International conference : Re-thinking Politics, Policy and Governance in Federal Systems

Date de début: 

14 Novembre 2013 - 09:30

Date de fin: 

16 Novembre 2013 - 18:30

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International Conference : Re-thinking Politics, Policy and Governance in Federal Systems: India and the World

Centre for Public Policy and Governance (Ramjas College), University of Delhi – International Political Science Association (RC-28) organizes an International Conference during 3 days.

Program :

Day 1-Thursday, November 14, 2013

    Inaugural Session: 9.30 a.m. - 9.45 a.m. Prof. Dinesh Singh, Chief Guest, Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi

    • Plenary: 9.45 a.m.-10.45 a.m.

    ShriAnil Aggarwal, Chairman, Governing Body, Ramjas College

    Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Conference Chair, Principal and Chair, Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Ramjas College

    Dr. Sonja Walti, Conference Chair, Chair-IPSA RC-28, American University, Washington, USA

    Dr. Rupak Chattopadhyay, President and CEO, Forum of Federations, Canada

    Dr. Rekha Saxena, Conference Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, and Honorary Vice Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism ( CMF)

    Inaugural Address: Hon. Hamid Ansari

    Vice-President of India (TBC)

    Vote of Thanks: Tanvir Aeijaz, Conference Convener, Ramjas College, University of Delhi

    • Tea: 10.45a.m.-11.00 a.m.
    • Special Public Lecture: 11.00 a.m.-11.45 a.m.

    Introductory Remarks: Zoya Hassan, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

    Inaugural Special Public Lecture
    Upendra Baxi

    (Former Professor of Law and Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi)

    Topic: 'The Place of Rights and Justice in Multilevel Governance'

    Thematic Sessions. Session I: 11.45 a.m.—1.45 p.m. Theme: Constitutional Design and Institutional Functioning in Federal System

    Chairs:
    Rupak Chattopadhyay, CEO, Forum of Federations;
    Zoya Hassan, CPS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

    Discussant: Badrul Alam, Professor, Department of Political Science, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi

    Papers:

    • Democratic Accountability in India's Multilevel Federalism: Constitutional Design and Institutional Interaction

    Balveer Arora, Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi

    • The Institutional Design of FDI in India: Problems and Issues in an International and Comparative Perspective.

    Leila Choukroune, Director, Centre for Sciences and Humaines , Delhi

    • Probing the Relationship between Authority Migration and Developments in the Party System in India – a Longitudinal Analysis (1950 – 2009)

    Wilfried Swenden, Associate Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK

    • Regional Leaders and Regional Parties: What Function do they Perform in Indian Federal System

    Sanjay Kumar, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

    • Union Model of India: A Critical Exploration

    Ajay K. Singh, Professor, Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard, Delhi

    Political Monitoring in a Nested Game: Presidential Rule in Federal India

    Thomas D. Lancaster, Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University, USA

    Rapporteur: Amna Mirza, Assistant Professor, DDU College, University of Delhi

    • Lunch: 1.45 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.

    Session II: 2.15 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. Theme: Governing Diversity in Federal Systems – I (Under the Auspices of Centre for Multilevel Federalism, New Delhi)

    Chairs: Leila Choukroune, Centre for Science and Humaines, N.Delhi

    Balveer Arora, Centre for Multilevel Federalism, New Delhi

    Discussant: Ash Narain Roy, Director, Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi

    Papers:

    • Diversity-claims and Equality-claims in Indian Federalism: Searching for Democratic Intention

    Harihar Bhattacharya, Professor, University of Burdwan, West Bengal

    • Deliberating Diversity: Groups in India's Constitution

    Ashok Acharya, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    • Federalism and Decentralization as an Institutional Framework for Celebrating Diversity – Drawing from Ongoing Experiments in South Sudan and Myanmar

    Sandeep Shastri, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Jain University, Bangalore

    • Humane Governance in Jammu & Kashmir: Issues & Concerns

    Gull Wani, Director, UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Kashmir, Kashmir

    • Issues in Ladakh

    Navnita Chaddha Behera, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    • Exploring the Demands for New States in India

    Ashutosh Kumar, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Punjab, Chandigarh

    Rapporteur: Sri Ram Pandeya, Assistant Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi

    • Tea: 3.45 p.m.-4.00 p.m.

    Session III: 4.00 p.m.-5.30 p.m.

    Theme: Governing Diversity in Federal Systems– II

    (Under the Auspices of Centre for Multilevel Federalism, New Delhi)

    Chairs:
    Tishyarakshit Chatterjee, Director, Indian Institute of Public administration
    M P Singh, Senior Fellow, Centre for Multilevel Federalism

    Discussant: Dalbir Singh, Secretary, All India Congress Committee

    Papers:

    • Need forRethinking Contours of Federalism for More Inclusive and More People-oriented Governance in Jammu and Kashmir

    Rekha Chowdhury, University of Jammu, Jammu

    •  Accommodation of Diversity in India

    D Raja, Leader, Communist Party of India

    • Gujarat Model of Governance

    Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Journalist, India

    • Minority Culture

    Mollica Dastidar, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    • Coalitional Federalism and Neighbourhood Policy of India: A Case Study of West Bengal

    Pratip Chattopadhyaya, University of Kalyani, West Bengal

    • Federalism and Cultural Accommodation: Lessons from India and Micronesia

    Thomas O. Hueglin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

    Rapporteur : Pallavi Borgohain, Assistant Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi

    • Dinner: 7.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m.

    Day 2-Friday, November 15, 2013

    Session IV: 9.30 a.m.-11.30 a.m. Theme: Joint Policy Process and Service Delivery in MultiLevel Systems (Under the Auspices of Forum of Federations)

    Chairs:
    Wilfried Swenden, Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK;
    Satyajit Singh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
    Discussant: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Political Analyst, India

    Papers:

    • Service Delivery in Federal Systems: The German Case

    Wolfgang Renzsch, Professor, Monnet Chair of European Studies, Germany

    • Environmental Governance across Levels of Government

    Sonja Walti, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University, USA

    • Joint Service Delivery and Reform in Federal Systems

    Rupak Chattopadhyaya, President and CEO, Forum of Federations, Canada

    • Flood Management in Uttarakhand: Recent Experiences

    Ravi Dhingra, Former Additional Secretary, Inter-State Council Secretariat

    • Service Delivery in Rural India: Comparing Devolution Across States

    V N Alok, Associate Professor of Finance, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Delhi

    • Workplace Practice and Diversity in Canada: Employment Policy in Global Modernity

    Lesley Alan Jacobs, Professor, University York, Canada and Lorne Foster, Director, Diversity and Human Right Certificate (DHRC), University of York

    Rapporteur : Ashutosh K. Jha, Assistant.Professor, B R Ambedkar College, DelhiUniversity

    • Tea: 11.30 a.m.-11.45 a.m.

    Session V: 11.45 a.m.-1.45 p.m. Theme: Evaluating Joint Policy Process in India

    Chairs: Kamal Narayan Kabra, Former Professor at Institute of Public Administration

    K. Sudarshan, Dean, Jindal Global University, Sonepat

    Discussant: Ashutosh Kumar, Professor, Punjab University, Chandigarh

    Papers:

    • Federations, Political Dynamics and Policy Pathways: Patterns of Autonomy, Engagement and Resistance

    Dolly Arora, Professor of Political Science, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Delhi
    •Federalism and Education Policy in India and US

    Kumar Suresh, Professor, National University for Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi

    • Federalism and India's Foreign Policy

    Shanta Verma, Associate Professor, Department. of Political Science University of Delhi

    • Environment Policy and Civil Society in India

    Subhendu Ranjan Raj, Associate Professor, PGDAVE College, University of Delhi and Fellow, CMF

    • Are PPPs the Instrument for Transforming Public Services in India?

    Tanvir Aeijaz, Assistant Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, and Fellow, CMF

    Rapporteur: Devika Malhotra, Assistant Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi

    • Lunch: 1.45 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.

    Session VI: 2.15 p.m.-4.15 p.m. Theme: Administrative, Legal and Financial Dimensions of Federal Governance

    Chairs: Wolfgang Renzsch, Monnet Chair of European Studies, Magdeburg University, Germany

    Ujjwal K Singh, Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    Discussant: Deb K. Das, Ramjas College, University of Delhi

    Papers :

    • Independent Regulatory Authority

    M P Singh, Senior Fellow, Centre for Multilevel Federations and Niraj Kumar, Assistant Professor, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi

    • Federalization of Treaty Making Power in India

    Rekha Saxena, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    • Parliamentary Committee in Federal System,

    Rajesh Jha, Assistant Professor, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi

    • Legal Dimension to Indian Federalism

    Khagesh Gautam, Assistant Professor of Law, Jindal Global University, Sonepat

    • The emerging Dimensions of Distributive Fiscal Politics in India

    Chanchal K. Sharma, Assistant Professor, MAC College, Haryana

    Rapporteur : Annapurna Sharma, Assistant Professor, MLN (E)College, University of Delhi

    • Tea: 4.15 p.m.—4.30 p.m.

    Session VII: 4.30 p.m.-6.30 p.m. Theme: Good Governance and Decentralisation in Federal Systems

    Chairs: Sonja Walti, Conference Chair, American University, USA
    George Mathew, Chairman, Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi

    Discussant: Madhulika Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    Papers :

    • Good Governance Initiatives from the Centre and the States in Post '91India

    Rumki Basu, Professor, Department of Political Science, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi

    • A Political Perspective on Decentralized Governance

    Satyajit Kumar Singh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    • INGO decentralization, legitimacy and Multi-level Governance

    Fransisco Obino, London School of Economics, U K

    • Small Statesand Politics of Development: Story of Uttaranchal

    Pampa Mukherjee, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh

    • Urban Governance in North-West Region: A Case Study of Chandigarh

    Manoj Tetotia, Assistant Professor, HUDCO Chair Coordinator, Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID)

    • Local Leadership and the Idea of Representation: Exploring Kalinganagar Tribal Movement in Orissa

    Biswajit Mohanty, Associate Professor, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi

    Rapporteur : Devki Nandan, Assistant Professor, Maharaja Agrasen College, Univ. of Delhi

    • Dinner: 7.30 p.m. -8.30 p.m.

    Day 3-Saturday, 16 Novermber 2013

    Session VIII: 9.30 am-12.00 noon. Theme: Inter-governmental Relations and Conflict Resolution in Federal Systems

    Chairs: Louise Tillin, Lecturer in Politics, King's College, London

    Bidyut Chakrabarty, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    Discussant: Nasreen Chowdhory, Assistant professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    Papers:

    • Public Security in the Indian 'Union'

    Ajay K Mehra, Director, Centre for Public Affairs

    • Federalism and Maoist Insurgency in India

    Niranjan Sahoo, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi

    • Democracy and Armed Struggle

    Saroj Giri, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    • Analysing Centre-State Role in Non-implementation of Forest Rights Act

    Rajesh Ranjan, Social Activist

    • Vulnerabilities of Checks and Balances in Indian Federalism: The Case of the Adarsh Society Scam in Mumbai

    Vaidehi Tandel, Reseach Scholar, University of Mumbai, Mumbai

    • Governmental Arrangements to Protect Migrant Workers' Human Rights: An Indian Experience

    Pradipta Mukherjee,Asst. Professor, HMM College for Women, Dakshineswar, West Bengal

    Rapporteur : Avantika Singh, Ph.D Scholar, University of Delhi

    • Tea: 12.00 noon – 12.15 p.m.

    Session IX: 12.15 p.m. -2.15 p.m. Theme: Comparative Federalism: Country Case Studies

    Chairs: Harihar Bhattaharya, Professor, Burdwan University

    Rekha Saxena, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi and Hon.Vice Chairman, CMF

    Discussant: A S Narang, Former Professor, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi

    Papers:

    • Syrian Version of Arab Spring: Implication of the Region

    S A M Pasha, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi

    • Federalism in Pakistan

    Veena Kukreja, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi

    • Federalism in Austalia

    Christine El-Khoury, Audience Producer, Q and A, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney

    • The Constitutional-Design options for state formation in Palestine

    Nahed Odeh, University of South Wales, Australia

    • The Provision of Secession in Multi-ethnic Federal Constitution: A case study of Ethiopia

    Samuel, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    • Federal Practices in India and Brazil

    Aparajita Kashyap, Assistant Professor, Guru Govindsingh Indraprastha University

    • The Advisory Rule of the Supreme Court of India: Lessons from the Canadian Experience with Judicial Advice as Statecraft

    Radha Krishna Persaud, University of York, Canada

    Rapporteur : N C M Robinson, Research Scholar, University of Delhi

    • Lunch: 2.15 p.m. – 2. 45 p.m.

    Valedictory Session: 3.00 p.m.- 4.30 p.m.

    Chair: Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Principal, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, and Chair, Centre for Public Policy and Governance

    Dr.Sonja Walti, Conference Chair, Chair IPSA RC-28, Washington University, USA

    Dr. Rupak Chattopadhyay, President and CEO, Forum of Federations

    Professor Walgang Renzsch, Monnet Chair of European Studies, Germany

    Dr. Wilfried Swenden, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Dr.Rekha Saxena, Conference Chair, Department of Political Science and Honorary Vice Chairman, Centre for Mulitilevel Federalism

    Keynote Address:

    Shri Manish Tewari

    Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India

    Chief Rapporteur's Report: Dr. Subhendu Ranjan Raj, PGDAVE College, University of Delhi

    Vote of Thanks: Mr. Tanvir Aeijaz, Conference Convener, Ramjas College,

    University of Delhi

    •  High Tea: 4.30

    • Dinner: 7.30-8.30

      Place : Ramjas College, Conference Hall, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

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