Conference and Planning Committee Meeting, April 2008
Political Institutions – Rationality – Electoral Behavior
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Conference
April 25-27, 2008
Warsaw, Poland
We would like to express our appreciation to the following organizations for their financial and organizational support of the events:
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
- Institute of Political Studies (ISP) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)
- Warsaw School of Social Psychology (SWPS)
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Conference
April 25-26, 2008
Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw, Poland
Conference Announcement, in Polish [PDF]
Agenda
April 25, 2008 (Friday)
09:00 – 09:15: Opening Address
09:15-12:00: Session I
Chair: Ian McAllister (The Australian National University)
- Questions and Answers: How Political Institutions influence the Voting Behavior.
Hans-Dieter Klingemann (WZB) - Making a Difference? Coalition and Single Party Governments, Public Perceptions and Turnout.
Jack Vowles (University of Exeter) - Meaningful Choices, Political Supply, and Institutional Effectiveness.
Hermann Schmitt (MZES) and Bernhard Wessels (WZB) - Contextual effects on the individual rationality: economic conditions, institutional arrangements and retrospective vote.
Ulises Beltrán (División de Estudios Politicos, CIDE)
13:00 – 15:30: Session II
Chair: Hans-Dieter Klingemann (WZB)
- Clarity of Party Positions on Ideology: A Cross-National Analysis.
John Aldrich and Sinziana Popa (Duke University) - Recent Japanese Elections with CSES3 Data: Based on a Panel Survey with Asian Barometer.
Ken’ichi Ikeda (University of Tokyo) - The Impact of Full Turnout on the Policy Positions of the Median Voter.
Gabor Toka (CEU and Oxford University)
16:00 – 18:30: Session III
Chair: John Aldrich (Duke University)
- The Old Regime and Democracy.
Krzysztof Jasiewicz (Washington and Lee University) - Polish ‘Exceptionalism’: Voter Turnout in Poland in the light of CSES data.
Mikolaj Czesnik (PAN and SWPS)
April 26, 2008 (Saturday)
09:00 – 12:00: Session IV
- Changes in Electoral Rules in Poland and their Consequences.
Stanislaw Gebethner (Warsaw University) - Subjective vs. Objective Proximity in Poland: Controversies in the Choice of Measurement?
Radoslaw Markowski (PAN and SWPS) and Joshua Tucker (New York University)
CSES Module 3 Planning Committee Meeting
April 26-27, 2008
Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw, Poland
Agenda
- Module 3
- Update on Module 3 Recruitment
- Update on Module 3 Data Deposits
- Future Module 3 Data Releases
- Funding
- Module 4
- Process for Transition to a Module 4 Planning Committee
- Process for Developing a Theme for Module 4
- Scheduling Module 4 Plenary Sessions
- CSES Governance Documents
- Publications
- One-Day CSES Workshop at Upcoming 2008 APSA Conference
- Upcoming Planning Committee Meetings