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Conflict of Interest in Central and Eastern Europe
Conference venue: Toruń (Poland)
Period: August 25-27, 2010
Deadline for submitting abstracts: April 15, 2010
Deadline for submitting full papers: August 7, 2010
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: April 30, 2010
Publication of programme: May 31, 2010
Deadline for payment: June 30, 2010
Final submission of revised versions of the papers for publication in a conference proceeding: September 30, 2010
Description of the conference
The concept of ‘conflict of interest’ encloses many matters such as corruption, lobbying, nepotism, patronage, clientelism or the activity of informal networks of power. It is present in many fields of life including administration, economy, politics, technology, science and culture.
Conflicts of interests are analyzed by social researchers from Central and Eastern Europe who underline their role in post-communist countries. These conflicts of interests are studied in particular from the legal and administrative perspective, but social researchers avoid to approach the question from an analytic point of view. In this context, the purpose of the conference is to analyze the role of conflicts of interests in different areas of social life in post-communist countries, for example the process of transformation from planned to free market economy started by this countries.
For more information see the conference website.
Eligible topics for the conference
Researchers from various disciplines of social, political, and economic sciences, as well as legal scholars and historians are invited to submit papers - both empirical and theoretical - related with the following topics:
- What are the consequences of various forms of conflict of interests for the contemporary condition of CEE? How do they influence social well-being, economic efficiency, political culture, quality of democracy, and civil society?
- What causes these conflicts of interests in CEE? Who are the main actors?
- How effective are the various ways of preventing and fighting conflicts of interests?
- To what degree is conflict of interests in CEE a specific social phenomenon, different from its Western forms?
Guidelines for submission
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and they should be submitted using the online registration form.
25 papers will be selected and the presentation of each one should last about 30-40 minutes.
The conference fee is 100/50 euro for graduated and PhD students (including conference folder, coffee breaks, lunch session and official dinner).
Organizer
Department of Group Interests at the Institute of Sociology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Polish Platform of Homeland Security
Information & contacts
Department of Group Interests at the Institute of Sociology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
address: ul. Fosa Staromiejska 1 a
87-100 Toruń, Poland
tel.: 0048.56.611.3636 or 0048.56.622.7640
fax: 0048.56.622.4765
e-mail: soc-sekr@umk.pl
website: http://www.soc.uni.torun.pl/
Polish Platform of Homeland Security
Secretariat
address: ul. Jana Pawla II 28
61-131 Poznan, Poland
tel.: 0048.066.842.17.23 or 0048.061.665.28.63
fax: 0048.061.665.20.66
e-mail: sekretariat@ppbw.pl
website: www.ppbw.pl/en
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