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WG4: Inter-regional and Cross-border Cooperation and Development

WG coordinators:

Barabashev, Alexey – National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russiaa, abarabashev@hse.ru

Prof. Alexey G. Barabashev teaches courses at the Research University - Higher School of Economics - on the civil service, including civil service reforms in Russia, and evaluation of the effectiveness of administration. His research interests are concentrated in the area of the theory of bureaucracy and applications of the theory towards Russian practical needs and methodology of reflexive systems, including the impact of effectiveness evaluations on the work of administration. Currently, he is the President of the School of Graduate studies at National Research University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow). From 2004 until 2019 he has served as President (2011-2019) and Dean (2004-2011) of the School of Public Administration and Management and as the Chair of the Department of Civil and Municipal Service at Higher School of Economics. From 1997 to 2014 he served as a member of the advisors’ expert group for public service reform under the Administration of the President of Russia. He is a member of several attestation commissions and expert councils for federal governmental bodies. He was a Woodrow Wilson (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies) scholar in 1992 and 2013,President of the Kennan Russian Alumni Association (1992-1996), and President-elect of the Alumni Association for Russia-US Academic Exchange Programs (1996-2000). From 2015 till 2019 he has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

Andreeva, Lyubimka - Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, lubima_@abv.bg

Dr. Lyubimka Andreeva is a Chief Assistant Professor at Department of Public Administration at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski”. She works in the field of public administration, including the regulations of energy sector, services of general economic interest, more specifically energy services, public policy, public governance (the regulatory state), administrative systems and development. Her work experience includes teaching courses in the areas of Administrative systems and development, Assessment of the administrative capacity, Human resource management and Energy governance. Main areas of scientific interest are governance, public policies, the effectiveness of their implementation, the role of public services as key policy instruments in the Inter-regional cooperation and development process.

Annika Jaansoo, University of Twente, The Netherlands, a.jaansoo@utwente.nl

Annika Jaansoo is a PhD student in University of Twente, The Netherlands. Her research is about cross-border cooperation of subnational governments (regions and local governments) in service provision: "Provision of Services Across International Borders: Factors driving Cooperation of Subnational Governments in Europe". In addition to her academic research interest, through her work experience as an Expert in international organizations (AEBR, AER) (2015 to date), Auditor (2012-2014), Development Manager (2010-2012) and Partner/Senior Consultant (2001-2010), Annika Jaansoo has expertise in subnational governance in practice.

Call for papers

The main goal of WG IV "Inter-regional Cooperation and Development" for the 30th Annual NISPAcee conference is focused on the broad themes concerning the process, effects and outcomes of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, relating to the decisions for the recovery of the Inter-regional and Cross-border Cooperation and Development Process in EU and beyond. We will focus on inter-regional impact of COVID-19, approaches for managing the recovery from the crisis across different countries and levels of government. Special attention will be paid to the recovery processes in public governance systems in the EU and beyond, due to uncertainty, caused by the pandemic and different crises that it brought - health, social, economic, and political.

For the NISPAcee Conference in 2022, WG IV concentrates on the broad topics relating to the changing role of Inter-regional and Cross-border Cooperation, Development and Recovery processes under the Covid-19 pandemic, such as:

• The role of the crisis in the Inter-regional and Cross-border Cooperation and Development Process;

• Covid-19 effects in public governance systems in the Inter-regional and Cross-border Cooperation in the EU and beyond.

• Covid-19 aspects in inter-regional resilience and development;

• New challenges in inter-regional resilience and the development process in the EU and beyond;

• Recovery from Covid-19 – approaches for governance to the crisis across different countries and levels of government;

• Good practices in inter-regional and cross-border cooperation and resilience process.

We are expecting papers/abstracts which address those topics and have both theoretical and practical relevance.

Requirements for the structure of the proposed abstract:

• The names of the authors and their affiliation,

• The problem description,

• The relevance of the paper for WG IV,

• The objective or the research question(s),

• The case(s), data and methodology,

• Expected findings.

From participants of this working group extended abstract (5-10 pages) with brief introduction, methodology, preliminary results and conclusion is required before the conference.
Deadline of full paper/extended abstract submission is 20^th of May 2022.

You can find manuscript guidelines on THIS LINK.

Conference 2023 Beograd, Serbia, May 25-27, 2023

Registration for the conference is open