<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I'm organizing a panel in the International conference on Policy Diffusion that might be of your interest: <b>New scales of Public Participation and Policy Transfer</b></div><br>Participatory approaches have been associated with decentralized powers and development projects for a long time. New tools have appeared at the national and regional scale, addressing issues such as abortion (citizens’ assembly in Ireland) or climate change (in France), investment priorities (national participatory budgeting in South Korea, Portugal, state participatory budgeting in Brazil and in Russia). Other tools are less recent such as the national policy conferences (in Brazil). Such practices travel across the world and are adopted to different political contexts, even in authoritarian regimes. On the other hand, there was scepticism about the possibility of scaling up participation, where political elites tend to be well-established and distance may dwindle the perception of decisions at stake. In this context, the degree of transferability of these participatory mechanisms may sometimes be up for debate. They may be seen as flexible tools able to renew legitimacy of decision-making but they could also be considered as institutionally inadequate. How to explain new dynamics of municipal “best-sellers of participation” being used at a greater scale (regional, state or national level)? How effective are participatory institutions when they are built via national legislation, constitutional norms and other top-down incentives? How do some local elites manage to promote and transpose participatory policies in higher levels of government? Why some tools fail to be adopted at a wider scale while others succeed? In this panel we expect to receive cutting-edge researches drawing on case studies and comparative analysis addressing these questions, in order to prepare a special issue.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top:9px"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:100%;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;padding:0px 18px 9px;font-size:13px;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(32,32,32);line-height:19.5px"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,102)">The Call for Papers is now open!</span></h1><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:22px;line-height:27.5px"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,102)">II International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation</span></h2><h3 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:20px;line-height:25px"><br><strong>25th – 27th May, 2020 – São Paulo, Brazil</strong></h3><br>Visit our website to submit your paper and learn more:<br><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpolicydiffusion.us20.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dcf2000bbb82d2af940a79335e%26id%3D538b4398cf%26e%3De8e229e8b0&data=02%7C01%7C%7C47c037ab07074c57d49708d75c71fd0b%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C637079516969618895&sdata=9X7%2FenMsTLm7SBO0GqUyb%2BrupU02fDDBZWfNtq%2BQlPM%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(0,124,137)" target="_blank">www.policydiffusion.com</a><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:22px;line-height:27.5px"><br><strong>About</strong></h2>The II International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation is a participatory and collaborative event where both Southern and Northern scholars will discuss issues, concepts and methods to produce knowledge and improve our understanding of policy diffusion and development cooperation. Our first meeting was held in 2016 at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap) as a seminar, and this has become a biannual conference in partnership with the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and the International Public Policies Laboratory (Laboppi). The event brings together major experts in political science, sociology, public policy, international relations, urban studies, and geography to discuss how policies travel and governments cooperate. The last edition occurred in 2018 with more than 270 participants from countries all over the world, and we have been building a global network that now unites more than 400 researchers interested in this topic.<h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:22px;line-height:27.5px"><br><strong>Key Dates</strong></h2>Call for Papers Opens - October 16 th<br>Deadline to Submit Papers - December 15 th<br>Selected Papers Notification - January 17 th<br>End Early-Birds - March 2 nd<br>Deadline to register in the Book Launch exhibition April 15 th<br>Deadline to Submit Papers - April 27 th<br><br><strong>Contact:</strong><br><a href="mailto:policydiffusion@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(0,124,137)" target="_blank">policydiffusion@gmail.com</a><br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Prof. Osmany Porto de Oliveira<br>Coordinator<br>II – International Conference on<br>Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;table-layout:fixed"><tbody><tr><td style="min-width:100%;padding:18px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-top:2px none rgb(234,234,234);border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0px"><table align="left" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0px;text-align:center"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpolicydiffusion.us20.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dcf2000bbb82d2af940a79335e%26id%3D09c0f1c0dd%26e%3De8e229e8b0&data=02%7C01%7C%7C47c037ab07074c57d49708d75c71fd0b%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C637079516969628887&sdata=fqii78uxxLlJI%2B3h8TML5KZ6sUL1%2F%2FEHxO%2BxVZkKaf8%3D&reserved=0" title="" target="_blank"><img align="center" alt="" width="600" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/cf2000bbb82d2af940a79335e/images/d1e0da4e-0db1-4184-a352-e4a99cfff7e9.jpg" style="max-width:842px;padding-bottom:0px;vertical-align:bottom;border:0px;height:auto;outline:none;text-decoration-line:none;display:inline"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">
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<pre>Gilles Pradeau
Doctoral Researcher
University of Westminster
32-38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW, United Kingdom
<a href="http://budgetparticipatif.info/" target="_blank">Website</a> <a href="https://westminster.academia.edu/GilPradeau" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/gilpradeau" target="_blank">Twitter</a></pre>
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