Planning Committee Meeting, November 2022

Planning Committee Agenda
University of Amsterdam

Wednesday, November 2 

6:30pm Group dinner, Restaurant SHAM Oost  

Thursday, November 3 

9:00am Introduction and welcome [Liz] 

• What we are seeking to accomplish in this meeting 

• Review of Module 6 PC accomplishments 

9:30am Coffee/tea/water break 

10:00am Module 6 update 

• Collaborators and recruitment [Dave] 

• Experience running Module 6 [presentation by Marina] 

• Discussion: experience of others running Module 6 

11:00am Module 7 [Liz] 

• Calendar 

• Term limits for existing Planning Committee members 

• Planning Committee nomination and selection process  

• Call for proposals for Module 7 theme and questions

Noon Lunch  

1:00pm Update on the CSES Secretariat [Steve] 

• Personnel and transitions 

• Goals and accomplishments 

Module 5 update [Steve] 

• What is unique to processing a full release 

• Full release timeline 

• Election studies to be included 

• Comparison with past modules 

• Additional features to be added 

Integrated Module Dataset (IMD) [Steve] 

• Phase 4 plans and calendar 

 

2:30pm Social Outing: Heineken Tour 

6:00pm Group dinner, Restaurant Entrepot 

Friday, November 4 

9:00am Election Study deposits 

• Analysis of deposit timings and impacts [Steve] 

• Discussion 

9:30am Coffee/tea/water break 

10:00am Survey Design Workshop  

• Update, takeaways, and action items [presentation by Laura] 

• Discussion 

10:45am Module 6 Design Report 

• Suggested revisions [Dave] 

• Discussion 

 Noon Lunch 

1:00pm New repository [Dave] 

• Language and process 

• Deposit rules for nonconforming studies and researcher contributions 

• Special Design Report 

• Interface and website integration 

• Discussion 

1:45pm GitHub [Dave] 

• Process 

• Planned uses by Secretariat 

• Possible uses by public 

• Discussion 

2:00pm Three innovations from the CSES NSF proposal 

• Weights review [Dave] 

• Data Playground [Liz] 

• Pedagogical [Liz] 

• Discussion 

3:00pm Coffee/tea/water break 

3:30pm Revisiting Module 6 Planning Committee activities [Liz] 

• Additional accomplishments to note? 

• What remaining activities and deliverables do we wish to pursue? 

• Discussion

4:15pm Future meetings 

• 2023 Plenary Session 

• 2023 Klingemann Prize Reception 

• 2023 Planning Committee Meeting 

• Recruitment conference(s) 

• Ideas for future locations 

4:45pm Consortium of National Election Studies (CNES) and Monitoring Electoral Democracy (MEDem) projects [Georg and Dave] 

• what MEDem and CNES are 

• the CSES relationship with MEDEM and CNES 

• how MEDEM and CNES are different from each other and from CSES 

• Discussion

5:15pm Wrap-up and any other business 

5:45pm End of meeting 

6:15pm Group dinner, Restaurant Mama Makan. This is a joint dinner with the new CNES organization