Regional Meeting, June 2017

Regional Meeting: Studying Political Behavior in the Balkans

Friday June 9, 2017

09:00 – 09:30 … Opening

• Saša Knežević, dean of the Faculty of Political Science
  Welcome on behalf of UCG
  
• David Howell
  Welcome on behalf of CSES
• Bojan Todosijević
  Welcome on behalf of IDN
• Olivera Koma
  Welcome on behalf of the Montenegrin team

09:30 – 10:00 … Overview of CSES and Module 5, Yioryos Nardis

10:30 – 11:30 … Studying Political Behavior in the Balkans: Country Presentatons

• National Election Studies in Croatia: The State of Research
  Goran Čular
• Election Studies in Greece (including experiences with online survey mode)
  Ioannis Andreadis
• Election Studies in Serbia
  Bojan Todosijević
• Election Studies in Slovenia
  Janez Štebe
• Election Studies in Montenegro
  Olivera Komar
• Collecting information about the situation in Macedonia, Bosnia and Hercegovina and Albania

11:30 – 13:30 … Round-Table Discussion: Election Studies in the Balkans

• Organizational Issues
• Financing and Visibility
• “Balkan Module”: A Proposal for Research Collaboration
• Funding opportunities for a regional network of national election studies
  Daniela Šarinić
• Presentation about research center CEPIS
  Daniela Šarinić

14:30 – 17:30 … Research paper presentations

Part I: Political Cleavages in the Balkans

• Stability and Change in Party Systems with Strong Political Identities; From Asymmetric towards Consolidated Bipolarism in Croatian Party System, Andrija Henjak
• Ethnic Cleavages and Electoral Volatility in the Party System of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Damir Kapidžić
• Economic voting and democratic legitimacy in Slovenia from 1996 to 2017, Štebe & Kustec Lipicer

Part II: Ideology, Issues, Parties (Module 5 Reports)

• New Indices for Right-Wing Populism, Ioannis Andreadis
• Do issues affect politics? Issue-based vote choice in Montenegro, Slaven Živkov

Saturday June 10, 2017

09:00 – 12:30 … Research paper presentations

Part III: Choices and Representation

• Ethnic Diversity and Ideological “Mismatch” in Voting: A Cross-National Multilevel Study, Nemanja Batricevic
• The Rise of the Party System in Bulgaria, Romania and Montenegro, Chadjipadelis & Bouran
• Directional and Proximity Spatial Voting in Serbia, Todosijević & Pavlović
• Performance of Small Parties in Albania: The role of the election system versus being part of the government, Blendi Ceka
• Voter Mobilization in a Modern Environment: A Comparison of Old and New Canvassing Approach, Nemanja Stankov (MNE)

12:30 – 13:30 …Presentation of a possible new research network

• Observatory for Democracy in the Balkan Area, Theodoros Chatzipantelis

13:30 – 14:00 …Wrap up and plans for the future