5th ITEPE Conference

 

Background: From the 1970s to the first decade of the new millennium European nation states underwent

profound structural changes in the wake of what might be described as the ‘turn to governance’ or the shift

from ‘government to governance’. In the context of the end of the cold war, increased globalisation and

Europeanisation as well as profound technological developments, a number of core pillars of society in

relation to the exercise of state-based public power and its interactions with the rest of society were

seemingly altered.

On this background, the conference has a three-fold aim: Firstly, to historically re-examine the reasons for

the emergence and driving forces of the ‘turn to governance’. Secondly, to re-evaluate the actual impact on

European states and European societies more generally of the ‘turn to governance’. Thirdly, to critically

discuss the ‘governance paradigm’ and present reflections on possible scientific counter-paradigms and

potential reform strategies in relation to the functioning of public institutions and public/private relations in a

post-governance world.

Organisers: Poul F. Kjaer, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School and Tim

Holst Celik, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School.

Sponsor: The European Research Council within the framework of the project ‘Institutional Transformation

in European Political Economy – A Socio-Legal Approach’ (ITEPE) hosted by the Department of Business

and Politics, Copenhagen Business School and is the 5th conference held within the ITEPE conference series

(www.itepe.eu).

 

Registration: Mette Grue Nielsen: mgn.dbp@cbs.dk before Friday 14th October 2015

 

 

Session I: Governance and Transnational Power structures

13.00 – 13.50: Neomedievalism Revisited: Endemic Crisis or Durable Disorder?

Philip G. Cerny (Rutgers University)

13.50 – 14.40: Governments and Governance: A class analysis

Gérard Duménil (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris)

14.40 – 15.00: Coffee Break

 

Paul Du Gay (Copenhagen Business School)

15.50 – 16.40: Consequences of the turn to Governance for the Theory of Democracy

Helmut Willke (Zeppelin University)

16.40 - 17.30: Metamorphoses of the State: From Statism to Legally Constituted Public Power

Poul F. Kjaer (Copenhagen Business School)

17.30: End of day 1

 

 

Session III: Legitimation and Neoliberalism in the Governance Period

9.20 – 10.10: From State to Government to Governance: Sketching the Dynamics of the State-Party Nexus

Tim Holst Celik (Copenhagen Business School).

10.10 – 11.00 The Birth of Governance from the Spirit of Neoliberalism?

Thomas Biebricher (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

11.00 – 11.20: Coffee Break

 

Eva Hartmann (Copenhagen Business School)

12.10 – 13.00: Justifying and Criticizing the Governing of Unemployment: Unfolding a Plurality of

Repertoires

Magnus Paulsen Hansen (Copenhagen Business School)

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch break

 

14.00 – 14.50: The Turn to Governance and Cross Policy Coordination – Implications for Southern Europe

Oscar Molina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

14.50 – 15.10: Coffee Break

15.10 – 16.00: The Governance Paradigm and its Blind Spots in the Western European Periphery

Isabel Kusche (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies)

16.00: End of Conference