Planning Committee Virtual Meeting, March 2021

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)

Virtual Meeting of the Planning Committee
Agenda

Friday, March 5, 2021 

1. General Business 

Updates:

• CSES IMD release 
• CSES Module 5 releases and participation 
• CSES Module 6 pilot studies 
• Klingemann Prize competition 
• GESIS MOU 
• Website – new content and improvements 

Discussion: Next Plenary Session 

• Timing 
• Invitations and voting 
• Number of sessions, format, and focus for each session 
• Ideas for encouraging attendance of all sessions and getting people to engage 
• Substantive presentations? Networking? Break-out sessions?  Presentations about impact of COVID on election studies?  Multi-day trivia with prize? 

2. 3M Subcommittee report recommendations and related issues 

 Continue collecting district-level data 

Delete some Module 5 “Other Macro-Level Data” variables? (see table on next page) 

Are there any macro-level variables that should be added for Module 6? 

Promotion of macro and district variables 

• through user community emails and website 
• one-day workshop at professional association meeting 
• special journal issue 

Hire a consultant to review our weight variables and write a report 

Ideas for other subcommittees to consider: 

• Question on attitudes toward climate change 
• Adding a household wealth measurement (not income, but wealth) 
• Improve how survey mode is captured (perhaps in the Design Report) 

TABLE. OTHER MACRO-LEVEL DATA (FROM MODULE 5)