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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to bring into your attention a panel I organise in cooperation with Prof. Tanja Börzel at the ECPR General Conference in Budapest 8-10 September 2005.
The panel Adopting and Adapting to EU policies in Southern and Central Eastern Europe. ‘Smoothing’ EU Enlargements through New Forms of Governance? (Panel 9, Section 16) seeks to examine the role of new forms of governance and non-hierarchical steering (as OMC, regulatory networks, regulatory agencies, voluntary accords, standard setting, benchmarking and peer review) in the process of adopting and adapting to EU policies in Central and Eastern and Southern European member states. The aim is to evaluate the extent to which new forms of governance (actors involved/steering modes) are able to render accession "smoother" by reducing the risk of implementation-conflicts in "weak" countries during the pre-accession phase and after accession. We invite papers focusing on theory guided empirical research from different EU policy areas pointing to questions such as: Which steering modes (arguing; learning; persuasion; economic incentives) are used and are they efficient to facilitate conflict-resolution with regard to the adoption of the acquis communautaire? Which actors are involved (e.g. national/European agencies; national/European associations; national/transnational NGOs; enterprise representatives; European Commission; national civil servants)? Are these emerging structures that involve all relevant societal actors more legitimate than the "classical" enlargement method, which only involves governmental actors? Is there a trade-off between efficiency and legitimacy?
The deadline for paper proposals is 1 of March 2005. For further information please refer to the conference website http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/generalconference/budapest/index.asp
Best regards
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Dr.Charalampos Koutalakis Senior Research Fellow Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Freie Universität Berlin Ihnestr. 22 Berlin 14195 Germany
Tel: + 49 (0) 30 83853252 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.polwiss.fu-berlin.de/projekte/koutalakis/
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