IPE in Amsterdam
‘IPE in Amsterdam – the quartet: a crisis is a crisis is a crisis?’
Friday 19 June 2009, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam room F607 (W&N Building)
08.45 Welcome by Henk Overbeek
9.00 – 10.30 Crisis of the power brokers? (chair: Laura Horn)
· Alex Voicu (UvA), Political elite recruitment and party organization: Evidence from Romania, Hungary and the UK, discussant: Andre Krouwel (VU)
· Rodrigo Fernandez (UvA), Organizing chaos: the role of the sub-national institutional framework in transforming financial markets in the Netherlands, 1972 – 2008, discussant: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (VU)
· William Carroll, Meindert Fennema & Eelke Heemskerk (UvA), Constituting corporate Europe: a study of elite social organization, discussant: Kees van der Pijl (University of Sussex)
11.00 – 12.30 Crisis of the welfare state? (chair: Naná de Graaff)
· Gijs Schumacher & Barbara Vis (VU), The varying influences of cabinet’s vote-seeking, office-seeking and policy-seeking preferences on reform of welfare state generosity, discussant: Brian Burgoon (UvA)
· Valentina DiStasio & Herman van der Werfhorst (UvA), Training participation and the reduction of job insecurity: institutional effects in 18 countries, discussant: Barbara Vis (VU)
· Nynke Wiekenkamp & Marc van der Meer (UvA), Social pacts and pension reform: how early retirement became the norm and was phased out, discussant: Ewald van Engelen (UvA)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch in the VU mensa (Courtesy of ASSR Rethinking politics cluster / Amidst)
13.30 – 15.00 Crisis of the financial world? (chair: Rodrigo Fernandez)
· Anna Glasmacher (UvA), Efficiency versus effectiveness of information transfer on financial markets, discussant: Geoffrey Underhill (UvA)
· Emmanuel Carre (Sciences Po Bordeaux), The financial crisis and the inflation targeting regime: Is the king naked?, discussant: Olav Velthuisen (UvA)
· Jan Fichtner (Goethe University Frankfurt), Activists hedge finds and German corporate governance: Agents of change towards a system of outsider control?, discussant: Angela Wigger (Radboud University Nijmegen)
15.30 – 17.00 Crisis of the transnational order? (chair: Jasper Blom)
· Naná de Graaff (VU), Shifting balance of power in the global energy market and its transnational dimension: Expansion and integratin in non-triad national oil companies, discussant: Meindert Fennema (UvA)
· Todd Scarth (University of Sussex), Liberal internationalism as the production of abstract space, discussant: Mario Novelli (UvA)
· Andreas Nölke (Goethe University Frankfurt), Transnational private governance and the politics of regulatory responses to the financial crisis: the case of accounting standards, discussant: Daniel Mügge (UvA)
17.00 Drinks! (Courtesy of the VU Department of Political Science)
Deadline for paper submission - June 8. Papers will be made available to all participants on a secure electronic platform.