Presentations

On the 29th and 30th of January, the Düsseldorf Party Research Institute (PRuF) hosted the Graduate Conference on Party Research. During the event, Anna-Lotta Dechow and Oscar Mendoza Hernandez presented early drafts of their cumulative PhD projects.

Anna-Lotta Dechow presented her project “The Boundaries of Representation in Europe: Representative Exclusion Between Constituencies and Representatives", while Oscar Mendoza Hernandez presented “The Supply and Demand of Youth Representation in Europe: Portrayals, Policy-Making, and Perceptions of Representation”. The presentations introduced the broader research agenda of the planned cumulative PhD project. Additionally, Lucy Kinski contributed to the conference by chairing the panel "Populism and Party Conflict".

The team would like to give a special thanks to Peter Obert for serving as the discussant for both papers and providing invaluable feedback. We also thank the PRuF for the excellent organization and the audience for their engaging comments throughout the sessions!

The Political Studies Association of Ireland  (PSAI) held its Annual Conference 2025 in Galway. Clint Claessen had the opportunity to present the first project paper from our project there before a crowd of computational social scientists. 

The paper, titled "Between presence and absence: Social classes and vulnerable groups in parliamentary debates," was presented in a panel organized by Alona O. Dolinsky. The INCONEX team gives special thanks to her and her co-authors Will Horne and Lena Huber for providing great comments on the paper and sharing their models and modelling strategies with us!

Recently the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2025 was held in Thessaloniki. During the Conference Lucy Kinski and Clint Claessen had the opportunity to present two papers from the European Research Council (ERC) project INCONEX, which shared initial findings.

The first paper, Conceptualizing representative absence: What, how, when, and why? argues that representative absence is not just the opposite of presence. The paper was part of a panel on presence and absence chaired by Lucy Kinski, which also included exciting papers by Alex Magas on the paradoxes of trans visibility and Clementina Gentile Fusillo on her fourfold conceptualization of representation.

The paper Between presence and absence: Social classes and vulnerable groups in parliamentary debates was presented in an exciting panel organized by Stefanie Walter and shared first results from the project on how to capture presence and absence of social groups with text-as-data methods. The team would like to give a special thanks to Hajo G. Boomgaarden for providing a great discussion during this panel.