2008/09

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