Dear colleagues This is the final CFP for the forthcoming workshop on Capacity Building, to be held at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Rennes (France) next April. Please contact Adam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or JoAnn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for further information. Bets to all Graeme
________________________________________ Call for Participation Environmental Capacity Development in Transition States and Emerging Democracies Rennes, France 11-16 April 2008 We invite scholars who are conducting research on environmental capacity building, assistance, and intervention in transition states and emerging democracies to participate in a workshop at the Joint Sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). The workshop will be oriented around the individual interests of participants. In general, however, we expect to: (1) assess embedded assumptions, rationales and discourses related to policy transfer and institutional assistance; (2) examine how the transnational movement of resources, ideas, and norms not only are shaping domestic environmental capacity, but the extent to which they are resulting in equitable policies and policy outcomes; and (3) explore how alternatives to traditional approaches to environmental governance, such as the activities of domestic and transnational NGOs and emergence of certification schemes, are affecting the environmental capacity as well as the power of states. This workshop offers an opportunity for political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, planners, and policy scholars conducting research on topics such as environmental policy development, environmental movements, policy networks, transnational assistance, and the politics of sustainable development to exchange views and ideas. We are particularly keen to attract scholars working on environmental policy and development in Asia, the global South, and the former Soviet states as well as those examining capacity-related issues in the context of water scarcity, climate change, and OTHER. This workshop is convened by Adam Fagan (University of London, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and JoAnn Carmin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED]). If you are interested in participating, send a one to two paragraph summary of the topic you would like to discuss to the conveners by 1 December. Additional information on the Joint Sessions is available at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/events/jointsessions/rennes/index.aspx
