A search for new modes of governance or new combinations of old ones
Features7 June 2010
GUSTO, standing for the Governance of Uncertainty and Sustainability: Tensions and Opportunities is a pan-European collaborative research project co-ordinated by Professor Colin Crouch of the Governance and Public Management Group at Warwick Business School.
With a timescale of three years, it involves collaboration with colleagues in the University of Warwick Departments of Law, Sociology, the Institute of Employment Research (IER), the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU) in WBS, and 12 groups of researchers and academics around Europe and Canada. (see listing at end of this feature). It is funded by the European Commission to the tune of €1.5 million (£1.24million).
The core objective of the project is to establish the full array of policies and practices that govern and distribute protection from economic uncertainty in contemporary European and other advanced societies, in order to provide both academic research and public policy-making with detailed knowledge and a classification of such policies and their effects more appropriate to early 21st century societies than existing ones, rooted in the experience of the mid-20th century and earlier. Knowledge derived from the research will make possible appraisal of the achievements and weaknesses of various policy types.
The project will explore the various modes of policies, the practices of both governments and corporations, and the systems of governance surrounding them that are emerging in different parts of Europe in this situation, and will then appraise their relative success. Specialized teams within the project will examine:
Participating groups in alphabetical order:
What's the big idea? is a national pilot campaign run by Universities UK to highlight the essential role of universities in the UK and their impact on the economy, culture, society, the environment and much more.
With a timescale of three years, it involves collaboration with colleagues in the University of Warwick Departments of Law, Sociology, the Institute of Employment Research (IER), the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU) in WBS, and 12 groups of researchers and academics around Europe and Canada. (see listing at end of this feature). It is funded by the European Commission to the tune of €1.5 million (£1.24million).
The core objective of the project is to establish the full array of policies and practices that govern and distribute protection from economic uncertainty in contemporary European and other advanced societies, in order to provide both academic research and public policy-making with detailed knowledge and a classification of such policies and their effects more appropriate to early 21st century societies than existing ones, rooted in the experience of the mid-20th century and earlier. Knowledge derived from the research will make possible appraisal of the achievements and weaknesses of various policy types.
The project will explore the various modes of policies, the practices of both governments and corporations, and the systems of governance surrounding them that are emerging in different parts of Europe in this situation, and will then appraise their relative success. Specialized teams within the project will examine:
- Individual data from extensive national surveys on how people experience security and uncertainty in their working lives;
- Two policy areas of particular difficulty - migration and pensions;
- The impact of European-level policy-making;
- The role of relations between employers and unions in tackling these issues at national, corporate and local levels.
Participating groups in alphabetical order:
- Aalborg University, Denmark
- University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Central European University, Hungary
- CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research), France
- University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education, Health and Safety, Belgium
- London School of Economics & Political Science, UK
- Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
- McGill University, Canada
- University of Teramo, Italy
- University of Tilburg, Netherlands
- Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.
What's the big idea? is a national pilot campaign run by Universities UK to highlight the essential role of universities in the UK and their impact on the economy, culture, society, the environment and much more.