Political Actors in Intergovernmental Coordination: Perspectives and Priorities

1st IGCOORD Conference | Political Actors in Intergovernmental Coordination: Perspectives and Priorities

Intergovernmental Coordination from Local to European Governance (IGCOORD - CA20123)

Many challenges to governance today are multi-level in nature. This starts with climate change and pandemic policy and continues with food security and transportation. In the vast majority of cases, solutions can only be achieved through the coordination of executive and legislative action across different levels of government. Coordination takes place among governments of the same level (horizontally) and or vertically, between the state and its regions or regions and their local governments. But while it is easy to think of these levels and arenas of governance as unified actors, it is impossible to analyse and provide policy advice to strengthen such processes without understanding the political actors involved in such intergovernmental coordination.

Against this background, this conference aims to bring together established and early-career scholars; experts and practitioners to examine the concept, scope and roles of different types of actors involved in intergovernmental coordination. This includes actors in both vertical and horizontal coordination, focusing on local, national, and international governance coordination. It covers all policy areas, and relations between them, that include elements of intergovernmental coordination, as well as governmental and non-governmental oversight bodies. In short, the conference aims to gather, broaden, deepen, and synthesize the knowledge of scholars and practitioners so as to better understand the different types of actors involved in intergovernmental coordination and their strategic interactions in all regions of Europe, including countries outside of the European Union.

The full Call for Papers can de downloaded here.
IGCOORD - Call for Papers

The conference is supported by the COST Action. There is no conference fee, but registration is required.

The conference will be held in Budapest at the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University, Egyetem tér 1-3. Confirmed keynote speakers are Prof. Sabine Kropp, Free University Berlin, and Dr. Katrin Auel, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna.
Inquiries can be directed to the organisers at [email protected].