Time, Temporality and Timescapes in Politics and Policy

This workshop aims to examine political time, temporality and timescapes in the study of politics and public policy. Whilst references to temporal categories, such as timing, sequence, speed, duration, time budgets, time limits or time horizons, are ubiquitous both in comparative politics and comparative public policy, there are very few systematic treatments of time in political science. The workshop seeks to advance the debate (i) by exploring different facets of time and how they affect politics, government and public policy; (ii) by paying attention to time as a institution, a resource and a contextual variable; (iii) by discussing both the temporal features of politics and government (such as, e.g., election timing and term limits) and public policy-making (such as policy cycles or policy horizons); (iv) by exploring time in both diachronic-historical and synchronic analyses; and (v) by debating the status of time in different theoretical traditions in political and policy analysis.