SUMMER SEMMINAR
UIMP

Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo
Valencia, SPAIN, 20-24 September 2004


Institutional organization and change

in policy governance

Director: Fernando Toboso, Universidad de Valencia.
Secretario académico: Carlos Ochando, Universidad de Valencia.


ADDRESSED TO :

Post-graduate students, personnel from Public Administrations, as well as other professionals who like to improve their knowledge on how are public affaires organized in democratic societies and how those organizational arrangements affect performance.

Special attention will be paid to the Spanish case addressing both the institutional organization of governmental tasks implemented since democratic transition and the organization of social intervention through governmental agencies in social welfare and care, education and health. Some organizational solutions implemented in other countries such as United Kingdom, France, USA, as well as in some Latinamerican countries will be discussed.

Speakers share the common background of ideas and methods that are being promoted through the interdisciplinary Society for the New Institutional Economics that was founded, among others, by the Nobel laureates in Economics Ronald Coase and Douglass North.

The opening lecture will be delivered by Prof. Thrainn Eggertsson, an outstanding new institutionalist whose book "Economic Behavior and Institutions" has been translated to many languages, including the Spanish one.

The ending lecture will be delivered by Prof. Claude Menard, ex - President of ISNIE and Director of the ATOM center.

Registered attendants   -     Some pictures

PROGRAM


Monday , Sempember 20, 2004

09,30 h. Semminar presentation and

Opening conference:

"The transfer problem in institutional reform or why institutions don’t travel well "

Thrainn Eggertsson, Iceland University and New York University.

Author of Institutions and Economic Behaviour, Cambridge Univ. Press.

11,00 h.

"Democratic organization of public decisions in Spain: toward a contractual State"

Xosé Carlos ARIAS, University of Vigo.

12,30 h

"The decentralized organization of government 's tasks in Spain. Autonomous state and federal state."

Fernando TOBOSO, University of Valencia.

 


Tuesday , September 21, 2004

09,30 h.

"The organization of parlamentary processes and their consequences: actors, rules and relationships".

Gonzalo CABALLERO, University of Vigo.

11,00 h.

"Governing the Universities: key points of the current organization and needed reforms."

José-Ginés MORA , Director,Centro de Estudios en Gestión de la Educación Superior (CEGES), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia y Ex-coordinador del programa de acreditación de la ANECA.

17,00 h.

Round table: What have we learned in these years of democratic administration of public tasks in Spain?.

Participants :

Fernando TOBOSO, University of Valencia (Moderator)

José GINES MORA, Director,Centro de Estudios en Gestión de la Educación Superior (CEGES), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia y Ex-coordinador del programa de acreditación de la ANECA.

Xosé Carlos ARIAS, University of Vigo.

Raúl COMPES, Polithecnic University of Valencia .

Wednesday , September 22, 2004


09,30 h.

"Organizing the Administrations of the Social Security. Models, options and experiences."

Carlos OCHANDO, University of Valencia

11,00 h.

"The organizational reform of health and social care public services in the United Kingdom. Markets and hierarchies."

Ian KIRKPATRICK, Leeds University.

 


Thursday, September 23, 2004

 

09,30 h.

"From charity to justice: some keys for quality in organizing and managing social policies."

Agustín DOMINGO MORATALLA, Ex - General Director of the Family, the Childs, and Adoptions, Valencian Government.

11,00 h.

"The participative organization of local politicies: the local agenda 21.

Juan A. TOMAS CARPI, Director of IMEDES Group, and University of Valencia.

17,00 h.

Round table: More budgets and/or more institutional reforms?.

Participants:

Carlos Ochando, University of Valencia (Moderator)

Agustín DOMINGO MORATALLA, Ex - General Director of the Family, the Childs, and Adoptions, Valencian Government.

Juan A. TOMAS CARPI, Director of the IMEDES Group, and University of Valencia.

Ian KIRKPATRICK, Leeds University

 


Friday , September 24, 2004

 

09,30 h.

"Organizing the agrarian administracion and policies in the european Spain . Purposes, instruments and alternatives".

Raul COMPES, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

11,00 h.

ENDING CONFERENCE:

"Why organizational aspects matter so much in reforming public utilities. A new institutional perspective".

Claude MENARD,

University of Paris, Director del Centro ATOM ( "Centre pour l’Analyse Théorique des Organisations et des Marchés").

(Simultaneous translation to Spanish)

13,30 h.

Closing of the semminar.