EUROLOC Programme

New trends in Local Government studies
EUROLOC Summer School in Local Government Studies 2010
Department of Political Science and Management (University of Agder)
22 June – 29 June 2010. Kristiansand, Norway

Tuesday 22 June: Opening Day

1200-1330 Registration and lunch

1330-1400 Welcome by the local organizers

1400-1500 Professor Harald Baldersheim: New trends in local government studies I

1500-1530 Break

1530-1630 Professor Harald Baldersheim: New trends in local government studies II

1630-1700 Questions and discussions

1800 Opening reception hosted by The Municipality of Kristiansand

Welcome by Dean Dr. Jon P. Knudsen: How can local government studies become an important factor
in local and regional development?

Wednesday 23 June: Size and local democracy (Part I)

0915-1115 Professor Poul Erik Mouritzen: Does size matter? Comparing and miscomparing

1130-1300 Lunch

Student session 1

1300-1345 Paper presentation. Discussant

1345-1430 Paper presentation. Discussant

1430-1500 Coffee Break

1500-1545 Paper presentation. Discussant

1545-1630 Paper presentation. Discussant

1630-1715 Paper presentation. Discussant

1930 Social Program: Midsummer Night. Kristiansand seen from the sea

Thursday 24 June: Size and local democracy (Part II)

1015-1115 Professor Lawrence E. Rose: Changes in citizens view on size and democracy through time and space

1130-1300 Lunch

Student session 2

1300-1345 Paper presentation. Discussant

1345-1430 Paper presentation. Discussant

1430-1500 Coffee Break

1500-1545 Paper presentation. Discussant

1545-1630 Paper presentation. Discussant

1630-1715 Paper presentation. Discussant

Friday 25 June: Design and Methodology

0915-1115 Professor Kristof Steyvers, Ghent & Professor Henk van der Kolk: Design and methodology challenges in a PhD project - Experiences and recommendations

1130-1300 Lunch

Student session 3

1300-1345 Paper presentation. Discussant

1345-1430 Paper presentation. Discussant

1430-1500 Coffee Break

1500-1545 Paper presentation. Discussant

1545-1630 Paper presentation. Discussant

1630-1715 Paper presentation. Discussant

1730-1800 Coffee brake

Evening session

1800 – 1930 Professor Ulrik Kjaer: Can local politics be measured? Elite-interviewing in municipal research
Professor Lawrence E. Rose: 16 years with EuroLoc Summer school - Methodological progress and sophistication?

Monday 28 June: Working across boundaries. Managing and measuring a new institutional order

0915-1115 Professor Helen Sullivan: The added value of network theory in the study of Local Governance.

1130-1300 Lunch

Student session 4

1300-1345 Paper presentation. Discussant

1345-1430 Paper presentation. Discussant

1430-1500 Coffee Break

1500-1545 Paper presentation. Discussant

1545-1630 Paper presentation. Discussant

1630-1715 Paper presentation. Discussant

1800-2000 Excursion to: Southern Norway European Office

Tuesday 29 June: Research in practice