After Neo-Liberalism After
Managerialism
Participation, Ownership and Redistribution of Power
The New Policy Paradigm
NATIONAL POLICY CONFERENCE
Sydney 28-29
October 2009
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt
Street, CBD.
with
Noel Pearson, Peter Shergold, Phillip Blond
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Call for Papers
"Too much government is
delivered today in ways that create passivity. It need not be so. Already there
are important signs of change emerging, if only they can be liberated from the
institutional forms of the past. New approaches, enhanced by the transformative
potential of social media, can create a government2.0 in which the citizen is
placed at the centre of power." Peter Shergold
(Macquarie
Group Foundation Chair at the Centre for Social Impact, and former secretary of
the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.)
Papers and presentations are invited which examine the emerging shift in public
policy towards a new paradigm "in which the citizen in placed at the centre of
power".
Phillip Blond of
the UK and Noel Pearson from Cape York are two leading advocates of the new
paradigm and will be keynote speakers at this conference. Their perspectives are turning the left-right spectrum upside
down in a way not seen for a century. The conference
will explore the dynamics of this paradigm shift in social and economic policy,
and its implications for civil society, politics and economics.
Papers are invited which address these themes in
the following four streams:
1. Policy analysis, case studies, innovation
proposals or policy reform proposals in social policy in the fields of:
- Health
- Education
- Welfare
- Disability, ageing and
social support
- Rural and regional affairs
- Indigenous affairs
- Family and social
relationships
- Community strengthening and
civil society
- Rights and responsibilities
frameworks
2. Policy analysis, case studies, innovation
proposals or policy reform proposals in economic policy in the areas of:
- Civilising global capital
- Building the capital assets of
the bottom half of society
- Disaggregating concentrations
of ownership
- Making competition work for
small consumers and small business
- Tackling corporate and
middle class welfare
3. Critical assessments of and prognoses
for:
- Notions of Left and Right
- Neo-liberalism
- Social democracy
- Managerialism
- Communitarianism and
mutualism
- Third Way perspectives
4. Strategic perspectives on:
-
Processes of public policy change
- Processes of empowerment of
citizens and communities
- Diversifying and deepening
public debate
- Citizen participation in
reform of the
political system
Expressions of interest in presenting a paper or
workshop or display should be forwarded, in no more than 300 words by 30
September 2009, to:
Vern Hughes
Conference Convenor
vern@civilsociety.org.au
Tel: 0425 722 890
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