Joint Panels: International Political Science Association (IPSA) 21st World Congress


Santiago, 12-16 July 2009

 
A number of RECON researchers met in Santiago, Chile in July at the 21st IPSA World Congress ’Global Discontent? Dilemmas of Change’. A total of four joint panels were organised on topics related to RECON and chaired by project participants.
A first panel on ’The Politics of Ratification of the EU Treaties’ was chaired by Carlos Closa (CSIC) and expanded on the scope of research of WP 2 on constitutional politics. This panel included a paper by Closa on courts as unaccounted players in treaty ratification. Yvonne Galligan (Queen’s University Belfast), Ulrike Liebert (University of Bremen), Hans-Jörg Trenz (ARENA, University of Oslo) and Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg) acted as discussants.
The panel ‘Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Reconstitution of Democracy in Europe’ was chaired by Hans-Jörg Trenz. Ulrike Liebert’ presented a paper dealing with citizen politics in the reconstitution of the Euro polity. Petra Guasti (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) asked how Central European organized civil society contributes to European civil society. Amandine Crespy (Université Libre de Bruxelles) discussed the rise of a critical civil society in Europe by investigating the case of the EU Services Directive. Finally, Hans-Jörg Trenz’ contribution investigated the media as the ‘unknown player’ of European integration. This panel also saw a paper by Paul Statham (University of Bristol) on party contestation over Europe in national public discourses.
In a third panel ‘The Unfinished Democratisation of the EU’, four papers by RECON researchers were presented. Raul Letelier (University of León) presented the paper ’A cosmopolitan view of the ECJ: public liability and judicial review as case studies’. Flavia Carbonell Bellolio (University of León) discussed the democratic implications of consequentialist reasoning in the ECJ’s case law. Yvonne Galligan’s contribution dealt with gender democracy and the EU, and Antje Wiener presented the Kadi Case as another case of integration through law, which indicates a shift from European to global constitutionalism.
Finally, a panel on ‘Globalisation, Migration and Changes of Citizenship in Different Regional Contexts’ was organized under the main theme session, with Philippe C. Schmitter (European University Institute) and Carlos Closa as discussants. This panel included papers on European, Chinese and Indian citizenship, and Tatjana Evas (RGSL/University of Bremen) and panel chair Ulrike Liebert discussed the EU’s immigration and citizenship regime, providing an operationalization and application of the RECON models to the concept of European Citizenship as developed through the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice.

 

Santiago 2009 World Congress of Political Science