Understanding the post-crisis landscape: assessing change in economic management, welfare, work and democracy

本系列研讨会探讨了2007年后全球经济危机对发达经济体主要政治经济结果的影响。它带来了学术文献中的核心辩论，以承担有关经济管理和监管，福利，工作和民主政治参与的关键政策讨论。支撑该系列的中心前提是，2007/8年之后的危机，以及对危机的政策反应，有可能在一系列政治经济问题领域扰乱公民之间和国家之间的关系。它试图概述和评估经济监管、福利、工作和民主参与的现有和替代模式，以便确定这些领域的改进潜力以及可能实现这些进步的政治环境。它将学术学者和政策界的成员聚集在一起，进行超越内部学术讨论的对话，并有可能为具有明显经济和政治利益的政策结果提供信息。这场危机可以说是由经济监管的失败造成的。政府最初的回应引发了人们的质疑：我们是否正在目睹一种新的、更具干预主义形式的政府活动，尤其是在货币和财政政策领域。这些最初的发展后来让位于大多数发达国家的福利紧缩方案。危机还造成了持续和历史上的高失业率以及非全时和定期就业模式的增加。最后，每一种发展都伴随着一系列新颖的、不断增长的政治参与和抗议形式。这些事件是政治经济学关注的中心问题，其核心焦点是经济和福利政策解决方案形成的政治和社会条件。因此，这需要政治经济学的学术学科与2007年以来发生的具体政治经济学成果之间的联系。此外，这需要通过学术界和政策界之间的对话来避免学术上的狭隘。因此，本系列研讨会试图实现这一目标，将学术专家、决策者和民间社会成员聚集在一起，审议和评估当前和备选的政策方案以及执行和/或执行这些方案的条件。该系列研讨会分为四个实质性的政治经济学主题，重点是经济调节、福利、工作和民主模式。它汇集了来自智库、民间社会组织、媒体、政府、公务员和运动团体的个人，与知名学者进行对话，考虑每个实质性领域的当前和备选政策选择。因此，它有可能推动改善经济和金融监管的努力，在减少公共支出与持续提供优质公共服务之间取得平衡，并考虑影响就业质量和数量的因素，同时分析在每个这些政策领域中出现的要求变革的民主压力。每个研讨会都有政策界的成员参加，包括政府、企业、工会、智库、公民社会和竞选团体的个人。此外，最后的研讨会将由欧洲进步研究基金会（FEPS）主办，这是一家位于布鲁塞尔的领先智库，与布鲁塞尔的政策团体密切相关，并与欧盟成员国的政治行动者有着密切的联系。这将提供一个独特的机会，促进调查人员与政策界主要成员之间的直接接触和对话。

This seminar series explores the impact of the post-2007 global economic crisis upon key political economy outcomes across developed economies. It brings central debates within the academic literature to bear upon key policy discussions regarding economic management and regulation, welfare, work, and democratic political participation. The central premise underpinning the series is that the post-2007/8 crisis, and the policy responses witnessed to it, have the potential to unsettle the way in which citizens relate to each other and the state across a range of political economy issue areas. It seeks to outline and assess both current and alternative models of economic regulation, welfare, work, and democratic engagement in order to identify the potential for improvement in each of these areas and the political circumstances that might enable these advances to be achieved. It brings together academic scholars and members of the policy community to engage in a dialogue that goes beyond internal scholarly discussions and has the potential to inform policy outcomes that will have clear economic and political benefits.The crisis was arguably caused by a failure of economic regulation. Initial government responses prompted questions surrounding whether we were witnessing a new, more interventionist form of state activity, especially in the areas of monetary and fiscal policy. These initial developments have subsequently given way to a move in most developed countries to a programme of welfare retrenchment. The crisis has also witnessed sustained and historically high levels of unemployment and an increase in part-time and fixed-term patterns of employment. Finally, each of these developments has been met by a range of novel and growing forms of political participation and protest. These occurrences are of central concern to political economy and its core focus on the political and social conditions under which economic and welfare policy settlements are formed. This therefore demands an engagement between the academic discipline of political economy and the concrete political economy outcomes that have occurred since 2007. This moreover needs to occur in a way that avoids academic insularity through a dialogue between the scholarly community and policy community. This seminar series therefore attempts to achieve this aim, bringing together academic experts, policymakers, and members of civil society to consider and assess current and alternative policy programmes and the conditions under which they are implemented and/or pursued.The seminar series is divided into four substantive political economy themes, focusing on models of economic regulation, welfare, work, and democracy. It brings together individuals from think tanks, civil society organisations, media, government, civil service and campaign groups, in dialogue with high-profile academics, to consider both current and alternative policy options in each of the substantive areas. It therefore has the potential to advance efforts to improve economic and financial regulation, to balance reductions in public expenditure with the sustained provision of quality public services, and to consider the factors influencing the quality and quantity of employment, alongside an analysis of the democratic pressures for change that have emerged in each of these policy areas.Each of the seminars includes members of the policy community including individuals in government, business, trade unions, think tanks, civil society, and campaign groups. The final seminar, moreover, will be hosted by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), a leading Brussels-based think-tank closely embedded within the Brussels policy community and with strong contacts with political actors across the member states of the European Union. This will provide a unique opportunity to facilitate direct contact and dialogue between the Investigators and key members of the policy community.