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States, Regimes, Societies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

10 June 2024, 09.45 \u2013 17.45<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Exeter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Streatham Campus (Knightley)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Register here:  Eventbrite form<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of \u2018regime\u2019 is a central feature of the analytical toolbox in the field of Comparative Politics, where it predominantly refers to the ensemble of rules that determine how political power, conceived as control of national political institutions, can be achieved (Schmitter and Karl 1991; Munck 1996). It also features strongly in the field of Public Policy, where it principally refers to the \u2018governing arrangements for addressing policy problems\u2019 (May and Jochim 2013: 428). International Relations scholars refer to \u2018regimes\u2019 when they seek to understand how norms and institutions change in the international system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, \u2018regime\u2019 has received less attention in Political Theory, particularly in the Anglo-American literature; in spite of its historical lineage, from the Latin \u2018regere\u2019: to direct, control, steer, govern; and its use since the French Revolution to refer to a whole pre-modern social system, as the ancien regime<\/em>. In \u2018positive\u2019 political theory, it is used generically as indicating any form of government or institutionalized order, or qualifying them, as when we talk of different democratic \u2018regimes\u2019. However, other terms like system and governance have taken over some of its meaning. It seems to have no place in \u2018normative\u2019 political theory, if not as in the negative and often rhetoric sense of indicating illegitimate and authoritarian forms of governments or states. The only recent use as a theoretical concept can be found in French authors such as Castoriadis and Lefort, where regime is used to indicate the social nature of political forms against a purely institutional and procedural definition of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This neglect of the concept \u2018regime\u2019 in Political Theory is curious, and raises a number of questions. Why is a concept so central in some parts of the study of Politics and so marginal in others? What is the relationship between the core political concepts of \u2018state\u2019, \u2018regime\u2019, \u2018society\u2019 and \u2018government\u2019? Does \u2018regime\u2019 do anything for us that \u2018government\u2019 does not? Do we need the concept of \u2018regime\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop proposes a thorough discussion of \u2018regime\u2019 and its relationship to other core concepts in the study of Politics. It brings together scholars working with the term from a variety of subfields to tease out the distinctions in the way we use this term and to explore whether and how \u2018regimes\u2019 might provide a lens to help us interpret the relationship between states and societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To join the workshop, please register your interest on this Eventbrite form,<\/a> by Friday 24th<\/sup> May<\/strong>, so that we can have an idea of numbers for catering etc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programme<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

9.45 \u2013 10.00<\/strong>\u00a0Coffee, welcome, and introductions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

10.00 \u2013 11.50 <\/strong>Panel: Between Political Regimes and Policy Regimes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n