10 October 2008
Speakers: Marina Popescu and Gábor Tóka
Title: The Impact of Media Systems on the Making of Informed Election Outcomes
22 October 2008
Speakers: Armèn Hakhverdian
Title: Political Representation in Britain: A Dynamic Left-Right Approach
Speakers: Stuart Soroka (and Christopher Wlezien)
Title: Degrees of Democracy: Public Institutions and the Opinion-policy Link
14 November 2008
Speaker: Sergi Pardos
Title: Valence beyond Conflict: The Electoral Impact of Attitudes towards Immigration in Europe
12 December 2008
Speakers: Kaat Smets
Title: A Widening Generational Divide? Assessing the Age Gap in Voter Turnout between Younger and Older Citizens
Speakers: Carolien van Ham
Title: Downs and the Third Wave? The Voting Paradox in New Democracies
03 February 2009
Speaker: Markus Wagner
Title: The Salience of Unusual Issue Preferences: The Effect of Relative Policy Positions on Issue Importance for Parties in 23 Countries
11 February 2009
Speaker: Sarah de Lange
Title: From the Periphery to Power: Explanations for the Government Participation of Niche Parties in West European Parliamentary Democracies
03 March 2009
Speakers: Kristjan Vassil and Till Weber
Title: A Bottleneck Model of E-voting. Why Technology Fails to Boost Turnout
09 March 2009
Speakers: Sergi Pardos and Nikoleta Yordanova
Title: Democratic Paradox in the European Union: Systemic versus Participatory Components
15 May 2009
Event: Party Competition: New Insights and Approaches
A conference on the occasion of the 2009 elections to the European Parliament
Contributors: Claes de Vreese, Michael Laver, Gábor Tóka, and Wouter van der Brug
25 May 2009
Speakers: Anja Neundorf and Kaat Smets (and Gema García Albacete)
Title: Dissecting the Political Life-cycle: A Latent Growth Model of the Impact of Life-cycle Events on Political Interest
03 June 2009
Speaker: Elias Dinas
Title: The More You Try the Less it Sticks: The Endurance of Partisan Transmission through the Family
15 June 2009
Speaker: Marina Popescu
Title: Media Effects on the Vote for Governing Parties: The Role of Media Bias and Fluidity of the Political Context across European Countries