DEMOCRACY AND EXTREMISM - Georgia State University

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11
DEMOCRACY AND EXTREMISM
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
JUNE 11-13, 2008
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
5:30-7:00
Reception for Conference Participants
Golden Key Room
Student University Center
360 Student Center
44 Courtland St
Atlanta, GA 30303-3973
#30 on Campus Map http://www.gsu.edu/files/CampusMap.pdf
THURSDAY, JUNE 12
University Center, Room 480/485
#34 on Campus Map http://www.gsu.edu/files/CampusMap.pdf
8:00-8:30
Coffee, Juice and Muffins
8:30-8:45
Welcome and Introductory Comments
William Downs, Georgia State University
8:45-9:45
PANEL 1. CONCEPTUALIZING EXTREMISM AND (IN)TOLERANCE: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Moderator: William Downs, Georgia State University
Panelists: Daniel Sabia, University of South Carolina
Joel Olson, Northern Arizona University
Carrie Wickham, Emory University
Carrie Manning, Georgia State University
Ciarán O'Kelly, Queen’s University Belfast
10:00-11:45
PANEL 2. EXPLAINING SUPPORT FOR EXTREMISM IN EUROPE
Chair: Vanja Petricevic, Georgia State University
vpetricevic@bellsouth.net
The Politics of the Past in Western Europe
David Art, Tufts University
David.Art@tufts.edu

Contextualizing Extreme Right Support: A Multilevel Analysis of Voting for Extreme
Right Parties in Europe
Ben Bowyer, College of William and Mary
btbowy@wm.edu
Why Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Gain Political Influence? The Case of the
Austrian Freedom Party 1986-2000
Göran Adamson, London School of Economics
goran.adamson@mah.se
Group Threat in Northern Ireland: Examining Vote Shares for Radical Parties
Donald Beaudette and Andrew Kirkpatrick, Emory University
abkirkp@emory.edu, dbeaude@emory.edu
Discussant: Carolyn Forestiere, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
forestie@umbc.edu
12:15 LUNCH
University Center, Room 460/465
#34 on Campus Map http://www.gsu.edu/files/CampusMap.pdf
1:30-3:00
PANEL 3. MOST DIFFERENT SYSTEMS? COMPARING POLITICAL EXTREMISM ACROSS REGIONS
Chair: Carrie Manning, Georgia State University
polclm@langate.gsu.edu
Extremist Political Parties: A View from South Africa
Laurence Caromba, University of Pretoria
caromba@gmail.com
Extremism and Military Intervention in South Asia: Indian Muslims and Sri Lankan
Tamils
Manus I. Midlarsky, Rutgers University
midlarsk@rci.rutgers.edu
The ideology of Russian extremism: Kondopoga case: National revolution or the
acknowledgement of a dead end
Dmitry Shlapentokh, Indiana University South Bend
dshlapen@iusb.edu
Japanese National Attachment
Satoko Yasuno, Chuo University (Japan)
yasuno@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp
Discussant: Tom Crick, Carter Center
thomas.crick@gmail.com

3:15-5:00
PANEL 4. ASSESSING ALTERNATIVE RESPONSES TO PARTY-BASED EXTREMISM
Chair: Charles Hankla, Georgia State University
polcrh@langate.gsu.edu
Extremist parties in East Central Europe during post-communist transformation
process
Miroslav Mares, Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
mmares@fss.muni.cz
Will it all end in tears? What really happens when democracies ban parties
Tim Bale, University of Sussex (UK)
t.p.bale@sussex.ac.uk
Banning Extremist Parties: From the Weimar Paradigm to the Legitimacy Paradigm
Gur Bligh, Columbia Law School
gb2171@columbia.edu
Democracy and Extremism: The British Conservative Party and the Far Right
Mark Pitchford, University of Cardiff (UK)
mark.pitchford@btinternet.com
Discussant: James Peterson, Valdosta State University
jpetersn@valdosta.edu
FRIDAY, JUNE 13
8:00-8:30
Coffee, Juice and Muffins University Center, Room 480/485
8:30-10:00
PANEL 5. EXTREMISM IN AMERICA? OF MILITIAS AND RELIGION…
Chair: Rich Engstrom, Georgia State University
polrne@langate.gsu.edu
Violence, American Style
Jennet Kirkpatrick, University of Michigan
jennetk@umich.edu
Democratic Extremism: Abolitionists, Abortionists, and the Democratic Uses of
Fanaticism
Joel Olson, Northern Arizona University
joel.olson@nau.edu
One Nation, Two Americas: A Discourse Analysis of Engle and Abington
Scott Norman, Florida State University
swnorman@hotmail.com
Discussant: William McLean, Arkansas State University
wmclean@astate.edu

10:30-12:00
PANEL 6. “EXTREMISM”…A GENUINE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY?
Chair: Cynthia Michota, Georgia State University
cmfrank82@yahoo.com
The Regulation of Public Space in Northern Ireland
Ciarán O'Kelly, Queen’s University Belfast
c.okelly@qub.ac.uk
Medium Assumptions on the Doctrine of Tolerance in Democracies
Nubert Boubeka, Arizona State University
nbiambou@asu.edu
The ‘useful extremism’: a case of pragmatic mésalliance or when democracies
sponsor international extremists
Aristotle A. Kallis, Lancaster University (UK)
a.kallis@lancaster.ac.uk
Judicial activism: A role negation or re-leveraging for relevance as Bastion of
Democracy - Perspectives from low resource and fragile democratic settings in sub-
Saharan Africa
David Umendu, Pan African Academy (Namibia)
paanamibia@gmail.com
Discussant: Mario Feit, Georgia State University
polmaf@langate.gsu.edu
12:15 LUNCH
University Center, Room 460/465
1:30-3:00
PANEL 7. RESPONSES TO TERRORIST EXTREMISM
Chair: Jeannie Grussendorf, Georgia State University
poljag@langate.gsu.edu
Reformation of a Terrorist Group: Hezbollah of Lebanon as a Political Party
Krista E. Wiegand, Georgia Southern University
kwiegand@georgiasouthern.edu
Foreign Support for Terrorism and the Military Option
Navin Bapat, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
bapat@email.unc.edu
Resistance Movements and Al-Qaeda
Mohammed Owais Khan, Georgia State University
Mkhan15@student.gsu.edu
Dining with Evil, Wining with God: Insight into the creation of an Extremist-proof
Identity in Nordic context
Ebraham Pournazaree, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
ebpourna@cc.jyu.fi

Discussant: Sherry Lowrance, University of Georgia
slowranc@uga.edu
3:15
CLOSING REMARKS
William Downs, Georgia State University
This conference is sponsored in part by the Department of Political Science, the College of Arts
and Sciences, and a Scholarly Research Conference Support Grant from Georgia State
University.