PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE: CHALLENGES & INNOVATIONS
PROGRAMME
9 April, 2003
15.00-19.00 – “Urban development and public policy in Lisbon” (walking tour in the historic center)
10 April, 2003
9.00 – Reception and Registration
9.30 – Opening session
Carlos Nunes Silva and Doris Wastl-Walter
9.45 – 12.30 Panel 1 - Institutional innovation and new forms of governance - I
Chair: Doris Wastl-Walter
Maria Asensio (Instituto Nacional de Administração, Oeiras, Portugal) – Policy change and institutional reform in the public sector. Causes and consequences of changes in the mode of governance.
Sarah Ayres & Graham Pearce (Aston Business School, Aston University, UK) – Constitutional change and governance in the English regions.
Paul Carmichael (University of Ulster, School of Policy Sciences, UK) – Decentralising the ‘unified’ British Civil Service: lessons from Northern Ireland.
Charalampos Koutalakis (Humboldt University, Institute of Social Sciences, Berlin, Germany) – European urban policies and domestic responses towards a model for evaluating implementation performance in different urban areas.
14.00-16.30 Panel 2 – Institutional innovation and new forms of governance - II
Chair: Piet Saey
Doris Wastl-Walter (University of Bern, Department of Geography, Switzerland) - Developing options for decentralisation and local government in Kosovo.
Brij Maharaj (University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) - Changing approaches to urban governance in post-apartheid South Africa: a critical appraisal.
Markku Kiviniemim; Ella Mustakangas and Hilkka Vihinen (University of Helsinki, Department of Political Science & MTT Economic Research, Finland) – New local partnerships in the context of prevailing structures.
16.30-17.30 – IGU Commission Meeting
11 April, 2003
9.00 – 12.30 Panel 3 – Governing Cities and Regions - I
Chair: Hans Thor Andersen
William Salet (University of Amsterdam, AME, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nederlands) – Organising connectivity as the key to multi-level governance. The case of metropolitan planning.
Piet Saey (University of Ghent, Department of Geography, Ghent, Belgium) – Brussels: the contradictory results of multiple governmental re-scaling.
Carlos Nunes Silva & Stephen Syrett (University of Lisbon, Portugal / Middlessex University, London, UK) – Governing Metropolitan Lisbon.
14.00-17.30 Panel 4 – Governing Cities and Regions - II
Chair: Willem Salet
Anders Lund Hansen & Eric Clark (Lund University, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Sweden) – Globalization of the commercial property market and changing urban governance in Lisbon.
Gregg Ryzin (City University of New York, School of Public Affairs, New York, USA) – Understanding the causes of citizen satisfaction with the municipal services: the expectancy-disconfirmation model.
Hans Thor Andersen & John Jorgensen (University of Copenhagen, Department of Geography, Denmark) – Enterpreneurial welfarism.
Peter Abbas & Frank Hansen (University of Copenhagen, Department of Geography, Denmark) - Regulation of regional employment in Denmark, since the mid 80ties. A case of fragmented, decentralised multi-layered governance.
17.30 – Closing session
Carlos Nunes Silva and Doris Wastl-Walter