28 July 2010
Update on advance releases of PIREDEU Data  

The PIREDEU Design Study involves a fully-fledged study of the European Parliament elections of 2009, comprising of a voter study (European Election Study), a candidate study and media study, a manifesto study, and a contextual data study across all 27 member states. After partial releases in April and May 2010 we are happy to announce that now all advanced releases of the data (for the voter, the candidates, the media, the manifesto study, and of the contextual data) are available after registration. A second release of the manifesto data has been uploaded as well.
go to Data Release Schedule
go to registration page

27 July 2010
PIREDEU at Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis  Colchester, 31 July 2010

Bringing together the major cross-national studies in political behaviour, the short course on “Challenges and Opportunities in Cross-national Electoral Research“ provides an overview of the opportunities available to researchers who are interested in comparative cross-national electoral research. It introduces participants to two well established, far reaching and widely used comparative projects namely the European Election Study (EES) and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES).
go to Essex Summer School 2010 [external link]
download programme

5 July 2010
Call for session proposal, European Survey Research Association annual conference  Lausanne, July 2011

The European Survey Research Association (ESRA) has published a call for session proposals for its 4th annual conference to take place in Lausanne (Switzerland), 18-22 July 2011. Session proposals are invited in any area of survey methodology, or in substantive areas of survey research. The closing date for session proposals is 31 August 2010.
go to call for proposals [external link]

20 April 2010
Save the date: Short course on PIREDEU and CSES data during APSA 2010 Conference  Washington, USA, 1 September 2010

The CSES and PIREDEU are offering a joint short course on electoral research using data from the comparative study of electoral systems (CSES) project and the European Election Studies (EES) series. The short course will take place during the 2010 Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA)
go to APSA 2010 Short Course