Political Thought and Political Economy, PSA annual conference, Cardiff, 26-28 March 2018

PSA Political Thought Specialist Group.

Panel Political Thought and Political Economy:

2018 PSA annual conference,  Cardiff,  26-28 March 2018.  Conference theme: Asking Difficult Questions. 

Panel convenor: Robin Jervis, University of Brighton;

In this panel we aim to consider the difficult questions: 

·       How can concepts (freedom, democracy etc.) in political theory help us to interrogate economic activity?

·       What are the appropriate boundaries/spheres for the application of political theory?

·       How can we dissolve (or reinforce) the boundaries between the disciplines of political thought and political economy?

Possible topics (not exhaustive!) might include:

·       Political thought and labour markets

·       Republicanism and domination in the workplace

·       Democracy in the firm

·       Gender, political theory and work

·       Distributive justice

·       Political theory perspectives on gender and production

·       Democratic socialism and property-owning democracy

·       Ideology and economic organisation

Please let me know if you’re interested; abstracts by 1st November at the latest please to r.je…@brighton.ac.uk.;  we will then frame the panel application to suit the papers proposed.