2:30 – 4:30 – Panel 2: Postcommunist Representation and Legality
Chair: Brendan Hogan (NYU-LS)
Joshua Tucker (NYU)
Subjective vs. Objective Proximity in Poland: New Directions for the Empirical Study of Political Representation
Brad Epperly (EUI-MWP)
Postcommunist Legacies and Trust in the Legal System
4:30-5:00 – Coffee break
5:00 – 7:00 - Panel 3: Civil Society and Democratic Representation
Chair: Debora Spini (Syracuse University in Florence)
Petri Koikkalainen (EUI-HEC Academy of Finland Fellow)
Civil Society and the Disciplines, Concepts, and Practices of Politics
Donatella della Porta (EUI-SPS)
Can Democracy be saved? Representation, Participation and Deliberation
7:15 – 8:45 Dinner (participants)
Wednesday 10 April
Villa La Fonte, Max Weber Programme, EUI. Conference Room.
10:15 a.m. - Welcome coffee
10:30 - Welcome Remarks
Brendan Hogan (NYU-LS)
Simon Jackson (EUI-MWP)
10:45-12:45 – Panel 4: Capitalism, Institutions and Representation in Europe
Chair: Simon Jackson (EUI-MWP)
Philippe Schmitter (EUI-Emeritus)
Crisis and Mutation in the Institutions of Representation in ‘Real-Existing’ Democracies
Aidan Regan (EUI-MWP)
What Future for Egalitarian Capitalism in Europe? Labour Market Reform and Distributional Tensions in the Core and Periphery of the Eurozone
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Lunch (participants)
2:30 – 4:30 – Panel 5: Democracy, Disputing, Citizenship
Chair: Jean Thomas (EUI-MWF)
Daniel Viehoff (Sheffield University/Yale University)
The Authority of Impartiality
Gabrielle Clark (EUI-MWF)
From Emergency to Bureaucratic Legalisms: Temporary Labor Migrants and Administrative Justice across Managed and Neoliberal Capitalism (1942-2011)
4:30-5:00 – Coffee break
5:00 – 7:00 - Panel 6: Region, Nation, Europe: Scales of Representation
Chair: Julia Cordero Coma (EUI-MWP)
Thomas J. Miley (Cambridge)
Democratic Representation and Nation-Building in Catalonia and the Basque Country
Alan Granadino (EUI-HEC)
Transnational Political Concepts and Cooperation: The Renovation of the Spanish Socialist Party and the European left during the early 1970s
7:00 - 7:15 - Closing Remarks by the organizers
7:15 – 8:45: Dinner and Drinks reception, Villa La Fonte.