Program

FRIDAY 13TH

8.00-9.00 Registration

9.00-10.00 Opening

10.00-11.30 The European Impact

Marko Trnski: European Governance; New Model of Governance?

Tina Ferle: Non-economic organized interests in the EU policy-making process: the Slovenian perspective

Sanja Badanjak: Judicial policy of the European Court of Justice as European policy – the consequences of industrial action cases

Discussant: Zdravko Petak

11.30-12.00 Coffee

12.00-1.00 Higher Education as a field of policy reform

Damiano De Rossa: The role of ideas and their change in the higher education policy-making processes from the Eighties to present-day: The cases of England and New Zealand incomparative perspective

Luka Juroš: An Institutionalist Analysis of Higher Education Reform Dynamics in Slovenia and Croatia after 1990

Discussant: Berto Šalaj

1.00-2.00 lunch

2.00-3.00 Social Policy

Pero Maldini: Social Policies and Perspectives of New Democracies

Danijela Dolenec: Europeanization of social policy discourse: the case of Croatia

Discussant: Jorge Heine

3.00-4.00 Administrative impact

Ivona Mendeš: Researching the influence of Croatian public administration and management reforms on policy

Ozden Akin: Democratic governance attempts and political / administrative resistance: A study on the administrative processes in the context of democratic governance programs of UN in Turkey

Discussant: Hal Colebatch

4.00-4.30 Coffee

4.30-5.30 The field of governing

Dagmar Radin: Position of health care during the 2007 Croatian Parliamentary election

Jörg Röber: Shrinking processes and its implications for urban governance

Discussant: Ivan Grdesić

5.30-6.00 Stocktake

Panel discussion on the day's sessions, led by all the discussants

SATURDAY 14TH

9.00-10.00 Regulation

Sang Hun Lim: Reforming the Pharmaceutical Market: The Case of the Pharmaceutical Reform in the Korean National Health Insurance (NHI)

Ana Petek: Regulatory reform from deregulation to development of constitutional policies: Case study of Croatia

Discussant: Simona Kustec Lipicer

10.00-10.30 Coffee

10.30-12.30 Policy work

Hal Colebatch: Policy work as a reform project

Marko Grdesić: The pitfalls of policy work in weak society/weak state settings

Zdravko Petak: Coordination as a Problem in the Work of Policy Bureaucracy: The Case of Croatia

Uroš Pinterić: Influence of civil society on policy work in modern polity

Discussant: Yvonne Galligan

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.30 Interpreting policy themes

Veikko Heinonen: Security policy in generation - stretching concepts or interpretation. Soldier, Fatherland and National defense in Security discourse

Dag Strpić: Development politics and development policy as developmental harmonization of all public policy segments

Mitja Durnik: Canadian Public Policy and Political Economy of Hydroelectric Development: The Case of Canadian Aboriginal People

Ivan Grdesić: Revisiting Agenda-Setting Theory: Two examples

Discussant: Dvora Yanow or Hal Colebatch

3.30-4.00 Coffee

4.00-5.30 Interpretation and Policy

Simona Kustec Lipicer: The worth of knowledge in post-socialist policy-making

Krešimir Petković: Interpretive Policy Analysis: Between Scylla of Postmodern Theoretical Kitsch and Charybdis of Deliberative Politics?

Hugh Miller: The Role of Government in Multicultural Discourse: The Politics of Culture Recognition in Macedonia

Discussant: Dvora Yanow

5.30-6.30 Stocktake on the day's discussion (panel of discussants)

Future plans

6.30 Close

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