[DemocracyNet.eu-list] II International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation

[Gil Pradeau]

Dear colleagues,

I'm organizing a panel in the International conference on Policy Diffusion
that might be of your interest: *New scales of Public Participation and
Policy Transfer*

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.


The Call for Papers is now open!II International Conference on Policy
Diffusion and Development Cooperation
*25th – 27th May, 2020 – São Paulo, Brazil*
Visit our website to submit your paper and learn more:
www.policydiffusion.com
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*About*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.
*Key Dates*Call for Papers Opens - October 16 th
Deadline to Submit Papers - December 15 th
Selected Papers Notification - January 17 th
End Early-Birds - March 2 nd
Deadline to register in the Book Launch exhibition April 15 th
Deadline to Submit Papers - April 27 th

*Contact:*
policydiffusion at gmail.com

Kind regards,

Prof. Osmany Porto de Oliveira
Coordinator
II – International Conference on
Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation
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Gilles Pradeau

Doctoral Researcher
University of Westminster
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