ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2015 (Warsaw)
Workshop 3: Can Democratic Innovations Improve the Quality of Democracy?
Chairs: Leonardo Morlino and Thamy Pogrebinschi
Timetable
Day 1 - March 30, 2015
Session 1: Methodological and Conceptual Issues
Time Slot
9:00 – 9:45
Paper
Presenter
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Discussant
9:45 – 10:30
Governance by Indicators:
The Challenges for
Democracy
How to Measure the
Success of Democratic
Innovations? A Micro,
Meso and Macro Level
Approach
Assessing the deliberative
capacity of democratic
polities and the factors
that contribute to it
Debora Malito
Markus Pausch
Pamela Hess
Markus Siewert
Simon Niemeyer
Norbert Kersting
Presenter
Henrike Knappe
Discussant
Elena De Nictolis
Maija Karjalainen
Clodagh Harris
Nivek Thompson
Alan Renwick
Daniela Piana
Hester van de
Bovenkamp
11:00 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:30
Session 2: Theoretical Debates
Time Slot
13:30 - 14:15
14:15 – 15:00
15:30 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:00
Paper
Democratic innovations
in context: rethinking
participation
Democratic innovations
and perceived legitimacy:
Theoretical and empirical
connections
Using Institutionalism to
answer the question: Can
democratic innovations
improve the quality of
democracy?
From Rights to Standards
Day 2 – March 31, 2015
Session 3: Analytical Approaches
Time
9:00 – 9:45
9:45 – 10:30
11:00 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:30
Paper
In What Way Crises Can
Impact the Qualities of
Democracies – Towards
an Analytical Framework
Democratic innovations
and satisfaction with
democracy
Century of Participation or
participation as a new
tyranny? Citizens’
perspectives on
participatory innovation
Assessing the quality of
democracy at the local
level. Collaborative
governance of urban
commons and democratic
quality
Presenter
Markus Siewert
Discussant
Attila Ágh
Markus Pausch
Jorge Gordin
Norbert Kersting
Susana Salgado
Elena De Nictolis
Debora Malito
Session 4: Empirical Analyses: Comparisons and Case Studies I
Time
13:30 - 14:15
14:15 – 15:00
15:30 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:00
Paper
Innovative, inclusive, and
deliberative? Assessing
the democratic quality of
Ireland’s Convention on
the Constitution
When Do Innovative
Constitution-Making
Bodies Generate
Constitutional
Innovations?
The Democratic Quality of
the Decentralization of
Social and Healthcare
Policy in the Netherlands:
the role of self-appointed
representatives
Indonesia at a Crossroads:
Decentralization and
Citizen Participation
Presenter
Clodagh Harris
Discussant
Yanina Welp
Alan Renwick
Ivana Damnjanović
Hester van de
Bovenkamp
Marco Brehme
Jean-François Gagné
Anna Gwiazda
Day 3 – April 1, 2015
Session 5: Empirical Analyses: Comparisons and Case Studies II
Time
9:00 – 9:45
9:45 – 10:30
11:00 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:30
Paper
The Janus-face of the
informal institutions in
the new democracies:
Democracy innovations in
the New Member States
Democratic innovations
and the quality of
democracy: the case of
Poland
From electoral democracy
to poliyarchy:
participation and
accountability in Serbia
Iberian politics, populism,
and democratic
innovations
Presenter
Attila Ágh
Discussant
Simon Niemeyer
Anna Gwiazda
Jean-François Gagné
Ivana Damnjanović
Pamela Hess
Susana Salgado
Henrike Knappe
Session 6: Empirical Analyses: Comparisons and Case Studies III
Time
13:30 - 14:15
14:15 – 15:00
15:30 – 16:15
16:15 – 17:00
Paper
The Means and Ends of
Democracy in Latin
America
Consociationalism, PowerSharing and Self
Governance in Latin
America
A long experience of
democratic innovation:
the neighbourhood
councils in Montevideo
Final Remarks
Presenter
Thamy Pogrebinschi
Discussant
Nivek Thompson
Jorge Gordin
Daniela Piana
Yanina Welp
Maija Karjalainen