From May 14-16, 2025, the Faculty of Public Administration at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration organizes the inaugural Bucharest Workshop in Mainline Political Economy. We invite scholars to be part of a workshop focused on exploring how the ideas in the MPE tradition are applied in public governance, commons management, political theory, and public policies.
The event will take place at the SNSPA headquarters in Bucharest (30A Expoziției Boulevard), 8th Floor, Room 804.
The workshop brings together scholars in the fields of public administration, political science, economics, or related disciplines. Participants will present works in the tradition of Friedrich Hayek, James Buchanan, Elinor Ostrom, or Vincent Ostrom, along with their theoretical or empirical applications to the broader field of public administration.
Designed to be an annual event, BWMPE spans three days, each featuring keynote lectures. Participants will present their work for 30 minutes, followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.
Keynote Speakers
Adrian Miroiu, The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (RO), Romanian Academy (RO)
ADRIAN MIROIU is a professor of political science at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration; he the dean of the Faculty of Political Science and President of the University. He is also a member of the Romanian Academy. He published in the fields of theoretical philosophy, political theory and social choice. He also had contributions in higher education policy and scientometrics. He acted as deputy minister for higher education, president of the National Council for the Financing of Higher Education and vice-president of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education,
Dragoş Paul Aligică, University of Bucharest (RO), Romanian Academy (RO), Mercatus Center (USA)
PAUL DRAGOS ALIGICA is a Senior Research Fellow in the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University in the United States and a Professor at the University of Bucharest. He is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and a member of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), where he is affiliated with the “Governence, Institutions, and Policy” section. He is the author of numerous books and academic articles on institutional theory, political economy, social theory, and political philosophy.
Erwin Dekker, Mercatus Center (USA)
ERWIN DEKKER is Senior Research Fellow at the F. A. Hayek. Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has recently published Realizing the Values of Art (2023), Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (2021) and the edited volume Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons (2021). He has published in journals in the history of economics, methodology and philosophy of economics, political economy, and economic sociology. He is currently working on a cultural history of social thought in Chicago between 1920 and 1960.
Irene Perez – Ibarra, University of Zaragoza (ES)
IRENE PEREZ IBARRA is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Sciences and the Environment, University of Zaragoza (Spain), and Co-Pl of the Social-Ecological Systems Research Group at the Agrifood Institute of Aragon (142). She specializes in social-ecological research, focusing on governance and resilience. Her research blends concepts and tools from life sciences with the theories and methods of the commons and resilience science, aiming to quantify the diversity and evolution of rules and norms in small-scale agricultural systems worldwide. She was recently awarded with the prestigious Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council to develop her project RESILIENT RULES. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in economics, sociology, and agricultural policy.
Rosolino Candela, Mercatus Center (USA)
ROSOLINO CANDELA is a Senior Fellow of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy,
Politics and Economics, and a Program Director of Academic & Student Programs at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he also holds an appointment as Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Economics. Candela serves as Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. Prior to George Mason University, Candela taught in the Department of Economics at Brown University. where he was also a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Political Theory Project. He has held Visiting Fellowships in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, the Center for Economy and Society at Johns Hopkins University, and an appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Bucharest.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submitting papers (in draft format) to david.diaconu@administratiepublica.eu: April 28, 2025
For more details, please visit the conference website.
