Young Researcher Workshop* 1-2 April The Governance of Social Policy in the New Europe WORKSHOP GUIDE

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1 Young Researcher Workshop* 1-2 April 2005 The Governance of Social Policy in the New Europe WORKSHOP GUIDE * Sponsored by the European Research Institute and the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, and the Journal of European Social Policy.

2 CONTENTS Format of the young researcher workshop Workshop sessions' format Plenary format Programme General programme Workshop sessions programme List of participants List of young researcher papers by workshop stream Getting there, arrivals and accommodation Campus map

3 Format of the young researcher workshop The ESPAnet young researcher workshop is a forum in which doctoral students are invited to write a paper addressing the theme of the workshop. The Bath Workshop will be the third ESPAnet Young Researcher Workshop. The workshop has a small seminar format, with the opportunity to debate with their peers and established scholars. Participants papers will be discussed in detail by senior scholars in the field who will provide comments and questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Young researchers from a range of disciplinary perspectives and countries are strongly encouraged to apply. In the Bath workshop participants will be divided into smaller groups and all papers of each group will be discussed. Each paper is also assigned a formal discussant, who will be an established scholar in the field. Workshop sessions The workshops will run according to Korpi s rules (so named after Walter Korpi, who introduced this format to the RC 19 group of the International Sociological Association). The purpose of this arrangement is to facilitate and encourage debate and discussion, and not to spend time representing work which participants have already read. It is also intended to introduce and maintain an informal and supportive atmosphere, but one which is intellectually challenging. The discussants will introduce the papers, rather than the authors. They will summarise what the paper says, and briefly introduce some comments or questions, to which the authors can of course respond, with the group engaging in the discussion further. Each paper will be discussed individually, but the programme has been designed to allow for some complementarity between papers, both in individual sessions and in the workshop stream. This complementarity was designed around how papers have addressed issues of governance, rather than policy areas or countries, in order to stimulate debate on this theme. So, although occasionally papers closely related by policy or country have been put together in a session or stream, all workshop stream participants are strongly encouraged to engage in debate beyond the details of the particular cases which papers may examine. Plenaries There are two academic plenary sessions, which will take a conventional, chaired presentation format. The opening session on Friday afternoon sees Claudio Radaelli and Janet Newman introducing themes and theoretical concerns related to governance in general, from rather different disciplinary perspectives. The second, on Saturday, sees Rik van Berkel and Traute Meyer providing case studies based on original research exploring politics and policymaking beyond state-provided benefits and services. The plenaries should stimulate our thinking and feed into the workshop sessions, and there will be plenty of time for questions and discussions also of course in the breaks, and over mealtimes. The final plenary session will provide a short introduction to writing for publication from an editor s perspective, and lead into a question and answer session.

4 Programme The workshop will take place in building 6W on the campus of the University of Bath. A map of the university campus is attached. General programme FRIDAY 1 APRIL Registration and buffet lunch 6W Welcome Plenary 6W 1.2 6W 1.2 Claudio Radaelli: Learning and soft governance in the EU Janet Newman: Re-gendering governance Refreshment break 6W Workshop sessions I Workshop stream: Governing the EU 6W1.26 Workshop stream: Governing citizens 6W1.27 Workshop stream: Governing territories 6W Coach to Roman Baths for reception and dinner in Bath Meet at main bus stop on university campus SATURDAY 2 APRIL Breakfast for those staying on campus Wessex restaurant Workshop sessions II Workshop stream: Governing the EU 6W1.26 Workshop stream: Governing citizens 6W1.27 Workshop stream: Governing territories 6W Refreshment break 6W Plenary 6W1.2 Rik van Berkel: The marketisation of activation services: a modern panacea? Some lessons from the Dutch experience Traute Meyer: When do benevolent capitalists change their mind? Explaining the retrenchment of defined benefit pensions in Britain Lunch Workshop sessions III Workshop stream: Governing the EU 6W1.26 Workshop stream: Governing citizens 6W1.27 Workshop stream: Governing territories 6W Refreshment break 6W Plenary 6W 1.2 Emma Carmel: writing for publication an editor s view (Question and answer session) Feedback and close 1900 Optional dinner in Bath for those staying on Saturday

5 Workshop programme SESSION ONE: FRIDAY Governing in the EU Hester Kan Sandra Kröger Opening the black box: developing a framework to analyse processes of cross-national learning Learning and deliberation: a desirable and adequate design for European social policy? Discussant: Claudio Radaelli (with Theo Papadopoulos) Governing citizens Simone Scarpa Lisa Warth Still marching divided: a comparison between elderly care reforms in Sweden and Italy Governing family-friendliness: regulation or voluntarism? Discussant: Traute Meyer (with Rik van Berkel) Governing territories Vaïa Demertzis Noemi Lendvai The Open Method of Co-ordination: recasting the nature of solidarity in the European Union? A discursive time-travel? EU accession and the profound transformation of post-communist social policy Discussant: Emma Carmel (with Janet Newman) SESSION TWO: SATURDAY Governing in the EU Athina Vlachantoni Rick de Ruiter Greek pension reform and the change from within The Open Method of Co-ordination: on third ways in EU-governance Discussant: Theo Papadopoulos (with Traute Meyer) Governing citizens Thomas Pfister Patricia Frericks The changing nature of stateness and citizenship in the EU: implementing gender equality in Germany, the UK and Hungary Towards a neo-liberal Europe? Impressions gained by pension reforms Discussant: Olli Kangas (with Rik van Berkel)

6 Governing territories 1 Simone Grimmeisen The changing governance in Europe s health care systems: an actor centred analysis Anne-Marije van Essen Theorising the political controversy on the emergence of new public management in health care reforms Discussant: Janet Newman Szigeti Szabolcs The health sector reform in Hungary from the view of European governance Discussant: Emma Carmel SESSION THREE: SATURDAY Governing in the EU Spyros Nakos Learning and Participation through the European Employment Strategy in Greece Discussant: Olli Kangas Idil Ayse Aybars Gender equality in employment in the EU and the impacts of the soft approach Discussant: Theo Papadopoulos Governing citizens Donna Wood Anil Duman Governing active labour market policy in the United Kingdom: the impact of devolution Unemployment compensation in Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom: is there a tendency towards marketisation? Discussant: Rik van Berkel (with Traute Meyer) Governing territories Audrey MacDougall Stijn Rottiers Policy divergence within a centralising framework? The impact of devolution on structures for social policy development in the UK The significance of territorial divisions and borders in shaping social policy in Europe: the case of Belgian care insurance Discussant: Emma Carmel (with Janet Newman) 1 As this group will have 3 papers to discuss in this session, they will be starting rather earlier at 0915.

7 ESPAnet Young Researchers Workshop University of Bath 1-2 April 2005 Name University Idil Ayse Aybars University of Ulster Rik van Berkel University of Utrecht Emma Carmel University of Bath Vaïa Demertzis Free University of Brussels Anil Duman Amherst College (& Bozangicil University, Turkey) Anne-Marije van Essen Free University Amsterdam Patricia Frericks University of Utrecht Simone Grimmeisen University of Bremen Hester Kan University of Bath Olli Kangas Danish National Institute for Social Research Sandra Kröger University of Göttingen Noemi Lendvai University of Bristol (& Budapest) Traute Meyer University of Southampton Audrey MacDougall University of Edinburgh Spyros Nakos Democritus University of Thrace Janet Newman Open University Theo Papadopoulos University of Bath Thomas Pfister Queens University Belfast Claudio Radaelli University of Exeter Rick de Ruiter European University Institute Stijn Rottiers University of Antwerp Simone Scarpa University of Milan Szigeti Szabolcs ELTE University of Budapest Athina Vlachantoni London School of Economics Lisa Warth London School of Economics Donna Wood University of Edinburgh

8 List of young researcher papers and authors, by stream Workshop stream one: Governing in the EU - learning and reforming Hester Kan Opening the black box: developing a framework to analyse processes of cross-national learning Sandra Kröger Learning and deliberation: a desirable and adequate design for European social policy? Athina Vlachantoni Greek pension reform and the change from within Rick de Ruiter The Open Method of Co-ordination: on third ways in EU-governance Spyros Nakos Learning and Participation through the European Employment Strategy in Greece Idil Ayse Aybars Gender equality in employment in the EU and the impacts of the soft approach Workshop stream two: Governing citizens marketisation and (re)regulation Simone Scarpa Still marching divided: a comparison between elderly care reforms in Sweden and Italy Lisa Warth Governing family-friendliness: regulation or voluntarism? Thomas Pfister The changing nature of stateness and citizenship in the EU: implementing gender equality in Germany, the UK and Hungary Patricia Frericks Towards a neo-liberal Europe? Impressions gained by pension reforms Donna Wood Governing active labour market policy in the United Kingdom: the impact of devolution Anil Duman Unemployment compensation in Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom: is there a tendency towards marketisation? Workshop stream three: Governing territories politics and policymaking Vaïa Demertzis The Open Method of Co-ordination: recasting the nature of solidarity in the European Union? Noemi Lendvai A discursive time-travel? EU accession and the profound transformation of post-communist social policy Audrey MacDougall Policy divergence within a centralising framework? The impact of devolution on structures for social policy development in the UK Stijn Rottiers The significance of territorial divisions and borders in shaping social policy in Europe: the case of Belgian care insurance Simone Grimmeisen The changing governance in Europe s health care systems: an actor centred analysis Anne-Marije van Essen Theorising the political controversy on the emergence of new public management in health care reforms Szigeti Szabolcs The health sector reform in Hungary from the view of European governance

9 Getting there, arrivals and accommodation Getting to campus: From Heathrow airport: By train: the train journey is about 1.5 hours, and trains run about once per hour, sometimes more frequently. You must change trains at Reading train station; there you should look for trains to Bristol Temple Meads. The cost is about 40. By coach: The Heathrow bus station is in terminal 2. The coach to Bath will take you directly to Bath s main bus station; the journey is about 2.5 hours. A return ticket costs about 20. From Bristol airport: By public transport: there is a very frequent bus service from the airport to Bristol Temple Meads station, from where you can get a train to Bath Spa. This costs approximately 6. The bus journey takes about 30 minutes; the train from Bristol to Bath takes about 15 minutes, and costs about 5. By taxi: you can get a taxi from the airport to the university (order a taxi near the airport exit). Cost is approximately 27. From Bath Spa train station: By bus: the bus station is a very short walk from the railway station, and buses to the university are frequent. You should take number 18 or number 418, and get off the bus at the main bus terminal on campus. The accommodation office is about 5 minutes walk from the bus terminal. By taxi: taxi drivers can leave you directly outside the accommodation office. An average journey costs about 4. Arrival on campus: On both Thursday 31 March and Friday 1 April, keys will be available to collect for accommodation on campus from 2pm. They should be collected from the accommodation office. If you are arriving after 10pm on Thursday, please let us know, as you will need to collect your keys from another office. Staying on campus on Thursday evening: There are some limited catering services available on campus on Thursday evening. If you wish to spend an evening in Bath (which is much prettier than campus), buses to town are frequent (from the campus bus terminal), and Bath has many places to eat offering cuisine from all over the world, and ranging from the cheap and cheerful, to Michelin star excellence (and prices!). Staying on Saturday evening: For those staying over on Saturday night, there is an optional dinner in Bath to be arranged during Friday for those who wish to come. Please note that although not shown on the programme, breakfast will be available in the Wessex restaurant on Sunday morning for those who are staying on campus on Saturday.

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