Bringing Civil Society In: The European Union and the Rise of Representative Democracy, 13-14 March 2009
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Friday 13 March, Session 1A – Civil Society in a Theoretical Perspective - Theatre
Chair: Thomas Poguntke
Discussant: Yannis Papadopoulos
Simone Baglioni, Theories of Civil Society and the European Union
Stijn Smismans, The Representativity of Organised Civil Society: Generally Desired…until Defined
Hans-Jörg Trenz, European Civil Society: Between Participation, Representation and Discourse
Richard Rose, Top Down and Bottom Up Representation in European Civil Societies
Sabine Saurugger, Analyzing Civil Society Organizations’ Changing Structures in the EU. Lessons from the Social Movement and Party Politics Literature
Session 1B – Civil Society in a Democratic Perspective: Who Represents Whom? - Sala del Capitolo
Chair: Alexander H. Trechsel
Discussant: Frédéric Royall
Sandra Kröger, Mission Impossible? Conceptualising The Link Between Organised Civil Society, Democracy And European Multi-Level Governance
Jens Steffek, Kristina Hahn, Meike Rodekamp and Martina Piewitt, Transnational CSOs – Really the Citizens’ Voice?
Véronique Charléty and Xavier Carpentier-Tanguy, Networks and Knowledge: New Forms of Diplomacy? Think Tank In Europe
Leocadia Díaz Romero, The Contribution of European Courts Case-Law to European Democracy
Antoine Vauchez, Europe’s Middlemen. Euro-Lawyers and Brussels’ Legal Field
Session 2A – Civil Society and Public Opinion - Theatre
Chair: Didier Chabanet
Discussant: Sabine Saurugger
Bruno Cautrès,Public Opinions and Mass “Support” to the EU: A Comparative Analysis of the State We Are In
Thorsten Hüller and Christine Quittkat, Democratizing the European Union Via Civil Society Involvement? The Case of the Commission’s Online Consultations
Stefan Seidendorf, Debating Europe in Practice: Comparing the French and Irish Referendum Campaigns
Nicole Doerr, Democracy, Language and Transnational Civil Society Dialogues ‘From below’? Lessons from Deliberative Democracy Experiments in the European Social Forum Process Doerr
Olga Brzezińska, Time for New Patriotism in Poland? Between the Ethnic and Civic Understanding of the Concept
Session 2B – Civil Society and Social Interest - Sala del Capitolo
Chair: Adrienne Heritier
Discussant: Michelle Cini
Nieves Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, The Emperor Really Has New Clothes: Civil Society Dialogue and the EU’s Enlargement Strategy
Roland Erne, Democratizing the European Union. Organized Labor’s Quest for Transnational European Democracy
Elise Roullaud, Agricultural Policy Europeanization and Union Strategies Changes: Comparing the Confédération paysanne and the Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos
Armin Schäfer and Simone Leiber, The Double Voluntarism in EU Social and Employment Policy
Michael Kaeding and Tobias Müllensiefen, European Social Dialogue: Autonomous Agreements – Galvanising National Social Actors
Session 3A – Civil Society and Euroscepticism - Theatre
Chair: Bruno Cautres
Discussant: Christian Lahusen
Rosa Sanchez Salgado, How the EU Creates Its Own Protest
Svetlozar Andreev, Is Populism the ‘Bad Wolf’? Post-Accession Crisis of Representative Democracy in Bulgaria and Romania
Amandine Crespy, Resisting ‘Neo-Liberal Europe’: National and Transnational MobilIsation against the Bolkestein Directive (Belgium, France, Germany)
Pascale Dufour, The Mobilization against the 2005 Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe: A French Mobilization for Another Europe
Session 3B – Between Nation-State and the EU: The Europeanisation of Civil Society - Sala del Capitolo
Chair: Peter Mair
Discussant: William Maloney
Joost Berkhout and Caelesta Poppelaars, Going to Brussels. A Population Perspective on Interest Representation in the EU
Paolo Lovegrove Graziano, Europeanization and Consumers’ Interests. A Framework for Analysis (With Evidence from the Italian Case)
Jennifer Hadden, Two Worlds of European Collective Action?: Civil Society Spillover(s) in European Climate Change Networks
Jeremy Kendall, Reflections on the Lessons of the Third Sector European Policy Network
Éric Montpetit, Has the European Union Made Europe More or Less Democratic? Elections, Network Deliberations and Advocacy Groups
Saturday 14 March, Session 4A – Civil Society in Development? - Theatre
Chair: Antoine Vauchez
Discussant: Jeremy Kendall
Jeanne Hersant-Menares, Is the “Muslim Minority” in Greece a Turkish One? From the Raison d’Etat to European Norms, an Identity Mobilisation Sponsored by the Turkish State
Ayca Ergun, International Dimension of Civil Society Development in Turkey: The Impact of the EU and Europeanization
Louisa Parks, In the Corridors and in the Streets: Evidence on EU Level Campaigns by Social Movement Organisations
Marina Strezhneva, Participation of Interest Groups in EU-Russia Sectoral Dialogues
Daniela Irrera, Civil Society and NGOs in EU’s Crisis Management and Humanitarian Interventions
Session 4B – The “Organised European Civil Society” - Sala del Capitolo
Chair: Francesc Morata
Discussant: Justin Greenwood
Tanja Börzel and Aron Buzogany, Empowering European Governance: Bringing Civil Society In without Pushing the State Out
Christina Altides and Beate Kohler-Koch, Multi-Level Accountability Via Civil Society Associations?
Emanuela Bozzini, Democracy, Participation and Consultation. The Implementation of the Communication from the European Commission “Towards a reinforced culture of consultation and dialogue - General principles and minimum standards for consultation of interested parties by the Commission”
Daniela Obradovic, The Representativeness Requirement Concerning the Participation of Interest Groups in EU Consultations