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3rd Summer Academy Freiburg (31 August – 3 September 2012)
"Dynamics of institutional change under EU’s toolkit of
conditionality. Judicial reform and fighting corruption in
Eastern Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey"
Submission deadline: 25 J
| Location: | Germany |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2012-08-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-05-26 |
| Announcement ID: |
194779 |
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3rd Summer Academy Freiburg (31 August – 3 September 2012)
"Dynamics of institutional change under EU’s toolkit of
conditionality. Judicial reform and fighting corruption in
Eastern Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey"
Submission deadline: 25 June 2012
Following main theoretical and empirical research areas
shall be adressed:
1. Theoretical concepts and pitfalls of EU’s democracy
promotion and compliance in Eastern Europe, Western Balkans
and Turkey
•Conceptual and methodological refinements of external
democracy promotion
2. Judicial and anti-coruption reforms in reluctant
contexts
•Defining troubled contexts: the political, legal and
cultural contexts of the CEE, Western Balkans and Turkey
•Constituents of judicial and anti-corruption reforms
•Measuring compliance
•Effects of non-compliance
3. Political and institutional actors involved in domestic
reforms
•Power elites
•The Role of Constitutional Courts
•The Role of Judicial Councils
•Anti-corruption institutions
4. The EU’s strategy to strengthen judicial and
anti-corruption reform in Eastern Europe, Western Balkans
and Turkey
•Assessing pre- and post- accession political
conditionality
•Mechanisms and strategies of political conditionality
•Learning by doing? EU’s strategies under review
5. Domestic compliance to severe political conditionality
•Adoption versus implementation: institutional building,
maintaining and disrupting
•Unintended consequences
•Domestic strategies of derailing compliance
6 Lessons learned
•Tailor-made approaches versus ‘one size fits all’
Conference details
Target group: Researchers (PhD candidates, Post-docs),
policy makers and practioners
Costs: Due to the generous funding of the International
Graduate Academy (University of Freiburg) we are able to
cover all the accomodation and lodging costs. We offer
several travel grants based on a letter of motivation.
Conference venue: Studienhaus Wiesneck of the Institute for
Political Education of Baden-Württemberg (www.wiesneck.de)
Submission deadline: Abstracts must be received
electronically by the chair committee* by 25 June 2012.
Notification: 30 June 2012
Applications: The recommended length for abstracts is 500
words. They must be drafted in English and must connect an
empirical question with a theoretical approach and concept
in order to be accepted. Comparative approaches (across
countries and across time) are encouraged. Applications for
participation should include a short CV (1 page).
Guest Speakers
• Monica Macovei, Member of the European Parliament/former
Minister of Justice, Romania
•Dr. Anneli Ute Gabanyi
• Laura Stefan, EFOR, Anticorruption expert
• Horia Georgescu, President of the Romania's National
Integrity Agency
• Dr. Daniel Hough, Director of Centre for the Study of
Corruption Sussex University
• Experts from regional, international economical
organisations (tba)
Programme
•Lectures by high level experts, debates and workshops
•Presentation of research papers/projects
•Working Papers sessions
*Academic management and chair of the conference
Anitta M. Hipper, University of Freiburg
(anitta.hipper@ies.uni-freiburg.de)
Committee of the summer academy
Dr. Petra Guasti, University of Mainz
Dr. Dan Lazea, West University of Timisoara
Dr. Anne Wetzel, MZES, University of Mannheim
Dr. Özgür Ünal Eris, University of Bahcesehir
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