Regional Meeting, April 2012

Regional Meeting: Supporting Election Studies in the Balkans

Saturday April 21, 2012

08:00 – 09:00 … Registration

09:00 – 12:00 … Opening

• Welcome
  David Howell, CSES
• Welcome from IDN
  Ognjen Pribicevic, Institute for Social Sciences, Belgrade
• Agenda and goals of the meeting
  David Howell, CSES
• Elections and Democracy: The Relevance of Election Studies in the Balkans
  Bernhard Wessels, CSES and WZB, Berlin
• An Overview of the CSES Project
  David Howell, CSES
• The Substantive Themes of CSES Modules 1 and 2
  Bojan Todosijevic, CSES and IDN
• The Substantive Theme of CSES Module 3
  Bernhard Wessels, CSES and WZB, Berlin
• The Substantive Theme of CSES Module 4
  Goran Cular, CSES and WZB, Berlin

13:30 – 17:00 … Country-specific overviews of electoral research

– Individual substantive interests in election studies
– Local interest and capacity in election studies and surveys
– Information about election studies conducted in the past, or being planned

• Bosnia Herzegovina
  Republika Srpska
  Srdan Puhalo, Banja Luka
• Bulgaria
  Alina Dobreva, TNS Gallup, Bulgaria
• Macedonia
  Zhidas Daskalovski, University of Kliment Ohridski, Bitola
• Montenegro
  Miloš Bešic, Faculty of Political Science, Belgrade University
  Olivera Komar, Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro
• Albania
  Altin Ilirjani
  Blendi Ceka
• Serbia
  Dragomir Pantic, IDN, Belgrade
  Zoran Pavlovic, Department of Psychology, Belgrade University
  Bojan Todosijevic, IDN, Belgrade
• Croatia
  Goran Cular, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
• Greece
  Theodore Chadjipadelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Slovenia
  Janez štebe, University of Ljubljana
  Simona Kustec-Lipicer, University of Ljubljana
• Kosovo
  Leon Malazogu, Pristina

Sunday April 22, 2012

09:00 – 12:30 … Discussion sessions: Supporting Election Studies and CSES collaboration in the Balkans

The following is a list of themes, discussion of which may be helpful in developing and coordinating electoral research in the Balkan countries. The list can be elaborated and adjusted according to the interests of the participants.

1. How to encourage locally-based election studies in the Balkan countries, and related challenges
2. Possible collaborations between CSES and post-election surveys in the Balkans
3. Coordination and funding strategies; Possible coordinated grant application
4. Methodological issues: Improving survey methodology; data archiving; public access to data; training in the analysis of comparative survey data

Facilitators:
Goran Cular, CSES and University of Zagreb, Croatia
David Howell, CSES
Bernhard Wessels, CSES and WZB, Berlin

12:30 – 13:00 … Wrap-up session and action items from here
David Howell, CSES

Participants

CSES

• David Howell, CSES and the University of Michigan, United States
• Bernhard Wessels, CSES Planning Committee, CSES Collaborator, and WZB, Berlin
• Goran Cular, CSES Planning Committee, CSES Collaborator, and University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Bojan Todosijevic, CSES and IDN, Serbia

Albania

• Altin Ilirjani
• Blendi Ceka

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Republika Srpska

• Srdan Puhalo, Banja Luka College of Communications

Bulgaria

• Alina Dobreva, TNS Gallup, Bulgaria

Croatia

• Goran Cular, CSES Planning Committee, CSES Collaborator, and University of Zagreb

Greece

• Theodore Chadjipadelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Macedonia

• Zhidas Daskalovski, University of Kliment Ohridski, Bitola

Montenegro

• Miloš Bešic, Belgrade University
• Olivera Komar, University of Montenegro

Serbia

• Dragomir Pantic, IDN
• Ognjen Pribicevic, IDN & FPN, Belgrade
• Zoran Pavlovic, Belgrade University
• Bojan Todosijevic, IDN, Belgrade

Slovenia

• Janez Štebe, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
• Simona Kustec-Lipicer, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Kosovo

• Leon Malazogu, Pristina