RC05 - Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics

Below, you'll find an overview of the panels on Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics for the upcoming IPSA conference in Buenos Aires.

RC 5 Business  Meeting is on Tuesday 13.7. at 15:30  (UTC) (17:30 German summer time)
Use the zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84573466490?pwd=NS9kNElmcjVOUHZZQXhzeXZWU0xndz09. 
The RC5 business meeting is open for all interested colleagues (no IPSA conference registration required!)

Please find here the updated list of all Panles held by the RC05 at the IPSA 2021. You can also access more details by clicking on the Panel name. We are looking forward to interesting and entertaining discussions with all of you.

RC5 organized together with RC 32 the International Conference  “Public administration in a democratic society. Thirty years of democratic transition in Europe”, which took place in Dubrovnik on October 3.-5. 2019.

More than 50 colleagues presented papers at parallel sessions. Others took part at the Round table discussions. The conference was perfectly organized by Prof Ivan Kopric and his team. This important theme, which showed an evaluation of the transitional process, 30 years after the winds of Change in 1989, focused furthermore on research questions such as: What are the key public administration concepts that promote and preserve democratic values in public governance in transition countries?  How did different types of relations between public administration and politics determine transition outcomes?  How did people, political actors, and scientists assess and evaluate the results of public governance transition? What were the goals of the transition and did or can transition end?

In the Award Ceremony Professor Emeritus Hellmut Wollmann (Humboldt University) received a – RC5 Recognition of Merit – for his important role in RC5 and his numerous academic contributions.

During the IPSA World Congress in Brisbane, the RC05 has organised the following panels:

IPSA 2018 Brisbane RC 5: List of panels, papers and authors

Panel: Local Elections

Papers

• Elections in the Amalgamated Territorial Communities and establishment of the local politics in Ukraine
• Identity Politics in Okinawan Elections: The Emergence of Regional Populism
• Local Election in Nepal: Means for Ensuring Electoral Accountability
• The effect of municipality size on levels of political efficacy and political participation. A systematic review.

Panel: Local Government Structures

Papers

• Bridging the Gap Between Capacity and Proximity in Territorial Rescaling. Italy as a Pilot Case
• Emerging Model Villages In India: A Study Of Punsari Village From The State Of Gujarat
• Impact of Small Municipalities in Slovakia on the Performance of Local Policy
• The Theory of the Urban Regime in Comparative Perspective. The Institutional Framework as an Analytical Tool
• Where Social Networking is Reachless and Educationally Inadequate

Panel: Local Participatory Democracy

Papers

• Democratic Constitutionalism in Brazil: Between the Crisis of Representation and Participation
• Participatory Systems as Precipitators of Protest - A Case Study of Two Municipalities in South Africa
• The Form and the Essence: Effects of Transparency and Citizen Participation Laws on Democratic Local Governance in Chile
• The Relationship between Municipality Size and Notions of Democracy among Czech Mayors

Panel: Local Policies and Administration

Papers

• Spanish Local Government Facing the Global Sustainability Challenge: The Experience of Municipalities in the Region of Madrid
• The Short-Run Effects of CETA on Municipal Procurement in Canada
• The Urban Dimension of Climate Policies: Shaping the Policy Content of Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Cities

Panel: Mass Migrations, Integration and Local Governments: Issues and Prospects

Papers

• Between Security and Humanity: Local Media and Societal Actor's Narrative during the 2015-2016 Refugee Crisis in Croatia
• Can the Migrants be Integrated Centrally? Paradoxes of the Croatian Local Government System Revealed after 2015 Migration Crisis
• Coping with the Challenge of Migration in German Municipalities
• Local Governments in Dealing with Mass Migrations and Integration of Migrants in Hungary
• National-Local Networks and Immigration Governance: Playing Politics in South Korea with Immigrant Pawns
• The Role and Capacity of Local Government in Managing Migration in Istanbul

Panel: Metropoles

Papers

• Accommodation, Transformation, Inertia. Model of Transfer of Rules and Norms from the PRC to the HKSAR and Adjustment of Hong Kong Society
• Decentralised Governance in India: 25 Years of 73rd Constitutional Amendment
• How Immigrant Integration Policies in Central-Eastern Europe Metropolises Highlight a European Frame of Integration Policy
• The Territorial Policy Integration: The case of Barcelona and Its hinterland

Panel: Political Culture and Alternation in the Subnational Democracies in Mexico: an Evaluation of Democratic Quality

Papers

• Political Culture, Alternation and Quality Democracy in Puebla. Inconsistencies in a Subnational Case
• Quality of Democracy in Chihuahua and Coahuila, Mexico
• What kind of political culture prevails in Guanajuato?
• Women in charges of popular representation, factor in the quality of democracy. The case of the states of Chihuahua and Guanajuato, Mexico

Panel: Urban Poverty Alleviation

Papers

• Gentrification as a Global Urban Strategy - Is there an Alternative?
• On the Margin - an analysis of a cooperation process in four small municipalities in The Lofoten Islands
• The Role of Foreign and International Agencies in the Promotion of Human Security and Resilience after Disasters: The Case of Leyte after Super Typhoon Haiyan

The submission process for the IPSA World Congress on Political Science has started. Here are the key informations and dates:

Submission of Proposals

All paper and panel proposals must be submitted online via the Congress website. No emails, PDFs or Word documents will be accepted as submissions.

Paper proposals may be submitted in up to three (3) sessions of interest.
Paper submissions for panels must be submitted using the specific link provided in the invitation from a panel convenor.

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Panel proposals may be submitted in up to three (3) sessions of interest.

Please note that the Program Chairs have established new submission procedures for panels for this Congress and only complete panels (closed) may be submitted during the Call for Proposals.

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The IPSA RC05 Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics and Research Email Listserver is online. To subscribe to the existing RC05 email list go to https://listserv.uni-muenster.de/mailman/listinfo/ipsa-rc5-local-government.

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Linking Theory and Empirical Research

Berlin, July 16 – 27, 2017

We are delighted to announce the 7th Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. The summer school aims at supporting young researchers by strengthening their ability in linking theory and empirical research. The two-week program creates an excellent basis for the development of their current research designs.

In the first week, we address the key methodological challenges of concept-building, causation/explanation, and micro-macro linkage that occur in almost all research efforts. We strive for a clarification of the epistemological foundations underlying methodological paradigms. In the second week, these methodological considerations are applied to central empirical fields of research in political science, sociology, and other related disciplines. In this second part of the program, participants are assigned to four thematic groups according to their own research topics. The thematic areas covered are: “External Governance, Interregionalism, and Domestic Change”, “Citizenship, Migration, and Identities", “Social Struggle and Globalization”, and “Democracy at the Crossroads”.

The international summer school is open to 50 PhD candidates, advanced master students, and young postdocs. The call for applications is currently open. Applications can be submitted online via the application form on the summer school webpage until March 31, 2017.

The decisions of the selection committee will be announced to the applicants in April. For more information, please visit our webpage at www.berlinsummerschool.de.
If you have any further questions, please contact the organizing team at summerschool.bgss@hu-berlin.de

The next conference will take place in Milan from Wednesday, July 1 to Saturday, July 4, 2015

The local organizers are Alberto Brugnoli and Allessandro Colombo (Eupolis).

The Schedule of the conference • CALL FOR PANELS : 1st September 2014 - 15 October 2014 • CALL FOR PAPERS : 1st November 2014 - 15th January 2015 • OPEN REGISTRATION : 1st January 2015 • CONFERENCE : 1st July 2015 - 4th July 2015

For more information, go to: http://www.icpublicpolicy.org/

Invitation to the International Public Administration and Public Policy Scientific Conference

DECENTRALIZATION POLICIES: RESHUFFLING THE SCENE May 7-10, 2015 University of Zagreb Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS), Dubrovnik, Croatia http://www.caas.unizg.hr

Organisation of the Conference • Institute for Public Administration, Croatia In collaboration with and support from • RC 05 Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) • RC 32 Public Policy & Administration of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) • Croatian Political Science Association, Croatia • Faculty of Law, Study Centre for Public Administration and Public Finance, University of Zagreb, Croatia • Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia Conference theme Decentralization Policies: Reshuffling the Scene General aim and topic of the Conference Decentralization policies have been on the agenda in a number of countries for a long time. They include widening local autonomy as well as the scope of local affairs and responsibilities, territorial rescaling, strive for local democracy and accountability, building local capacities and professionalism, new local financial arrangements, building partnerships with regional and central institutions, and the like. Decentralisation is deeply connected with the change of power structure in national contexts. The results can be of win-win, win-lose, but also of lose-lose type. Generally, the beginning of economic crisis in 2008 made decentralisation policies precarious. The power game between political actors has become more dynamic, in some cases even brutal. The conference would like to explore decentralization policies that have been recently undertaken, their realms, components, triggers, short- and long-term effects, and prerequisites of successful decentralisation. Specific themes that will be covered during the conference: • Decentralization policies and processes – values, components, challenges, expectations, effects • Territorial restructuring and reform of functions of local and regional authorities in multi-level governance settings • Decentralisation as democratisation – legitimacy and efficiency • Evaluation of current decentralisation reforms Date and Conference format The conference will last from Thursday, May 7 to Sunday, May 10, 2015 and will be held in the CAAS premises in Dubrovnik It will be organized in the form of plenary sessions and several topical panel sessions Tentative schedule of the Conference is the following: • Thursday – afternoon session – opening of the Conference and the PhD panels • Friday – morning and afternoon sessions • Saturday – morning and afternoon sessions • Sunday – morning session and closing of the Conference Detailed schedule will be sent later. Publication opportunities Selection of presented papers will be submitted for publication in the international scientific journal Croatian and Comparative Public Administration, which is published by the Institute for Public Administration. Important dates - 31 January 2015 – Submission of abstracts to the Organizing Committee - 15 February 2015 – Notification of abstract acceptance - 1 March 2015 – Circulation of Draft Conference Programme - 31 March 2015 – Submission of draft papers - 7-10 May 2015 – Conference in Dubrovnik Venue and accommodation The Conference will be organized at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) in Dubrovnik, Croatia (address: Don Frana Bulića 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia). CAAS is located in the very heart of Dubrovnik, less then five-minute walk from the Old City. Accommodation for participants is reserved at CAAS residence for the period 7-10 of May 2015 and organizers will cover accommodation costs for the invited paper givers and participants. Web site of CAAS: http://www.caas.unizg.hr/accomodation.html All participants are kindly asked to take necessary steps for their travel arrangements soon after their participation is confirmed by the Organizing Committee. The Dubrovnik Airport has good connections (direct or indirect) with all main European airports. Organising committee - Professor Ivan Koprić, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, ivan.kopric@pravo.hr - Professor Zdravko Petak, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, petakzdravko@gmail.com - Professor Fred Lazin (IPSA RC 5, chair), Ben Gurion University, Israel lazin@bgu.ac.il - Professor Robert Hoppe (IPSA RC 32, chair), University of Twente, Netherlands, r.hoppe@utwente.nl - Assistant Professor Vedran Đulabić, assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, vedran.dulabic@pravo.hr

Additional information For any additional information please contact: Assistant Professor Vedran Đulabić – vedran.dulabic@pravo.hr Dr Jasmina Džinić – jdzinic@pravo.hr

Sellers, Jefferey M.; Kübler, Daniel; Walter-Rogg, Melanie; and Walks, W. Alan (Eds.). (Forthcoming November 2012). The Political Ecology of the Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behavior in Eleven Countries. Essex: ECPR Press.

A growing majority of humanity lives in sprawling, interconnected urban regions. Diversified metropolitan geographies have replaced the centuries-old divide between urban and rural areas, and transformed the territorial sources of electoral politics. Affluent and low density suburbs provide powerful bases of support for neoliberal and culturally conservative parties. Urban concentrations have joined poor suburbs as the remaining bastions of a Left under attack. New dimensions of partisan competition have emerged around the material interests and subcultures of distinct metropolitan places. Throughout the developed world and beyond, metropolitan patterns of electoral support and participation have shifted axes of partisan competition to the right, and driven the global spread of neoliberalism.

This volume undertakes the first systematic comparative analysis of these patterns. The analyses draw on data from 13,300 municipalities in 175 metropolitan regions and eleven countries, and multilevel statistical methods. The results support a compelling new thesis to explain many recent shifts in political behavior and public policy: the metropolitanization of politics.