Joint RECON/IPSA workshop

Changing Modes of Parliamentary Representation

WP 3 - Representation and Institutional Make-up

Prague, 14-15 October 2011

Venue: Academic Conference Centre, Prague 1, Jilská 4a

Organised by IPSA's Research Committee on Legislative Specialists (RC08) in cooperation with RECON's work package 3 'Representation and Institutional Make-up'.

Read more on the research objectives of WP 3 and on the overall research objectives of RECON.

Workshop summary (D88) (pdf)

The processes of Europeanization and globalization fundamentally influence the roles and functioning of parliaments on many levels. Within the evolving system of multinational governance, parliaments on national, subnational and supranational level respond and adapt to these changes in multiple ways. This workshop explores the patterns in which parliaments function within transnational governance, as well as the transforming linkages between democratic legitimacy, representation and accountability. It also addresses the interaction between parliaments and organized interest groups, civil society organizations, as well as lobbying groups.

Programme (Download pdf)

Friday 14 October 2011
09:30	Opening Werner J. Patzelt, Christopher Lord, Zdenka Mansfeldova
10:00-12:00	Panel I: Parliaments in the System of Multilevel Governance Chair: Werner J. Patzelt, University of Dresden Discussant: Christopher Lord, ARENA, University of Oslo Structuring the multilevel parliamentary field: Institutional learning and role conceptions in national parliaments Aron Buzogány, German Research institute for Public Administration Speyer The adaptation of the Baltic Parliaments to the EU multilevel governance: The case of Lithuania Anne-Sylvie Pigeonnier, University of Luxembourg Measuring the Europeanisation of national parliaments Astrid Spreitzer, University of Luxembourg National Parliaments and the EU directives Jan Grinc, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Law
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:00	Panel II: Parliaments in the Processes of Democratization: Reaching New Frontiers Chair: Zdenka Mansfeldová, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Discussant: Michael Edinger, University of Jena MP recruitment and representation: Two decades of change in the Republic of Moldova William Crowther, University of Noth Carolina, Greensboro Evolutionary institutionalism and its application to the legislative institutionalization process in East Germany 20 years ago Werner J. Patzelt, University of Dresden The Parliamentary Diplomacy Role in the Eruopean Parliament in the MERCOSUR Parliament Cícero Krupp da Luz, University of São Paulo and Sciences Po, Paris
15:00-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:45	Panel III: Parliaments and Political Parties Chair: Suzanne S. Schüttelmeyer, University Halle-Wittenberg Discussant: Petra Guasti, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Parliamentarians and representation: Attitudes towards roles, policy and unity in Sweden, 1985 to 2006 David Willumsen, European University Institute Party unity in evolving parliamentary democracies: The impact of democratic competition and the socialization of representatives Erik Fritzsche, University of Dresden
19:00	Official dinner for paper givers, chairs and discussants, hosted by the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Saturday 15 October 2011
09:30-11:00	Panel IV: RECON - Representation and Institutional Make-up Chair: Christopher Lord, ARENA, University of Oslo Discussant: Aron Buzogány, German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer Representative claims making: Some theoretical and methodological reflections applied to European parliamentary debates Christopher Lord, ARENA , University of Oslo When quantity matters: Performance and re-election in the European Parliament Manos Sigalas, Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies Europeanisation of parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenge or asset to the processes of democratic representation Petra Guasti, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
11:00-11:15	Coffee break
11:15-13:00	Panel V: Changing Modes of Democratic Representation (1/2) Chair: Petra Guasti, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Discussants: William Crowther, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Representation vs. legislative accountability: Changing roles and functions of parliament Okyeon Yi, Seoul National University and University of Leiden Coping with corporatism in decline and the revival of parliament: Interest group lobbyism in Denmark and Norway, 1980-2005 Hilmar Rommetvedt, International Research Institute of Stavanger, University of Stavanger, Gunnar Thesen, International Research Institute of Stavanger, Peter Munk Christiansen, Aarhus University, and Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard, Univresity of Southern Denmark Legislative socialization and democratic representation: Comparing two German state legislatures Jens Borchert and Claudia Huelsken, University Frankfurt
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Panel V: Changing Modes of Democratic Representation (2/2) The impact of linkages between citizens and representatives on political trust in France and Germany Oscar W. Gabriel, Uwe Bollow, Mirjam Dageförde and Florian Radbuza, University of Stuttgart From theory to practice: Political representation in France Sylvain Brouard, Eric Kerrouche and Elisa Deiss-Helbig, Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux "Going home": Members of the German Bundestag working their constituencies Sven T. Siefken and Danny Schindler, University Halle-Wittenberg
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	RCLS meeting
17:00-19:00	Free program
19:00	Common dinner

Organisational note

Estimated arrival 13 October 2011, departure 16 October 2011

Accommodation is possible (for those interested) at the Guesthouse of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, at the participants' own expense. There is a limited number of rooms (23 including, 16 double rooms), the cost is approximately 55 Euro per person and night, including breakfast. The rooms will be allocated to interested participants with accepted papers on a first-come-first-serve basis. For other participants, the organisers can recommend accommodation fit to participants’ needs – financial and other – but the booking and payment is to be done by individual participants.

Call for papers (deadline 15 May 2011)

Programme committee

Chair: Zdenka Mansfeldová

Workshop coordinator: Petra Guasti

Phone: +420 210 310 237 or +420 210 310 563

For any questions and inquiries please contact: reconrcls@soc.cas.cz