3rd ECPR Conference, Panels and Papers
- 3.1 - Regulating the Global Economy - Convergence, Persistent Divergence or Hy/liidization of National Regulatory Regimes?
- 3.2 - The Diffusion of Regulatory Reforms
- 3.3 - Theorizing Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance
- 3.4 - European Regulatory Agencies: a New Model of Governance?
- 3.5 - Regulatory Agencies: Institutional and Actors Centred Approaches
- 3.6 - Liberalization, Regulation, Juridification
- 3.7 - The Regulation of Life Sciences: Themes for Comparative Analysis
- 3.8 - From Monopoly to Market via Regulation: Comparative Perspective on Public Service Utilities
- 3.9 - Behind and Beyond the Border: Regulation in an International Context
- 3.10 - Regulatory Governance and the Representation of Diffuse Interests
- 3.11 - Internet Regulation: Challenges of Governance
- 3.12 - The European Regulatory State
- 3.13 - The New Order of Regulatory Capitalism
3.1 - Regulating the Global Economy - Convergence, Persistent Divergence or Hybridization of National Regulatory Regimes?
Chair: Susanne Lütz (Fern Universität, Hagen)
Time: Thursday, 8th September 13:00-14:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Philip Cerny | Rutgers University, Newark | Baroque Neoliberalism and the Politics of Regulation: Getting More for Less, or Less for More? | presentation |
Susanne Lütz and Eberle Dagmar | Fern Universität Hagen | From National Diversity Towards Transnational Homogenizaton? - Corporate Governance Regulation Between market and Multi-Level Governance | presentation |
Daniel Mügge | University of Amsterdam | Diluting Varieties of Capitalism from below: Competitive imperatives in financial markets and the end of positive coordination | presentation |
Arjan Vliegenthart Arjan, Laura Horn | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | The EU as a formative actor on corporate governance structures in East Central Europe | presentation |
Markus Stanislav | Harvard University | Defensive Institutional Engineering and Global Convergence: Corporate Governance Reforms in Russia | presentation |
Jonathan Westrup | Boston University | The Politics of Financial Regulatory Reform and the Privatization of Risk | tabled |
Westrup Jonathan | Boston University |   | discussant |
3.2 - The Diffusion of Regulatory Reforms
Chair: Fabrizio Gilardi (University of Lausanne)
Time: Thursday, 8th September 16:45-16:15
Name | University | Title |   |
Edward Cohen | Westminster College | The Diffusion of legal Models for Financial Governance: The Case of Secured Finance | presentation |
Gül Sosay, Unal Zenginobuz | Botazici University, Istambul | Independent Regulatory Agencies in Emerging Economics | presentation |
Fabrizio Gilardi, Jacint Jordana, David Levi-Faur | University of Lausanne, University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), University of Haifa | Regulatory Revolution by surprise: On the Citadels of Regulatory capitalism and the Rise of Regulocracy | presentation |
Jacint Jordana, Messeguer Covadonga, Fabrizio Gilardi | University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), CIDE (Mexico City), University of Lausanne | The diffusion of regulatory reforms in pension systems: Latin America in comparative perspective | presentation |
Thomas Sommerer | University of Hamburg | Tracing Patterns of Learning and Harmonization: An Approach to quantify Instituional inluence on Convergence in Environmental Policy | tabled |
3.3 - Theorizing Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance
Chair: Vibeke Nielsen (University of Aarhus)
Time: Friday, 9th September 09:00-10:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Sharon Gilad | Nuffield College Oxford | The institutionalisation of regulatory domain perception - The case of the UK Financial Ombudsman Service | presentation |
Marike Koopmans-van Berlo, and Hans de Bruijn | Delft University, Department of Organization and Management, | Enforcement; Strategies of Regulatees and Inspectors | presentation |
Zsombor Kovacsy | Department of Impact Analysis, Deregulation and Registration of Law. Ministry of Justice | Technical Tools of Effective Law Making | presentation |
Vibeke Nielsen and Christine Parker | University of Aarhus, Department of Political Science | Are regulator and regulatees reacting responsively towards each other? | presentation |
Esther Versluis | Maastricht University Faculty of Arts & Culture - European Studies | Compliance Problems in the EU: What potential role for agencies in securing compliance? | tabled |
Jacco Boek | Head of “Expertise Centre of Law Enforcement” The Netherlands |   | Discussant |
3.4 - European Regulatory Agencies: a New Model of Governance?
Chair: Ian Bartle (University of Bath)
Time: Friday, 9th September 11:00-12:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Richard Grant | Department of Parliamentary Services, Australian Government | Europe's Third Generation Regulatory Agencies | presentation |
Lene Holm Pedersen and Eva Moll Sorensen | University of Copenhagen | Independent Regulatory Authorities in the New Europe | presentation |
Manuel Szapiro | European Commission | The Framework for European Regulatory Agencies: a difficult balance between autonomy and accountability | presentation |
Tom Christensen, and Per Laegreid | University of Oslo, University of Bergen | Regulatory Reforms and Agencification | presentation |
Peter Humphreys | Institute of Public Administration, Dublin | Finding a way through Ireland's regulatory maze | presentation |
Ian Bartle | University of Bath | Politics and the Regulatory State; The Difficult Case of Britain's Railways | tabled |
Julia Fleischer | University of Potsdam | European Agencies as Engines of Integration | tabled |
Ian Bartle |   |   | discussant |
3.5 - Regulatory Agencies: Institutional and Actors Centred Approaches
Chair: Jacint Jordana (Universiy Pompeu Fabra)
Time: Friday, 9th September 14:00-15:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Domingo Alberto Sifontes Fernandez | Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela | Independent Regulatory Agencies in Latin American Telecommunications Sector | Presentation |
Robert Elgie | Dublin City University | Why do government delegate authority to quasi-autonomous agencies? The Case of Independent Administrative Authorities in France | presentation |
Martino Maggetti | Université de Lausanne | Towards a Framework to Assess the Informal Independence of Regulatory Agencies | presentation |
Dorit Rubinstein | University of California, Berkeley | Answer to All, Answer to None? Accountability in Pricing Public Services after Liberalization | presentation |
Ori Arbel-Ganz | Tel-Aviv University | Formal and Informal Regulatory Networks: Deliberative Policy Formation in Israel | Presentation |
3.6 - Liberalization, Regulation, Juridification
Chair: Frans van Waarden (Utrecht University)
Time: , 9th September 16:00-17:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Britta Rehder | MPI for the Study of Societies, Cologne | Law and Politics in the Transformation of Collective Bargaining in Germany | presentation |
Baerbel Dorbeck-Jung and Mirjam van Heffen-Oude Vrielink | University of Twente, Netherlands | Can Self-Regulation stop Juridification? | presentation |
Youri Hildebrand and Frans van Waarden | Utrecht University | Freer Markets, More Lawyers? | presentation |
Liora Salter | York University, Canada | Assessing Trade-Offs in the Design and Organization of One Fragmented Regulatory Regime: Communication Regulation in Canada | presentation |
Shawn Donnelly | University of Bremen | German and British Developments in Company Law and Regulation | tabled |
3.7 - The Regulation of Life Sciences: Themes for Comparative Analysis
Chair: Arco Timmermans (University of Twente)
Time: Saturday, 10th September 09:00-10:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Gabriele Abels | University of Bielefeld | Regulation by Participation; The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technologies | presentation |
Les Levidow | Open University | Risk Governance of Agricultural Biotechnology in Europe | presentation |
Celina Ramjoué | University of Zürich/European University Institute | The Transatlantic Rift in Genetically Modified Food Policy | presentation |
Francesca Scala | Concordia University | Biotechnology and Ethics Committees: Importing Knowledge in Regulatory Policy Making | presentation |
Michaela Mayrhofer | University of Viena | Particularly French? The Governance and Politics of Biobanks in France | tabled |
Simon Fink | University of Bamberg | Live and let…? Measuring and Explaining the Strictness of Embryo Research Laws in 21 Countries | tabled |
Arco Timmermans | University of Twente and University of Zürich | The Comparative Regulation of Life Sciences: A Research Agenda | tabled |
3.8 - From Monopoly to Market via Regulation: Comparative Perspective on Public Service Utilities
Chair: Jorgen G Christensen (University of Aarhus)
Time: Saturday, 10th September 11:00-12:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Jorgen G. Christensen and Rune Sorensen | Aarhus Universitet and Norwegiann School of Management | Market reform and Regulatory Administration: A Comparative Analyiss of the Scandinavian Countries | presentation |
Marieke van Genugten | University of Twente | Comparing Regulatory Regimes: Towards Combining Trans Action Cost Economics and Institutional Legal Theory | presentation |
Nicolas Jabko | CERI, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris | The Market as a Norm: The Impact of the EU on French Public Service Regulation | presentation |
Rasmus LØnborg | Ministry of Finance, Denmark | Regulation, Organisation and Efficiency: Benchmarking of Public and Pirvate Utilities | presentation |
Marc Tenbücken | University of Konstanz | Regulatory Reforms in Networks Infrastructures of the European Union - the Situation After Enlargment | presentation |
Eli Goldstein |   | Criminal Producers, Silent Inspectors, and Surprised regulators: Explaining California's Unexpected Power Crisis of 2000-2001 | tabled |
3.9 - Behind and Beyond the Border: Regulation in an International Context
Chair: Alasdair Young (University of Glasgow)
Time: Saturday, 10th September 14:00-15:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Sebastian Kraphol, Karolina Szwalowska | Otto-Friedrich-University, European University Institute | Between Protectionism and Problem-Solving: The Intergovernmental Logic behind the BSE Scandal in the European Union | presentation |
Thomas Bernauer | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) | Dispute Escalation in the World Trade Organization: Are Conflicts over Environment, Health and Safety Regulation Riskier? | presentation |
Alasdair Young | University of Glasgow | Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the WTO Pose the Real Threat to Domestic Environmental and Health Protection | presentation |
Judith Clifton, Francisco Comín, Daniel Díaz Fluentes | Universidad de Oviedo, Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad de Cantabria | Public Services in an Integrated Europe: "Regulatory State" or "Regulatory Capitalism"? | presentation |
Chad Damro | University of Edinburgh | Discretionary Cooperation and the Regulation of Internationalising Business Activity | presentation |
Sol Picciotto | Lancaster University Law School |   | discussant |
3.10 - Regulatory Governance and the Representation of Diffuse Interests
Chair: Jurgen Neyer (Free University Berlin)
Time: Saturday, 10th September 16:00-17:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Tanja Bruhl | Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main | Diffuse Interests in International Environmental Regulation | presentation |
Michael Kerler | Universität Bamberg | How Decision-Making Procedures Create Good Governance: Technical Regulation in the European Union | presentation |
Dirk Lehmkuhl | Zurich University | The Perspective Nature of Semi-Private Transnational Rulemaking: Evidence from Internet Governance | presentation |
Andreas Nolke, James Perry | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | The Representation of Social Constituencies in the Governance of International Accounting Standards | presentation |
Frank Janning | Universität Konstanz |   | discussant |
Isabelle Bédoyan, Theo Jans, Irina Tanasescu | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Representation of public interest in standardization | tabled |
Colin Provost | Nuffield College, Oxford | Understanding American State Atorney General and Multi-State Consumer Protection Litigation, 1989-2004 | tabled |
3.11 - Internet Regulation: Challenges of Governance
Chair: Christopher Marsden (University of Oxford)
Time: Saturday, 10th September 18:00-19:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Bart Cammaerts | London School of Economics | Civil Society in Internet Governance | presentation |
Jeannette Hoffman | Wissenschafts-zentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin | Internet Governance: United Nations Responses? | presentation |
Rex B. Hughes | University of Washington, Seattle | Regulating Dynamic Innovation: The Case of Voice over Internet Protocol | presentation |
Christopher Marsden | University of Oxford | Global Internet regulation | presentation |
3.12 - The European Regulatory State
Chair: David Vogel (University of California, Berkeley)
Time: Saturday, 10th September 18:00-19:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Peter Humphreys (Manch.) |   | The EU, An Agency/Forum for De-regulation or Re-regulation: A case study of audiovisual regulation | presentation |
Erik Henk Meier |   | The Rise of the Regulatory State in Sport | presentation |
David Vogel and Chris Ansell |   | European Food Safety Regulation as Contested Governance | presentation |
Dora Piroska |   | Small Worlds of Bank Regulation: Hungary and Slovenia Compared | presentation |
Jörn Carsten Gottwald |   | The Regulatory State and Financial Services: An Appraisal of recent Development in the European Union | presentation |
Bernhard Kitous |   | The Europeanization of Financial Reporting Standards: A critical evaluation | tabled |
Mitchell P. Smith |   | Reaching for Lisbon: consequences of regulatory initiatives for societal mobilization and regulatory capacities | tabled |
Chris Ansell |   |   | discussant |
3.13 - The New Order of Regulatory Capitalism
Chair: David Levi-Faur (University of Haifa)
Time: Saturday, 10th September 14:00-15:30
Name | University | Title |   |
Benedicte Bull |   | Regional Integration and regional regulation in Latin America | presentation |
Marie-Laure Djelic & Kerstin Sahlin-Andersoon |   | Transnational Regulation in the Making | presentation |
Peter Hans Olsen |   | Governing Regulatory Networks Beyond the State: The Case of Government Audit Standardization | presentation |
Cornelia Woll & Alvaro Artigas |   | Trade Liberalization as Regulatory Reform: non-governmental actors | presentation |
Colin Scott |   | Gatekeepers and non-state intermediation in regulatory governance | presentation |
Lisbeth Segerlund |   | Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of NGOs in the Advocacy of New Norms for Transnational Corporations | tabled |
Marcus Schaper |   | Politics in Between the Cracks: Transdometstic Policy Beyond the Domestic-Foreign Divide | tabled |
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