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7 – 8 September 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n Convenors<\/strong><\/p>\n Emanuela Ceva <\/strong>(University of Geneva) Michele Bocchiola\u00a0<\/strong>(University of Geneva); michele.bocchiola@unige.ch<\/a><\/p>\n Marta Giunta Martino<\/strong> (University of Geneva)<\/p>\n *All times are British Summer Time (BST)<\/p>\n 12:00 \u2013 5:30 BST (GMT+1)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTrustworthy Institutions\u201d \u2013 J\u00f6rn Wiengarn<\/strong> (University of Cologne)<\/p>\n \u201cTrustworthy Institutions and the Sense of Efficacy\u201d \u2013 Andrew Kirton<\/strong> (University of Leeds)<\/p>\n \u201cInstitutional Trustworthiness. An endogenous perspective\u201d \u2013 Michele Bocchiola, Emanuela Ceva, and Marta Giunta Martino<\/strong> (University of Geneva)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 12:00 \u2013 5:30 BST (GMT+1)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTrustworthiness or Institutional Reliability? Exploring a conceptual difference\u201d \u2013 Laura Burkhardt<\/strong> (University of Bonn)<\/p>\n \u201cInstitutional trustworthiness is political\u201d \u2013 Matt Bennett<\/strong> (University of Essex)<\/p>\n \u201cInstitutional Vices of Distrust\u201d \u2013 Daniella Meehan<\/strong> (University of Glasgow)<\/p>\n \n What does it mean that a public institution is trustworthy? The contemporary philosophical debate in institutional theory offers two main resources to delineate the contours of institutional trustworthiness. One resource, widely accepted across the social sciences, comes from the competence view of public institutions. Public institutions are defined by their capacity actually to fulfil the function and achieve the purpose for which they were created. In this view, institutional trustworthiness can be investigated by adopting an \u2018exogenous perspective\u2019, which analyses the external reactions to institutional functioning and its failure (e.g., citizens\u2019 trust in representative institutions). Another resource comes from looking at public institutions through a deontological lens, which focuses on the normative commitments that model and guide the actions of institutional members. In this view, we access an \u2018endogenous perspective\u2019 on institutional trustworthiness, which focuses on the internal reactions of officeholders to institutional functioning and its failure (e.g., officeholders\u2019 disobedience). This panel aims to discuss institutional trustworthiness from a philosophical perspective; analyze its conceptual and normative grounds; compare and contrast various normative views of institutional trustworthiness.<\/p>\n Papers will engage, inter alia, with such themes as:<\/p>\n Submissions<\/strong> This year\u2019s fees are: Mancept will offer a small number of fee waiver bursaries. The deadline for bursary applications (available to current graduate students only) will be the 15 th June<\/strong>, and successful applicants will be informed by the 22nd June<\/strong>. Only people accepted to present on a panel should apply for bursaries.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Institutional Trustworthiness 7 – 8 September 2021 Convenors Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva) Michele Bocchiola\u00a0(University of Geneva); michele.bocchiola@unige.ch Marta Giunta Martino (University of Geneva) *All times are British Summer Time (BST) Date 7 September 2021 Session Number 1: Institutional Trustworthiness 12:00 \u2013 5:30 BST (GMT+1) \u201cTrustworthy Institutions\u201d \u2013 J\u00f6rn Wiengarn (University of Cologne) \u201cTrustworthy Institutions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3596,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"7 - 8 September 2021<\/strong>\r\n\r\nConvenors<\/strong>\r\n\r\n Emanuela Ceva<\/strong>\r\n\r\n Michele Bocchiola:<\/strong> (michele.bocchiola@unige.ch<\/a>)\r\n\r\nMarta Giunta Martino<\/strong> (University of Geneva)\r\n\r\n
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\nDate 7 September 2021<\/h4>\n
Session Number 1: Institutional Trustworthiness<\/em><\/h6>\n
Date 8 September 2021<\/h4>\n
Session Number 2: Institutional Trustworthiness<\/em><\/h6>\n
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Abstract (500 words max), anonymized for blind review, should be submitted to michele.bocchiola@unige.ch<\/a> by 2nd May 2021<\/strong>. Notification of acceptance will be sent within two weeks.
Papers will be pre-circulated 10 days prior to the event. Registration for the conference opens in May. All participants must register in order to attend.<\/p>\n
– Academics: \u00a345
– Graduate students, retirees, and unaffiliated attendees: \u00a320
– Non-speaker\/non-presenting attendees: \u00a315<\/p>\n
\r\n\r\nWhat does it mean that a public institution is trustworthy? The contemporary philosophical debate in institutional theory offers two main resources to delineate the contours of institutional trustworthiness. One resource, widely accepted across the social sciences, comes from the competence view of public institutions. Public institutions are defined by their capacity actually to fulfil the function and achieve the purpose for which they were created. In this view, institutional trustworthiness can be investigated by adopting an \u2018exogenous perspective\u2019, which analyses the external reactions to institutional functioning and its failure (e.g., citizens\u2019 trust in representative institutions). Another resource comes from looking at public institutions through a deontological lens, which focuses on the normative commitments that model and guide the actions of institutional members. In this view, we access an \u2018endogenous perspective\u2019 on institutional trustworthiness, which focuses on the internal reactions of officeholders to institutional functioning and its failure (e.g., officeholders\u2019 disobedience). This panel aims to discuss institutional trustworthiness from a philosophical perspective; analyze its conceptual and normative grounds; compare and contrast various normative views of institutional trustworthiness.\r\n\r\nPapers will engage, inter alia, with such themes as:\r\n\r\n \t