General Programme
7th Pan-European Conference on the European Union
The Hague, the Netherlands
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Altogether, more than 330 people confirmed their participation in the conference, and the program features more than 330 individual papers organized in 85 panels.
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4 June, Wednesday
16.00 – 20.00 Registration
5 June, Thursday
8.00 – 17.30 Registration
9.00 – 17.30 Book exhibition
9.00 – 10.30 Session 11.1. Distant Voices. Ideas of the Eurozone crisis and democracy from the EU periphery (Section 1)
Chair: Uwe Puetter (Central European University) Discussant: Uwe Puetter (Central European University)
Place: A203
Economic crisis and Euro-scepticism: A comparative study of the Hungarian and Italian cases
Anna Molnar (University of Pannonia)
Democracy or demagogy? – (Ideas of) democracy in times of the sovereign-debt crisis in Greece
Anna Visvizi (The American College of Greece)
Going further peripheral? Portugal, democracy and the crisis
Claudia Ramos (Fernando Pessoa University)
Integrated outsiders? Ideas of democracy and the Eurozone crisis in Iceland and Norway
Lise Rye (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Eirikur Bergmann (Bifröst University)
2.1. Politicising Europe, Europeanizing social democracy (Section 2)
Chair: Simon Lightfoot (University of Leeds) Discussant: Simon Lightfoot (University of Leeds)
Place: A205
Dealing with Conflict in EU Politics: A crucial challenge for the future of European democracy
Amandine Crespy (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Who is Discontented? Are Levels of Eurospecticism Rising and Where is it Stronger? Analysing EU Attitudes
Across Radical and Mainstream Party Families
André Krouwel (University of Amsterdam) and Yordan Kutijski (University of Amsterdam)
Much Ado about Nothing? The ‘Martin Schulz effect’ on the European election campaigns of the Labour Party, the
SPD, and the SPÖ
Isabelle Hertner (University of Birmingham)
The European Elections 2014: Social Democratic Campaign Strategy Under Pressure
Robert Ladrech (Keele University)
2.2. Issue congruence between voters and parties (Section 2)
Chair: Eric Miklin (University of Salzburg) Discussant: Christine Arnold (Maastricht University)
Place: B303
Differentiated Party Response: The Effect of Euroskeptic Public Opinion on Party Positions
Christopher Williams (Maastricht University) and Jae-Jae Spoon (University of North Texas)
Policy Position in the Eye of the Beholder: Voters’ Understanding of Parties’ Positions on European Integration
Christopher Williams (Maastricht University) and Christine Arnold (Maastricht University)
Conflicting Demands for EU Integration
Richard Rose (University of Strathclyde) and Gabriela Borz (University of Strathclyde)
Towards convergence in times of crisis? Assessing opinion congruence between voters and parties in seven EU
elections
Sofia Vasilopoulou (University of York) and Katjana Gattermann (University of Amsterdam)
3.1. Political Leadership in the European Union: Shifting the Institutional Balance? (Section 3)
Chair: Amy Verdun (University of Victoria) Discussant: Amy Verdun (University of Victoria)
Place: A202
Delors’ leadership revisited
George Ross (Universite de Montreal)
After Lisbon: Leadership Potential and Performance of the EU Commission President
Henriette Müller (WZB)
Extended leadership: The additional value of being supranational institution
Ina Klein (University of Osnabrueck)
The President of the European Council: what kind of political leadership?
Ingeborg Tömmel (University of Osnabrueck)
4.1. The Dynamics of Policy Advice in the EU (Section 4)
Chair: Caspar van den Berg (Leiden University) Discussant: Ezra Suleiman (Princeton University)
Place: B403
The politics of advising: comparing the role of senior-officials and heads of cabinet within The European
Commission
Anchrit Wille (Leiden University)
Ministerial advisory systems in The Netherlands and Britain: Strategy vs. Substance?
Caspar van den Berg (Leiden University)
The changing role of the cabinets: from national enclaves to portfolio managers
Hussein Kassim (University of East Anglia)
Bureaucratic structure, geographical location and the autonomy of administrative systems: Evidence from the
European External Action Service
Thomas Henökl (University of Agder) and Jarle Trondal (University of Agder)
5.1. The turn to ‘early agreements’: Revisiting the debate (Section 5)
Chair: Christilla Roederer-Rynning (University of Southern Denmark) Discussant: Mads Jensen (University of Copenhagen)
Place: A204
A whole new ball game? Adapting the working practices of the European Parliament’s committees to the EU
legislative process after Lisbon
Ariadna Servent (University of Bamberg)
The European Commission as Policy-making Actor
Charlotte Burns (University of York)
Trialogs as a layered policy-making institution
Christilla Roederer-Rynning (University of Southern Denmark) and Justin Greenwood (Robert Gordon University)
Civil society and the European Parliament: natural allies in EU decision-making
David Marshall (University of Salzburg), Patrick Bernhagen (Zeppelin University) and Andreas Dür (University of Salzburg)
6.1. EU-Turkey relations and their impact on the neighbourhood (Section 6)
Chair: Joanna Dyduch (University of Wroclaw) Discussant: Emre Hatipoglu (Sabanci University)
Place: A201
EU membership norms and decision-making on enlargement: Why Turkey’s EU candidacy won’t succeed
Daniel Thomas (Leiden University)
Transformation Process in the Arab World and the Turkey – EU Relations
Erhan Akdemir (Anadolu University)
The Justice and Development Party and the EU: The end of a difficult relationship?
Gamze Avci (University College Utrecht)
6.2. The Europeanisation of new member states and the candidate countries (Section 6)
Chair: Ana Juncos (University of Bristol) Discussant: Gergana Noutcheva (Maastricht Universiteit)
Place: B401
A decade after Cyprus’ EU accession: How did Cypriot EU membership contribute to the reunification of Cyprus?
Kaan Sahilyol (Marmara University)
Evidence on an indirect EU influence in external relations: the case study of development aid
Ringaile Kuokstyte (Paris 1 University)
A European ‘brotherly love’? Evaluating the impact of Europeanisation on Romanian attitudes towards Moldova
Roxana Huma (University of Plymouth)
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 12.15 Session 21.2. The European Union: Which Governance Architecture for Which Democracy? (I) (Section 1)
Chair: Simona Piattoni (University of Trento) Discussant: Uwe Puetter (Central European University)
Place: A203
Multi-Level Governance: Loosely-Coupled Arenas of Representation, Participation and Accountability
Arthur Benz (University of Darmstadt)
Political Architects and Democratic Builders of the European Union: Jean Monnet’s Enduring Federal Legacy
Michael Burgess (University of Kent)
Alternative Unions: Institutional Features and Democratic Ambiguities of a Compound European Union
Sergio Fabbrini (Università LUISS)
The European Union: Legitimating Values, Democratic Principles and Institutional Architectures
Simona Piattoni (University of Trento)
2.2. Party Competition over European Integration (Section 2)
Chair: Christian Rauh (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) Discussant: Javier Arregui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Place: A205
Debates on the EU: Interactions between Party Conflict and Media Attention
Daphne van der Pas (University of Amsterdam)
The salience of Europe in domestic electoral politics? Only one issue among the many?
Dominic Hoeglinger (University of Zurich)
Challenging Europe. The Impact of Eurosceptic Challengers on Mainstream Parties
Maurits Meijers (Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies)
Portraying a Composite Issue: How Political Parties Frame European Integration in Public Debates
Simon Maag (University of Zurich)
2.3. The EU and its institutions in Public Discourse (Section 2)
Chair: Eleni Frantziou (University College London) Discussant: Dimiter Toshkov (Leiden University)
Place: B303
Party Discourse about European Future: Political Parties, Election Manifestos and Metaphors
Jan Kovár (Metropolitan University Prague)
EU party politics on the rise? Explaining dynamics between public support and news prominence of political parties
in the European Parliament
Katjana Gattermann (University of Amsterdam)
The European Question in the 2013 Parliamentary Elections in Albania
Klejdi Kellici (European University of Tirana) and Medlir Mema (George Washington University)
3.2. The Commission in an era of politicization: neutral bureaucracy or strategic actor? (Section 3)
Chair: Markus Haverland (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Discussant: Markus Haverland (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Place: A202
Follow the money: strengthened control over the European Commission’s financial management
Anchrit Wille (Leiden University)
The Commission’s Response to the new wave of Europeanization of Industrial Interests
Beate Kohler-Koch (University of Mannheim)
Does the European Commission learn? Lessons from the Eurozone
Claire Dunlop (University of Exeter), Jonathan Kamkhaji (University of Exeter) and Claudio Radaelli (University of Exeter)
The European Commission’s Production of Public Opinion. Strategic or Neutral?
Markus Haverland (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
4.2. EU Impact assessments: a new look at actors and sectors (Section 4)
Chair: Stijn Smismans (Cardiff University) Discussant: Caspar van den Berg (Leiden University)
Place: B403
Impact assessment of competition law litigation: too many voices?
Carlo Petrucci (Cardiff University)
Impact assessment and agencies: complementary or competing instruments for knowledge-based decision-making in
the EU?
Emanuela Bozzini (University of Trento)
From assessing the impact of mainstreaming to mainstreaming impact assessments
Stijn Smismans (Cardiff University) and Rachel Minto (Cardiff University)
5.2. Implementing patients’ rights in borderless Europe (Section 5)
Chair: Hans Vollaard (Leiden University) Discussant: Thomas Kostera (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Place: A204
France and Sweden: the contrasted domestic politics of EU cross-border healthcare law implementation
Alban Davesne (Sciences Po Paris)
Unfit for patient rights in cross border healthcare?
Dorte Sindbjerg-Martinsen (University of Copenhagen) and Nikolay Vasev (University of Copenhagen)
The Czech Republic and Slovakia – liberalization facing indifference
Filip Krepelka (Masaryk University Brno)
Transposition and sector specific resources
Karsten Vrangbæk (University of Copenhagen)
6.3. The role of institutional actors in EU foreign policy (Section 6)
Chair: Agnieszka Cianciara (Polish Academy of Sciences) Discussant: Karolina Pomorska (Cambridge University)
Place: A201
How did the European Commission acquire and exercise a role in the intergovernmental European Political
Cooperation? The case of the Euro-Arab Dialogue
Ane Alterhaug (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Mapping think tank discourse on EU in international security: the case of the EUISS
Lennart Landman (University of Groningen)
Parliamentary conceptions of sovereignty and European defence cooperation
Margriet Drent (University of Groningen)
(Not) in the hands of the member states: The role of the Commission in CSDP
Marianne Riddervold (University of Oslo)
Issue, institution, or institutional issues? Key factors for promoting Policy Coherence for Development at the EU
level
Simon Stroß (University of Cologne)
6.4. The EU and multilateralism (Section 6)
Chair: Daniel Thomas (Universiteit Leiden) Discussant: Daniel Thomas (Universiteit Leiden)
Place: B401
Shaping Multilateral Security Governance: the EU and the Arms Trade Treaty
Iulian Romanyshyn (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca)
A new era for global energy governance? The EU perspective
Maria Kottari (Panteion University of Athens)
The EU and the trade in illegally logged timber: What role can Europe still play?
Martijn Vlaskamp (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals)
Assessing EU’s implementation of the 2011 Action Plan
Medlir Mema (VUB Brussels) and Mathias Holvoet (VUB Brussels)
7.1. Teaching the EU using Negotiation and Simulations: Experiences and Prospects for the Future
(Section 7)
Chair: Francesco Marchi (ESSEC-IRENE) Discussant: Aurelien Colson (ESSEC-IRENE)
Place: A001
Teaching European Negotiation at the University: The case of the Council Simulation
Francesco Marchi (ESSEC-IRENE)
Understanding and assimilating European integration through simulation exercise
Frank Lavadoux (European Institute of Public Administration) and Frank Lambermont (European Institute of Public
Administration)
Experiencing the European Union: A simulation game on the European Citizens’ Initiative.
Marco Brunazzo (Trento University) and Pierpaolo Settembri (European Commission)
12.15 – 13.15 Lunch break
13.15 – 14.45 Session 31.3. The European Union: Which Governance Architecture for Which Democracy? (II) (Section 1)
Chair: Simona Piattoni (University of Trento) Discussant: Christopher Lord (ARE)
Place: A203
Which Principles for a Democratic and Sustainable European Union?
John Erik Fossum (University of Oslo) and Johannes Pollak (Institute for Higher Studies, Vienna)
The Challenge of Making EU Executive Power Accountable
Deirdre Curtin (University of Amsterdam) and Ben Crum (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
EU Demoicracy between Internationalism and Supranationalism
Kalypso Nicolaidis (Oxford University)
Democratic Participation and Expert Governance in the EU
Stijn Smismans (Cardiff University)
2.5. Interest Representation in Times of Democratic Crisis: Interest Group Strategies at Various
Institutional Venues (Section 2)
Chair: Joost Berkhout (University of Amsterdam ) Discussant: Arco Timmermans (Leiden University)
Place: A205
The structure of conflict in EU interest group politics: Positions, actor alignments and divisiveness
Arndt Wonka (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences) and et al.
European agencies as an additional venue for interest group mobilization
Caelesta Braun (Vrije University Amsterdam) and Sarah Arras (University of Antwerp)
Together or alone? when and with whom interest groups coalesce in EU legislative politics
Iskander De Bruycker (University of Antwerp) and Jan Beyers (University of Antwerp)
Europeanization of CSOs in times of crisis: Exploring Coping Strategies of Humanitarian and development CSOs
Rosa Sanchez (University of Amsterdam)
2.6. The enabling power of political parties and public opinion in EU policy-making (Section 2)
Chair: Hussein Kassim (University of East Anglia) Discussant: Sebastiaan Princen (Utrecht University)
Place: B303
Early Agreements and Party Politics in the European Parliament
Edoardo Bressanelli (king’s college london), Christel Koop (King’s College London) and Christine Reh (University College London)
Mapping and explaining informal trilogues
Gijs Jan Brandsma (Utrecht University)
Who do MEPs represent ? An analysis of the written parliamentary question (1994-2011)
Nathalie Brack (Oxford University) and Olivier Costa (Sciences Po Bordeaux/College of Europe)
Democratic Responsiveness of EU Policy-Making
Renaud Dehousse (Sciences Po, Paris) and Nicolas Monceau (Bordeaux IV)
3.3. Coping with the ‘new intergovernmentalism’: supranational institutions and European integration in
the post-Maastricht era (Section 3)
Chair: Christopher Bickerton (University of Cambridge) Discussant: Petya Alexandrova (Leiden University & Montesquieu Institute)
Place: A202
The Commission and the New Intergovernmentalism: Calm Within the Storm?
John Peterson (University of Edinburgh)
The ECJ’s contribution to the transformation of Europe: Looking to the future but living in the past?
Marie-Pierre Granger (Central European University)
The European Parliament: Adversary or Accomplice of the new intergovernmentalism?
Peter Slominski (University of Vienna)
European Politics in the Post-Maastricht Period: States, Supranational Actors and the New Intergovernmentalism
Uwe Puetter (Central European University) and Christopher Bickerton (University of Cambridge)
4.3. Economic and financial governance in the EU (Section 4)
Chair: Adam Chalmers (Leiden University) Discussant: Adam Chalmers (Leiden University)
Place: B403
The macroeconomic imbalance procedure: increase or integration of EU powers?
Arien van ‘t Hof (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Multilevel Networks in the European semester: Balancing Centralisation
Arnout Mijs (Clingendael Institute) and Adriaan Schout (Clingendael Institute)
Institutions, Regulation and Evolving Patterns of European Economic and Fiscal Governance
Madeleine Hosli (Leiden University)
Succumbing to peer pressure? European coordination of labour market policies and domestic policy change
Olaf van Vliet (Leiden University)
5.3. The making of a European healthcare union (Section 5)
Chair: Dorte Sindbjerg-Martinsen (University of Copenhagen) Discussant: Hans Vollaard (Leiden University)
Place: A204
The making of a European healthcare union
Hans Vollaard (Leiden University), Hester van de Bovenkamp (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Dorte Sindbjerg-Martinsen
(University of Copenhagen)
Inside the black box: Explaining the EU’s economic surveillance of healthcare systems
Rita Baeten (European Social Observatory) and Bart Vanhercke (European Social Observatory)
Europeanization and expertise: Networks and agencies in European health technology assessment and
communicable disease control
Scott Greer (University of Michigan School of Public Health) and Olga Loblova (Central European University)
6.5. Assessing Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy (Section 6)
Chair: Gergana Noutcheva (Maastricht Universiteit) Discussant: Antoaneta Dimitrova (Universiteit Leiden)
Place: A201
The EU Enlargement Strategy – Is It Still about the Enlargement?
Adam Szymanski (University of Warsaw)
Good Governance in Eastern Partnership Policy: European Integration and Institutional Challenges in Ukraine and
Belarus
Tatiana Shaban (University of Victoria)
Why Poland, but not Ukraine? The Pitfalls of Comparative Research Design or Why We Learned the Wrong
Lessons from the EU’s Eastern Enlargement
Antoaneta Dimitrova (Universiteit Leiden)
Too proud to have pride? The EU’s (in)ability to promote LGBT equality in Serbia
Adam Fagan (Queen Mary University London) and Koen Slootmaeckers (Queen Mary University London)
6.6. New developments in EU security policies (Section 6)
Chair: Heidi Maurer (Maastricht Universiteit) Discussant: Gorm Rye Olsen (Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Trondheim)
Place: B401
EU strategy in the age of drones
Ana Juncos (University of Bristol)
European Union as norm promoter in space affairs
Irma Slomczynska (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University)
Biometric technologies trends in relation to fundamental rights protection in European Union Security Policy
Joaquín Sarrión Esteve (University of Valencia) and Cristina Domènech (University of Valencia)
The Militarization of the EU? A typology of the variable impact of military operations on the EU’s foreign policies
Trineke Palm (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
7.2. Roundtable: Advancements in Small and Medium N Studies meet the European Union (Section 7)
Chair: Dimiter Toshkov (Leiden University) Discussant: Dimiter Toshkov (Leiden University)
Place: A001
Research design and causality
Claudio Radaelli (University of Exeter)
Combining small, medium, and large-N approaches
Frank Häge (University of Limerick)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Maarten Vink (Maastricht University)
Case study approaches
Markus Haverland (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 16.30 Session 41.4. Stability of the euro area – lessons from comparisons (Section 1)
Chair: Amy Verdun (University of Victoria) Discussant: Madeleine Hosli (University of Leiden)
Place: A203
The Euro Area Small Economies and the stability of the Euro
Assem Dandashly (University of Maastricht) and Amy Verdun (University of Victoria)
Theory of Optimum Financial Areas: retooling the debate on the governance of global finance
Geoffrey Underhill (University of Amsterdam) and Erik Jones (John’s Hopkins University)
The Unexpected Revival of Hegemonic Stability Theory
Matthias Matthijs (Johns Hopkins University)
End of independence: central banks and distributional politics
Waltraud Schelkle (London School of Economics) and Deborah Mabbett (Birkbeck University)
2.7. Implications of the Multi-level Institutional design of the EU (Section 2)
Chair: Jae-Jae Spoon (University of North Texas) Discussant: Jae-Jae Spoon (University of North Texas)
Place: A205
What kind of opposition politics does the European Union need? An institutionalist argument
Amandine Crespy (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB))
The EU as Multilevel Democracy: Conceptual and Practical Challenges
Ben Crum (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Domestic elections and the strategic timing of international decisions
Mareike Kleine (London School of Economics) and Robert Thomson (University of Strathclyde)
Ethnoregionalist Parties and the Democratic Deficit of the EU
Stefania Baroncelli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), Roberto Farneti (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) and Monica Rosini (Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano)
2.8. Citizenship and Fundamental Rights in the EU (Section 2)
Chair: Katjana Gattermann (University of Amsterdam) Discussant: Christopher Williams (Maastricht University)
Place: B303
The EU Citizenship ? A Journey Towards the Post-National Model?
Adam Szymanski (University of Warsaw)
The horizontal effect of the Charter of Fundamental Rights: a tool for civic participation?
Eleni Frantziou (University College London)
New Challenges for European Union in the Field of Human Rights
Nadezda Siskova (Palacky University)
The CJEU and LGBT rights: diverge approaches to Union-wide definitions, or the case of convenient judicial
activism?
Panos Stasinopoulos (King’s College London)
3.4. Bargaining mechanisms and constraints (Section 3)
Chair: Olof Larsson (University of Gothenburg) Discussant: Thomas Winzen (University of Zurich)
Place: A202
The Effect of Time Pressure in Decision Making in the European Union
Arash Pourebrahimi (Leiden University) and Madeleine Hosli (Lieden Univeristy)
Modelling and analysing belief manipulation in conciliation
Camilla Mariotto (University of Milano)
What is my autonomy of negotiation? The case of the autonomy of federal executives in the Council vis-à-vis their
domestic parliament(s)
Francois Randour (Université catholique de Louvain)
Justified Threats? The Use of Coercive Tactics in EU Treaty Negotiation
Ken Takeda (Waseda University, Japan)
4.4. Challenges of multilevel administration: agencies, committees, networks (Section 4)
Chair: Martijn Groenleer (Delft University of Technology) Discussant: Martijn Groenleer (Delft University of Technology)
Place: B403
Regulatory Governance in the EU: Unveiling the Consensual Nature of Comitology
Ana Mar Fernández Pasarín (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), Renaud Dehousse (Sciences Po Paris) and Joan Pere Plaza
(UAB)
The (problematic) legal status of the EU agencies as global actors: Europol’s international cooperation between
present concerns and coming reforms.
Florin Coman-Kund (Maastricht University)
Transparency as constitutional key in the European Union Good Governance challenges.
Joaquín Sarrión Esteve (University of Valencia) and Cristina Domènech (University of Valencia)
Judicial Review in an Integrated Administration: the case of ‘composite procedures’
Mariolina Eliantonio (Maastricht University)
Interagency relations in EU Border Management: Strengthening security and fundamental rights aspects
simultaneously?
Peter Slominski (University of Vienna)
5.4. The role of the European Parliament in EU policy-making (Section 5)
Chair: Christilla Roederer-Rynning (University of Southern Denmark) Discussant: Christilla Roederer-Rynning (University of
Southern Denmark)
Place: A204
Tilting the Balance. An Examination of the Impact of the Rapporteur’s Ideology on the Representation of Interests
in Amendments in EU Food Legislation
Anneloes Hoff (University College Roosevelt)
Meat glue, body scanners and eco-design of household lamps? the role of legislative vetoes in EU non-legislative
policy-making
Michael Kaeding (University of Duisburg-Essen)
A Greener Common Agricultural Policy? How hopes were dashed by the European Parliament? the EU’s greenest
institution
Viviane Gravey (University of East Anglia)
6.7. Common Security and Defence Policy in Africa (Section 6)
Chair: Ana Juncos (University of Bristol) Discussant: Trineke Palm (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Place: B401
European Union responses to the ‘Somalisation’ of Africa
Gorm Rye Olsen (Roskilde University)
EU Strategic Culture and the 2011 Libya War
Lea Hansen (Copenhagen Business School) and Kristian Nielsen (Copenhagen Business School)
The Role of the EU Abroad: Security Sector Reform in Guinea-Bissau
Teresa Cravo (University of Coimbra/University of Westminster)
6.8. European (Union) Diplomacy: changing patterns, challenges, and impact (Section 6)
Chair: Karolina Pomorska (Cambridge University) Discussant: Anna Herranz-Surrallés (Maastricht University)
Place: A201
Analysing EU diplomatic performance in third countries: towards an analytical framework
Dorina Baltag (Loughborough University)
Communities of practices or networks? European foreign policy cooperation in non EU countries
Federica Bicchi (London School of Economics)
Upgrading the system of European diplomatic representation in third countries: What role for EU delegations post-
Lisbon?
Heidi Maurer (Maastricht University)
The External Face of the EU: The EU Delegations around the World
Tereza Novotna (Université libre de Bruxelles)
7.3. European integration [email protected]: developing gender-sensitive approaches (Section 7)
Chair: Gabriele Abels (University of Tuebingen) Discussant: Ulrike Liebert (University of Bremen)
Place: A001
Gendering intergovernmentalisms
Anna van der Vleuten (Radboud University Nijmegen )
Social constructivism in European integration theories: gender and intersectionality perspectives
Emanuela Lombardo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Multi-level governance: gendering a key theoretical approach in EU studies
Gabriele Abels (University of Tuebingen)
Feminist readings of federalism: new approaches and tools to study the process of European integration?
Petra Meier (University of Antwerp)
17.00 – 17.45 JCMS Lecture
The Journal of Common Market Studies will host its traditional JCMS lecture in the main hall of the conference building.
17.45 – 19.15 – Reception JCMS
The reception is kindly offered by the Journal of Common Marke Studies
6 June, Friday
8.00 – 12.30 Registration
9.00 – 17.30 Book exhibition
9.00 – 10.30 Session 51.5. The politicization of inter- and supranational actors in the domestic arena (Section 1)
Chair: Maurits Meijers (Hertie School of Governance) Discussant: Maurits Meijers (Hertie School of Governance)
Place: A203
When Talking About It Does Not Help? EU Politicization and Euroskepticism in Germany, Austria and Ireland
Bernd Schlipphak (University of Muenster)
To raise or not to raise the issue of European integration? Societal politicization, partisan competition and the
salience of European integration in plenary debates of the German Bundestag, 1998-2013
Christian Rauh (WZB Social Science Center, Berlin)
EU-criticism from mainstream parties: between value misfit and government responsibility
Simon Maag (University of Zurich)
2.9. Interest Representation in Times of Democratic Crisis: Interest Group Communities at Various
Institutional Venues (Section 2)
Chair: Marcel Hanegraaff (University of Antwerp) Discussant: Marcel Hanegraaff (University of Antwerp)
Place: A205
The State of the Discipline: Authorship, Research Designs and Citations in the Scholarship on EU Interest Groups
and Lobbying
Adriana Bunea (European University Institute) and Frank Baumgartner (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Interest Group coalitions in European Union Policy making: Diversity matters
David Marshall (University of Salzburg), Andreas Dür (University of Salzburg) and Patrick Bernhagen (Zeppelin University)
Interest Organizations across Economic Sectors: Explaining Interest Group Density in the European Union
Joost Berkhout (University of Amsterdam), Brendan Carroll (Leiden University) and Adam Chalmers (Leiden University)
Should I Stay or Should I go? Interest groups in transnational politics
Marcel Hanegraaff (University of Antwerp) and Jan Beyers (University of Antwerp)
2.10. Domestic politics and European integration (Section 2)
Chair: Julia Fleischer (University of Amsterdam) Discussant: Rik de Ruiter (Leiden University)
Place: B303
A Long and Narrow Road: Turkey’s Europeanization Process
Burak Erdenir (Ministry of EU Affairs, Turkey)
Europeanisation as a Factor of National Interest-Group Political-Cultural Change: The Case of Interest Groups in
Slovenia
Meta Novak (University of Ljubljana), Danica Fink Hafner (University of Ljubljana) and Mitja Hafner Fink (University of
Ljubljana)
Electoral Consequences of Party Fission
Raimondas Ibenskas (University of Gothenburg)
Explaining pre-electoral coalitions in Central and Eastern Europe
Raimondas Ibenskas (University of Gothenburg)
3.5. Delegation I: Implementation of legislation (Section 3)
Chair: Michael Kaeding (University of Duisburg-Essen) Discussant: Giacomo Benedetto (University of London)
Place: A202
Differentiated integration or implementing discretion? Analysing flexibility in European Union law
Asya Zhelyazkova (University of Zurich) and Thomas Winzen (University of Zurich)
The Commission as anticipatory actor? Minimizing contestation in comitology through ex ante consultation
Bart van Ballaert (Université catholique de Louvain) and Tom Delreux (Université catholique de Louvain)
The parliamentarisation of executive rule-making in the European Union
Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos (University of London)
Controlling delegated powers in the EU in the post-Lisbon period
Jens Blom-Hansen (Aarhus University) and Gijs Jan Brandsma (Utrecht University)
4.5. Multilevel governance, innovation and policy implementation (Section 4)
Chair: Maria Helena Guimarães (Universidade do Minho) Discussant: Maria Helena Guimarães (Universidade do Minho)
Place: B403
Developing transnational governance and integration in border regions: the European Grouping of Territorial
Cooperation (EGTC) in policy and practice
Alice Engl (European Academy Bozen)
Comparing the role of boundary organisations in the governance of climate change in three EU member states
Anna Wesselink (University of Twente) and Robert Hoppe (University of Twente)
Mission impossible?The UK, multi-level governance and the case of EU youth employment policy
Annie Gibney (University of Birmingham)
Refining Relationships: the Effect of Location in Policy Implementation Networks
Dorine Boumans (University of Strathclyde)
Innovations in governance of rural areas at regional level in Poland as a result of Europeanisation preasure.
Malgorzata Michalewska- Pawlak (University of Wroclaw)
5.5. EU regional and cohesion policies (Section 5)
Chair: Olaf van Vliet (Leiden University) Discussant: Olaf van Vliet (Leiden University)
Place: A204
Cross-border cooperation in the EU: Mapping variation within the Belgian case
Marsida Bandilli (University of Antwerp)
6.9. EU as a normative power (Section 6)
Chair: Magriet Drent (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Discussant: Tobias Hofmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Place: B401
National Parliaments Participation on EU foreign Policy to Reinforce Human Rights, Democracy And Rule of Law
Joaquín Sarrión Esteve (University of Valencia) and Cristina Domènech (University of Valencia)
‘Normative Power Europe’ in conflict transformation: its potentials and limitations
Stella Georgiadou (University of Sussex )
EU as a Normative Power Europe in Africa: Towards an Effective Continental Approach?
Suhal Semsit (Dokuz Eylul University)
6.10. Setting the Future Direction of EU Integration: Implications for the EU’s Foreign Policy (Section 6)
Chair: Meltem Muftuler-Bac (Sabanci University) Discussant: Meltem Muftuler-Bac (Sabanci University)
Place: A201
Is There Room for Turkey in a Europe in Crisis?
Ayse Ezgi Gürcan (Sabanci University)
EU Foreign Aid: Going It Together or Alone?
Damla Cihangir-Tetik (Sabanci University) and Emre Hatipoglu (Sabanci University)
Enlargement Differentiation in the EU: Insights from the Theories of Institutional Change
Eda Kusku-Sönmez (Canik Basari University)
Discussing Alternative Integration Models: Communicative Action Approach to European Parliament Debates on
Turkey’s Accession
Selin Türkes-Kilic (Yeditepe University)
7.4. (Meta) theories and designs in EU studies (Section 7)
Chair: Gabriele Abels (University of Tuebingen) Discussant: Gabriele Abels (University of Tuebingen)
Place: A001
The Eastern Touch on Europeanization research. A bibliometric meta-analysis
Aron Buzogány (University of Munich)
Research design in the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy
Theofanis Exadaktylos (University of Surrey) and Kennet Lynggaard (Roskilde University)
Principal-Agent Theory and EU Studies: A Lakatosian Assessment
Thomas Doleys (Kennesaw State University)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Session 61.6. Party Politics and European Economic Governance in the Shadow of the Crisis: Constraints,
Contestation and Change (Section 1)
Chair: Ulrike Liebert (University of Bremen) Discussant: Ulrike Liebert (University of Bremen)
Place: A203
Parliamentary Ratification of Anti-Crisis Measures: Old or New Conflict Lines?
Aleksandra Maatsch (CSIC Madrid)
The German Bundestag in the Euro Crisis – Contestation, Control and Patterns of Party Politics
Arndt Wonka (University of Bremen) and Sascha Göbel (University of Bremen)
The European Parliament in Hard Times: Party Conflict and Innovation in Response to the Financial, Economic
and Social Crisis
Gesche Lange (BIGSSS University Bremen) and Ulrike Liebert (University of Bremen)
The Impact of The Euro Crisis on Responsiveness and Accountability
Roberto Di Quirico (University of Cagliari) and Stefano Rombi (University of Cagliari)
1.7. The design of economic and fiscal governance I (Section 1)
Chair: Jonathan Joseph (University of Sheffield) Discussant: Jonathan Joseph (University of Sheffield)
Place: B401
The financial crisis as a window of opportunity for agency development: analyzing the European Banking Authority
and the European Securities and Markets Authority
Aneta Spendzharova (Maastricht University) and Esther Versluis (Maastricht University)
The Impact of the ‘Euro Crisis’ on European Integration in EMU 2010-2013
Hanno Degner (University of Konstanz)
The design of fiscal governance rules in the European Union
Fabio Franchino (Università degli Studi di Milano)
2.11. National parliaments in the EU I (Section 2)
Chair: Attila Ágh (Budapest Corvinus University) Discussant: Edoardo Bressanelli (King’s College London)
Place: A205
Fishing for Competencies? Parliamentary Candidates and the Parliamentarization of the EU
Julia Fleischer (University of Amsterdam)
Upper Houses in EU member states and the ex ante scrutiny of EU legislative acts
Rik de Ruiter (Leiden University)
Party systems in the context of multi-level governance
Sanja Badanjak (University of Wisconsin – Madison )
3.6. Legislative agenda-setting (Section 3)
Chair: Francesco Marchi (ESSEC-IRENE) Discussant: Frank Häge (University of Limerick)
Place: B303
Leading the band or just playing the tune? The agenda setting role of the Commission in the EU legislative process
Amie Kreppel (University of Florida) and Buket Oztas (University of Florida)
Own-initiative reports? the European Parliament’s tool to initiate legislation?
Maja Rasmussen (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Alexander Herzog (LSE)
The European Council’s Role in the European Commission’s Monopoly on Legislative Initiative
Petya Alexandrova (Leiden University & Montesquieu Institute)
3.7. Inter-institutional decision-making (Section 3)
Chair: Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos (University of London) Discussant: Camilla Mariotto (University of Milano)
Place: A202
The EU Council Post-Lisbon: Responding to Multiple Challenges
Bela Plechanovova (Charles University in Prague)
Do Nationality and Partisanship link Commissioners and Members of the European Parliament in the Legislative
Process?
Kira Killermann (University of Twente)
Analysing the evolution history of EU secondary legislation
Lars Mäder (University of Mannheim) and Enrico Borghetto (CESNOVA, FCSH/NOVA)
The Benefits of Trans-Institutional Cooperation: Explaining Legislative Success in the European Union
Lukas Obholzer (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Reforming the EU budget: A Time Series Analysis of Institutional and Political Determinants
Manuele Citi (Copenhagen Business School)
4.6. Regulatory harmonization, capture and competition in the Single Market (Section 4)
Chair: Anna Wesselink (University of Twente) Discussant: Anna Wesselink (University of Twente)
Place: B403
Institutional Opportunity, Issue Salience and Capture in the Regulation of Europe’s Securities Markets
Adam Chalmers (Leiden University)
Regulatory Barriers to Business in the Single Market
Maria Helena Guimarães (Universidade do Minho) and Michelle Egan (American University)
Regulating Regulatory Competition? The Market for Corporate Law Regimes in the EU
Thom Wetzer (Utrecht University)
5.5. EU regional and cohesion policies (Section 5)
Chair: Olaf van Vliet (Leiden University) Discussant: Olaf van Vliet (Leiden University)
Place: A204
Doing more with less’ in crisis? Using the Policy Instruments Approach to assess the effects of the EU cohesion
policy’s financial engineering instruments
Marcin Dabrowski (Delft University of Technology)
EU policy evaluation. An insight into the regional policy in Romania
Mirela Cerkez (Nicolae Titulescu University)
Romanian policy reforms: Challenges of EU funded projects
Serban Cerkez (National School for Political and Administrative Studies)
Partisan Control of Ministries and the Distribution of EU Regional Aid
Stephen Bloom (Southern Illinois University) and Vladislava Petrova (Southern Illinois University)
6.11. The EU’s role in the Mediterranean and the Middle East (Section 6)
Chair: Meltem Muftuler-Bac (Sabanci University) Discussant: Federica Bicchi (London School of Economics)
Place: A201
Euro-Mediterranean Security Relations before and after the Arab Spring: A Gender Analysis
Ali Bilgic (Bilkent University)
Dynamics of Formulation: National and Supra-National Interests and the Process of Formulating A Common
Foreign Policy for the EU: The Case of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Amr El-Sayed (Universität Osnabrück)
Relations between European Union and Israel as an example of strategic relations without vision. Between
Europeanization and structural realism
Joanna Dyduch (University of Wroclaw)
Sanctions Policy of the EU: The Case of Iran
Nilufer Karacasulu (Dokuz Eylul University) and Irem Karakir (Dokuz Eylul University)
7.5. Innovative methods for the study of European integration (Section 7)
Chair: Thomas König (University of Mannheim) Discussant: Thomas König (University of Mannheim)
Place: A001
To Wordfish or not? Assessing the use of quantitative text analysis to the study of EU interest groups’ policy
influence
Adriana Bunea (European University Institute) and Raimondas Ibenskas (University of Gothenburg)
Exploring the performance of multi-level modeling and post-stratification with Eurobarometer data
Dimiter Toshkov (Leiden University)
Towards an EU parliamentary system? Social and discurse network analysis as tools for studying parliamentary
embeddedness in EU policy-making
Linn Selle (European University Viadrina )
Transnational solidarity in the EU. Analysing citizens’ redistributive behaviour in laboratory experiments
Theresa Kuhn (University of Amsterdam) and Hector Solaz (University of Birmingham)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
12.45 – 13.30 SGEU Business Meeting - Open to all interestedThe Steering Committee of the Standing Group on the European Union of ECPR (SGEU) will hold its business meeting in A001. The meeting will discuss the future activities of the Standing Group. The meeting is open to all interested
13.30 – 15.00 Session 7
1.8. The future of Social Europe (Section 1)
Chair: Minna van Gerven (University of Twente) Discussant: Minna van Gerven (University of Twente)
Place: A203
Socializing the European Semester? Economic Governance and Social Policy Coordination in Europe 2020
Jonathan Zeitlin (University of Amsterdam) and Bart Vanhercke (Observatoire Social Européen)
Making Europe Work, and learn. The mutual learning programmes as creative adaption
Minna van Gerven (University of Twente)
Advocacy Coalitions and the Reform of EU Macroeconomic Governance
Shawn Donnelly (University of Twente)
EU economic governance in action: coordinating employment and social policies in the third European Semester
Sonja Bekker (Tilburg University)
2.12. States, societies and the EU in Eastern member states (Section 2)
Chair: Antoaneta Dimitrova (Leiden University) Discussant: Aron Buzogány (LMU Munich)
Place: A205
Decline of Democracy in East-Central Europe: The last decade as the lost decade in democratization
Attila Ágh (Corvinus University Budapest)
Europeanization and the Changes in Interest-Group Types in the Post-Communist Context
Danica Fink Hafner (University of Ljubljana)
EU Enlargement Policy 20 Years after Copenhagen: Candidate and Potential Candidate Countries – Unexpected
Policy Shapers?
Eli Gateva (University of Manchester)
The National Coordination of EU Policy in the New Member States: A Comparative Perspective
Hussein Kassim (University of East Anglia) and Vesselin Dimitrov (LSE)
2.13. National parliaments in the EU II (Section 2)
Chair: Rik de Ruiter (Leiden University) Discussant: Rik de Ruiter (Leiden University)
Place: B303
The (varying) strategies of national parliamentary party groups in EU decision-making: The case of the Euro Crisis.
Eric Miklin (University of Salzburg)
The Portuguese Parliament and the European Union: the debates
Alice Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Maria Teresa Paulo (Assembleia da República)
The road not taken? National party involvement in the negotiations of the Fiscal Compact Treaty
Roxana Mihaila (University of Sussex)
3.8. Lisbon Treaty and Democratic Quality (Section 3)
Chair: David Yuratich (Bournemouth University) Discussant: Jared Sonnicksen (TU Darmstadt)
Place: A202
The inter- institutional balance in the post – crisis era. Theoretical interpretation/reinterpretation
Adam Jaskulski (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan)
From deficit to surplus? Assessing democracy in the European Parliament after the Lisbon Treaty and an agenda for
going forward
Georgios Papanagnou (UNU CRIS)
The European Parliament and the Lisbon Treaty reforms: what has changed?
Milena Apostolovska-Stepanoska (University of Macedonia), Hristina Runcheva (University of Macedonia) and Vasko Naumovski
(University of Macedonia)
Lisbon, Democracy and the New Institutional Structure of the EU
Sebastian Baglioni (Carleton University)
Enlargement decision-making after eastern enlargement and Lisbon: new games and balances
Sercan Gidisoglu (Bogazici University)
3.9. Member state conflict dimensions (Section 3)
Chair: Bela Plechanovova (Charles University in Prague) Discussant: Lukas Obholzer (London School of Economics)
Place: B303
Ideology in the EU’s Second Chamber: A New Understanding of the Council
Amie Kreppel (University of Florida)
Coalition models in the Council of European Union
Arash Pourebrahimi (Leiden University) and Sahand Golmohamadi (Qazvin Azad University)
The latent space of political conflict in the Council of the European Union
Frank Häge (University of Limerick)
National Interests and Member State Participation in the European Court of Justice
Olof Larsson (University of Gothenburg) and Daniel Naurin (University of Gothenburg)
The EU Member States and their Policy Positions in the EU Council of Ministers: Contested Decisions (1995-2012)
Wim Van Aken (University of Leuven)
5.6. Institutions and actors in EU policy-making (Section 5)
Chair: Asya Zhelyazkova (University of Zurich) Discussant: Asya Zhelyazkova (University of Zurich)
Place: A204
Compliance or ‘Rule Gain’? The Commission’s Goals in the Infringement Procedure
Andreas Hofmann (University of Cologne)
The politics of law. The political constraints of legal integration
Dorte Sindbjerg-Martinsen (University of Copenhagen)
The European Commission in National Courts
Kathryn Wright (University of York)
Governing migrant labour: Comparative reflections on legal regulation
Mark Findlay (Singapore Management University/University of Sydney)
The legislative process of the new EU anti-discrimination Directive
Piotr Burgonski (Wyszynski University)
5.7. Governing the internal market (Section 5)
Chair: Michael Kaeding (University of Duisburg-Essen) Discussant: Michael Kaeding (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Place: B401
What lies under the internal market mask as a legal basis for harmonisation: the case of copyright
Ana Ramalho (University of South Wales)
Delegating powers to national authorities: the determinants of EU Commission decisions on mergers (2004-2012)
Marco Mainenti (University of Milan)
Harmonization and Differentiation in Single Market Policy. Countering differentiated integration through pragmatic
regulation?
Morten Kallestrup (University of Southern Denmark)
Internal Market Violations and the Power of Special Interests
Tobias Hofmann (University of Utah)
6.12. Russia, the EU and the Eastern neighbours (Section 6)
Chair: Heidi Maurer (Maastricht Universiteit) Discussant: Karolina Pomorska (Cambridge University)
Place: A201
Clash of empires? External expansion and competition in the EU’s eastern peripheries
Agnieszka Cianciara (Polish Academy of Sciences)
An Offer You Cannot Refuse’: The EU and Russia in Contest for the Eastern Neighbourhood?
Gergana Noutcheva (Maastricht University)
The Gas Game: Simulating Decision-Making in the European Union’s External Natural Gas Policy
Martina Grabau (University of Siegen)
Post-Soviet States between Russia and the EU: the Vilnius Summit and the revival of geopolitical competition?
Teodor Lucian Moga (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi) and Denis Alexeev (Saratov University)
Governing the Eastern Neighbourhood. An Account of the Geopolitical Significance of the Black Sea
Andra-Lucia Martinescu (Cambridge University)
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 16.45 Session 81.9. The impact of the economic crisis on national governments and parliaments in the EU: conflict or
cooperation? (Section 1)
Chair: Julia Schwanholz (University of Goettingen) Discussant: Aron Buzogány (LMU Munich)
Place: A203
The German Bundestag in the Euro crisis: marionette of government or new veto player in European multi-level
governance?
Andreas Wimmel (University of Innsbruck)
Uphill Battles – Downhill Slopes. Drifts in executive-legislative relations during the crisis
Aron Buzogány (LMU Munich)
The transformation of national parliaments in the Eurozone crisis. The cases of Italy, Portugal, and Spain
Cristina Fasone (European University Institute)
Assessing the effects of the Europes new ”austerity paradigm” on the political economy of labour markets: An
analysis of supply-side labour market policies in the Eurozone crisis
Johannes Petry (University of Warwick/University of Konstanz)
1.10. The design of economic and fiscal governance II (Section 1)
Chair: Fabio Franchino (Università degli Studi di Milano) Discussant: Fabio Franchino (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Place: B403
May Austerity and Brain Drain challenge the legitimacy of European integration and the achievement of social
justice within the EU? A case study on Southern Eurozone highly skilled labor migration in the area of Copenhagen
Alessandra Cenci (Roskilde University)
Private Authority in European Economic Governance: The Structural Power of Rating Agencies as Constraints on
Multilevel Party Politics
Dennis Zagermann (University of Bremen) and Ulrike Liebert (University of Bremen)
Coordinated Wage-Setting and the Social Partnership under EMU: A New Framework for Analysis
Ivan Dumka (University of Victoria)
A Comparative Analysis of Reverse Majority Voting in the EU: Anti-Dumping Policy and Fiscal Governance, the
SGP and the Fiscal Compact
Wim Van Aken (University of Leuven (KUL))
2.14. Decision making in the Council (Section 2)
Chair: Ben Crum (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Discussant: Christine Reh (University College London)
Place: A205
Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion in the EU’s Council of Ministers
Christopher Wratil (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Putnam and Schelling in EU Politics: The Impact of Domestic Constraints on Bargaining Success in the Council
Dominic Pakull (University of Stuttgart)
Domestic adjustment costs, interdependence and dissent in the Council of the European Union
Javier Arregui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Robert Thomson (University of Strathclyde)
The Impact of Public Opinion on EU Public Policy-Making: The Case of Immigration Policies
Javier Arregui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Mathew Creighton (Univeristat Pompeu Fabra)
3.10. EP internal organization and decision-making (Section 3)
Chair: Amie Kreppel (University of Florida) Discussant: Maja Rasmussen (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Place: B303
Changing the rules: How the EP tries to strengthen its democratic legitimacy during informal trialogue negotiations
Anahita Sabouri (Université catholique de Louvain)
European Parliament committees – A source of influence over the plenary
Ana-Iuliana Postu (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Legislative voting in the European Parliament: Consensus, Competition, Policy, Institutional Change and EU
Enlargement, 1994-2012
Giacomo Benedetto (University of London)
Out of the dark, into the light: (shadow) rapporteurship assignments in the European Parliament after enlargement
Michael Kaeding (University of Duisburg-Essen), Steffen Hurka (University of Konstanz) and Lukas Obholzer (London School of
Economics)
3.11. Supranational agents (Section 3)
Chair: Adriana Bunea (European University Institute) Discussant: Bart van Ballaert (Université catholique de Louvain)
Place: A202
An International Executive in stormy weather: How does politicization affect officials in the European
Commission?
Bart Joachim Bes (VU University Amsterdam)
Negotiating on behalf of the EU: A comparison of EU Commission and EEAS Officials’ attitude and behaviors
Francesco Marchi (ESSEC-IRENE)
Appointing the Members of the European Court of Auditors: towards more efficient and better qualified
management and administration?
Paul Stephenson (Maastricht University)
Which career paths? The factors behind mobility and career advancement in the European Commission
Sara Connolly (University of East Anglia) and Hussein Kassim (University of East Anglia)
‘Coming from the Cold’: Why and How Background Factors of EU Officials and Member State Diplomats
Influence the Decision-Making in EU Foreign Policy
Thomas Henökl (University of Agder)
5.8. Implementation, compliance and enforcement in the EU I (Section 5)
Chair: Andreas Hofmann (University of Cologne) Discussant: Andreas Hofmann (University of Cologne)
Place: B401
Compliance as an administrative problem: The internal dynamics of transposition
Bernard Steunenberg (Leiden University) and Robin van der Zee (Leiden University)
(Non-)compliance in the EU27
Lars Mäder (University of Mannheim) and Thomas König (University of Mannheim)
Legislative Transposition of EU Migration Directives: A Matter of Coalition Conflict?
Nora Dörrenbächer (Radboud University Nijmegen), Ellen Mastenbroek (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Dimiter Toshkov
(Leiden University)
5.9. External relations, security and conditionality (Section 5)
Chair: Marcin Dabrowski (Delft University of Technology) Discussant: Marcin Dabrowski (Delft University of Technology)
Place: A204
Implementing the democratic conditionality: EU and TO’s role in reforming the security sector in Poland and
Turkey
Ayca Uygur Wessel (University of Copenhagen)
Ambiguity, complexity and the impact of social conditionality in EU’s Generalised System of Preferences
Eleni Xiarchogiannopoulou (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Politics without Principals? The European Member States in external trade negotiations.
Johan Adriaensen (KU Leuven)
Defence Integration through Policy Caretaking: The European Commission and the EU Defence Equipment
Market
Julia Muravska (London School of Economics and Political Science)
6.13. The EU’s economic external relations (Section 6)
Chair: Martina Grabau (University of Siegen) Discussant: Tom Delreux (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Place: A201
Integration of Environmental Concerns into the EU Trade Agreements ? The Real Stakes of the Transatlantic Trade
Negotiations?
Balazs Horvathy (HAS CSS Institute for Legal Studies)
Why trade with the neighbours? Motives and tensions in EU trade policy towards the neighbourhood countries
Lars Niklasson (Linköping University)
Labor standards and external promotion of European norms
Pawel Frankowski (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University)
Picking Fights: The EU vs. the U.S. and Rising Powers in WTO Disputes
Tobias Hofmann (University of Utah) and SooYeon Kim (National University of Singapore)
7.6. Research Methods in European Union Studies (Section 7)
Chair: Ian Manners (University of Copenhagen) Discussant: Markus Haverland (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Place: A001
Analysing European Discourses
Amandine Crespy (Free University of Brussels)
European Union History
Ann-Christina Knudsen (Aarhus University)
Agenda-setting
Sebastiaan Princen (Utrecht University)
Europeanization
Theofanis Exadaktylos (University of Surrey) and Claudio Radaelli (University of Exeter)
17.30 – 19.15 Round table ‘‘Towards a new parliament? EP after the 2014 elections’’
The roundtable debate will take place in the Atrium of The Hague City Hall. Confirmed participants in the debate include Richard Corbett (former member of European Parliament, UK and advisor on EU affairs), Christopher Crombez (Leuven University and Stanford University), Wim van de Camp (member of the European Parlimanet, The Netherlands), Tom de Bruijn (member of the Dutch High Council) and Claes de Vreese (University of Amsterdam). The event is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Municipality of The Hague, and the Representation of the European Commission in The Netherlands.
19.15 – 20.45 – Reception
The reception is kindly offered by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Municipality of The Hague, and the Representation of the European Commission in The Netherlands.
7 June, Saturday
9.30 – 11.00 Session 9
1.11. The Politics of Austerity in the European Union (Section 1)
Chair: Charlotte Burns (University of York) Discussant: Andreas Wimmel (University of Innsbruck)
Place: B403
EU environmental policy in a time of austerity: dismantling or leading?
Charlotte Burns (University of York)
The rise of right-wing extremism in an age of austerity: is Greece the EU’s exceptional case?
Daphne Halikiopoulou (University of Reading) and Sofia Vasilopoulou (University of York)
The EU’s policy towards Eastern Europe in times of Political and Economic Crises: Rethinking the Causes,
Mapping the Consequences
Giselle Bosse (University of Maastricht)
1.12. Experiences from the economic crisis (Section 1)
Chair: Ali Carkoglu (Koc University) Discussant: Ali Carkoglu (Koc University)
Place: A203
Social assistance and minimum income benefit reform: the role of globalization, deindustrialization and domestic
politics
Jinxian Wang (Leiden University) and Olaf van Vliet (Leiden University)
‘De Dorpstraat, die is van mij!’ Small cities and large towns along the Continental littoral
Johan Westenburg (Vanderbilt University/East End Economics)
Scotland, Catalonia…Who is next? The European Union’s impact on secessionism in its Member States
Martijn Vlaskamp (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)) and Diego Muro (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals
(IBEI))
Jingle bELLs and struggling GIPS: comparing Baltic and Southern Eurozone’s crisis experience
Vytautas Kuokstis (Vilnius University)
2.15. Public opinion in the crisis and beyond (Section 2)
Chair: Richard Rose (University of Strathclyde) Discussant: Theresa Kuhn (Univeristy of Amsterdam)
Place: A205
The Divided Public: Dynamics and Heterogeneity of European Public Opinion
Christine Arnold (Maastricht University) and Christopher Williams (Maastricht University)
Does immigration undermine integration in the EU?
Dimiter Toshkov (Leiden University) and Elitsa Kortenska (Leiden University)
Identity, Ideology, and Elite Cues: A Survey Experiment on International Fiscal Solidarity
Florian Stoeckel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Accountability from the perspective of the forum: Citizens’ perception of political accountability in 28 EU countries
Ixchel Pérez-Durán (Pompeu Fabra University)
The Two Worlds of the Euro Crisis. What Drives Political Support in Times of Austerity
Simon Bauer (TU Darmstadt)
2.16. Studying MEP’s (Section 2)
Chair: Giacomo Benedetto (University of London) Discussant: Giacomo Benedetto (University of London)
Place: B303
The distribution of foci of representation in the European Parliament: using amendments to map the variation
among MEPs
Inger Baller (University of Antwerp)
Electoral Systems and Representation: Electoral Incentives and Voting Behavior in the European Parliament
Jeffrey Ziegler (Umeå University)
Making votes visible: The impact of electoral institutions on individual candidate news coverage in European
Parliament elections
Katjana Gattermann (University of Amsterdam)
Renomination to office among MEPs
Silje Hermansen (University of Oslo)
3.12. Justice, legal norms, and institutional balance (Section 3)
Chair: Sebastian Baglioni (Carleton University) Discussant: Georgios Papanagnou (UNU CRIS)
Place: A202
Institutional balance: the republican undertones of EU lawmaking?
David Yuratich (Bournemouth University)
Are EU Voting Rules Just? Notions of Justice in Member State Debates About Council Voting Rules
Dirk Peters (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
Towards a presidential form of government? The EU and the direct election of the Commission President
Jared Sonnicksen (TU Darmstadt)
From Law to Politics: Shared Competences in EU Decision-Making and Diplomacy
Ries Kamphof (Leiden University)
5.10. Adjusting Social Policies: Assessing national compliance and reception of ECJ jurisprudence on
social policies (Section 5)
Chairs: Anne van Wageningen (University of Amsterdam) and Michaël Maira (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles)
Discussants: Anne van Wageningen (University of Amsterdam) and Michaël Maira (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles)
Place: A204
The Struggle over Competences on Social Policy: Member States? Reactions to Case Law of the European Court of
Justice on Student Mobility and Study Grants
Angelika Schenk (University of Bremen)
How the ECJ adjusts Dutch Social Policies? Dutch Lessons learned from the Courts Jurisprudence on European
Higher Education
Anne van Wageningen (University of Amsterdam)
Social tourism’ triggered by CJEU case law or invented by right-wing populists? Evidence from Austria
Michael Blauberger (University of Salzburg)
Trompe l’oeil style compliance with European Union case-law: The case of Belgium and citizenship jurisprudence
Michaël Maira (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles)
5.11. Implementation, compliance and enforcement in the EU II (Section 5)
Chair: Bernard Steunenberg (Leiden University) Discussant: Bernard Steunenberg (Leiden University)
Place: B401
A concept structural model of compliance with European Union law
Andreas Corcaci (Technical University Darmstadt/Goethe-University Frankfurt)
EU compliance: the nature of ‘correct’ practical implementation
Elena Bondarouk (Radboud University Nijmegen)
The electoral foundations of non-compliance: evidence from the EU policy on control of state aid
Marco Mainenti (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Fabio Franchino (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Institutional Design of Shared Enforcement in the EU
Miroslava Scholten (Universiteit Utrecht) and Annetje Ottow (Universiteit Utrecht)
6.14. Theoretical approaches to the study of EU external relations (Section 6)
Chair: Dorina Baltag (University of Loughborough) Discussant: Dorina Baltag (University of Loughborough)
Place: A201
The Wonder Years of the EEAS: When diplomacy met bureaucracy
Jost-Henrik Morgenstern (Loughborough University)
Eurozone’s Debt Crisis and US Strategy: A Return of Geopolitics for Europe?
Sotiris Serbos (Democritus University of Thrace)
Principal-agent models and the study of EU external action: uses, limits and methodological challenges
Tom Delreux (UCLouvain)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45 Session 101.13. The future of integration (Section 1)
Chair: Dennis Zagermann (University of Bremen) Discussant: Dennis Zagermann (University of Bremen)
Place: A203
Regime Legitimacy in Times of Economic Crisis: The Robustness of Individual and Contextual Correlates of Satisfaction
with Democracy
Eliyahu Sapir (Maastricht University) and Christine Arnold (Maastricht University)
The Rise and Fall of a ‘hegemonic project’? Supranational integration and domestic politics
Jonathan Joseph (University of Sheffield) and Simon Bulmer (University of Sheffield)
Irregular migration in the EU: Greece as a case study and the rise of ultra-nationalsim, xenophobia and euro-skepticism as a
byproduct of the phenomenon
Kleanthis Kyriakidis (University of the Aegean) and Petros Siousiouras (University of the Aegean)
Original out-of the box thinking: a main source for future European integration
Margriet Krijtenburg (The Hague University)
In Search of an EU-Disintegration Theory
Konstantin Stern (Universität Potsdam), Henrik Scheller (Universität Potsdam) and et al.
1.14. Europeanization and the European periphery (Section 1)
Chair: Martijn Vlaskamp (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)) Discussant: Martijn Vlaskamp (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis
Internacionals (IBEI))
Place: B403
Public Support for EU Membership: The Case of Turkey, 2002-2013
Ali Carkoglu (Koc University)
Turkey’s new political economy: Neither liberal nor democratic
Mine Eder (Bogazici University)
One size does not fit all: The European periphery and the limits of Europeanization
Niamh Hardiman (University College Dublin), Spyros Blavoukos (Athens University of Economics and Business) and Sebastian Dellepiane
(University of Strathclyde)
The Eurozone Crisis and the Transformation of the Greek Party System
Nikoleta Kiapidou (University of Sussex)
2.16. Bringing Civil Society Back In: European Citizens’ Initiatives and Consultations by the Commission
(Section 2)
Chair: Sofia Vasilopoulou (University of York) Discussant: Sofia Vasilopoulou (University of York)
Place: A205
Customized consultation? A conceptual framework to study consultations organized by the European Commission
Bart van Ballaert (Université catholique de Louvain)
The Impact of the European Citizens’ Initiative on the Inclusivity of European Union Policy Making
Lucy Hatton (University of Warwick)
Keeping an eye out for each other? Regional authorities and regional civil society actors in EU public consultations
Matti van Hecke (University of Antwerp) and Kirsten Lucas (University of Antwerp)
Success and failure of European Citizens’ Initiatives
Maximilian Conrad (University of Iceland)
2.17. Myths of integration (Section 2)
Chair: Damla Cihangir-Tetik (Sabanci University) Discussant: Damla Cihangir-Tetik(Sabanci University)
Place: B303
The identity trap of differentiated integration in the European Union
Boglárka Koller (King Sigismund College)
Symbols and Myths in European Integration
Ian Manners (University of Copenhagen), Kennet Lynggaard (Roskilde University) and Christine Søby (University of Copenhagen)
Myths and Countermyths in the European Union
Krisztina Arató (Eötvös Loránd University)
3.13. Delegation II: CCP and Agencies (Section 3)
Chair: Gijs Jan Brandsma (Utrecht University) Discussant: Tom Delreux (Université catholique de Louvain)
Place: A202
Searching for ripples in chopped water: Assessing the effect of the Lisbon treaty in the EU’s Common Commercial Policy
Johan Adriaensen (KU Leuven)
Legitimacy of EU agencies in the aftermath of the ESMA-judgment: an unresolved problem
Miroslava Scholten (Universiteit Utrecht) and Marloes van Rijsbergen (Universiteit Utrecht)
The political context of European Parliament committees and EU-level Agencies
Nuria Font (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
5.12. EU employment and poverty policies (Section 5)
Chair: Michael Blauberger (University of Salzburg) Discussant: Michael Blauberger (University of Salzburg)
Place: A204
The national dimension of the Europe 2020 anti-poverty strategy. Exploring continuity and change in the Italian case
Chiara Agostini (University of Milan) and Ilaria Madama (University of Milan)
Prospects for youth employment: networking in the fisheries sector (Iceland, Norway and Portugal)
Claudia Ramos (Universidade Fernando Pessoa), Lise Rye (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Eirikur Bergmann (Bifrost
University)
The Multifaceted War of the EU in the Age of Crisis: Skill and Job
Fatma Serbest (Istanbul kültür University)
Europe 2020 and the strategy for combating poverty and social exclusion: actors’ mobilisation, problem pressure and the
effectiveness of the EU tool-kit
Matteo Jessoula (University of Milan), Chiara Agostini (Univeristy of Milan) and Sebastiano Sabato (University of Milan)
Impacts of trade with China on sectoral earnings inequality and employment across developed countries
Stefan Thewissen (Leiden University) and Olaf van Vliet (Leiden University)
5.13. Implementation, compliance and enforcement in the EU III (Section 5)
Chair: Lars Mäder (University of Mannheim) Discussant: Nora Dörrenbächer (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Place: B401
Decoupling superficial from substantive compliance in the enlarged EU? Evidence from two policy areas
Cansarp Kaya (University of Zurich), Asya Zhelyazkova (University of Zurich) and Reini Schrama (University of Zurich)
The fourth EU Railway Package: When infringement influences EU policy-making
Helene Dyrhauge (Roskilde University)
A Legal and institutional analysis of the effect of European Union Law in protecting the rights of Roma minority – a focus
on Hungary
Sharmin Hamvas (Brunel University)
The implementation deficit in the European Union: insights from Natura 2000 policy in the Carpathian countries
Natalya Yakusheva (Sodertorn University)
6.15. The EU’s CSDP and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy beyond the Nation-State (Section 6)
Chair: Wolfgang Wagner (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Discussant: Anna Herranz-Surrallés (Maastricht University)
Place: A201
The European Public Sphere and the Debate about Humanitarian Military Interventions
Cathleen Kantner (University of Stuttgart)
European Security Policy for the People? Public Opinion and the EU’s Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
Dirk Peters (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
Parliamentary control of military missions: the Case of the EU VFOR Atalanta
Dirk Peters (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt ), Wolfgang Wagner (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Cosima Glahn (Freie Universität
Berlin)
Civil Society and the European Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy
Matthias Dembinski (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt) and Jutta Joachim (Leibniz University Hannover)