Democracy, State and Informal Politics in Comparative Perspective

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Democracy, State and Informal Politics in Comparative Perspective
Department of Political Science
Democracy, State and Informal Politics in Comparative Perspective
20th November 2014
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
U Kříže 8, 158 00 Jinonice – Praha 5
Registration (at the lobby)
9:00–9:50
Room 2075
9:50–10:00: Opening Speech
H. E. Christine Mei-Yu Hsueh (Ambassador, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Prague)
10:00–12:00: Morning session
Keynote Speakers
Cheng-Hao Pao: Consolidation or Deterioration: How Social Movement Changes the StateSociety Relation in Taiwan
Svend-Erik Skaaning: The Rule of Law: Theoretical and Empirical Dimensions
12:00–13:00: Lunch Break
Afternoon session
Room 2075
13:00–14:30: 1. Panel: Corruption in Comparative Perspectives
• Jiří Skuhrovec: Are EU Funds a Corruption Risk? The Impact of EU Funds on Grand
Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe
• Dalson Figueiredo: Institutional Capacity and Corruption: Evidence from Brazil
• Meron Tesfamichael: Wiping the State Clean: The Dynamics of Diffusing AntiCorruption Norms in Kenya
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14:30–14:45: Coffee break
14:45–16:45: 2. Panel: Friends, Patrons and Clients
• Anastasia Nosova: Their Friends of the Night Are Their Friends of the Day: The Role of
Informal Ties in Politics and State-Business Relations in Kuwait
• Nurhamin Nahar Usman: District Elections in Indonesian Politics: A Case Study
• Michael J. Butler: Adventures in Statebuilding: Neo-Trusteeship, Informal Politics, and
UN Administration in Timor-Leste
• Jesko Schmoller: Shiny Facades, Corrupted Interiors: Discrepancies between the
Apparent and the Real in the Uzbek Civil Service
16:45–17:00: Coffee break
17:00–19:00: 3. Panel: Civil Society and Informal Politics
• Ruairidh J. Brown: Scotland’s ‘Authentic Identity’ The Creation of National Identity
through Informal Political Mechanisms in Scottish Civil Society
• Joldon Kutmanaliev: Interethnic Violence and Intraethnic Policing: Intercommunal
Pacts, Traditional Mediation, and Informal Politics in Southern Kyrgyzstan, 2010
• Steve Kwok-leung Chan: Informal Politics and Policy Networks: Sino-Hong Kong High
Speed Railway Development and the Resistance of Tsoi Yuen Village
• Mihai Dinescu: Is Civil Society Lobbying a Cure for EU’s Democratic Deficit?
Room 4014
13:00–15:00: 1. Panel: Parties, Elections and Informal Politics
• Isabel Kusche: Informal Politics and the Relationship between Formal and Informal
Power – Some Theoretical Points and their Application to the Case of Ireland
• Almas Haider: Role of Informal Institutions in Shaping Politics in India
• Eun Hee Woo: Institutional Change and Intra-Party Democracy: Mechanisms of Party
Elite Recruitment in South Korea
nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1
IČ: 00216208
DIČ: CZ00216208
Tel.: (+420) 251 080 210
Fax: (+420) 251 620 612
[email protected]
http://upol.ff.cuni.cz
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• Ummu Atiyah Ahmad Zakuan: Empowering Women in Political Parties in Malaysia: A
Reality or A Myth?
15:00–15:15: Coffee break
15:15–16:45: 2. Panel: Eastern Europe and Informal Politics
• Nicolas Hayoz: Cultures of Informality in Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Space in
Comparative Perspective
• Jiří Šebek: Power of Kith and Kin: Empirical Evidence of Kin among Public
Administrators, Judges and Notaries in the Czech Republic
• Marcel Tomášek: Hybrid Patterns of Property Management in CEE and Their Potential
Longer-term Consequences; How Many Capitalisms? In View of the Czech Case
16:45–17:00: Coffee break
17:00–19:00: 3. Panel: States, Regimes and Informal Politics
• Michal Sniehotta: Failed State Concept: Theoretical Views of a State and Its Failure in
Sub-Saharan Africa
• Yannick Bassler: Institutional Parallelism of Orders in Non-Democratic Regimes.
Regime Stability in Kazakhstan and Uganda
• Adnan Seyaz: Russia′s ‘Managed Democracy’ in 2000s: How Informal Politics
Contributed?
• Lada Homutová: Political Authority in Vietnam within the Context of Informal Politics
Non-presenting participants are required to register by email to [email protected] by 19th
November. The registration is free of charge for non-presenting participants.
All questions regarding the conference shall be sent to [email protected].
nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1
IČ: 00216208
DIČ: CZ00216208
Tel.: (+420) 251 080 210
Fax: (+420) 251 620 612
[email protected]
http://upol.ff.cuni.cz