Conference Program
July 6th
14.00: Welcome Address:
Leonardo Morlino and Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann
14.10: Presentations of related research projects by
- Ramona Coman
- Martin Lodge
- Markus Haverland
- Stefanie Walter
15.00: Session I: The formation of national preferences on E(M)U policies
Chair: Leonardo Morlino
Discussant: Thomas Winzen
- The political weight of financial interests: a process-tracing approach (Niamh Hardiman and Saliha Metinsoy, UCD)
- Revising the notion of preference formation – EU-level interaction and problems in domestic preference formation as standalone inputs in euro crisis decision-making (Uwe Puetter and Robert Csehi, CEU)
- Are National Parliaments the Cure for the European Legitimacy Problem? A Cautionary Tale about the Impact of Participation-Rights on Parliamentary Actors in the Eurozone Crisis Mechanisms (Sonja Puntscher Riekmann and Jakob Redl, University of Salzburg)
16.30: Coffee Break
16.45: Session II: The political economy of crisis-induced reforms
Chair: Sonja Puntscher Riekmann
Discussant: Markus Haverland
- Courts as political actors: resistance to the EU’s new economic governance mechanisms at the domestic level (Clement Fontan and Sabine Saurugger, Sciences Po Grenoble, PACTE)
- Circumventing constraints by internalizing Troika oversight? Italy and the Euro crisis negotiations (Leonardo Morlino and Cecilia Sottilotta, LUISS)
- The Road To Brexit? Political Economy, the UK, EMU and the Eurozone Crisis (Hussein Kassim, UEA, Shaun Hargreaves Heap, Scott James and, KCL)
18.15: Coffee Break
18.30: Round table on the EMU reforms and Southern European policy
Keynote Speaker: Giuliano Amato
- Leonardo Morlino (Chair)
- Panos Tsakloglou
- Angel Pascual-Ramsay
- Paolo Guerrieri Paleotti
- Jeffry Frieden
- Fabio Franchino
20.15: Conference Dinner (LUISS Faculty restaurant)
July 7th
9.00: Welcome coffee
9.30: Session III: Preference formation and structure – insights from new data
Chair: Martin Lodge
Discussant: Jeffry Frieden
- EU Member States Positions for Economic and Fiscal Integration: Introducing New Data and the Special Issue (presented by Zdenek Kudrna)
- Dimensions of Conflict and Coalitions (Fabio Wasserfallen and Thomas Lehner, USal)
- Explaining Governmental Preferences with Structural Variables (Stefanie Bailer, UBas; Hanno Degner, UKon; Dirk Leuffen, UKon; Magnus Lundgren, USto; Jonas Tallberg, USto; Silvana Tarlea, UBas; Fabio Wasserfallen, USal)
11.00: Coffee Break
11.15: Session IV: Bargaining over the EMU reforms
Chair: Fabio Wasserfallen
Discussant: Stefanie Walter
- Bargaining Power in the Reform of the Eurozone (Stefanie Bailer and Silvana Tarlea, UBas; Lisa Maria Dellmuth, Magnus Lundgren, Jonas Tallberg, USto)
- Powerful Engine or Quantité Negligeable? The Role of the Franco‐ German Couple during the Euro Crisis (Dirk Leuffen and Hanno Degner, UKon)
12.15: Brief introduction of two auxiliary datasets
- HISTorical and LEGAL (Zdenek Kudrna)
12.45: Lunch: (LUISS Faculty restaurant)
14.00: Concluding session (Final decisions of ExCo, ReCo)
- Break-out discussions: research clusters/team
15.15: End