CEPSA program

EUROPEANIZATION OF NATIONAL POLITICS

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 2ND OCTOBER

20.00 Welcome dinner

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FRIDAY, 3RD OCTOBER

9.00 – 10.00 Registration

10.00 -11.00 Welcome addresses

Branko Caratan, President of Croatian Political Science Association

Vlatko Cvrtila, Dean of Faculty of Political Sciences Zagreb

Silvia Miháliková, President of Central European Political Science Association

Vello Pettai, Member of the Executive Committee of European Consortium for Political Research

Amir Muzur, Mayor of the City of Opatija

Zlatko Komadina, President of Primorsko-goranska County

Stjepan Mesić, President of the Republic of Croatia

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00

11.30 – 13.00

PANEL 1: IDEAS, SYMBOLS AND IDENTITIES – Session 1 (Conference room 1)

(Chair: Branko Caratan)

Silvia Miháliková (Slovakia): Beyond Transition? Symbolic Politics in Central Europe

Attila Ágh (Hungary): Democratization and Europeanization of the ECE Countries:

Post-accession Crisis and Catching-up Process in the New Member States

Damir Grubiša (Croatia): The Controversal Identities of the EU: An Eurorealistic Approach

Milan Podunavac (Serbia): Failed State. The Pattern of State and Nation Building in SEE

PANEL 2: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS – Session 1 (Conference room 2)

(Chair: Ivan Grdešić)

Jerzy Wiatr (Poland): Poland's Politics and the Institutionalization of the EU

Hans-Georg Heinrich (Austria): Transition in Belarus – A Special Case?

Christopher Walsch (Hungary): Europeanization and Democracy: Negotiating the

Schengen III Agreement (Prüm Treaty)

Mario Sošić (Croatia): Europeanization of the EU`s Eastern Enlargement

PANEL 3: PUBLIC POLICIES – Session 1 (Conference room 3)

(Chair: Zdravko Petak)

Miklós Sebők (Hungary): Democracy and Technocracy in the EU – The Case of the ECB

Luka Brkić and Kristijan Kotarski (Croatia): Eurozation, Monetary Union, and the Credibility

of Monetary Policy

Marko Trnski (Croatia): Multilevel Governance between IR Theory and Public Policy

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 16.30

PANEL 1: IDEAS, SYMBOLS AND IDENTITIES – Session 2 (Conference room 1)

(Chair: Attila Ágh)

József Bayer (Hungary): The Ideas of the Populist and Extreme Right Movements in East –

Central Europe

Andreas Pribersky (Austria): The Fight for the National History as Fight for Political

Legitimacy: Hungary since 2006 as a Central European Example?

Goran Sunajko (Croatia): European and Croatian Tradition of Social Thinking as Relation of

Political Identity

Stevo Đurašković (Croatia): In Search for the Thousand-Year Statehood: The Politics of History

in Croatia and Slovakia in 1990s

PANEL 2: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS – Session 2 (Conference room 2)

(Chair: Nenad Zakošek)

Drago Zajc (Slovenia): The Effects of the Process of Europeanization on the Parliament of

Slovenia

Dušan Leška (Slovakia): Relation of Legislative and Executive Powers in the Slovak Republic in

European Matters after Joining the EU

Dario Čepo (Croatia): Reducing EU's Democratic Deficit: Bicameralistic Approach

PANEL 3: PUBLIC POLICIES – Session 2 (Conference room 3)

(Chair: Enes Kulenović)

Juan Casado-Asensio (Austria): Tied Up by Europe, Tied Down by Domestic Politics? The

Transposition of the EU Anti–Discrimination Directives in Austria

Irena Bačlija (Slovenia): “Positive Discrimination” Policies for Inclusion of Europe’s Largest

Minority: Examples of Educational Policies for Roma Minority in Europe

Viktor Koska (Croatia): Return and Reintegration of Minority Refugees: Serbian Returnees in

Croatia

16.30. – 17.00 Coffee break

17.00 – 18.30

PANEL 2: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS – Session 3 (Conference room 2)

(Chair: Goran Čular)

Zoe Lefkofridi (Austria): An Integrated Model of National Party Response to European

Integration

Tomislav Maršić (Germany): Tracking EU-Integration Effects on Candidate Countries’ Parties

Marek Rybar (Slovakia): The Differentiated Europeanization of Political Parties in East-Central

Europe

PANEL 3: PUBLIC POLICIES – Session 3 (Conference room 3)

(Chair: Vlatko Cvrtila)

James Seroka (USA): Trends in Civil-Military Relations and the Role of the Military in the

SuccessorStates of the Former Yugoslavia

Zuzana Lisonova (Slovakia): New EU Member States and Common Foreign and Security Policy

(CFSP)

Nino Žganec, Stela Fišer and Nedjeljko Marković (Croatia): Can We Talk about the

Europeanization of the Social Security System in Croatia?

20.00 Conference dinner

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SATURDAY, 4TH OCTOBER

9.00 – 10.30

PANEL 1: IDEAS, SYMBOLS AND IDENTITIES – Session 3 (Conference room 1)

(Chair: Zoran Kurelić)

Cornelia Brantner and Florian Saurwein (Austria): Horizontal Europeanization of National

Public Spheres: Normative Requirements – Empirical Evidence

Catherine Moir (United Kingdom): Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks – the Europeanization

of Euroscepticism in the UK and Poland in the Context of the 2004 Enlargement

Karin Liebhart (Austria): Visualizing Europe – The Analysis of Political Ads and Campaign Material

István Hegedűs (Hungary): Europeanization of the Hungarian News Media –

An Ever-lasting Process?

PANEL 2: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS – Session 4 (Conference room 2)

(Chair: Goran Čular)

Vello Pettai (Estonia): The Consolidation of the Political Class in the Baltic States

Eftichia Teperoglou (Greece): European Elections, Electoral Cycles and National Politics:

Lessons from the “New” Southern European Democracies

Danijela Dolenec (Croatia): EU as a Democratising Force in Post-Communist Countries

Krešimir Petković (Croatia): Symbolic versus Referential Politics: The Failure of Public Policies in

2007 Parliamentary Election in Croatia?

PANEL 3: PUBLIC POLICIES – Session 4 (Conference room 3)

(Chair: Berto Šalaj)

Tihomir Žiljak (Croatia): Lost in Translation: Discoursive Obstacles in Educational Policy Transfers

Nataša Beširević (Croatia): Europeanization of Public Administration in the Process of EU

Negotiation: Case Study of Croatia

Georgios Chatziyiagkou (Greece): The ‘Europeanisation’ of Croatia’s Regional (Development)

Politics: A Historical Institutionalist Interpretation

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00 CLOSING SESSION

15.00 – 18.00 Closing social event and lunch

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