7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANALYSIS

Dates                                                Thursday July 5 – Saturday July 7, 2012

Location                                          Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

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Paper proposals                             Deadline January 31, 2012

List of Panels below

Please submit through the website (500 words max.)

Conference website                       www.ipa2012.org

Theme

Understanding the drama of democracy: policy work, power and transformation

In the age of mediatisation, network governance, and multi level governance, all public agents, including government officials and academic experts, must now be credible next to being legally legitimated and effective. Therefore, policy work and its evaluation are not only based on formal positions and legal responsibilities but are also negotiated in policy practices by civil organizations, experts, journalists and the general public.
The performative dimension of democracy is increasingly important. This challenges actors involved to cross boundaries, to learn, to transform, to deal with constantly alternating power relations, and to be perceived as authentic or trustworthy. It also challenges interpretive research to study how public actors perform in practice and suggests a need to pay attention to action-oriented and language-oriented dimensions of practice. Moreover, it raises questions about the role of interpretive research in the mediation and transformation of different meanings and creating or supporting policy learning.

Programme

Pre-conference Course on Interpretive Methods
Wednesday the 4th of July we will organize a pre-conference course. This day-long course is intended to introduce participants – from doctoral students to more seasoned researchers – to interpretive policy analysis. The morning plenary session will provide an overview of interpretive methodologies and methods. In the afternoon, participants can choose one of three parallel sessions. For more information see the website.

Keynote Speakers:                       
John Forester, Aletta Norval, Mieke Verloo

Round Tables:                               
1. The Practice Turn in social theory and policy
Research (multiple sessions)
2. Critical Realism and Interpretivism
3. Facilitation in Participatory Governance
4. Building bridges between teaching and
research

Author meets critics                    
1. Frank Fischer and Herbert Gotweiss (editors)
The Argumentative Turn Revisited
2. Maarten Hajer Authoritative Governance in the Age of
Mediatization
3.Carol BacchiAnalysing Policy: what is the problem?
4. Bas Arts, Jelle Behagel, Jessica De Koning and Severine van Bommel (editors) A practice Based Approach to Forest and Nature Governance

Methodology Workshop
These 90-minute workshop sessions feature specialists in different aspects of interpretive policy analysis. The workshops are a “master-class” in which two experienced researchers will meet a small number of “newer” researchers to discuss issues in using a particular methodological strategy or method. For more information see the website.

Panels
1. Policy Work and Professional Practice
Colebatch

2. Policy as design
Colebatch

3. The state in the interpretation of governing
Colebatch

4. Meaning at the front-line. Spaces and practices in street-level public service provision
Needham

6. The Emotional Turn in Policy Analysis: Theory and Interpretation
Durnova, Orsini

7. The Performance of Public Deliberation
Boswell, Hendriks

8. Interpreting Political Leadership: inside the leader’s head
Teles

9. Professional Credibility and the Democratisation of Planning Processes in the Western and non-Western Contexts
Connelly, Yamamoto

10. How Does a Policy Matter? Interpretive Policy Analysis and the 'New Materialities Turn'
Van Veeren

11. Planning as a collaborative act / the plan as a collaborative actor
Barry, Inch, Matthews

12. States of Emergency. Crisis Narratives as Challenge to Democracy
Feindt, Fischer

13. Shattered images, baroque hersies and Rhizomatc indignation
Weiner

14. Prompters and Curtain-Pullers: Policy advisers in Practice
Beisel, Lippert, Ninan

15. Discourses of Democracy
Farrelly, Mulderrig

16. Critical Discourse Analysis in Interpretive Policy Analysis
Farrelly , Mulderrig

17. Globalisation, Discourse and Education Policy
Farrelly, Mulderrig

18. Evidence and meaning in policy practice
Colebatch

20. The King’s Head: making sense with hierarchy (with a special interest in Health care)
Colebatch

21. Engineering, interpretation and the governance of urban infrastructure
Sharp

22. Researching Complexity: systems, time, and interpretation
Boons, Gerrits, Marks, Spekkink, Verweij

24. Assemblage, Enactment and Agency: Educational Policy Perspectives
Riveros, Viczko

25. Logics in action: studying austerity across contexts
Dreyer Hansen, Glynos, Speed, West

27. Interpretive Policy Analysis in non-Western Contexts
Connelly, Mathur, Narain

28. Technological Dramas in Interpretive Policy Analysis
hunsinger

29. Post-Democratic policy making and post-national dimensions of order (3 sub-panels: regimes, actors and technology)
Plehwe, Strassheim, Voss

30. The blind man in search of the elephant: making sense of divergent perspectives on self-organisation
Aarts, Sherwood, van Bommel

31. Changing times
de Haan, Enserink, Naber

32. Community Art and the Creative Economy in Challenged Neighborhoods
Dodge, Metze

33. Paradoxes in transformative contexts
Avelino, Jhagroe

34. Shocks, Crises, Disasters and Others: The Construction of Extraordinary Circumstances in Legitimating Policy Change
Akdogan, Orhan

35. Changing the world? The impact of interpretive policy analysis
Connelly, Sharp

36. Inclusion, Participation and Equality in Global Governance– Theoretical Reflections on the Place of the Democratic in the Global Imaginary
Freistein, Mert

37. Participation professionals: a research/practice conversation on the policy work of public engagement practitioners
Bartels, Escobar

38. Corpus-assisted policy analysis? The uses of corpora and quantification for interpretation
Blaette

39. Interpreting the Future
Justice

40. Examining the EU’s energy options – internal and external components for securing, diversifying and de-carbonising
Cheng, Kirby-Harris, Solorio

41. Interpreting the facilitator (new panel format)
Aggar, Metze, van der Arend

42. Learning to facilitate policy deliberation
Allain, Fischer

43. Regimes of Citizenship and Public Policy Analysis
Cuevas, Speed, Vezovnik

44. Development Policy and Intervention: sustaining livelihoods?
Darbas

45. Public Managers in a Mediatized World
Klijn, van Twist, Skelcher

46. Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governance
Ney

47. Understanding Processes of Policy Contestation
Bröer, Verhoeven

48. Performing Welfare State Reform
Duyvendak, Jansen Verplanke, Tonkens, Verhoeven

50. Democracy, performance assessment, and interaction research
Schaap, van den Dool

99. Open Section
Proposals for papers that do not fit into one of the panels can be submitted to this section.

The conference is                           Tilburg Law School, Tilburg School of Politics
supported by                                  and Public Administration.



Dr. M.J. (Merlijn) van Hulst
Assistant Professor/Universitair Docent
Tilburg School of Politics and Public Administration
Tilburg University
tel: 0031 13 4668189
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=m.j.vanhulst


Jeremy Hunsinger
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech



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