Conference: ‘The Hollande presidency one year on’
Organised by Ben Clift (University of Warwick) and Raymond Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London) at the
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford.
Friday 3rd May, 2013 (9 am to 5 pm)
Morning session 1: 9.00–10.45
Gérard Grunberg (Sciences Po, Paris) ‘Framing the Hollande presidency’
Raymond Kuhn (QMUL) ‘Hollande and presidential performance’
Morning session 2: 11.00–12.45
Andy Knapp (University of Reading) ‘The Right: Fragmentation and Convergence’
Philippe Marlière (University College London) ‘The Hollande presidency viewed from the Left Front’
12.45–13.30: sandwich lunch at the Institute
Afternoon session 3: 13.30–15.00
Ben Clift (University of Warwick) and Magnus Ryner (Kings College, London) ‘The Euro-zone Crisis, Franco-German
Relations, and the New Politics of Austerity’
Sue Milner (University of Bath) ‘Employment and Labour Market Policy: The French Social Model in an Age of Austerity’
Afternoon session 4: 15.15–16.45
Emiliano Grossman & Nicolas Sauger (Sciences Po, Paris) ‘Broken promises? An early assessment of the opinion-policy link
under Hollande’
Alistair Cole (Cardiff University) ‘The politics of austerity in comparative perspective: State Reform and Decentralisation in
Hollande’s France’
The organisers gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and
Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, Queen Mary University of London, the French Politics specialist group of the
PSA and the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France.
We would like to thank the Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, David Levy, for providing space for
the conference and David Goldey for hosting the conference dinner at Lincoln College.