Reflections on the Pakistan Elections 2018

Arrival, registration and tea and coffee
10.30am

Pakistan's (un)changing regime
11am-12.30pm

• Ian Talbot (Southampton), 'Pakistan's 2018 Elections in Historical Context'
• Katharine Adeney (Nottingham), 'Understanding the Pakistan 2018 election through the hybrid regime framework'
• Ayesha Siddiqa (SOAS), 'Pakistan - Hybridization of Politics'

Lunch
12.30-1.30pm

Implications for Parties and Government
1.30-3pm

• Mariam Mufti (Waterloo), 'Explaining Candidate-Party Linkages in Pakistan'
• Adnan Naseemullah (KCL) and Pradeep Chhibber (Berkeley), 'Visions of Governance and the Party Systems of Pakistan'
• Filippo Boni (Birmingham), 'China, CPEC and the 2018 elections: past trajectory and future challenges'

Tea and Coffee
3-3.30pm

Situating Voters in the Electoral Process
3.30-5pm

• Khalid Jarral (Nottingham), 'Pakistan elections: the role of social media'
• Shandana Mohmand (Sussex), 'Rural Voters under Inequality in Pakistan'
• Farzana Shaikh (Chatham House), 'Islamic parties and the invention of the 'moderate' voter in Pakistan'

Close
5pm

Workshop co-sponsored by the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute and the Politics of South Asia Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association.