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Conference and Plenary Session, June 2011

Fiesta Inn Periférico Sur Hotel and Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE)
June 12-14, 2011
Mexico City, Mexico

The CSES project would like to thank Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica (CIDE) and Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) for their financial and organizational support of the events.

CSES Plenary Session

Location: Fiesta Inn Periférico Sur Hotel

Sunday June 12, 2011

9:00am-9:30am … Welcome

9:30am-10:30am … Presentation of CSES Module 4 Report (Jack Vowles)

10:45am-Noon … Subcommittee presentations

  • Voting Variables Subcommittee (Nicolas Sauger)
  • Demographic Variables Subcommittee (Kees Aarts)
  • Macro Report Subcommittee (Bojan Todosijevic)

1:30pm-2:00pm … Pretest summary report (David Howell)

  • Brazil 2010 (Rachel Mengguello, with report assistance from Bojan Todosijevic)
  • Canada (Patrick Fournier)
  • Ireland 2011 (Michael Marsh)
  • Germany (Bernhard Weéels)
  • United Kingdom (Jack Vowles)

2:00pm-3:30pm … Initial discussion of CSES Module 4

3:45pm-4:45pm … Continuation of discussion of CSES Module 4

4:45pm-5:00pm … Closing remarks

International Conference on Comparative Electoral Systems

Location: Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE)

Monday June 13, 2011

9:00am-9:30am … Opening 

Moderator: Gabriel De la Paz, Director of Institutional Development of CDD

  • Leonardo Valdés Zurita. Director of IFE
  • Enrique Cabrero, Director of CIDE
  • André Blais, Chair, CSES Planning Committee
  • Fernando Castañeda Sabido, Director of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM
  • Arminda Balbuena Cisneros, Coordinator of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) and Head of the Ejercicio Democrático Universitario

9:30am-11:30am … Panel 1: The CSES Project

  • CSES Modules 1 and 2, Bojan Todosijevic
  • Module 3: Meaningful elections, political representation, and support for democracy, Bernhard Weéels
  • CSES Module 4, Jack Vowles
  • The World Values Survey, Alejandro Moreno

11:45pm-1:45pm … Panel 2: Democratization around the world 

Moderator: Francisco Guerrero, Electoral Counsel

  • The 2010 Brazilian general election, its main aspects of competition, party system and results, Rachel Meneguello
  • Context within a Context: On the different impact of “contextual factors” in national and Second Order Elections, Radoslaw Markowski
  • De partido dominante a multipartidismo, México 1991-2009 , Ulises Beltrán
  • What were the elections about? Cognitive frames of voters, Michal Shamir

4:00pm-6:00pm … Panel 3: Recent Electoral Reforms

Moderator: Alfredo Figueroa, Electoral Counsel

  • Partisan bias and redistricting in France, Nicolas Sauger
  • Recent electoral reforms in Norway: democracy measured in square kilometers?, Bernt Aardal
  • La reforma de 2007-2008 en México. Un nuevo modelo de acceso a los medios , Maria Amparo Casar

6:15pm-8:15pm … Panel 4: Citizenship and Democratic Culture

  • Political discussion in daily life, social network environment and electoral outcomes , Ken’ichi Ikeda
  • Online participation and mobilization of voters , Rachel Gibson
  • The dark side of citizenship: public safety and democratic values (El lado oscuro de la ciudadanía: seguridad pública y valores democráticos), Julia Flores
  • Feelings of representation and turnout, André Blais

Tuesday June 14, 2011

9:00am-11:00am … Panel 5: Voting Abroad

  • Voting from abroad for Dutch citizens, Kees Aarts
  • Dudas sobre el sufragio de los residentes en el extranjero, Claudio Lópéz

11:00am-11:30am … Keynote Speaker

  • Turnout, rationality, and duty, André Blais

Planning Committee Meeting

Tuesday June 14, 2011

1:00pm-5:00pm

Update on CSES Module 3, and related issues
Review comments from CSES Plenary
Finalize CSES Module 4
Finalize launch date for CSES Module 4

Plenary Meeting

Museum Tour

Plenary Dinner

Aerial View of Mexico City

Instituto Federal Electoral

Keynote speaker André Blais

CSES Plenary Session Participants

Aardal, Bernt – University of Oslo, Norway

Aarts, Kees – University of Twente, Netherlands

Beltrán, Ulises – Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica (CIDE), Mexico

Bengtsson, Åsa – Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Blais, André – Université de Montréal, Canada

Colton, Tim – Harvard University, United States

Dobreva, Alina – University of Leeds, Bulgaria

Gibson, Rachel – Manchester University, United Kingdom

Gidengil, Elisabeth – McGill University, Canada

Guerrero, Linda Luz – Social Weather Stations, Philippines

Gyarfasova, Olga – Vladimir Krivy Sociological Institute, Slovakia

Howell, David – CSES Secretariat, University of Michigan, United States

Hutchings, Vincent – University of Michigan, United States

Ikeda, Ken’ichi – University of Tokyo, Japan

Ikstens, Janis – University of Latvia, Latvia

Ilirjani, Altin – University of North Carolina, United States

Kritzinger, Sylvia – Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

Magalhães, Pedro – University of Lisbon, Portugal

Markowski, Radoslaw – Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Marsh, Michael – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Meneguello, Rachel – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Önnudóttir, Eva Heida – Bifröst University, Iceland

Oscarsson, Henrik – University of Göteborg, Sweden

Palshikar, Suhas – University of Pune, India

Pietsch, Juliet – Deakin University, Australia

Sauger, Nicolas – Centre d’études européennes de Sciences Po, France

Shamir, Michal – Tel Aviv University, Israel

Soltan, Gamal – Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Egypt

Sulmont, David – Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru

Swyngedouw, Marc – University of Leuven, Belgium

Todosijevic, Bojan – University of Twente, Netherlands

Vowles, Jack – University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Weßels, Bernhard – Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Germany