Programme

Friday, 4 May 2012, Andrássy University Budapest

 

08:30 Address of welcome and introduction (Zoltán Tibor Pállinger)

 

08:45 Panel 1 (Chair: Wilfried Marxer) Dimensions of the Crisis

 

Zoltán Tibor Pállinger: Legitmacy
Theo Schiller: Responsibility
Frank Marcinkowski: Communication

10:15 Coffe Break

 

10.45 Maija Setälä: Participation and Discourse
Emanunel Richter: Global Governance and Direct Democracy - the Post-national Order and Participatory Citizenship

 

Discussion

 

12:15 Lunch Break

 

14:00 Panel 2 (Chair: Theo Schiller) Structure of Crisis Management

 

Hans Lietzmann: The Crisis of Representation in European Politics and participational answers on European Level

Gebhard Kirchgässner: Consociational Democracy, Divided Government, and the Possibility of Reforms
Elisabeth Alber: Regionalisation through Direct Democracy

 

15.30 Coffee Break

16.00 Krisztina Arató: ECI

Bruno Kaufmann: Functions of Initiatives
Martina Eckardt: From digital to political revolution -­ an evolutionary economic approach

 

Discussion

 

18:00 End of first day's sessions

 

19:00 Keynote Speech: Andi Gross

 

Saturday, 5 May 2012, Andrássy University Budapest

 

08:30 Short walk from hotel to Andrássy University

 

08:45 Panel 3 (Chair: Bruno Kaufmann) Case Studies

 

Rolf Büchi: Globalisation and DD: Privatization of Water Ressources

Uwe Wagschaal: Stuttgart 21
Wilfried Marxer: Liechtenstein and the Financial Crisis
Salvör Nordal: Iceland's System Crisis

 

10:45 Coffee Break

 

11:15 Christoph Frei: Tricky Unfinished Business: Direct Democracy in France
Kálmán Pócza: Direct Democracy in the United Kingdom

 

Discussion/Concluding Remarks

 

13:00 End of second day's sessions / End of conference