EUCE Conferences and Workshops

 

Graduate Student Workshop:
"Governing Work and Welfare in an Enlarged Europe"

May 19-20, 2006

206 Ingraham Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1155 Observatory Drive

Sponsors

Workshop Description

Reform of European employment and social welfare systems has become an increasingly critical policy issue and subject of scholarly debate. While the academic and policy debates have focused on the national level, the European Union dimension has grown in significance. To date, these issues have been relatively understudied and the graduate student conference will seek to build knowledge to fill this gap. Through scholarly exchange, it seeks to enhance theoretical and empirical understanding of the politics of work and welfare reform at the intersection between European nation-states and the EU.

Program (pdf version here)

DAY ONE. FRIDAY, MAY 19
9:00 a.m. Coffee available
Welcome
9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.		  

Panel A.
9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
OMC and multi-level governance

Mariely López-Santana (University of Michigan)
 Having a ‘say’ without having to ‘pay’: The differential influence of the Open Method of Coordination on intra-governmental relations in western European states
Link to paper

Ayse Idil Aybars (University of Ulster)
 Open Method of Coordination, welfare states, and gender equality
Link to paper

Jesse Norris (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Soft law in the multi-level governance of social policy: Portraits from two EU member states
Link to paper

Discussant: Maurizio Ferrera (University of Milan)

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

Panel B.
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
OMC and EU policy coordination: Social Protection

Bart Vanhercke (University of Amsterdam)
The political spill-over of the EMU and the changing advocacy coalition for the social protection OMCs
Link to paper

Deirdre Kelleher (University of Limerick)
The EU’s social inclusion process
Link to paper

Discussant: Alex Caviedes (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Break

Panel C.
3:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
EU and the new member states

Dimitry Kochenov (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
The place of work and welfare reform promotion in the pre-accession: Why do commission’s unlimited powers bring only modest results?
Link to paper

Jessica Winchell (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Rethinking Europeanization: The impact of the European Employment Strategy on new member states as a case for multi-level theory
Link to paper

Charlotte West (Södertörn University College)
Europeanization of employment policy making in the Baltic states
Link to paper

Discussant: Jonathan Zeitlin (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

7:00 p.m.

Dinner.

DAY TWO. SATURDAY, MAY 20
9:30 a.m. Coffee available

Panel D.
9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
National-level reforms

Gerben Korthouwer (University of Amsterdam)
 Governing work and welfare in the Netherlands: Does partisanship matter?
Link to paper

Laura Nistor (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
National welfare reforms in the light of the Community law: The case of the Dutch health insurance reform
Link to paper

J. Timo Weishaupt (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
New deals and new agendas: British and German experiences with labor market reforms
Link to paper

Discussant: Anton Hemerijck (Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy & University of Leiden)

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

Panel E.
1:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Corporatism and social pacts

Manuela Galetto (University of Milano)
Employment objectives of territorial employment pacts in Italy
Link to paper

Erin C. McGrath (University of Pittsburgh)
Western European corporatism(s): Models for eastern Europe?
Link to paper

Nynke Wiekenkamp (University of Amsterdam)
Sources and dynamics of learning in social pacts: For better, for worse
Link to paper

Discussant: Sabina Avdagic (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne)

7:00 p.m.

Dinner