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Dear All,
The Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European
Consortium for Political Research ECPR and the Regulation Network are organizing their Second Bi-annual Conference from June 5 to 7, 2008 (Thursday to Saturday) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The conference will be held at its international honors University College (www.ucu.uu.nl).
Conference Theme is:
(Re)Regulation in the Wake of Neoliberalism. Consequences of Three
Decades of Privatization and Market Liberalization
The Conference aims to evaluate liberalization policies from the last three decades, in Europe, but also in North and South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. We are interested in empirical studies of liberalization measures and their causes and consequences. Were they successful? What benefits have they produced, for customers, workers, tax payers, or top managers? Were intended and expected consequences realized? But also: what costs have been involved? What unintended, unexpected, and possibly less desirable consequences resulted from neoliberalist measures?
We are in particular interested in new forms of economic governance for which the need emerged following liberalization. What replaced government regulation through public ownership and public provision of goods and services? What came in the place of statutory state regulation? How are the risks on new or freer markets regulated? Has there been an increased role for regulation by other actors: semi-public regulatory agencies, courts (case law), commercial information providers and benchmarkers, private hallmarks, certification and accreditation bodies, self-regulating associations, private corporations such as multinationals or insurance companies, and all kinds of public-private partnerships? What are their assets and liabilities? How successful have they been? Under what conditions? But also: what new risks have they created? Who checks their power? How and to whom are they accountable?
Hence subjects of streams and individual sessions can be:
As to possible Causes or Facilitating Factors:
The EU as a driving force behind Neo-liberalism
Globalization and Deregulation
Regulatory Competition
ICT and new Possibilities for Market Transparency
As to Intended and/or Unintended Consequences:
How Free are the New Markets?
New Markets, New Powers
Markets as Sources and Solutions of Risks
Freer Markets, Fraud, and
Are Private Hierarchies replacing Public Hierarchies? How to
Evaluate and Regulate Post-Liberalization Consolidating Mergers.
Emergence and Performance of New Regulatory Agencies
Autonomy and Accountability of Regulatory Agencies
Neo-liberalism in the Public Administration: Taking Stock of the New Public Management
Is the Hierarchic State Crumbling?
The European Union as New Market Regulator
New Forms of Private Regulation
Regulation and Enforcement as New Market Niches for Commercial Services
Is Associational Self-Regulation a Viable Alternative?
Better Risk Regulation
Regulatory Impact Assessment
From Rule-based to Risk Based Approaches in Regulation
E-Regulation; ICT and Regulatory Enforcement
International Private Regulation
Regulation as Protection of and Threat to Privacy
Liberalization and Juridification
Liberalization and Bureaucratization
Sector-studies:
Liberalizing Health Care Services and Pension Provisions
Regulating Private Welfare
Liberalizing Telecom, Energy, and Public Transport
International Financial Markets
Producing Public Goods by Private market Parties
Market Competition and Sustainable Development
Liberalizing the Liberal Professions
Deadline for Submissions of panels and papers is: February 15, 2008
Conference fees are 120 Euros (70 Euros for students and non- OECD-countries)
Pls send abstract of 150 words to conference organizers at: RegGovConf2008@uu.nl
Conference website (link will be ready soon): http://regulation.upf.edu
Academic Conveners:
Frans van Waarden, Youri Hildebrand & Kutsal Yesilkagit, Utrecht University
Markus Haverland, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Steering Committee
Ian Bartle, University of Bath, Britain
Anthony Cheung, City University Hong Kong
Joergen Christensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania, USA
David Coen, University College London, Britain
Per Laegreid, University of Bergen, Norway
David Levi-Faur, University of Haifa, Israel
Jacint Jordana, Univ Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Tony Porter, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Claudio Radaelli, University of Exeter, Britain
M. Ramesh, National University of Singapore
Colin Scott, University College Dublin, Ireland
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