Political studies - October 2008

Symposium on ethical norms, political agency and the state

• Global distributive justice and the state - Simon Caney
• Taking constitutionalism beyond the state - Neil Walker
• What's so special about states? Liberal legitimacy in a globalising world - Terry Macdonald
• Hybrid states: globalisation and the politics of state capacity - Mark Robinson

Political studies and the contextual turn: a methodological/normative critique - Stephanie Lawson
Democracy, solidarity and post-nationalism - Jeff Spinner-Halev
Global-local linkage in the Western Balkans: the politics of environmental capacity building in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Adam Fagan
Do mayoral elections work? Evidence from London - John Curtice et al
Self-transgressive enjoyment as a freedom fetter - Jason Glynos
Convincing claims? Democracy and representation in post-9/11 Britain - Giles Moss and Ben O'Loughlin