2007/08

06 November 2007
Speaker: Joost van Spanje
Title: Parties Brought in from the Cold: Anti-system Parties and the Costs of Governing in Established Democracies

13 November 2007
Speakers: Elias Dinas and Sergi Pardos
Title: A Sleeping Giant Still? Attitudes towards European Unification in a Spatial Perspective

27 November 2007
Speakers: Till Weber (and Craig Parsons)
Title: Cross-cutting Issues, Top-down Dynamics, and Muffled Democracy: The European Union in Electoral Politics

11 December 2007
Speakers: Sergi Pardos and Elias Dinas
Title: On Contextual Heterogeneity: Systemic Polarisation as a Determinant of Centrifugal Electoral Dynamics

25 January 2008

Speaker: Elias Dinas

Title: Consuetude in Vote Choice: How the Act of Voting Makes Party Choice a Habit

01 February 2008

Speaker: Sergi Pardos

Title: The Framing of a New Electoral Issue: Political Ideology and Ethnic Perceptions in Europe

10 March 2008

Speaker: Kaat Smets

Title: In Need of an Update or Overdue? Re-evaluating the Political Life-cycle Model

17 March 2008

Speaker: Nikoleta Yordanova

Title: Allocation of Codecision Reports in the Sixth European Parliament

22 April 2008
Speaker: Carolien van Ham
Title: Complexity or De-politicization? Voter Perceptions of Party Convergence in European Democracies

30 April 2008

Speaker: Jørgen Bølstad

Title: Between Commitment and Ignorance. The Responsive Voter and Influence on Policy