Department of Political Science
Democracy, State and Informal Politics in Comparative Perspective
20th November 2014
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
U Kříže 8, 158 00 Jinonice – Praha 5
Registration (at the lobby)
9:00–9:50
Room 2075
9:50–10:00: Opening Speech
H. E. Christine Mei-Yu Hsueh (Ambassador, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Prague)
10:00–12:00: Morning session
Keynote Speakers
Cheng-Hao Pao: Consolidation or Deterioration: How Social Movement Changes the StateSociety Relation in Taiwan
Svend-Erik Skaaning: The Rule of Law: Theoretical and Empirical Dimensions
12:00–13:00: Lunch Break
Afternoon session
Room 2075
13:00–14:30: 1. Panel: Corruption in Comparative Perspectives
• Jiří Skuhrovec: Are EU Funds a Corruption Risk? The Impact of EU Funds on Grand
Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe
• Dalson Figueiredo: Institutional Capacity and Corruption: Evidence from Brazil
• Meron Tesfamichael: Wiping the State Clean: The Dynamics of Diffusing AntiCorruption Norms in Kenya
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14:30–14:45: Coffee break
14:45–16:45: 2. Panel: Friends, Patrons and Clients
• Anastasia Nosova: Their Friends of the Night Are Their Friends of the Day: The Role of
Informal Ties in Politics and State-Business Relations in Kuwait
• Nurhamin Nahar Usman: District Elections in Indonesian Politics: A Case Study
• Michael J. Butler: Adventures in Statebuilding: Neo-Trusteeship, Informal Politics, and
UN Administration in Timor-Leste
• Jesko Schmoller: Shiny Facades, Corrupted Interiors: Discrepancies between the
Apparent and the Real in the Uzbek Civil Service
16:45–17:00: Coffee break
17:00–19:00: 3. Panel: Civil Society and Informal Politics
• Ruairidh J. Brown: Scotland’s ‘Authentic Identity’ The Creation of National Identity
through Informal Political Mechanisms in Scottish Civil Society
• Joldon Kutmanaliev: Interethnic Violence and Intraethnic Policing: Intercommunal
Pacts, Traditional Mediation, and Informal Politics in Southern Kyrgyzstan, 2010
• Steve Kwok-leung Chan: Informal Politics and Policy Networks: Sino-Hong Kong High
Speed Railway Development and the Resistance of Tsoi Yuen Village
• Mihai Dinescu: Is Civil Society Lobbying a Cure for EU’s Democratic Deficit?
Room 4014
13:00–15:00: 1. Panel: Parties, Elections and Informal Politics
• Isabel Kusche: Informal Politics and the Relationship between Formal and Informal
Power – Some Theoretical Points and their Application to the Case of Ireland
• Almas Haider: Role of Informal Institutions in Shaping Politics in India
• Eun Hee Woo: Institutional Change and Intra-Party Democracy: Mechanisms of Party
Elite Recruitment in South Korea
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DIČ: CZ00216208
Tel.: (+420) 251 080 210
Fax: (+420) 251 620 612
[email protected]
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• Ummu Atiyah Ahmad Zakuan: Empowering Women in Political Parties in Malaysia: A
Reality or A Myth?
15:00–15:15: Coffee break
15:15–16:45: 2. Panel: Eastern Europe and Informal Politics
• Nicolas Hayoz: Cultures of Informality in Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Space in
Comparative Perspective
• Jiří Šebek: Power of Kith and Kin: Empirical Evidence of Kin among Public
Administrators, Judges and Notaries in the Czech Republic
• Marcel Tomášek: Hybrid Patterns of Property Management in CEE and Their Potential
Longer-term Consequences; How Many Capitalisms? In View of the Czech Case
16:45–17:00: Coffee break
17:00–19:00: 3. Panel: States, Regimes and Informal Politics
• Michal Sniehotta: Failed State Concept: Theoretical Views of a State and Its Failure in
Sub-Saharan Africa
• Yannick Bassler: Institutional Parallelism of Orders in Non-Democratic Regimes.
Regime Stability in Kazakhstan and Uganda
• Adnan Seyaz: Russia′s ‘Managed Democracy’ in 2000s: How Informal Politics
Contributed?
• Lada Homutová: Political Authority in Vietnam within the Context of Informal Politics
Non-presenting participants are required to register by email to [email protected] by 19th
November. The registration is free of charge for non-presenting participants.
All questions regarding the conference shall be sent to [email protected].
nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1
IČ: 00216208
DIČ: CZ00216208
Tel.: (+420) 251 080 210
Fax: (+420) 251 620 612
[email protected]
http://upol.ff.cuni.cz