Dear colleagues,
I'd like to bring to attention a panel on "Think-tanks and their role during Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession" at the 2015 International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference in Lille, France, in July (http://ipa2015.sciencesconf.org/). Dr Dieter Plehwe (WZB) and I are responsible for this panel. The deadline for abstracts is the third of February. We look very much forward to your contributions.
Thank you and best wishes,
Dr Hartwig Pautz
Lecturer in Social Sciences
University of the West of Scotland
School of Media, Culture and Society
Rutherford McCowan Building 148
Dumfries DG1 4ZN
United Kingdom
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Here is the CfP:
The 'Global Financial Crisis' and the subsequent 'Great Recession' were drastic shocks to the economic and political systems of, above all, the European and North American capitalist welfare democracies. The political elites in these countries and also the elites of supranational bodies such as EU, IWF and World Bank { were under considerable pressure to develop and implement policies that would, first, prevent the repetition of such crises and would, second, deal with their fallouts in the form of budget deficits, currency instability and economic meltdowns. At least, political elites were under pressure to be seen, by the electorate, as taking action to ameliorate the consequences of the 'New Hard Times' and prevent future crises.
This panel invites papers which analyse the role of think-tanks, broadly understood, as producers of policy (discourses) directed at political elites and at the electorate in the crisis following the events of 2007. Themes that papers could address are wide-ranging, but may include analysis of whether think-tanks actually contributed to crisis-related policy debates and decisions (e.g. regarding the systematic creation of `green jobs', the re-regulation of the finance sector or steps towards an economic and fiscal union), whether think-tanks played a role in shaping new or defending 'old' understandings of 'economics', the role of think tanks in pushing austerity measures or fighting against them, or whether the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession have contributed to a change in the 'civic epistemologies'
(Jassanof) in any of the affected polities.
Here is the link to the Panel: http://ipa2015.sciencesconf.org/conference/ipa2015/pages/Think_tanks_and_their_role.pdf
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