(ECPR) Biennial Conference

Regulatory Governance Between Global and Local

25-27 June 2014, Barcelona

Call for Papers and Panels

We would like to invite proposals for individual papers and/or panels for the Fifth Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, to be organized by the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionales (IBEI), Spain, at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra from June 25 to 27, 2014.

The Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance is the leading interdisciplinary conference on regulation and regulatory governance held in Europe, which attracts researchers from all over the globe working in a wide range of disciplines including political science, law, accounting, business, sociology, economics, international relations, anthropology, public administration and other related disciplines.

The 2014 edition of the Standing Group Biennial Conference will focus on the dynamics at play along the spectrum from the global to the local tiers of regulatory governance. By unravelling how relations across various levels of governance are simultaneously shaped, limited and transformed by regulatory processes, the conference seeks to discuss and further refine our conceptual categorizations and empirical understandings of the notion of regulatory governance. Recent turbulences related to the economic crisis and financial stress over the world -and particularly in Europe- have also opened new challenges for regulatory governance, including re-adjustments across the multiple levels of regulation, which the conference also intends to explore.

With these overarching aims in mind, the conference welcomes papers and panels addressing the following indicative themes and other issues related to regulatory governance:

• Regulatory governance at local, sub-national, national, regional, and global levels
• The role of state and non-state actors and their relations within and across levels
• Power and power struggles
• The impact of the crisis on regulatory governance
• Hard and soft forms of regulation
• Regulation and the global South
• Regional and sub-regional regulatory regimes
• State and non-state regulatory capacity
• Transnational and supranational regulation
• Multi-level regulation: interactions and interdependences
• Regulatory institutional architectures
• Regulatory networks
• Legitimacy, accountability and transparency in regulatory governance

Conference highlights include the Giandomenico Majone Prize for the best conference paper by a junior member of the profession, as well as specialist panels, methods sessions, guest speakers, keynote lectures, luncheon meetings and more.

Call for papers and panels deadline

The deadline for proposals is December 10, 2013. All proposals will undergo peer review and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by January 15, 2014. Full papers are expected to be delivered by June 9, 2014 to be ready for circulation.

Submission of proposals

Paper and panel proposals are to be submitted exclusively through the online form. Abstract proposals should not exceed 300 words, and proposed panels should have a minimum of three papers and a maximum of five, plus an (optional) discussant.

Paper and panel proposals should be completed using the following online forms:

• Submit a paper: http://reggov2014.ibei.org/submit-paper-proposal/
• Submit a panel: http://reggov2014.ibei.org/submit-panel-proposal/

Participation rules

Participation is limited to two papers; each participant is allowed to submit a maximum of two paper abstracts (as author or co-author). Appearances as panel chair or as panel discussant or participation in roundtables do not count against the participation limit.

Further Information

Further details will be available shortly at the conference website: http://reggov2014.ibei.org. If you need more details you can also contact reggov2014@ibei.org.

Additional information on the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance can be found at http://regulation.upf.edu, including past conferences.