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