Candidates in Consitituency Campaigns from a Comparative Perspective
October 2 & 3, 2009
The conference assembles preeminent students of electoral politics from major European Universities to shed light on the politics of constituency campaigns and their electoral impact in a comparative perspective. The conference addresses the issue of constituency campaigns on the basis of a wide range of European political systems including among others Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and the UK.
It assembles papers that will use a common set of data collected in the context of the Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS) coordinated at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim, Germany. The CCS is an ongoing survey program that aims to analyze the behavior and attitudes of candidates in European democracies on the basis of a common core questionnaire and codebook (www.comparativecandidates.org).
Sponsors:
- Cornell Institute for European Studies
- Government Department
- Government of the Federal Republic of Germany via the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) via the Research Network “Changing Patterns of Participation, Representation in Europe” administered at the Department of Political Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven by Prof. Marc Hooghe (chair) and the Syracuse University's Center for European Studies.
Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Pennsylvania Room, Statler Hotel
Participants:
Christopher Anderson (Cornell University)
David Arter (University of Tampere, Finland)
William Cross (Carleton University, Canada)
David Denver (Lancaster University, UK)
Nikolaus Eder
Peter Enns (Cornell University)
Thomas Gschwend (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Marcello Jenny
Seth Jolly (Syracuse University)
Georg Lutz (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Michael March (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Sherry L. Martin (Cornell University)
Wolfgang C. Müller (University of Vienna, Austria)
Kenneth Roberts (Cornell University)
Peter Selb (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Lieven de Winter (Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Peter Selb (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Thomas Zittel (Cornell University)