisioned by its founding fathers. The challenges and developments of the 21st century, especially, have wrought wrenching changes. Political power remains in the hands of the people, but there is a camp that feels a deep dissatisfaction, a cultural decline and an economic indignation. It has set out on an anti-liberal, anti-intellectual path - conspiracy theories abound. A part of the electorate is in denial about climate change. Many would seem to condone willful authoritarianism. The ideological divide is vast. The uncompromising stances of polar opposites have locked policymakers in a permanent stalemate. At this point grass-roots movements appear to build more and more momentum. Protests and civil disobedience are on the rise. There is a new political vigor and dynamism in the air and maybe a more democratic and empowering form of democracy in the offing.
The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies will deal with questions of a transforming democracy.
Program (pdf-file)
Thursday, November 15, 2018
4.00pm
Welcome
4.30pm
Opening Keynote Address – The 2018 Election: The People Have Spoken. What Did They Say?
Kerry L Haynie (Duke University)
6pm
Keynote Address II - Rethinking Presidential Greatness in the Age of Trump
Justin Vaughn (Boise State University)
7.45pm
Dinner
Friday, November 16, 2018
10.00pm
Panel 1 - A Crisis of Democracy, a constitutional crisis or business as usual?
Chair: Winand Gellner
Inequality, Responsiveness, and the Viability of Democratic Rule
Christian Lammert / Boris Vormann
Transforming democracy and partisanship: globalization and its counter-movements in the U.S.
Betsy Leimbigler
Transformation of Democracy Oligarchizing Tendencies, Responsiveness, Inequality and Elitist Tendencies
Jörg Hebenstreit
Why U.S. Support for the Liberal World Order is Under Threat
Jack Thompson
12.00pm
Lunch Break
1.30pm
Panel 2 - Threats to Democracy
Chair: Michael Dreyer
The other Breitbarts: Exploring the Populist Right Wing’s Digital News Environment in the US
Curd Knüpfer
Future unknown: How Digital Technologies and the ‘Future of Work’ are Unsettling America
Natalie Rauscher
America’s Four-Party System: Party Fragmentation & The Transformation of the Primary
Mike Cowburn
From Red vs. Blue to Black vs. White: How the Demographic Transformation of the United States has Shaped Partisan Majorities and will Transform its Democracy
Philipp Adorf
3.30pm
Guided City Tour
6.00pm
Keynote Address III - Trump or Trumpism? American Political Thought and the Aesthetics of Trumpian Politics
Alisa Kessel (Puget Sound University)
Saturday, November 17, 2018
9.00am
Panel 3 - Changes in Institutions and Policy
Chair: Christian Lammert
The Supreme Court: Shifting Majorities
Michael Dreyer
The Politics of Removal: When a President Will Be Impeached – and When Not
Patrick Horst
Central American Advocacy in Response to the Revocation of TPS
Ana-Constantina Frost
10.30am
Coffee Break
10.45am
Panel 4 - Implications of the Ongoing Elite and Mass Polarization
Chair: Patrick Horst
Framing “Them” – The Influence of Contemporary Populist Framing on the Anti-Authority Attitude in the United States
Maren Anne Schäfer
Geographies of Discontent
Guido Rohmann
The US Supreme Court: Source of or Barrier to Polarization?
Sebastian Dregger
12:15pm
Farewell & Business Meeting
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