Workshop: Public Accountability in a New Institutional Environment
29 April 2009 - 30 April 2009
Austria
As forms of governance involving multiple actors increase in importance in European countries and open up new opportunities for civil society actors, issues of accountability, representation and legitimacy become increasingly significant. Governance creates new ambiguous spaces where boundaries, identities and roles and hence accountabilities are blurred. Civil society actors in these new governance spaces find themselves juggling their existing multiple accountability demands (from funders, members, service users and peers) with those of the partnership. In addition the demands of participation within these spaces may pull them away from the institutions or constituencies that they are representing, creating a tension between leadership and representation. There are also competing appeals to different sources of legitimacy: based on knowledge, skills, values or the participatory nature of the network or organisation they represent as well as tensions between traditional representative forms of democracy and the newer more participatory approaches involving civil society organisations and citizens.
Some of these issues have been addressed by papers in previous Cinefogo work streams. This 24 hour workshop will offer an opportunity to widen the debate and explore key themes in more depth, bringing together relevant research across Europe. It will aim to explore the ways in which accountability is constructed by different actors in partnerships and the ways in which civil society organisations and their partners handle the tensions involved, as well as conceptual frameworks which can help us to analyse better how accountability works in these settings.
More information: http://www.cinefogo.org/workpackages/wp42/public-accountability-in-a-new-institutional-environment(opens in new window)
!!! EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS !!!
Please send an expression of interest or short abstract (no more than one side of A4) to joanna.howard@uwe.ac.uk by 14th of February 2009
View the call: http://www.cinefogo.org/workpackages/wp42/call-for-papers-public-accountabilityCINEFOGO(opens in new window) is an acronym for Network of Excellence “Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe – the Making of European Citizenship”. CINEFOGO aims at enhancing the understanding of social and democratic processes, citizenship and democratic participation in Europe. It seeks to provide knowledge about civil society, citizenship and social protection, nourish a public debate on governance and strengthen intellectual co-operation. To learn more on CINEFOGO, visit http://www.cinefogo.org(opens in new window) or send an e-mail to cinefogo@ruc.dk. The CINEFOGO Network of Excellence is supported by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 7: New Forms of Citizenship and Cultural Identities of the European Union.
Some of these issues have been addressed by papers in previous Cinefogo work streams. This 24 hour workshop will offer an opportunity to widen the debate and explore key themes in more depth, bringing together relevant research across Europe. It will aim to explore the ways in which accountability is constructed by different actors in partnerships and the ways in which civil society organisations and their partners handle the tensions involved, as well as conceptual frameworks which can help us to analyse better how accountability works in these settings.
More information: http://www.cinefogo.org/workpackages/wp42/public-accountability-in-a-new-institutional-environment(opens in new window)
!!! EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS !!!
Please send an expression of interest or short abstract (no more than one side of A4) to joanna.howard@uwe.ac.uk by 14th of February 2009
View the call: http://www.cinefogo.org/workpackages/wp42/call-for-papers-public-accountabilityCINEFOGO(opens in new window) is an acronym for Network of Excellence “Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe – the Making of European Citizenship”. CINEFOGO aims at enhancing the understanding of social and democratic processes, citizenship and democratic participation in Europe. It seeks to provide knowledge about civil society, citizenship and social protection, nourish a public debate on governance and strengthen intellectual co-operation. To learn more on CINEFOGO, visit http://www.cinefogo.org(opens in new window) or send an e-mail to cinefogo@ruc.dk. The CINEFOGO Network of Excellence is supported by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 7: New Forms of Citizenship and Cultural Identities of the European Union.