Workshop on representative theory

WP 3 - Representation and Institutional Make-up

WP 3 events 

Vienna, 22 May 2009

The Institute for European Integration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences will host a workshop on representative theory as part of RECON's work package 3 on Representation and Institutional Make-up.

The aim of the workshop is to critically discuss new theoretical developments in representative theory, explore the relations between deliberative and representative democracy approaches, and discuss the representative features of the three RECON models.

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

Workshop summary (D56) (pdf)

Programme

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10:00-12:30	What is representation good for at all?
	How to represent demoi James Bohman, Saint Louis University
	The democratic value of representation Christopher Lord, ARENA, University of Oslo
	The return of representation in democratic theory: reasons and prospectives Dario Castiglione, University of Exeter Comments: John Erik Fossum, ARENA, University of Oslo
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-16:30	The representative properties of the RECON models
	Reconstituting political representation in the EU: an analytical framework embedding SHARE within RECON Monika Mokre/Manos Sigalas, Austrian Academy of Sciences
	Exploring structures and standards of [democratic representation in] the multilevel parliamentary field: the case of the EU Services Directive Ben Crum/Eric Miklin, VU University Amsterdam
	The representation of civil society across levels of governance: conceptual issues and empirical evidence Sandra Kröger, University of Bremen  Comments: Berthold Rittberger, MZES, University of Mannheim
19:00	Dinner

 

For further information, please contact Johannes Pollak.