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Markets in Asia, Workshop, Singapore, Oct. 5-7, 2011
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> February 8, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Private Sector Organisations and New Approaches to
> Building Markets in Asia (Phase 2), Singapore, October 5-7, 2011
>
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> CALL FOR PAPERS PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND NEW APPROACHES TO
> BUILDING MARKETS IN ASIA (Phase 2)
>
> Location: Singapore
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-10-05
> Date Submitted: 2011-02-07
> Announcement ID: 182812
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND NEW APPROACHES TO
> BUILDING MARKETS IN ASIA (Phase 2)
> A research project of the Centre on Asia and Globalisations Poverty and
> Development Programme and the Programme on Risk on Regulation at the Lee
> Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
>
> The Centre on Asia and Globalisation recently launched a new research
> project entitled New Approaches to Building Markets in Asia. The project
> is located within the Centres Poverty and Development research programme
> and is headed by Toby Carroll, with the support of Rita Padawangi, Darryl
> Jarvis, and Mika Purra at the National University of Singapore. New
> Approaches to Building Markets in Asia incorporates an empirically and
> theoretically-oriented research agenda, a signature seminar series and
> various outreach initiatives including a working paper series and website
> for hosting project output. Crucially, the project seeks to establish an
> international network of scholars working on mutually complementary
> research from within multiple social science disciplines.
>
> We are now soliciting paper proposals for phase 2 of the project, Private
> Sector Organisations and New Approaches to Building Markets in Asia. This
> phase is centered upon the production of a special issue of a Journal and
> an edited volume, both to be produced from papers presented at a workshop
> scheduled for October 5-7, 2011, at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
> Policy, National University of Singapore. Funding has been secured to
> support the attendance of workshop participants (airfare, accommodation,
> per diem) upon successful paper submission.
>
> Phase 2 Research Focus Private Sector Organisations and New Approaches to
> Building Markets in Asia
>
> Constructing markets has been a central concern of Asias governments, seen
> variously as a means to economic growth, development, and social well
> being. The modality of market construction, however, has been a rapidly
> evolving one. While historically Asian markets were anchored in overtly
> national contexts and represented specific political accommodations
> between domestic capital, economic elites, political actors and state
> interests - most commonly expressed in the developmental state -
> increasingly such configurations no longer stand. Market building is now
> more overtly diffuse and situated among multilevel national and
> international actors, transnational mechanisms, and various new governance
> modalities that involve a complex interplay between the diffusion of
> transactional norms, property rights, and systems of proceduralization and
> regulation.
>
> Central to these emergent processes has been the agential authority of
> private sector organizations. Private and quasi-private organizations like
> export credit agencies, banks and financial institutions, domestic private
> sector firms, ratings agencies, capital markets, standards and
> certification regimes (ISOs, for example), and multinational enterprise,
> along with organizations like the World Bank and OECD, play an
> increasingly important role as agential mechanisms of policy diffusion but
> also as agents constructing modalities of governance that regulate,
> define, and discipline market behavior. These modalities increasingly
> appear in the form of public-private partnerships, emergent transparency
> and accountability regimes, investment guarantees, reciprocity and
> non-discrimination in cross border investments, customs and trade
> practices, regulatory shifts in modes of corporate governance, risk
> management and mitigation, and regimes of financialization in relation to
> performance, reporting and accounting standards. The manner by which these
> governance modalities articulate in national and sectoral contexts,
> however, is far from uniform. Domestic sites of resistance, sectional
> interests, institutional and political legacies combined with differing
> national and institutional capacities make for wide variation in market
> composition, institutional forms, market governance, and thus the nature
> and efficiency of market operation.
>
> This variation comprises the principal focus of Phase II of the project.
> Specifically, we ask workshop participants to reflect on a series of
> questions as a means of understanding the role of private sector
> organizations in building markets in Asia:
>
> How should we characterize the role of private organizations in
> constructing markets in Asia?
> What are the implications of private-led market building in terms of
> democratic participation and public accountability? Is there a democratic
> deficit?
> What are the implications of private-led market building for enhancing
> social capital, sustainable and inclusive growth?
> Are the large privately-owned corporations of Asia and systems of
> patrimonial politics challenged or countenanced by these new approaches to
> building markets? Do all private organisations/sectors relate equally to
> the new opportunities and risks raised by the market building project?
> How does the market building project relate to different political
> economies/different sectors found in Asia?
> What are the repercussions of the market building project for different
> conceptions of development and/or for different actors in the region?
> What implementation issues arise in the context of market building
> dominated by private organizations?
> What are the implications for the evolution and practice of public policy
> in Asia?
> How do non-governmental organizations relate to, engage with, and impact
> private sector organizations and financialized development agendas?
>
> Original contributions from a variety of social science
> disciplines/frameworks are sought for inclusion in a special issue of a
> journal and edited collection (to be published with Routledge or Palgrave
> Macmillan). The contributions will be presented at a workshop to be held
> at the National University of Singapore on 5-7 October 2011. Workshop
> participants will have airfares (return economy class to Singapore),
> accommodation and per diem expenses covered.
>
> Submission Process
>
> Paper title and abstract: 250-500 words
> Short biography with indicative list of publications
> Submission deadline: March 15, 2011
> Submit materials to Mika.Purra@nus.edu.sg or Darryl.Jarvis@nus.edu.sg
> Enquires: Toby Carroll spptjc@nus.edu.sg
>
> Paper Submissions
>
> Paper submissions due not later than September 15, 2011
> Paper length: 7-9000 words
> Citation style: in-text Harvard system
>
>
> Darryl S.L. Jarvis
> Associate Professor
>
> Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
> National University of Singapore
> 469C Bukit Timah Road | Oei Tiong Ham Building | Level 2M | Singapore
> 259772
> DID +65 6516 4205 | HP + 65 9071 9699 | Fax +65 6778 1020
> Email Darryl.Jarvis@nus.edu.sg | Web www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg
>
> Email: darryl.jarvis@nus.edu.sg
>
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