Bucharest 2011

OPENING SESSION:

INTRODUCTION OF PARTICIPANTS

Wednesday: 16:30-18:30

Chair: Gjalt de Graaf & Jeroen Maesschalck

Welcome and “tour de table”
Andreea Nastase: Public Ethics in the European Commission: Individual Attitudes and Organizational Reforms
Milena Neshkova: The effect of civil service reforms on the level of corruption in new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe

2. TRANSPARENCY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE

Thursday 8:30-10:30

Chair: Michael Macaulay

Sabina Schnell: Translating Transparency: Assessing the National Reception of the Global Transparency Discourse in Romania
Venla Mäntysalo: Role of Transparency in Ethical Governance: Regulation, Practice and Recent Developments in Finland
Leo Huberts: Making Sense of Governance Ethics and Policy Ethics
Gjalt de Graaf & Hester Paanakker: Governing Good and Governing well: conflicting values in governance

3. INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE INTEGRITY RESEARCH

Thursday 11:00-12:30

Chair: Alexey Konov

Borragan Nieves Perez-Solorzano & Michelle Cini: Ethical Governance and Lobbying in the EU Institutions
Michael Macaulay: Taking Different Paths – key questions in comparative studies of corruption
Ani Matei & Andrew I. E. Ewoh: Corruption, Public Integrity and Globalization

4. CORRUPTION: CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS

Thursday 14:00-16:00

Chair: Jolanta Palidauskaite

Emile Kolthoff: In search of the Causes of Corruption
Igor Volzhanin: Systemic Corruption in Ukrainian Universities
Susan Zinner: InculcatingLeadership Values as an Anti-Corruption Tool in eastern Europe
Mihaela V. Carausan: Ethical Commitment - The Most Reliable Weapon in Fighting Corruption

5. EMPIRICAL INTEGRITY STUDIES

Friday 8:30-10:30

Chair: Patrick von Maravic

Alain Hoekstra & Muel Kaptein: Regularities in the Dynamics of Public Integrity Policy Developments: Analyzing Policy Formation Processes in The Netherlands
José G. Vargas-Hernández: Management Education for Professional Integrity
Kristel Wouters & Jeroen Maesschalck: Leadership Perceptions and Integrity. An Empirical Study
James Downe & Richard Cowell & Karen Morgan: The Determinants of Public Trust in English Local Government: Standards of Conduct or Social and Economic Context?

6. SOLVING PROBLEMS OF CYNICISM AND RESEARCH. PLUS LOOKING BACK AND AHEAD

Friday 11:00-13:00

Chair: Gjalt de Graaf & Jeroen Maesschalck

Oana Matei: Cynicism and Implication for the Democratic Process
Patrick von Maravic & Florian Bader: Difficult Access Problems - Traits, Trade-Offs, and Strategies of Getting Access
Alexey Konov: A presentation of the resource center initiative
Looking Back and Looking Ahead