Jean Monnet Center for European Studies
Bremen University
Research Project “Citizenship and Constitutionalisation: Transforming the Public Sphere in East- and West-European Integration” (ConstEPS)

and 

Institute of Sociology ASCR
Project “Reconstituting Democracy in Europe”  

Invite you to participate in an international workshop

Missing Links? 
Citizenship, Civil Society & Political Parties in 
European Constitutional Politics 

July 11-14th 2007

Venue: Institute of Sociology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 
2nd floor Meeting room no. 207

Coordination: 
Zdenka Mansfeldova (Prague), Ulrike Liebert (Bremen)

Academic and Social Program 

Wednesday 11th July 

13:00 – 14:00

Introduction			
Dr. Zdenka Mansfeldova (Institute of Sociology AS CR)
Key Note Speech:
"If the EU is not democratic, how can its impact upon domestic polities not be un-democratic?"
Prof. Philippe C. Schmitter (Florence, EUI)
Discussant: Prof. Zdzislaw Krasnodebski (University of Bremen)
Discussion
- Coffee Break - 

14:30 – 18:30

Guest speaker:
The European Constitutional Process from the Point of View of Selected Policy Areas
Doc. Jana Reschova (Charles University, Faculty of Law and University of Economics, Faculty of International Relations)
A Missing Link? Democratic Citizenship in the Political Structuring of Europe 
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Liebert (University of Bremen/CEuS)
Discussant: Prof. Philippe C. Schmitter (Florence, EUI)
Discussion  
Anger, politics, and Structural Adjustment in the New Member States: Poland in a Comparative Perspective
Prof. David Ost (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY)
The Radical Right in Central Eastern Europe
Lenka Bustikova Siroky (Duke University)
Discussant: Prof. Zdzislaw Krasnodebski (University of Bremen)
Discussion

Thursday 12th July, 9:00 – 13:00

1st paper by doctoral candidate
Civil Society Participation and EU Legitimacy: Comparing New and Old Member States
Petra Rakusanova (IS AS CR/UniHB/CEuS)
Discussant: Prof. David Ost
Discussion

2nd paper by doctoral candidate
Mission impossible? Enabling environment for European civil society. A legal perspective. 
Joanna Serdynska (UniHB/CEuS)
Discussant: Petra Rakusanova
Discussion

- Coffee break - 

3rd paper by doctoral candidates
National Citizenship between Liberalization and Ethnicization: Towards Democratic Convergence?
Aleksandra Wyrozumska (UniHB/CEuS)
Discussion

4th paper by doctoral candidates
EU Constitutional Politics in Ethno-Linguistically Divided Societies: Latvia and Estonia
Tatjana Evas (UniHB/CEuS)

Discussant: Prof. Zdzislaw Krasnodebski (University of Bremen)
Discussion

Afternoon:
Guided tour Historic Prague

Friday 13th July, 9:00 – 13:00

5th  paper by doctoral candidates
A Process approach to the integration of European trade union movement:
structures, interaction and action
Katarzyna Gajewska (GSSS, University of Bremen)
Discussant: Prof. David Ost
Discussion

6th  paper by doctoral candidate
Political parties – agents of the Europeanisation of political communication? The case of constitutional treaty ratification in European public debates
Kathrin Packham (UniHB/CEuS)o
Discussant: Lenka Bustikova Siroky
Discussion

7th ConstEPS research paper
„The Legitimacy of EU Constitutional Treaty Reform: Political Parties and Civil Society in Poland (working title)“
Ewelina Pawlak (UniHB/CEuS)
Discussant: Katarzyna Gajewska (GSSS, University of Bremen)
Discussion
- Lunch Break -

14:30 – 17:00
8th Research paper
Public Attitudes toward European Integration in the Republic of Ireland
Pat Lyons, PhD (Institute of Sociology AS CR)

9th ConstEPS data analyses 
Civil Society, Political Parties and Economic Groups and the EU’s Constitutional Ratification Process: A Network Analysis
Dr. Alexander Gattig (UniHB/CEuS)
Discussion
- Coffee break - 

Wrap – up of results and ConstEPS research schedule 2007 – 8
Conclusion of the workshop