The PROGRAM

Daniel Béland, University of Saskatchewan (Canada) and Mitchell A. Orenstein, Johns Hopkins University (USA):
“How Do Transnational Policy Actors Matter?” Discussant: Sonya Michel, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (USA)
Bob Deacon, University of Sheffield (UK), Anja Jakobi and Alexandra Kaasch, University of Bremen (Germany):
“International Policy Networks and Basic Social Needs: Shaping Global Social Policy" Discussant: Valeria Fargion, University of Florence (Italy)
Rune Ervik, University of Bergen (Norway):
“A Missing Leg of Ageing Policy Ideas: Dependency Ratios, Technology and International Organizations” Discussant: Bjorn Hvinden, Norwegian Social Research (Norway)
Chair: Jane Jenson, Université de Montréal (Canada)

Bettina Cass, University of New South Wales (Australia) and Sue Yeandle, University of Leeds (UK):
“Policies for carers in Australia and the UK: social policy ideas, practices and their cross-national transmission, social movements, parliamentary inquiries and local innovations” Discussant: Christina Bergqvist, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Marta Szebehely, Stockholm University (Sweden) and Tamara Daly, York University (Canada):
“Unheard voices, unmapped terrain: comparative welfare research and paid care for older people in Sweden and Canada” Discussant: Sue Yeandle, University of Leeds (UK)
Sheila Shaver, University of New South Wales (Australia):
“A Public Sociology for the Mainstream: Jean Martin's sociology for Nation-building” Discussant: Walter Korpi, Stockholm University (Sweden)
Contributed Paper:
Barbara Hobson and Susanne Fehlén, Stockholm University (Sweden):
“Applying Sens Capabilities Framework to Work Family Balance within a European Context: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges"

Deena White, Université de Montréal (Canada):
"Network Governance and Democracy: Can Grassroots Participation Influence National Policy Orientation?" Discussant: Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa (Canada)
David Natali, University of Bologna (Italy):
“The Open Method of Co-ordination on Pensions: EU Common Knowledge Production in a nationally-rooted policy” Discussant: Anja Jakobi, University of Bremen (Germany)
Linda Lobao, Ohio State University (USA):
“Decentralization and State Rescaling: The Policy Experiments of Local Governments across the US 2001-2008” Discussant: Tracy Fenwick, University of Oxford (UK)
Contributed Paper:
Ifeanyi Onyeonoru, University of Ibadan (Nigeria):
“Social policy and the retrenchment of welfare state in Nigeria: between the old and new pension schemes, with lessons from the Nordic model”

Nanna Kildal and Even Nilssen, University of Bergen (Norway):
“Policy formation, administrative reform and policy measures: the Norwegian case in a European context” Discussant: Claus Wendt, Harvard University (USA)
Alain Noël and Florence Larocque, Université de Montréal (Canada):
“Aboriginal Peoples and Poverty in Canada: Can Provincial Governments Make a Difference?” Discussant: Keith Banting, Queen's University (Canada)
Kirstein Rummery, University of Stirling (UK):
“Addressing Women’s Poverty at the Local, Regional, National and International Level: Creating spaces for absent voices?” Discussant: Barbara Hobson, Stockholm University (Sweden)

Stefan Bernhard, IAB Nuremberg (Germany):
“On the Construction of Social Policy Actors in the European Union - a neo-institutionalist perspective” Discussant: Nanna Kildal, University of Bergen (Norway)
Valeria Fargion, University of Florence (Italy), Marco Mayer, International Co-operation Office (Italy):
“The EU and global social policy: discourse and policy practice” Discussant: Denis Saint-Martin, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Julia O’Connor, University of Ulster (UK):
“Socio-economic Convergence, European Integration, Europeanization and the European Social Model” Discussant: George Ross, Université de Montréal (Canada)

Sheila Neysmith, University of Toronto (Canada):
“House calls: building 21st century community-based care policy” Discussant: Marta Szebehely, Stockholm University (Sweden)
Ingrid Jonsson, Lund University (Sweden), Anne-Marie Daune-Richard, CNRS (France), Sopie Odena, CNRS (France) and Magnus Ring, Lund University (Sweden):
“Becoming dependent: how is elder care implemented in France and Sweden?” Discussant: Julia Szalai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)

Hildegard Theobald, University of Vechta (Germany):
“Restructuring elder care systems in Europe: Policy-field, policy transfer and negative integration” Discussant: Huck-Ju Kwon, Seoul National University (Korea)
Rossana Trifiletti, University of Florence (Italy):
“Local social policies, family policies, models of service systems and their chances to converge or diverge in Italy after 2000” Discussant: Shih-Jiun Shi, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Contributed Paper:
Fiona Williams, University of Leeds (UK):
“Claims and Frames in the Making of Care Policies in Europe: Recognition, Rights and Redistribution"

Juliana Martinez Franzoni and Koen Voorend, University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica):
“Blacks, whites or greys? Conditional transfers and gender equality in Latin America” Discussant: Debora Lopreite, Carleton University (Canada)
Sara Helman, Ben Gurion University (Israel):
“Imported Policy Ideas and the Initiation of Institutional Change: The Borrowing and Implementation of Workfare in Israel” Discussant: Linda Lobao, Ohio State University (United States)
Ana Lucia Grondona, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina):
“How old ideas become new: the ever returning program of ‘community development’” Discussant: Sheila Neysmith, University of Toronto (Canada)
Chair: Daniel Béland, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)