Call for Papers – ECPR General Conference Bordeaux 4-7 September 2013
Section “Democratic Innovations” – Call for Papers, deadline 1 February 2013
We would like to cordially invite you to submit a paper proposal to one of the ten panels of the section “Democratic Innovations” at the ECPR General Conference Bordeaux 4-7 September 2013.
You can find the panel list below and at the following URL, where you can also propose a paper: http://ecprnet.eu/Events/PanelList.aspx?EventID=5&SectionID=89
We and the panel chairs look forward to your proposals,
Peter H. Feindt (Cardiff University) and Carsten Herzberg (University of Potsdam)
(section chairs)
Panel list:
1 Historicizing deliberative democracy (chair: Paula Cossart, co-chair: Sandra M. Gustafson, discussant: Julien Talpin)
2 What explains (the absence of) participatory reforms? (chair: Joan Font, co-chair: Brigitte Geissel, discussant: Graham Smith)
3 The quality of deliberation – Theory and empirical evidence (chair: Irena Fiket, co-chair: Stefania Ravazzi)
4 Learning from Each Other: Democratic Innovation Research and Quality of Democracy Measurements (chair: Brigitte Geissel, Goethe University Frankfurt, co-chair: Quinton Mayne)
5 Discussing the Relation between Social Movements and Deliberative Democracy: Is there Countervailing Power in Europe? (chair: Carsten Herzberg, co-chair: Graham Smith, discussant: Giovanni Allegretti)
6 Mapping and measuring deliberative processes: Macro-micro interfaces (chair: André Bächtiger, co-chair: John Parkinson, University of Warwick)
7 Democratic Innovations through Direct Democracy: What is the Relation between Direct Democracy and Representative Democracy? (chair: Zoltán Tibor Pállinger, co-chair: Theo Schiller)
8 Roundtable on Democratic Innovation Research: The theoretical, methodological and practical challenges of the past, present and future (chair: Peter H. Feindt, co-chair: Mark Bevir)
9 Direct and Deliberative Democracy (chair: Norbert Kersting)
10 Democratic Innovation and Theories of Political Representation (chair: Samuel Hayat, co-chair: Charles Girard, discussant: Yves Sintomer)