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

本系列研讨会探讨了2007年后的全球经济危机对发达经济体的关键政治经济成果的影响。它带来了学术文献中的中心辩论，涉及到关于经济管理和监管、福利、工作和民主政治参与的关键政策讨论。支撑这一系列的核心前提是，2007/8年后的危机以及对此所见证的政策反应，可能会扰乱公民在一系列政治经济问题领域与彼此和国家的关系。它试图勾勒和评估经济监管、福利、工作和民主参与的当前和替代模式，以确定这些领域中每一个领域的改进潜力以及可能实现这些进展的政治环境。它将学者和政策界成员聚集在一起，进行超越内部学术讨论的对话，并有可能为政策结果提供信息，从而产生明显的经济和政治利益。可以说，这场危机是由经济监管失败造成的。政府最初的反应引发了人们的疑问，即我们是否正在目睹一种新的、更具干预性的国家活动形式，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削减计划。在这场危机中，失业率持续处于历史高位，非全日制和固定期限就业模式增加。最后，每一种事态发展都伴随着一系列新颖且不断增长的政治参与和抗议形式。这些事件是政治经济学的核心问题，其核心焦点是形成经济和福利政策解决方案的政治和社会条件。因此，这需要政治经济学的学术纪律与自2007年以来出现的具体政治经济学成果之间的互动。此外，这需要通过学术界和政策界之间的对话来避免学术孤立。因此，本系列研讨会试图实现这一目标，将学术专家、政策制定者和民间社会成员聚集在一起，审议和评估当前和替代政策方案以及实施和/或实施这些方案的条件。该系列研讨会分为四个实质性的政治经济学主题，重点是经济监管、福利、工作和民主模式。它汇集了来自智库、公民社会组织、媒体、政府、公务员和运动团体的个人，与知名学者对话，审议每个实质性领域的当前和替代政策选择。因此，它有潜力推动改善经济和金融监管的努力，平衡公共开支的削减和持续提供优质公共服务，并考虑影响就业质量和数量的因素，以及分析这些政策领域出现的要求变革的民主压力。每个研讨会都有政策界成员，包括政府、商业、工会、智囊团、民间社会和运动团体的个人。此外，最后的研讨会将由欧洲进步研究基金会(FEPS)主办，FEPS是一家总部位于布鲁塞尔的领先智库，与布鲁塞尔政策界密切相关，并与欧盟成员国的政治行为者有密切联系。这将提供一个独特的机会，促进调查员和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.