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Palermo 2001

EAPC • Europe Meeting • May 3 to 5, 2001• Palermo/Italy


Programme


Thursday, May 3 2001
4.00 pm
6.00 pm
7.00 pm
Registration
Board meeting
Welcome Cocktail
Friday, May 4 2001
9.00 am


9.30 am




10.30 am
11.00 am



11:40 am




12:10 am



1.00 pm
2.30 pm






4.10 pm
4.20 pm


4.50 pm


5:10 pm
6.00 pm
SESSION I: WELCOMING REMARKS
Mario Ballerini, Italy
Salvatore Aleo, Mayor of Palermo, Italy
SESSION II: POLITICS IN ITALY
Speakers:
Walter Marossi: Parties and coalitions in Italy in the last 10 years
Mauro Terlizzi: Upcoming Italian national elections
Session chair: Sepp Hartinger, Austria
Coffee break
SESSION III: ETHNIC VOTE IN USA AND AUSTRALIA
Speakers: Joe R. Cerrell, USA
                   Jonathan Gaul, Australia
Session chair: Volker Riegger, Germany
SESSION IV: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PRIVATE ISSUE
ADVOCACY GROUPS IN AMERICAN POLITICS TODAY

Speakers: Dallas Lawrence, USA
                    David Kensinger, USA
Session chair: Elena Bashkirova, Russia
SESSION V: THE GREAT GOLD RUSH: CREATING THE FIRST GLOBAL VOTER ROLL
Speaker: John Aristotle Phillips, USA
Session chair: Jimmy Margo, Malta
Lunch at Grand Hotel Villa Igiea
SESSION VI: A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD IS COMING
Speakers:
Phil Noble, USA: New internet technologies in Europe and around the world
Norbert Scharf, Germany: German government on the internet
Pierre Marie Vidal, France: E-government: Gerneral situation in Europe
Niklas Nordstrom, Sweden: Is E-Democracy the future?
Marco Cacciotto, Italy: Use of internet in Italy
Coffee break
Chistoph Hofinger, Austria: How the web affect politics: 5 trends and 4 entertaining examples
Session chair: Phil Noble, USA
SESSION VII: POLITICAL MANAGEMENT TRAINING IN THE UNITED STATES
Speaker: Dennis Johnson, USA
Session chair: Klaus Stöhlker, Switzerland
End of session
Business Meeting
Saturday, May 5 2001
9.00 am



9.20 am

10.20 am

10.50 am
11.00 am
11.20 am
11.40 am

12:00 am
12:30 am
SESSION VIII: CASE HISTORIES
Speakers:
Michel Bongrand, France: Where is France going? Municipal, Presidential and National Elections
Joe Napolitan, USA; Ken Feltman, USA; Thomas Edmonds, USA: The American presidential election that nobody won and what has happened since them
Rasa Alisauskiene, Lithuania: Perceived corruption in central and easern Europe. A survey of 8 capitals.
Coffee break
Pär Lönegård, Sweden: The Czech Republic - Preparing for 2001 elections
Michael Carmichael, U.K.: Status of the Realm: British elections 2001
Julio Aurelio, Argentina: Socio Political Indicators of crisis in Argentina
Session chair: Barbla Schaerer, Switzerland
SESSION IX: OPEN SESSION
End of conference

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Participants

Argentina:
Julio Aurelio, Maria Susana Alvarez de Aurelio
Australia:
Helen Gaul, Jonathan Gaul
Austria:
Johanna Hartinger, Sepp Hartinger, Susanne Hartinger, Christoph Hofinger, Lothar Müller
Finland:
Ikka Ahtokivi, Pekka Kivela
France:
Michel Bongrand, Pierre Marie Vidal
Germany:
Harald Felling, Volker Riegger, Norbert Scharf
Greece:
Ioannis Konstantinidis
Italy:
Salvatore Aleo, Emilia Amico, Ivana Baiunco, Federica Ballerini, Mario Ballerini, Marco Cacciotto, Umberto Cortese, Alain Cusimano, Pietro Fiandaca, Guiseppe Gallé, Simona Giarratanao,
Walter Marossi, Irene Milazzo, Nives Paulovich, Caterina Manuela Perconte, Andrea Quattrocchi,
Antonio Scimeca, Mauro Terlizzi,
Lithuania:
Rasa Alisauskiene
Malta:
Jimmy Magro
Mexico:
Rafael Reyes, Yolande de Reyes
Portugal:
Ana Fernandes
Russia:
Elena Bashkirova, Natalia Laidinen, Igor Mintusov
Spain:
José Manuel Talero Garcia,
Sweden:
Pär Lönegård, Niklas Nordström
Switzerland:
Mark Muller, Alexandra Rys, Barbla Schaerer, Klaus Stöhlker, Paula Stöhlker-Vogel
Turkey:
Mehmet Ural, Aysegul Ural
United Kingdom:
Michael Carmichael, Virginia Ross
USA:
Joseph Cerrell, Nicolas Checa, Thomas Edmonds, Ken Feltman, Nancy Feltman, Dennis Johnson, David Kensinger, Dallas Lawrence, Joseph Naplitan, Phil Noble, John Aristotle Philips, Carolyn Sherins Hofinger