New Perspectives on Regulation, Governance and Learning 2012 - Conference Panels and Papers
- Wednesday - parallel session 1, 15.00 - 16.00
- Wednesday - parallel sessions 2, 16.30 - 17.30
- Thursday - parallel sessions 1, 11.15 - 12.45
- Thursday - parallel sessions 2, 14.00 - 15.30
- Thursday - parallel sessions 3, 16.00 - 17.30
- Friday - parallel sessions 1, 09.30 - 11.00
- Friday - parallel sessions 2, 11.30 - 13.00
Wednesday - parallel session 1, 15.00 - 16.00
Seminar Room 1 - Contested regulation
Chair:
Lorenzo Allio
Papers:
- Lori Anderson: Two thick political concepts enacted in the regulatory device OMB Circular A-76
- Alessandra Arcuri: Bottom-up private regulation: democratic empowerment or regulatory cooptation?
- Ahmed Badran, Anneliese Dodds and Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik: Regulation in a contested state: energy sector regulation in Kosovo
Seminar Room 2 - The regulatory welfare state
Chair:
Alberto Alemanno
Papers:
- Albertjan Tollenaar: Where public and private meet: income security for sick and disabled employees in Germany and the Netherlands
- Anneliese Dodds: The regulatory and welfare states: parallel or integrated?
- Avishai Benish: The dynamics of publicness and accountability in the regulatory welfare state
Seminar Room 3 - Self-regulatory solutions to internet governance
Chair:
Monica Horten
Papers:
- Shirin Tabatabaie, Michel van Eeten, Johannes M. Bauer and Hadi Asghari: Has the securitization of the cyberspace been effective?
- Chris Marsdenand Ian Brown: Prosumer law: holistic regulation of the interoperable internet
- Cristina Cullell March and Smari MacCarthy: Privatisation of the commons
Seminar Room 4 - Roundtable on handbooks of regulation and governance: one field, two fields or more?
Chair:
Anne Meuwese
Participants: David Levi-Faur; Martin Lodge; Colin Scott; Frans van Waarden
Seminar Room 5 - Governance, democracy and regulation
Chair:
Bruce Doern
Papers:
- John S. F. Wright: Theorising the regulatory state for the post-crisis era
- Joseph Tomain and Sidney A. Shapiro: Regulation, democracy and pragmatism
- Adriejan van Veen: Comparing consultation practices at regulators across multiple levels of governance
Seminar Room 6 - Ethics, stakeholder and new technologies
Chair:
Duncan Russel
Papers:
- Enrico Bonadio: Stem cells, patents and morality in the EU after Bruestle
- Simon-Philipp Pfersdorf: The role of the German NanoKommission for governing nanotechnology
- Simone Vezzani: Plant genetic resources between the sovereignty and the global commons paradigm
Seminar Room 7 - Theorizing governance and regulatory tools
Chair:
Oliver James
Papers:
- Hailemichael T. Demissie: The rise of the vigilance model: vigilance as the virtue and tool of risk governance
- Nachshon Goltz: Empirical associative regulation: drawing future regulatory tools from the experience of the past
- Donald Feaver and Benedict Sheehy: A general theory of effective regulation
Wednesday - parallel sessions 2, 16.30 - 17.30
Seminar Room 1 - Comparing learning mechanisms
Chair: Christos Kotosgiannis
Papers:
- Graeme Auld and Lars Gulbdrandsen:Learning through disclosure: the evolving importance of transparency in the practice of nonstate certification
- Dieter Pesendorfer: Taming finance in times of austerity and crisis and gradual institutional reform
- Stavros Vourloumis: Reforming EU and global financial regulation: the crisis as a learning mechanism
Seminar Room 2 - Normative and theoretical perspectives on regulation in the EU
Chair: Marie-Pierre Granger
Papers:
- Stephanie Bijlmakers: The European Commission's new strategy on corporate social responsibility and human rights
- Esther Versluis and Elissaveta Radulova:Theorizing compliance with European Union agreements?
- Sevasti Chatzopoulou: EU agencification and 'throughput' legitimacy
- Mathieu Rousselin: The EU as a multi-lateral rule exporter: the global transfer of European rules via international organisations
Seminar Room 3 - Regulatory accountability and performance in multi-level and multi-actor contexts
Chair: Jacint Jordana and Koen Verhoest
Papers:
- Christa Altenstetter: The Food and Drug Administration and medical device risk regulation, 1976-2011
- Jan Biela: The effectiveness of accountability regimes: information, power and resources
- Patricia Hania and Lawrie Gluck: Accountability in the context of new governance
Seminar Room 4 - Theorizing media governance in the digital age
Chair: Samuele Dossia
Papers:
- Sally Broughton Micova: Media governance in south-east Europe: regulation meets resistance
- Richard Rooke: Digital era governance and the media: the public made private and the private made public
- Tom Gibbons: Theorising changing styles in UK media and communications regulation
Seminar Room 5 - Roundtable on networks of prosperity
Chair: Axel Marx
Participants:
- Axel Marx
- Jacint Jordana
- Kazuki Kitaoka (UNIDO)
- Steve Waddell
Seminar Room 6 - Social regulation and capacity
Chair: Jonathan Kamkhaji
Papers:
- Rutger Claassen: Market failure and regulation: a capability perspective
- Nellie Munin: Women’s labor regulation: culture, religion, politics versus equality, justice and economic considerations?
- Gary Lynch-Wood and David Williamson: SMEs and social regulation: an examination of capacities, orientations, and differences
Seminar Room 7 - Old media, new policy challenges
Chair: Chris Marsden
Papers:
- Mark Wheeler: European Union state aid, public subsidies and analogue switch-off/digital switchover
- Irini Katsirea: Faultlines in the regulation of television and the press in the online domain
- Alison Harcourt: The effect of EU state aid policy on public service broadcasting
Thursday - parallel sessions 1, 11.15 - 12.45
Seminar Room 1 - Law and governance: regulating public interests in private relationships
Chair: Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi
Papers:
- Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi: Fundamental rights and private litigation in Europe: societal policies and judicial governance
- Zeeshan Mansoor: Unenforceability of contracts contrary to public policy: governance aspects in English law
- Charlotte Pavillon: Unfair commercial practices and multi-level governance of consumer contracts in Europe
- Adam McCann: Free movement of euthanasia services in Europe: a law and governance perspective
- Olha Cherednychenko: The relationship between regulation and private law: the case of financial services in the EU
Seminar Room 2 - The economy, competition policy, and regulatory regimes
Chair: Christos Kotsogiannis
Papers:
- Marco Botta: EU and global competition networks
- Ole Andreas Danielsen: Legal and living Europeanization: comparing Scandinavian competition regimes
- Despoina Mantzari: A complementary relationship? The judge and the agency in the realm of economic regulation
Seminar Room 3 - Public service obligations and their role in the European railway industry
Chair: Matthias Finger and Martin Holterman
Papers:
- Matthias Finger: Public service obligations and their role in the European railway industry
- Martin Holterman: Financing and incentives in the European railway industry
- Julien Dehornoy: Performance, incentives and regulation of railways
- Torben Holvadand Ernest Godward: Technical regulation and its economic implications
Seminar Room 4 - Explaining the organisation and governance of regulation in complex environments
Chair: Jacint Jordana and Koen Verhoest
Papers:
- Jan Rommel and Koen Verhoest: Exploring effects of coordination on the autonomy of regulators
- Martijn Groenleer: Regulating the EU and US gas transportation systems
- Jacint Jordana, Andrea Bianculli and Xavier Fernandez-Marin: The world of regulatory agencies
Seminar Room 5 - Internet privacy and data protection
Chair: Chris Marsden
Papers:
- Monica Horten: Blocking the web: whose right is it anyway?
- Kristina Irion: The protection of children online as a multi-dimensional governance challenge
- Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat, Katharine Sarikakis and Sarah Anne Ganter: Sightings of a ghost: composing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- Philip Schuetz: Comparing formal independence of data protection authorities in selected EU member states
Seminar Room 6 - Energy governance and regulation
Chair: Catherine Mitchell
Papers:
- Aleksandra Fernandes da Costa: Increasing transparency in natural resource extraction via multi-stakeholder governance: the case of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
- Gerhard Fuchs: Market creation top down and bottom up in the energy sector
- Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter: A liberal actor in a realist world? States, Markets and the EU nergy Policy
- Robert Strickling: Funding, coordination, and public opinion: political obstacles to electrical grid modernization in the Americas
- Sebastian Peyer and Morten Hviid: Regulation vs. self-help: a natural experiment
Seminar Room 7 - Non-state actors and regulatory policy making
Chair: Oliver Fritsch
Papers:
- Stijn Smismans: The changing paradigms of regulating interest group participation in the EU
- Matia Vannoni: The European Informational Lobbying System as an informal mode of governance: a dynamic principal-agent perspective
- Christopher Walker: Responsive regulatory learning: the role of third party participants in building compliance and enforcement capability
- Ahmed Badran: Institutional diversity equals complexity: the role of state and non-state actors
Thursday - parallel sessions 2, 14.00 - 15.30
Seminar Room 1 - How states account for failure in Europe (HowSAFE): risk and the limits of governance
Chair: Henry Rothstein and David Demeritt
Papers:
- Kristian Krieger: Putting varieties of risk-based governance into institutional context?
- Henry Rothstein, O. Borraz and M. Huber: Risk and other 'psychopathologies' of governance: exploring national varieties of risk governance in Europe
- Michael Huber: Higher education and the emergence of risk-based regulation
- David Demeritt and S. Norbert: Forecasting hazards: risk, error, and blame in public weather service provision in the UK and France
Seminar Room 2 - 'Nudging' as an alternative to regulation and the market
Chair: Adam Burgess
Papers:
- Alberto Alemanno: Nudging smokers - testing choice architecture in tobacco control
- Adam Burgess: ‘Nudging’ healthy lifestyles: the UK experiments with the behavioural alternative to regulation and the market
- Jacopo Torriti: ‘Nudging’ energy users: regulatory measures to address the risk of peak electricity consumption
- Amandine Garde: Lifestyle determinants and risk regulation
- Luc Bovens: Alcohol, happiness and nudge
Seminar Room 3 - Bringing the state back in the analysis of regulation
Chair: Bruce Doern
Papers:
- Daniel Wincott: The regulatory state vs the welfare state?
- David Levi-Faur: The regulatory state against the welfare state? A critical analysis of the trade-off approach for institutional change
- Isik Ozel: From developmental to regulatory states
- Lars Niklasson: The regulatory state vs the developmental state: the case of the EU
Seminar Room 4 - Sanctions, liability and deterrence
Chair: Leone Niglia
Papers:
- Qi Zhou: Deterring illegal transactions: an economic perspective
- Joseph Spooner: The challenge to traditional personal insolvency law of the consumer credit society
- Shaun Elder: The sanctions pyramid: civil and criminal dimension interplay, financial regulatory context
- Laura Tilindyte: Regulatory enforcement and sanctions
Seminar Room 5 - Regulatory styles and regulatory states
Chair: Ahmed Badran
Papers:
- Ayelet Berman: Setting off the disregard of developing countries: what role for domestic adaptation?
- Jorge E. Culebro Moreno and Pablo Larranaga: Development of regulatory state in Mexico: from policy reform to failure
- Maite Salazar Lopez, Daniel Valenzuela Galarce, Manuel Tironi and Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia: The construction of a regulatory style for transgenic crops in Chile
- Marcus Faro de Castro: Economic development and the legal foundations of regulation in Brazil
Seminar Room 6 - The politics of independent regulatory agencies
Chair: Esteban Arribas Reyes
Papers:
- Christoph Ossege: Explaining agency autonomy in the EU: is expertise the driving force?
- Andrea Bianculli, Ana G. Juanatey, Jacint Jordana: Building audiences, balancing strategies: the case of nuclear energy regulation in Spain
- Nicholas Dorn: Securities and insecurity: contested boundaries of private and public
Seminar Room 7 - Regulatory architectures and performance
Chair: Oliver James and Ayako Nakamura
Papers:
- John W. Raine: Risk-driven, service-oriented and all joined–up? The transformation of business regulation in English and Welsh local government
- Delia Rodrigo and Bruno Queiroz-Cunha: Regulatory governance in Brazil
- Oliver James and A. Nakamura: The effects of regulation on government performance
- Giuliano Castellano: Architectural framework and regulatory approaches: a governance perspective
- Tobias Jakobi: Regulating regulation? The OECD in transnational regulatory policy
Seminar Room 8 - Autonomy of regulatory agencies in dynamic and complex networks of relationships
Chair: Koen Verhoest and Jacint Jordana
Papers:
- Carolyn Jackson: New perspectives on agency independence: the interaction of regulatory context, stakeholder relationships and independence
- Mathias Johannessen: Multi-level administration: when global and European orders meet
- Caelesta Braun: The regulatory impact of a business crowd
Thursday - parallel sessions 3, 16.00 - 17.30
Seminar Room 1 - Regulatory thinking and regulatory choice
Chair: Paola Coletti
Papers:
- Colin Provost: The motivation to regulate: antitrust federalism in the United States
- Anne Meuwese: Regulatory thinking vs competence-oriented thinking in constitutions
- Lorna Schrefler: Expertise and independent regulatory agencies: empirical evidence from the UK Office of Communications
- Ismail Seyrek and Fatih Duman: Political and economic implications of Hayekian criticism of 'Regulation'
Seminar Room 2 - Regulatory coherence through coordination between multiple regulatory authorities
Chair: Jacint Jordana, Koen Verhoest and David Aubin
Papers:
- David Aubin, Koen Verhoest and Matthys Joery: Participation for more coherence: the regulation of telecoms in four European countries
- Yannis Papadopoulos: Transnational diffusion of knowledge in practice: observing in situ the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities
- Murray Petrie: Jurisdictional integration: a framework for measuring and predicting
- Chris Townley: Co-ordinated diversity: revolutionary suggestions for EU competition law
Seminar Room 3 - Knowledge and learning
Chair: Sabina Leonelli
Papers:
- Zuhre Aksoy: Regulating traditional knowledge: linking the local to the global
- Sabina Leonelli and Rachel A. Ankeny: How data-intensive science challenges the regulation of credit attribution
- Franziska Ehnert: Transferring up, down and sideways: the role of knowledge transfer for administrative change in climate policy
- John Brady: Knowledge work in relational regulation: exploring inspector learning
- Eleftheria Vagionaki: Do national administrations learn? Evaluating the impact of the OMC
Seminar Room 4 - Regulatory challenges in Europe
Chair: Esteban Arribas Reyes
Papers:
- Michelle Egan and Maria Helena Guimaraes: Regulatory barriers in the SM: assessing formal and informal mechanisms of compliance
- Meike Bokhorst: Strategies of the European and Dutch legislator to improve the legitimacy of regulation
- Aare Kasemetsand Annika Talmar-Pere: Implementation of better regulation measures in the internal security policy: the case of Estonia
- Pablo Larranaga: The rule of law and the regulatory state: tensions and reciprocal reinforcements
Seminar Room 5 - Regulating food and agriculture
Chair: Duncan Russel
Papers:
- Eran Feitelson: The regulatory state undermined: Land use planning in Israel
- Tatjana Jovanic: Governing the world of organic agriculture
- Stuart Smyth: International considerations of food biotechnology regulatory frameworks
- Elena Fagotto: Are we being served? When private actors regulate food safety
Seminar Room 6 - Comparing approaches to climate policy and risk-based policy making
Chair: Samuele Dossi
Papers:
- Henry Rothstein and John Downer: Renewing Defra: exploring the emergence of risk-based policymaking in UK central government
- Andre Schaffrin: New modes of regulation? A comparative analysis of national climate policy developments
- Giuseppe Bellantuono: Comparing regulatory innovations in climate change policies
- Patricia Hania: Building resilience into institutions: climate change and the risk to drinking water
Seminar Room 7 - Risk regulation: between policy and society
Chair: Robert Duffy
Papers:
- Kristian Krieger and Naonori KoTime: From risk society to resilient society?
- Robert J. Duffy: Fukushima and nuclear power regulation in the U.S.
- Charles Davis: Fracking and sub-state federalism: state preemption of local regulatory decisions in Colorado
- Sandra Davis: Regulating electricity transmission policies in the American states
- Hitoshi Ushijima: Risk regulation and communication after great East Japan earthquake in 2011
Friday - parallel sessions 1, 09.30 - 11.00
Seminar Room 1 - Voluntary regulation: towards a causality-oriented research 1
Chair: Axel Marx
Papers:
- Pelle Moos: An uncertain business: self-regulation by the British and Danish nano industries
- Tetty Havinga: Voluntary food regulation
- Frans van Waarden: 'Voluntary' food regulation: between market demand and state absence
- Annette Toeller: Voluntary pharma-regulation: under which shadow of market or hierarchy?
Seminar Room 2 - Limits and frontiers of regulation
Chair: Marie-Pierre Granger
Papers:
- Sandra Eckert: The limits of regulation: tackling social challenges of public sector reform in Europe
- Urooj Amjad: Regulatory compliance conceptualized as policy implementation
- Hanan Haber:Who is holding the safety net? Mortgage repossession regulation as social policy
- Paul Sanderson, David Seidl and John Roberts: The magic of 'comply-or-explain': flexible regulation or comforting illusion?
- Clarissa Meerts: Supremacy of private legal order, within limits: the case of corporate security
Seminar Room 3 - Impact assessment and regulatory quality
Chair: Jacopo Torriti
Papers:
- Anne Meuweseand Suren Gomtsian: The Impact Assessment Board's opinions as alternative case law?
- Margo Thomas and Delia Rodrigo: Recent trends in regulatory quality in SEE countries and Turkey
- Francesca Gains: Interrogating UK regulatory impact assessment data
- Auri Pakarinen: How to make good laws? The Finnish discourse and actions
Seminar Room 4 - Regulation of financial sectors
Chair: Christos Kotsogiannis
Papers:
- Caner Bakir: Divergence in financial market governance: structure, institution and agency-based view
- Susan Fuchs: The role of context in European Union negotiations
- He Wei Ping: Regulatory dissonance in China's banking sector
- Colin Provost: Responsive regulation and the financial crisis of 2007-08
- Guiliano Castellano: Architectural frameworks and regulatory approaches for financial markets governance in Europe: from a market-centred to regulatory-oriented rationale
Seminar Room 5 - New perspectives on regulation: management, governance and enforcement
Chair: Stephen Wilks
Papers:
- Mark Thatcher: Regulating overseas state investments
- Dan Hayden: Branding and marketing of regulation: case studies in competition and advertising
- David Coen, Adrienne Heritier and Nikoleta Yordanova: Managing regulation: a firms' perspective
Seminar Room 6 - Risk governance and regulation
Chair: Claire Dunlop
Papers:
- Eric Windholz and Graeme Hodge: The magic of harmonisation: a case study of occupational health and safety in Australia
- Orr Karassin: From risk redistribution to risk regulation in international funding agencies
- Giacomo Luchetta and Sven Hoeppner: Non-verifiable statements in the EU impact assessment system
Seminar Room 7 - The emergence of regulatory regimes: water, energy and sustainability
Chair: Oliver Fritsch
Papers:
- David Benson and Duncan Russel: Regulatory expansion in EU energy policy: incrementalism or punctuated equilibrium
- Veerle Heyvaert: Regulatory competition in the age of transnationalism
- Christoph Clar: The transnational regulation of water and its consequences for governance frameworks
- Daria Gritsenko: Co-regulation of globalised industries: the case of maritime transport
Seminar Room 8 - Roundtable on appraising the quality of impact assessment: approaches and methods
Sponsored by the ALREG: Analysis of Learning in Regulatory Governance project, funded by an advanced grant of the European Research Council
Chair: Claudio Radaelli
Papers:
- Lorenzo Allio
- Chris Shapcott
- Claire Dunlop
- Caroline Varley
- Lorna Schrefler
Friday - parallel sessions 2, 11.30 - 13.00
Seminar Room 1 - Voluntary regulation: towards a causality-oriented research - session 2
Chair: Axel Marx
Papers:
- Luc Fransen and Thomas Conzelmann: Fragmented or uniform transnational voluntary regulation of sustainability standards? A comparative study
- Julien Etienne: Voluntary external disclosure of untoward events and the regulation of industrial hazards in France and the United Kingdom
- Jeroen van der Heijden: Exploring the emergence of voluntary environmental governance arrangements: insights from the Australian buildings sector
- Seth Maenen and Axel Marx: From multi-stakeholder dialogue to certification initiative: how can we explain the emergence of certification initiatives?
Seminar Room 2 - Embedding nanotechnology in society: risks, responses and regulation
Chair: Baerbel Dorbeck-Jung
Papers:
- Evisa Kica and Diana Bowman: Regulation by means of standardisation: critical issues of health and safety nanotechnology standards
- Aline Reichow and Baerbel Dorbeck-Jung: Discovering specific conditions for compliance with soft regulation related to work with nanomaterials
- Harro van Lente and Arie Rip: Bridging the gap between innovation and ELSA: the TA program in the Dutch nano-R&D program NanoNed
Seminar Room 3 - Interactions within multi-actor and multi-level regulatory constellations
Chair: Koen Verhoest and Jacint Jordana
Papers:
- Martino Maggetti and Fabrizio Gilardi: The implementation of regulatory standards in a multi-level setting
- Maria Stella Righettini and Nesti Giorgia: The role of national IRAs in the multi-level regulatory network for communication
- Roman Goldbach: Successful actors and process-dynamics in transnational regulatory regimes
- Angel Saz-Carranza: The governance form of regulatory networks
Seminar Room 4 - Regulating new technologies
Chair: Ahmed Badran
Papers:
- Gerhard Fuchs: Regulating new technologies in the energy sector? Comparing national experience
- Ronit Justo-Hanani: Decentering the global nano-chemicals regulatory regime? Risk regulation in the EU and the US
- Masahiro Mogaki: Understanding power and state transformation in Japan: a case study of ICT regulation
- Jean-Michel Marcoux, Olga Carolina Cardenas Gomez and Lyne Létourneau: Inclusion of non-safety criteria within the regulatory framework of agricultural biotechnology
Seminar Room 5 - Transnational and multi-level governance
Chair: David Levi-Faur
Papers:
- Veerle Heyvaert: Transnational regulation: the persistent question of judicial review
- Mercedes Botto: Regional integration and policy transfer: is MERCOSUR a good study case?
- Ian Bartle, Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders: Regulatory governance and multi-level governance: towards a conceptual convergence
- Enrique Carreras Romero and Ana Carreras Franco: The primacy of the subjective data in local administrative action’s assessment: the efficient social management
- Marloes van Rijsbergen: Transnational private regulation: the a-typical case of the maritime industry
Seminar Room 6 - Legitimacy, trust and regulatory conventions
Chair: Leone Niglia
Papers:
- Frederique Six: Trust in responsive regulation theory: a critical appraisal from a trust perspective
- Olga Batura: Legitimisation of EU agencies through conflicts-law?
- Fiona Haines: Political risk, justice and accountability: MNCs, human rights abuse and redress
Seminar Room 7 - EU regulation cases
Chair: Anne Meuwese
Papers:
- Angelos Katsaris: Europeanization beyond Europe: governing climate change in Euro-Mediterranean relations
- Monica Garcia Quesada: The EU as an enforcement patchwork: the impact of national enforcement in the adoption of EU water law in Spain and Britain
- Oana Stefan and Alberto Alemanno: Openness at the Court of Justice of the European Union: toppling a taboo
- Romana Salageanu: Regional politics within European multi-level regulation: the case of the German federal state Saxony-Anhalt
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