Programme

13-15 December, Room A305, WZB, Berlin.

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Thursday 13 December 2007
morning                   Arrival
14:00-14:15	Welcome Wolfgang Merkel, (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), DE)
	Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF) Kostas Gouliamos (Standing Committee for the Social Sciences)
Introduction
14:15-14:45	Rethinking the Origins and Future of Representative Government John Keane, (Centre for the Study of Democracy, London, UK and WZB, Berlin, DE)
14:45-15:15	Discussion
15:15-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-15:45	The Present Forms of Representative Democracy Klaus von Beyme, (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, DE)
15:45-16:15	Discussion
16:15-16:30	Coffee break
First Session
16:30-17:00	Performance and Deficits of Present-day Representation Bernhard Weßels, (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), DE)
17:00-17:30	Discussion
17:30-17:45	Coffee break
17:45-18:15	How to Improve the Performance of Political Parties… and Why Bother? Philippe Schmitter, (CentralEuropeanUniversity, Budapest, HU)
18:15-18:45	Discussion
19:00	Dinner at WZB
Friday 14 December 2007
Second Session
09:00-09:30	Do Parliaments Have a Future? David Beetham, (University of Essex, UK)
09:30-10:00	Discussion
10:00-10:30	Democracy on Trial: On Some Recent Conceptions of Political Deliberation Nadia Urbinati, (Columbia University, New York, US)
10:30-11:00	Discussion
11:15-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:00	Multinational Democracies: A Challenge to Democratic Representation? Sonia Alonso, (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), DE)
12:00-12:30	Discussion
12:30-13:00	Engendering Representation Drude Dahlerup, (Stockholms Universitet, SE)
13:00-13:30	Discussion
13:30-14:30	Lunch at WZB
Second Session, continued
14:30-15:00	Representation and Democracy: Revisions and Possibilities Michael Saward, (Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
15:15-15:30	Discussion
15:30-16:00	Representation beyond the Nation-State Michael Zürn, (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), DE)
16:00-16:30	Discussion
16:30-16:45	Coffee break
16:45-17:15	The Limits of Representative Democracy Niraja Jayal, (JawaharlalNehruUniversity, New Delhi, India)
17:15-17:45	Discussion
17:45-18:15	A Comment on Niraja Jayal’s “The Limits of Representative Democracy” Bhikhu Parekh (House of Lords and University of Westminster, UK)
18:15-18:45	Discussion
18:45-20:00	Concluding Remarks and Follow-up Research Activities John Keane
20:30	Dinner (Café Einstein, Kurfürstenstr. 58, 10785 Berlin)
Saturday 15 December 2007
	Departure