[Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network - News From Centre for Democratic Network Governance

[Navdeep Mathur]

>From Prof. Jacob Torfing -

> NEWS FROM CENTRE FOR DEMOCRATIC NETWORK GOVERNANCE
> October 2007
>
> Dear friends,
>
> On behalf of our centre, I would like to draw your attention to four
> new publications in our working paper series and four
> arrangements which we will host in November and December.
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> Public seminar with Joop Koppenjan: "The role of Representative Bodies
> and Politicians in Complex and Interactive Policy Processes",
> November, 7. Roskilde University, Building 25.3.
> For more information, please visit:
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> http://www.ruc.dk/demnetgov_en/activities/
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> Public guest lecture by Professor Guy Peters
> The 14. of November The Department of Society and Globalisation and
> the Center for Democratic Network Governance is hosting a guest
> lecture by Professor Guy Peters on "Metagovernance". After the lecture
> the Center will host a reception, celebrating the appointment of Guy
> Peters as adjunct professor at Roskilde University.
> For more information please visit:
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> http://www.ruc.dk/demnetgov_en/activities/guy_peters_metagovernance/
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> Conference: "The Politics of Selfgovernance", November, 15-16, 2007,
> Roskilde University.
> For more information, see:
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> http://www.ruc.dk/demnetgov_en/conference/selfgovernance.doc/
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> Conference for PhD students: "Democracy in transition", December, 3-7,
> 2007, Roskilde University.
>
> This PhD course is a theoretical and methodological introduction at the
> highest level to the recent research in how the current transformations
> of the political systems influence the democratic quality of societal
> governance. The political system changes due to a number of factors:
> Political globalisation challenges the supremacy of national borders in
> organising democratic decision making. New Public Management reforms
> lead to an increased pluricentrism and fragmentation of the public
> sector. Reformulation of the distinction between politics and
> administration, and an increased use of networks as a strategic means to
> enhance policy coordination and policy implementation blurs the
> boundaries between public and private sectors, and between state, market
> and civil society. The course discusses questions like: How, and to what
> extent, does the transformation of the political systems in the western
> world influence the democratic quality of societal governance? Why do
> different studies of power and democracy reach very different
> conclusions? Which are the potential benefits and shortcomings of doing
> policy analysis in studies of democracy? To what extent does it make
> sense to define a set of general indicators for democracy, and if so,
> what should these indicators be?
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> The conference is supported by Nordforsk.
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> For more information, see:
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> http://polforsk.dk/portal_skins/custom/course_full_view?nn=1823
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Professor in Politics and Institutions
Director of Center for Democratic Network Governance

Department of Social Sciences
Roskilde University
Building 25.2
PO Box 260
DK-4000 Roskilde
telephone: +45 46 74 21 85 / e-mail: jtor at ruc.dk
home page: http://www.ruc.dk/ssc/personale/vip/jtor/