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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. While the data sets for the voter, the candidates, the media, the manifesto study, and of the contextual data are available since April/May 2010, the Data Centre now also includes an initial release of the “European Election Study Longitudinal Media Study (1999, 2004, 2009)”, available after registration.go to Data and Publications
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Deadline: 22 October 2010University of Exeter - College of Social Sciences and International Studies (Politics). The Department of Politics at the University of Exeter seeks to appoint a fixed term Research Fellowship (two years, 1 FTE, to work with Professor Jeffrey Karp and other collaborators on the ESRC-funded project "Comparative Cross-National Electoral Research" (CCNER). The Research Fellow will also contribute to other related projects including the PIREDEU project and a Marie Curie project on globalisation. The person appointed will have an advanced degree in political science or a related area of study, and the ability to work with large datasets. The closing date for completed applications is 12 noon 22 October 2010. Interviews are expected to take place shortly after the closing date.go to full details [external link] |
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Deadline: 11 October 2010The Department of Methods in the Social Sciences at the University of Vienna is advertising a one-year post doc position. The position is created for a researcher who does research which falls within the areas of political behavior, electoral behavior, party politics or representation. The applicant should have a good knowledge of quantitative research methods.download call |
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Deadline: 15 October 2010At next conference of the Association Française de Science Politique, to be held in Strasbourg from August 31st to Sept 2nd 2011, Cees van der Eijk and Anne Jadot will chair a thematic session with 2 panels on "Political Communication and electoral mobilization. State of the art and perspectives for research design". Both English and French will be working languages. Proposals should be sent before 15 October 2010download call for papers/proposals |
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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
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Colchester, 31 July 2010Bringing 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]
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Lausanne, July 2011The 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] |
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Deadline: 2 July 2010The Department of Politics, University of Exeter, is seeking to appoint a full time Research Fellow in Cross-National Electoral Research at the Centre for Elections, Media and Parties (CEMaP) to work with Prof. Susan Banducci on the EU-funded project “Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union” (PIREDEU) and other related projects immediately.go to vacancy notice [external link]
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Deadline: 15 June 2010One Marie Curie Fellow (Experienced Researcher) Position within the Marie Curie Initial Training Network in Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM) is available from 1 September, 2010 at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, for one year. ELECDEM brings together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries to provide substantive and methodological training in voting behaviour and elections research to a cohort of early stage and experienced researchers. The objective of the network and associated projects is to evaluate the functioning of democracies in the context of globalisation and technological and institutional change. One research project, the European Union Democracy Observatory, is hosted at the EUI’s Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies. Its goal is to produce a permanent and periodic assessment of democratic practices within the EU. The experienced researcher would be housed within the Public Opinion observatory of EUDO where s/he will be expected to contribute to the work of the observatory along with pursuing his or her own research. The deadline for applications is 15 June 2010.download vacancy notice [external link]
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The EUI's European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) and its 'subdivision' EU-Profiler have published a book on "The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament”, edited by Wojciech Gagatek. It contains 5 introductory chapters, investigating various aspects of this election comparatively, and 24 country reports, offering reliable analyses written by country experts.go to download page [external link]
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Washington, USA, 1 September 2010The 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 |
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Chicago, USA, 22 April 2010, 12:45 pmThe panel “Electoral Democracy in the European Union” (7-2) will be chaired by Sara Binzer Hobolt, University of Oxford, and the following papers will be presented: 1. “A Contested Europe? EU Issue Voting in the European Parliamentary Elections, 2009”, by Catherine De Vries, Wouter Van Der Brug, and Marcel Van Egmond, University of Amsterdam, and Cees Van Der Eijk, University of Nottingham; 2. “The Second Order Election Model Revisited: An Experimental Test of Vote Choices in Multi-Level Elections”, by Sara Binzer Hobolt, University of Oxford, and Jill Wittrock, University of Exeter; 3. “Understanding the Linkages Between Citizens and Representatives: Policy Congruence in the EU”, by Sylvia Kritzinger, University of Vienna, and Gail McElroy, Trinity College, Dublin; 4. “Thirty Years of European Parliament Elections: Still Second Order?”, by Michael Marsh, Trinity College, Dublin. Discussant: Robert Rohrschneider, University of Kansas.go to MPSA conference website [external link] |
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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. We are happy to announce that the advanced release of the data (for the voter, the media, and the manifesto study) is now available after registration. The data of the candidate study and the contextual data will be released later this month.go to Data Release Schedule
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Brussels, 18-19 November 2010The Final User Conference of the PIREDEU Design Study will take place in Brussels on 18 and 19 November 2010. The conference will evaluate the PIREDEU pilot study and its added value for the European social science community and other stakeholders. Experts from the PIREDEU community will be invited to employ the data collected in the pilot studies. A call for paper has now been published, deadline for the online submission is: 24 May 2010.go to the section on the final conference |
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Course during the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, 30-31 July 2010Bringing together the major cross-national studies in political behaviour, this short course 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). During these short course participants will have the opportunity to acquire information from the leading researchers working on these projects.
Participants should have a keen interest and enthusiasm for electoral research. Some parts of the course will be technical and participants should have at least a basic understanding of regression analysis, data interpretation and inference. Interested participants can register (before 1 May 2010) via the main site of the Essex Summer School.go to the Essex Summer School website |
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Brussels, 18-19 November 2010The Final User Conference of the PIREDEU Design Study will take place in Brussels on 18 and 19 November 2010. The conference will evaluate the PIREDEU pilot study and its added value for the European social science community and other stakeholders. Experts from the PIREDEU community will be invited to employ the data collected in the pilot studies and to provide suggestions in view of the establishment of a permanent infrastructure for European research on elections.go to the section on the final conference |
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Budapest, 30 April - 4 May 2010The ELECDEM Training Network in Electoral Democracy is organising an advanced and specialised training session. In addition to the ELECDEM researchers, the workshops will be open
to a number of participants to include early stage researchers from non-participating
institutions and non-Marie-Curie researchers from the participating institutions who will benefit
from the training. There are places available on both a funded and self-funded basis. The deadline for reciept of applications is Friday 26 February 2010.download application package
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Nottingham, 8-11 March 2010This Winter School offers an exciting and intensive 4-day opportunity for young scholars to update and extend their analytical and substantive expertise in the field of comparative electoral studies. The focus will be on “Analytical Challenges in Comparative Research”. The Winter School is an activity of the Cost Action ‘The True European Voter’ and is organised by the Social Sciences Methods and Data Institute of the University of Nottingham. The application form can be downloaded from the website of the Action. Applications should reach the organizers by 1 February 2010.download programme and poster [external link]
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The theme for the Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research 2010 is ‘Modern Regression’ (Incorporating models for categorical data, nonparametic regression, robust regression, multilevel models and regression diagnostics.) In a departure from its usual format of a week of intensive short courses, the Spring School 2010 is a five-day course. Given the cumulative nature of the course material, participants will need to attend from the start and it is not possible to register for just part of the course. The course will be held on 15-19 March 2010. Registration is now open and will close at noon on Friday 29 January 2010.go to Spring School page [external link] |
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The PIREDEU Steering Committee, at its meeting on 9 September 2009, approved the timetable for the public release of the data. 'User Beware' versions will be made available during the months January to March 2010, the final release is foreseen for December 2010.go to data release timetable |
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The final versions of the questionnaires fielded during the Voter Survey are now available for download. The compressed file includes all language and country versions.go to Study Components
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The CSES and PIREDEU organised a joint short course on electoral research using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and the European Election Studies (EES) series. This short course took place during the APSA Conference, 2 September 2009, Toronto, Canada. You can now download the background material and the presentations of the course.go to APSA Short Course |
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Fifth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Porto, June 2010Sara B. Hobolt, the Section Chair for the section on "Public Opinion, Party Politics and Interest Intermediation" at the Fifth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, invites paper or panel proposals on any aspect of electoral democracy, representation, parties, the media and public opinion in the European Union. This conference is organised by ecpr Standing Group on the European Union and will be held in Porto, Portugal, from 24 to 26 June 2010. Proposals can be submitted online. Please note that the deadline is 30 November 2009.go to proposal page [external link] |
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(published in May 2009)In 2004 the European Union was enlarged with ten new member states. This enlargement was without precedent in the history of the Union and its predecessors. It is still to be seen how well the institutions as well as the citizens of the Union are able to cope with the consequences of this operation. The authors of this volume evaluate the effect of that enlargement on its legitimacy. They do so by assessing the effects of enlargement on the functioning of the process of political representation in the European Union and on the feelings of the European people towards the Union. This study is mainly based on data from the European Election Study 2004.go to OUP website [external link] |
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APSA Conference, 2 September 2009, Toronto, CanadaThe CSES and PIREDEU are offering a joint short course on electoral research using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and the European Election Studies (EES) series. The CSES contributors will provide participants with a broad overview of the rich data set that constitutes the CSES, to develop an appreciation of the wide variety of research questions that can be addressed with CSES data, and to explore some of the methodological challenges that are involved in using multi-level data. The ESS contributors will provide participants an introduction to the content and the analytical possibilities of the EES as an instrument of comparative studies on electoral politics, political parties, political behavior, representation and European integration. During the afternoon session, the instructors will assist participants on issues and concerns that arise in their own research.
The short course is ideally suited for both graduate students and faculty members who are working in these areas and who would like to know more about the current state of cross-national electoral research. This course is free, but registration is required.more information and schedule
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Deadline: 30 September 2009An Experienced Researcher Position within the Marie Curie Initial Training Network in Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM) is available from 1 January, 2010 at the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), Bratislava, Slovakia. Within ELECDEM, the research project on Electoral Behavior in New Democracies will be hosted at the public policy research think-tank IVO. Applications must be received by September 30, 2009. Short-listed applicants will be invited for a personal interview in 2. Half of October.go to vacancy notice [external link]
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The final questionnaires to be fielded by the Voter and Candidate Survey Teams are now available for downloadgo to study components |
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The European University Institute, coordinator of the PIREDEU Design Study, has published an open invitation to tender for a Survey of EU Citizens at the Time of the EP Elections 2009. Deadline: 6 April 2009Full documentation [external link, EUI] |
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"Perceptions of Power:Voter Attribution of Responsibility within the European Union"This aim of this ESRC-funded project is to examine voters’ perceptions of governmental responsibility in the context of European Parliament elections.This project is the first study of attribution of responsibility in the context of elections in a multi-level system of governance. Moreover, since the survey will be fielded simultaneously in 27 countries, this provides a unique comparative study of perceptions of power, and allows us to examine how characteristics of countries influence how voters allocate responsibility for different policy areas to different levels of government, EU or national, and how these allocations influence vote choices. The project complements PIREDEU and is carried out in cooperation with many other researchers involved in PIREDEU..read full project outline [external link] |
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In view of the Steering Committee on 21 and 22 November 2008, no more comments on the draft data instruments will be possible to the Forum. Once the results of the Steering Committee deliberations are available, the finalized data instruments will be posted on the Forum (expected in late January 2009)go to Open Forum Overview
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A key element of the PIREDEU pilot study is consultation with the wider research community, through an open procedure, that allows us to take the research needs and preferences of the user community into account when designing the data collection instruments. During this second consultation phase users can comments on each of five data collection components of the PIREDEU study. Currently, comments are welcomed on a table of core concepts for the establishment of survey questionnaires and coding schemes.go to Open Forum Overview
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On online bibliography for European Election Studies is now available. This database does not only include bibliographical references to former European Election Studies but includes in addition relevant publications of the main PIREDEU researchers considering the project’s key themes: European elections, Democracy, Citizenship, Political Parties, Electoral Behaviour, Media, Candidates, Party Manifestos. Additions to this database are welcomed by everyone who would like to contribute to this extensive resource on European Election Studies.go to the bibliograpy |
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12-14 September, 2008, Manchester UniversityDuring the 2008 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) conference, to be held at the University of Manchester, PIREDEU will offer a pre-conference short course on the European Election Studies and the surveys for the EP 2009 elections to be carried out in the framework of the PIREDEU Design Study. EPOP is a specialist group of the UK Political Studies Association. The course will be facilitated by Marcel van Egmond and Cees van der Eijk; it will take place from 10:00-13:00 on Friday, 12 September.go to EPOP 2008 conference website (external link)
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19-21 June, 2008, AmsterdamThe Steering Committee of the PIREDEU Design Study will meet in Amsterdam to discuss, inter alia, the scientific and technical guidelines for the data collection instruments in view of the surveys to be carried out at the occasion of the 2009 elections to the European Parliamentmore on the Steering Committee
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Deadlines: 12/16 June 2008The Methods and Data Institute of the University of Nottingham is currently looking to fill two positions, one for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the PIREDEU project and one for a fully-funded ESRC CASE PhD Studentship which has been secured in conjunction with the CSPL. Please see the relevant vacancies page on the Methods and Data Institute website for fuller details.go to vacancies page (external link) |
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Boston, Massachusetts, August 28-31, 2008The PIREDEU Design Study offers a short course at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association on the 'European Election Studies'. It will take place on 27 August 2008, 1 - 5 pm, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. The short course presents an overview of the content and the analytical possibilities of the EES as an instrument of comparative studies on electoral politics, political parties, political behavior, representation and European integration. The course is ideally suited for both graduate students and faculty members who are working in these research areas and who would like to know more about the European Election Studies. Please register with Dr. Sara Hobolt.download course outline [pdf - 110 KB)
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A key element of the PIREDEU pilot study is consultation with the wider research community, through an open procedure, that allows us to take the research needs and preferences of the user community into account when designing the data collection instruments. We welcome proposals and comments on each of five data collection components of the PIREDEU study. The first consultation phase will end on 14 June 2008.go to Open Forum Overview
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Deadline 15 April 2008The Department of Methods in the Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna announces the opening for an Assistant position (Post-Doc) (40 hours per week) from September 1, 2008 (or earlier if necessary), appointed for a period of four years. Candidates are expected to do research related to the areas of: ‘electoral behaviour’, ‘public opinion’, ‘democratic representation’ and ‘Europeanisation of party politics’. The head of department is Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kritzinger, member of the PIREDEU reserach team. Detailed information can be found in the full position accouncement.Position announcement on website of Vienna Univ. |
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Deadline 15 April 2008The Department of Methods in the Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna announces the opening for a PhD position (Pre-doc) (40 hours per week) from September 1, 2008 (or earlier if necessary), appointed for a period of four years. Candidates are expected to have an interest in the following research areas: ‘electoral behaviour’, ‘public opinion’, ‘democratic representation’ and ‘Europeanisation of party politics’. Candidates are expected to be able to teach a course in one of the subfields mentioned. The head of department is Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kritzinger, member of the PIREDEU reserach team. Detailed information can be found in the full position accouncement.Position announcement on website of Vienna Univ. |
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The PIREDEU Website goes online. This website will provide topical information concerning the project. In particular, it will make available publications, reports and articles of the Research Consortium. In addition, links to other information sources relating to the project's research fields are provided, as well as regularly updated information on events organised in the framework of PIREDEU. |
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20-23 February 2008, European University InstituteThe first PIREDEU conference will be organized in Florence where the details of the PIREDEU design study will be discussed, and where responsibilities will be assigned for the work in each of the different study teams, and for producing the study output. The PIREDEU user community has been invited to propose areas of research to address with the data that will be collected within this design study.go to Event
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The 1st of February 2008 is the official starting date of the PIREDEU Design Study. The project is co-funded by the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Unions for 36 months, hence until 31 January 2011.download project summary [pdf - 350 KB) |
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