Study Group Co-Chairs
Prof. Dr. Colin COPUS, 2011 Coordinator
De Montfort University Leicester (United Kingdom)
Dr Marcel BOOGERS
Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
Dr Linze SCHAAP
Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Tomas BERGSTROM
Lund University (Sweden)
Schedule
(may be subject to change)
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2011 Study Group Theme: Local Elites: How Leaders, Parties and Organisations make a Difference in Local Governance
| Wednesday, 07/09/2011 | |
| 14.30 pm -16.15 pm | Conference Opening Session
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| 16.30 pm – 18.30 pm
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Session 1 :
Directors welcome and explanation of the sessions Introduction of participants research interests
Marcel BOOGERS, Tilburg University (The Netherlands) Local power structures compared: local elites in three Dutch cities |
| Thursday, 08/09/2011 | |
| 08.30 am – 10.30 am | Session 2 :
An HEYERICK, Ghent University (Belgium) Mimicry or Meltdown: On the Greening of New Local Political Parties
Koenraad MARCHAND, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) How party-networks effect the management of urban projects
Ulrik KJAER, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) Are Mayors Punished at the Polls for Implementing Municipal Amalgamations? – Evaluating the Electoral Consequences of the Structural Reform in Denmark
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| 10.30 am – 11.00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 am – 12.30 pm | Session 3
Catalin Daniel DUMITRICA and Dana Mihaela MURGESCU, SNSPA (Romania) The Impact of Political Leadership on the Establishment and Functioning of the Metropolitan Areas in Romania
Josef BERNARD, Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) Leadership in Small Communities: Mayors in Rural Municipalities in the Czech Republic and Local Development
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| 12.30 pm – 14.00 pm | Lunch Break |
| 14.00 pm – 16.00 pm | Session 4 :
Filipe TELES, University of Aveiro (Portugal) 2 Yes, I can! local leaders and their possibilities for leadership
Daniel KLIMOVSKÝ, technical University of Kosice (Slovakia) Do the institutional solutions matter? The impact of local political leadership reform on local governance in Poland and Slovakia
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| 16.00 -16.30 | Coffee break
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| 16.30 -18.30 | Session 5 :
Laurens de GRAAF, Tilburg University (The Netherlands) Making a difference in local governance: Social entrepreneurs and boundary spanners
Minna JOENSUU, University of Eastern Finland (Finland) Local Government Dualism Revisited – Actorship and Deliberation in the Local Government Decision-Making. Towards New Political Decision-Makers?
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| Friday, 09/09/2011 | |
| 08.30 am – 10.30 am | Session 6
Ugur SADIOGLU, Hacettepe University (Turkey) Effects of the regional development agencies on the role and decisiveness of the local elites in Turkey
Georg SOOTLA, Tallinn University (Estonia) From protective to assertive local autonomy: opportunities and obstacles of transforming during Estonia’s transition
Cristi IFTENE, Ovidius University of Constanta (Romania) The role of local leadership in modernization and improvement of local democracy: How much important is leader’s image and visibility?
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| 10.30 am – 11.00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 am – 13.00 pm | Session 7
Paweł SWIANIEWICZ, Warsaw University (Poland) Empirical Typology of Local Government Institutional Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
Discussion about publication plans; review of the workshop; and, ideas for future events.
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| 13.00 pm – 14.30 pm | Lunch Break |
| 14.30 pm – 16.30 pm | EGPA General Assembly and Closing Session
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