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Call for Papers
This EGPA Permanent Study Group seeks to analyse and understand key features of the EU; with a special emphasis on the administration of its institutions, and the MLG frameworks through which it operates in the various sectors of European public policy.
We are calling for papers that fall within the remit of our PSG and would be especially keen to accept papers that provide an investigation and analysis of EU case studies.
The Study Group focuses on the increasingly complex multilevel administrative system in Europe. This system takes place within the context of an increasingly differentiated polity, one with profound implications at global, European/regional, national and local levels.
The Group seeks to understand this complexity through asking pertinent questions such as:
- What are its traits?
- How does it work?
- In other words, what are the mechanisms, processes, actors and patterns of vertical differentiation inherent to this system?
The institutions of the European Union can be seen as the “hub” of the new administrative system, but we also explore the horizontal differentiation in the form of the administrative interchange in the context of semi-autonomous regulatory bodies at national and international levels. There are three major interrelated issues that form a part of this:
1. we seek to understand what it is that we observe;
2. how do we explain varying patterns of vertical and horizontal multilevel interaction, and
3. what is the impact of particular administrative interaction in various sectors of European public policy, i.e. what are the systematic effects of administrative change in the multilevel system for policy-making.
Our main focal points are:
- Management Reforms in supranational Organisations;
- Heterogeneity and Similarities in Multilevel Administrative Interaction;
- Administrative Integration and Disintegration in the European Union;
- Supranational Law as Encouragement and Constraint;
- Theorising the Administrative Dimension of Multilevel Governance and Revisiting the Notion of European Administrative Space and other conceptualizations of administrative change like convergence;
- Exploring the policy process in the differentiated polity;
- How policy is formulated, implemented and evaluated.
In addition to this general call for papers we will also be launching ‘The Max Weber Forum’ at the Bucharest conference. This will become an annual event.
Max Weber’s theory of bureaucracy is part of his concept of legitimate and rational authority in modern societies. Max Weber has coined our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of public administrations.
His thinking has still great impact in our discipline. In the Max Weber Forum classical theoretical positions in our discipline shall be re-visited before the background of contemporary societal, economic and political change.
The aim is to re-connect modern, empirical social science of public administrations with the grand theoretical debates that have shaped our past research agendas. In our reading the modern world changed dramatically, thus next to national contexts, analysts of public administration are increasingly confronted with multilevel constellations and situations of poly-centrality. Public Administration has however not yet found the appropriate analytical tools, let alone theoretical positions to come to grips with multilevel and policy-centric constellations.
The world today is very different from the world of the 19th and 20th century. Max Weber is the patron of developing a new perspective on public administration in times of great transformation. We are convinced that however such a “new perspective” may look like, whether it is only gradually different from previous ones or whether it is really different in kind, in order to seriously engage in understanding the role public administration as part of legitimate and rational governance in the 21st century we need to engage in a dialogue with our classical theoretical positions. To give this dialogue a place we initiate the Max Weber Forum.
Abstracts for consideration, whether for the general call for papers or for the Max Weber Forum, should be sent to all three the co-conveners by May 1st.
We will notify successful applicants by June 1st and invite them to deliver a full paper for presentation at the conference in Bucharest. The text of the completed paper must be with the Co-Chairs by 10th July at the latest.
Co-conveners:
| Prof. Edoardo ONGARO, Bocconi University, Viale Isonzo 23 IT-20135 Milano, ITALY Tel: +39.02.5836.2605 ; Fax: +39-02.5836.2593 E-mail: edoardo.ongaro@unibocconi.it |
Prof. Dr. Michael W. BAUER, Humbolt University Berlin - Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitätsstraße 3b , Room 308, DE-10099 Berlin – GERMANY Tel.: +49/30 2093-4239 ; Email: mw.bauer@sowi.hu-berlin.de |
| Prof. Andrew MASSEY, University of Exeter, Department of Politics Amory Building, Rennes Drive., EX4 4RJ EXETER – UNITED KINGDOM, Tel: +44/1392 723164; Fax: +44/1392 263305; E-mail: A.Massey@exeter.ac.uk |
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