Alda Carvalho

Current Statistics Portugal President.

Session details:
1. Access to confidential data for scientific purposes:  the National and European Statistical Systems framework
Helena Cordeiro - Statistics Portugal Vice-President

2. Access to microdatata by researchers: sharing experiences
Patrícia Ávila - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)

Ricardo Gusmão - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
3. The role of the scientific community in improving methods and promoting better tools for official statistics: the use of microsimulation models as a tool to improve timeliness in EU-SILC
Carlos Farinha Rodrigues - ISEG Lisboa

Daniel Béland

Holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy (Tier 1) at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School in Public Policy (University of Saskatchewan campus).  A political sociologist studying fiscal and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective, Professor Béland has published more than 10 books and 85 peer-reviewed journal articles.

In his talk, Professor Béland will explore how specific actors, processes, and institutions participate in the transnational diffusion of economic and social policy ideas. More specifically, the talk will focus on the role of international organizations in the diffusion of policy proposals and the mediating role of national actors and institutions in the adoption, translation, and implementation of such policy proposals.

Recent publications
The Politics of Policy Change (Georgetown University Press, 2012; with Alex Waddan), Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research (Oxford University Press, 2011; co-edited with Robert Henry Cox), and What is Social Policy? (Polity, 2010).

Giuliano Bonoli

Professor of social policy at the Swiss graduate school for public administration at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury for a study on pension reform in Europe. He has been involved in several national and international research projects on various aspects of social policy. His work has focused on pension reform, labour market and family polices, with particular attention paid to the politics of welfare state transformation. He has published some forty articles and chapters in edited books, as well as a few books.

Recent publications
Bonoli, G. (2010) The political economy of active labour market policies. Politics & Society, 38(4), 435-457 ; and Bonoli, G. (2013) The origins of active social policy. Active labour market policy and childcare in a comparative perspective,  (Oxford, Oxford University Press).

Klaus Schubert

Professor of German Politics and Policy Analysis at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Muenster, Germany. He was and is involved in many national and international research projects. He coordinates the "Future of European Welfare Systems"-network a multi-disciplinary group of research-ers active in all member states of the European Union. He is co-editor of "Euro-pean Policy Analysis" (EPA) an online journal of the Policy Studies Organisa-tion, Berkeley and member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis" (JCPA; Routledge, London/New York). At the conference he will argue in favour of a "politically limited pluralism" of Welfare Systems in the European Union.

Recent publications
Klaus Schubert, Paloma de Villota, Johanna Kuhlmann (eds.) 2014. Challeng-es to European Welfare Systems. Heidelberg/New York: Springer Science and Media (forthcoming).
Sonja Blum, Klaus Schubert (eds.) 2013. Policy Analysis in Germany. Bristol: Policy Press/University of Bristol.
Klaus Schubert, Simon Hegelich, Ursula Bazant (eds.) 2009. The Handbook of European Welfare Systems. London/New York: Routledge.

Raquel Varela

Researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon New University), where she coordinates the Study Group on Labour and Social Conflicts. She is honorary fellow of the International Institute for Social History, where she co-coordinates the international project 'In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and ship repair workers around the World (1950-2010)'. She has a PhD in Political and Institutional History (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa).

In the conference session, she will conduct a panel with the following guest speakers:

» Carlos Manuel Moreno, Emeritus Judge of the Court of Auditors, author of Como o Estado Gasta o Nosso Dinheiro (Caderno, 2010).

» Sara Granemann, Professor at Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro, researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea, specialized in pension funds.

» Renato Guedes, physicist , researcher at Faculdade de Ciências of the Universidade de Lisboa, co-author of Quem Paga o Estado Social em Portugal (Bertrand, 2012) and A Segurança Social é Sustentável (Bertrand, 2013).

Books coordinated/author:
A Segurança Social é Sustentável. Trabalho, Estado e Segurança Social em Portugal (Bertrand, 2012), Quem paga o Estado Social em Portugal? (Bertrand, 2012),  História do PCP na Revolução dos Cravos(Bertrand, 2011), Revolução ou Transição? História e Memória da Revolução dos Cravos(Bertrand, 2012), História do PCP na Revolução dos Cravos (Bertrand, 2011),O Fim das Ditaduras Ibéricas (1974-1978) (Centro de Estudios Andaluces/ Edições Pluma, Seville and Lisbon 2010).  She is president of the International Association Strikes and Social Conflicts.

Traute Meyer

Associate professor in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She has been principal and co-investigator of five comparative research projects, investigating welfare state change in Europe, with a particular focus on pension policies and politics. She has published widely in this area. Since 2008 Traute has also been the Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy (with J. Clasen, University of Edinburgh), and she is a member of the Board of the European Social Policy Analysts Network (ESPAnet).

In her session Traute will talk about her work as editor of JESP; she will describe what happens to submissions as they move through the process; she will also discuss what counts as a good submission, and she will give an overview of subject areas currently relevant in the JESP community.

Recent publications
2014: Beveridge not Bismarck!: European lessons for men's and women's pensions in Germany. -Berlin : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Internationale Politikanalyse, 2014. - 27 p. (Study / Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)

2013: The liberalisation of the German social model: public-private pension reform in Germany since 2001. Journal of Social Policy, 43 (1): 37-68.  (with P. Bridgen)