Second Berlin Forum Innovation in Governance
Knowing governance. The making of governance knowledge and the transformation of politics
Thursday 19 & Friday 20 May 2011
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Call for Papers (.pdf)
Programme (download) (.pdf)
Book of abstracts
Registered participants as of 17 May 2011 (.xlsx)
Useful information for participants
Documents for participants (password-protected: please contact Thomas Crowe for details).
Preliminary Programme
Thursday 19 May
Einsteinsaal, 5th floor
Introduction
Keynote dialogue
Marie Laure Djelic, ESSEC Business School
Transnational Governance and Community Building - The Case of Competition
Watch the keynote lecture (YouTube)
Andrew Barry, University of Oxford
Innovation in Governance and Knowledge Controversies
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Lunch
Session I (two parallel streams): How governance knowledge is produced in and through ongoing political practices
Parallel stream (a): Discursive construction of governance
Studying Co-production on a micro-level: The case of the Founding Assembly of the Forest Stewardship Council
Discussant: Frank Fischer, Rutgers University
The Construction of Drug Distribution as a Competitive Market
Discussant: Stefan Kuhlmann, University of Twente
Knowing how to assemble collective positions. The everyday economy of political positioning in MPs offices
Parallel stream (b): Accounting and accountability
Johanna Mugler, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Organizing accountability, quantification and criminal justice in South Africa
Discussant: Arie Rip, University of Twente
Kristin Asdal, University of Oslo
The office: The weakness of numbers and the production of non-authority
Silke Beck, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
The IPCC as "eye of power" - Accounting global governance by extended peer review?
Discussant: Thomas Conzelmann, Maastricht University
Break
Session II: Knowledge professionals - how experts and consultants shape governance and political practices
Sonja van der Arend; Delft University of Technology
Patterns in the instiutionalization of process management and their implications for democratic governance
Ross Beveridge; Leibnitz-Institute for Regional and Structural Planning (IRS)
Consultants, depoliticisation and new forms of governance
Discussant: Will Davies, Said Business School
Break
Session II (continued)
Nina Boeger, University of Bristol; Joseph Corkin, Middlesex University
Making Europe in their Image: Communities of expertise and the shaping of transnational governance
Discussant: Dieter Plehwe, Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB)
Tim May; Beth Perry, University of Salford
Cities, Innovation and Expertise: Experiences from a Formative Evaluation
Break
Poster flashlight
Lisa Stampnitzky, Said Business School, Oxford
Constituting terrorism: three attempts at rational governance
Ingmar Lippert, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society
Exploring Situated Agency in Governance
Knowing how to govern. A comparison of the making of emission trading and citizen juries as policy blueprints
Poster session and reception
Friday 20 May
Arrival
Thomas Conzelmann, Maastricht University; Kerstin Martens, University of Bremen
Numbers, facts, and 'objective' measures: Peer reviews, rankings and the politics of information in the OECD
Brice Laurent, Mines ParisTech
Producing international expertise about technologies of democracy
Linda Soneryd, University of Stockholm
Mediating and translating social science in the governance of science and technology
Break
Jason Chilvers, University of East Anglia
Knowing participatory governance: the construction, mobilisation and professionalisation of public participation expertise
The power of instruments. Making universal designs for public policy and governance
Lunch
Concluding discussion
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