Sunday, May 27, 2007

Benvenuto !


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Wayne Parsons
Frank Fischer

Panel Lists - as of May 2007



REMINDER: PREPARE A PRESENTATION OF NO MORE THAN 10-15 MINS. In the lights of several requests for extensions could we urge everyone to have their papers ready by AUGUST 15th!!


P1: The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis: Integrating the Empirical and Normative in Deliberative-Analytic Practices

Chairperson: Frank Fischer, University of Kassel and Queen Mary, University of London

Herbert Gottweis, University of Vienna
Rhetoric in Policy Analysis: Integrating Logos, Ethos and Pathos

Frank Fischer, University of Kassel and QMUL,
Policy Analysis as Interpretive Practice: Situating the Empirical in Normative Context

Wayne Parsons: Queen Mary, University of London
“Policy Design: An Approach to Integrating Empirical and Normative Arguments”

Maarten Hajer, University of Amsterdam,
“Integrating the Empirical and the Normative through Performativity”

Nick Turnbull, University of Manchester,
“Beyond the Problem Orientation: Policy Analysis and the Practice of Rhetoric”

P2: Discourse Analysis in Public Policy

Chairpersons: Steven Griggs, University of Birmingham and David Howarth, University of Essex

Steven Griggs, University of Birmingham and David Howarth, University of Essex
“Problematisation, Airport Governance, and the Politics of “Predict and Provide.”

Stephen Jeffares, University of West England
“The Contribution of Empty Signifiers to Discourse Policy Analysis”

Michael Farrelly, University of Birmingham
“Setting the Terms for Public Participation: A Critical Discourse Analytic Approach to Area Forums in England”

Aletta Norval, University of Essex
“Democracy and Policy Analysis: The Constitution of Democratic Subjects”

Kateryna Pishchikova, Scuola Superiore Sant Anna
“Dialogical Discourse Analysis: Applying Mikhail Bakhtin to Policy Analysis”


P3: Doing Publics: Public Participation as Performative Practice in New Governance Arrangements

Chairperson: Kathrin Braun, University of Hannover

Anne Loeber and Maarten Hajer, University of Amsterdam
“Constructing publics in novel participatory governance practices: enhancing the legitimacy of governmental action vis-à-vis food safety and food production”

Ingrid Metzler and Herbert Gottweis, University of Vienna
“Cellular choreographies and their publics: The governance of human embryonic stem cell research in the United Kingdom and Italy”

Larry Reynolds and Bron Szerszynski, University of Lancaster
“Engagement and purification: locating the public in GM Nation?”

Kathrin Braun and S. Schultz, University of Hannover
“Pure publics and embodied expertise. Privileged forms of publics in the policy area of genetic testing”


P4: Deliberative Policy Analysis: Theory and Methods

Chairperson: Henk Wagenaar, University of Leiden

Navdeep, Mathur, Indian Institute of Management
“Using Discursive Methodology to analyze Policy Deliberation”

Thomas Streitfellner, University of Vienna
“Enriching Deliberative Policy Analysis: A Policy Ethnographic Approach”

Louisa Huxtable, University of Swansea
Business-Environment Policy and Planning in Wales: The Case of the Expert Panel on Resources Management

Kate Crowley, University of Tasmania
“Deliberative Theory in Practice? Participatory Subnational Policy Design in Tasmania

Emmanuel, Papazolglou, Greek Parliament
“The Politics of Deliberation: A Normative and Empirical Assessment of the Greek Experience with Deliberation on Education”


P5 Participatory Approaches to Policy Making

Chairperson: Elenora Pasotti, University of Santa Cruz

Giovanni Allegretti, University of Coimbra
“Which future for Participatory Budget? The Italian case within the European context”

Elenora Pasotti, University of Santa Cruz
NGOs, service provision and direct democracy: contours of a complex relationship”

Ludivine Damay, University of Saint-Louis (FUSL)
Discourse and Interaction in Deliberative Policy: The Case of Participatory Budget in Mons, Belgium

Fabrizio Cantelli, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
“Citizen Participation and Public Policy: Between Citizenship, Ethics and Market”



P6: Global and Comparative Policy

Chairpersons: Christoph Scherrer and Frank Fischer, University of Kassel

Christoph Scherrer, University of Kassel
Political and Policy Discourse in International Relations Theory: A Theoretical Assessment

Dieter Plehwe, Science Center Berlin
“Global Think Tanks and the Shaping of the Neo-Liberal Discourse”

Joscha Wullweber, University of Hamburg
“The Cultural Political Economy of Technology Policies: The Regulation of Nanotechnology and the Internationalization of the State”

Antonio Ramos Dos Santos, University of Lisbon
“Repercussions of European Integration: Portugual and the EHEA

Nilufer Karacasulu and Cepel Zuhal, Dokuz Eylul University
“European Identify Formation and the Question of Turkey’s Accession to the EU”


P7 Policy Design, Instruments, Evaluation, and Termination

Chairperson, Wayne Parsons, Queen Mary, University of London

Jan-Peter Voß, Oeko-Institut Berlin,
“Design and dynamics in governance: Innovation journeys of policy instruments”

Peter Biegelbauer, Institute for Advanced Studies
“How Much Evidence is there in Evidence based Policy-Making ? ”

Christina Ribbhagen, Goteborg University
“Technocratic and Political Rationality in Policy Design”

Bettina Koenig, Andreas Tiel, Martina Padmanabha, and Stefan Sieber, Humoldt University
“Designing Tools for Ex Ante Resource Policy Assessment.”

Christoph Knill and Michael Bauer, University of Konstanz
“The Policy Termination Approach: Critique and Conceptual Perspectives”


P8 Governance, Participation, and Policy Networks in Comparative Perspective

Chairperson: Giliberto Capano. University of Bologna

Carolyn Hendriks, University of Canberra
"Making democratic sense of network governance: the case of Dutch energy reforms”

Sara Cobb, George Mason University & David Law, University of Amsterdam
“Better Formed Stories: Roles, Positions and Development in Governance Conflicts”

Masha Djordjevic, Open Society Institute, Budapest
“Transferring Strategic Planning: The Effects on Urban Governance in Budapest”

Gu, Hongyan, University of Sydney
“In Search of Solution for Wicked Enviromental Problems in a Network Society—Collaborative learning in China and Japan”

Lisa Ireni-Saban, Tel Aviv University
“Genetic Discrimination in Policy Networks in Germany and Israel: A Comparative Analysis”

P9 The politics of ageing: Policies and practices for an ageing society

Chairperson: Ursula Naue, University of Vienna.

Anna Durnová, University of Vienna
“To die or not to die”: professionalizing the empathy as a new practice for end-of-life policy?

Oliver Giraud, Humboldt University
“Aging Policy in India: The Discursive Dimension of an Emerging Social Policy”

Paul Higgs, University College London
“The Power of Silver: Age and Identity Politics”

Ursula Naue, University of Vienna
“Risk factor age”: Governing dementia in the context of the biopolitics of ageing”