Conference and Plenary Session, October 2014
Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin
October 8-11, 2014
Berlin, Germany
CSES would like to express its gratitude for the primary financial and organizational support provided by the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) for the events, and for supplemental financial support provided by the Center for Political Studies.
PUBLIC CONFERENCE
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
19:30 Welcome and Introduction
Thursday, October 9, 2014
09:00-10:00 … Opening
- Welcome – Bernhard Weßels
- Welcome – André Blais
- CSES: In search of the Holy Grail? – Jacques Thomassen, University of Twente
- What have we learned so far and where should we go? – Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
10:00-11:00 … Election Study Updates: Southern Europe
- Albania – Blendi Çeka
- Croatia – Goran Cular
- Greece – Eftichia Teperoglou
- Italy – Paolo Segatti
- Slovenia – Janez Štebe
11:30-12:00 … Papers I
- Does the Composition of Government Reflect Citizens’ Party Preferences? – André Blais
- Are Voters Equal under Proportional Representation? – Orit Kedar
12:00 – 13:20 … Election Study Updates: Africa, Asia, and Oceania
- Australia – Toni Makkai
- Japan – Masahiro Yamada
- Mozambique – Carlos Shenga
- NewZealand – Jack Vowles
- Philippines – Vladymir Joseph Licudine
- Thailand – Thawilwadee Bureekul
- Turkey – Ali Carkoglu
14:40 – 15:10 … Papers II
- Past is Still Present, but Only Somewhere. Generational Effects on Voter Turnout in Post-Communist Countries between 1990 and 2013 – Lukas Linek
- Strategies of Political Mobilization in Montenegro – Olivera Komar
15:10 -16:10 … Election Study Updates: Western Europe
- Austria – Markus Wagner
- France – Nicolas Sauger
- Germany – Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
- Netherlands – Kees Aarts
- Switzerland – Georg Lutz
16:10 – 16:40 … Papers III
- Left-Right Voting in Latin America – David Sulmont
- The Meaning of Left and Right in Serbia: Evidence from the 2012 Serbian Election Study – Bojan Todosijevic
17:10 -17:50 … Election Study Updates: Eastern Europe
17:50 – 18:30 … Election Study Updates: Northern Europe Session 1
Friday, October 10, 2014
08:30 – 09:20 … Election Study Updates: The Americas
- Argentina – Noam Lupu
- Canada – Patrick Fournier
- Mexico – Ulises Beltrán
- United States – Darrell Donakowski and John Aldrich
09:20 – 10:00 … Papers IV
- Party Identification in New and Stable Democracies – Radoslaw Markowski
- Political Knowledge and Assessing the Stability of Gender Gaps using CSES Modules 1 through 3 – Jessica Fortin-Rittberger
- Flawed Measures, Flawed Inferences? A Panel Study on the Accuracy of Recalled Vote Choices in Belgian Elections (2009-2014) – Ruth Dassonneville
10:00 – 11:00 … Election Study Updates: Northern Europe Session 2
- Ireland – Michael Marsh
- Latvia – Janis Ikstens
- Norway – Bernt Aardal
- Sweden – Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson
- Great Britain – Hermann Schmitt
PLENARY SESSION OF CSES COLLABORATORS
Friday, October 10, 2014
11:30 – 12:30 … Project Updates and Business
- Report on Module 4 participation
- Discussion about how Module 4 implementation is going
- Discussion of Module 5 Timeline
- Aligning Planning Committee term with the module being designed
- CSES Secretariat funding
12:30 – 13:00 … Election of New Module 5 Planning Committee
- Description of the nomination process
- Request for any additional nominations or suggestions from the floor
- Confirmation of Module 5 Planning Committee
14:20 – 16:20 … Presentation by Module 5 Task Force about proposals received
- CSES Module 5 Proposals – Sara Hobolt, Radek Markowski, and Nicolas Sauger
- Open discussion about Module 5 proposals received
16:50 – 18:30 … Further open discussion about Module 5 proposals received
Saturday, October 11, 2014
08:30 – 10:00 … Further open discussion about Module 5 proposals received
CSES MODULE 5 PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING
Saturday, October 11, 2014
10:30 – 12:30 … CSES Module 5 Planning Committee meeting
- Introductions
- Orientation and mission
- Calendar and process for CSES Module 5
- Subcommittees to be formed
- Discussion of CSES Module 5 proposals
- Future meetings
Plenary Session Participants
- Bernt Aardal, University of Oslo, Norway
- Kees Aarts, University of Twente, Netherlands
- John Aldrich, Duke University, United States
- Eva Anduiza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Andrei Artimof, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Mannheim), Germany
- Ulises Beltrán, CIDE, Mexico
- André Blais, University of Montreal, Canada
- Thawilwadee Bureekul, King Prajadhipok’s Institute, Thailand
- Kathrin Busch, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Cologne), Germany
- Ali Carkoglu, Koc University, Turkey
- Blendi Çeka, University of Tirana, Albania
- Goran Cular, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Ruth Dassonneville, Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, Belgium
- Alina Dobreva, European University Institute, Bulgaria
- Darrell Donakowski, University of Michigan, United States
- Jessica Fortin-Rittberger, University of Salzburg, Austria
- Patrick Fournier, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Andrei Gheorghita, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
- Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Elisabeth Gidengil, McGill University, Canada
- Olga Gyarfasova, Comenius University, Slovakia
- Sara Hobolt, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kindom
- David Howell, University of Michigan, United States
- Janis Ikstens, University of Latvia, Latvia
- Aida Just, Bilkent University, Turkey
- Orit Kedar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Olivera Komar, De Facto Consultancy, Montenegro
- Vladymir Licudine, Social Weather Stations, Philippines
- Lukas Linek, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
- Noam Lupu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
- Georg Lutz, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Pedro Magalhães, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Toni Makkai, Australian National University, Australia
- Radoslaw Markowski, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
- Michael Marsh, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Sebastian Netscher, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Cologne), Germany
- Elizabeth Nugent, Princeton University, United States
- Eva Önnudóttir, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Henrik Oscarsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Stephen Quinlan, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Mannheim), Germany
- Nicolas Sauger, Sciences Po, France
- Hermann Schmitt, Universities of Manchester and Mannheim, United Kingdom and Germany
- Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Hannah Schwarz, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Cologne), Germany
- Paolo Segatti, Universitß degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Michal Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Carlos Shenga, Higher Institute of Public Administration, Mozambique
- Alberto Simpser, ITAM, Mexico
- Mihkel Solvak, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Janez Štebe, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- David Sulmont, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
- Eftichia Teperoglou, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece
- Bojan Todosijevic, Institute of Social Sciences (Belgrade), Serbia
- Wouter van der Brug, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Jack Vowles, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Markus Wagner, University of Vienna, Austria
- Bernhard Weßels, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Germany
- Masahiro Yamada, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
- Elizabeth Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University, United States
Thank you to organizers Bernhard Weßels and Katarina Pollner
Various Conference Presenters
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
Group Photo
Dinner on Boat – the Philippa
Thank you to CSES Module 4 Chair André Blais
Conference Audience
Plenary Session
Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral)