14:00 – 14:30 Introduction and Welcome Address

CCCP Faculty and Prof. Dr. Werner Mellis (Dean, WiSo Faculty)

14:30 – 16:00 Session 1

“Opposition Strategy and Parliamentary Debate”
Prof. Sven Oliver Proksch (CCCP) “Electoral Responsiveness, Legislative Institutions, and Government Policy in Parliamentary Democracies”
Prof. Lanny W. Martin (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Session 2

“Immigration and Welfare State Retrenchment”
PD Dr. Dennis Spies (CCCP)“The Role and Cost of Price Competitiveness in the Eurozone”
Prof. Lucio Baccaro (Université de Genève)

19:00 Dinner

Brauhaus Pütz, Engelbertstraße 67, 50674 Köln

09:30 – 11:00 Session 3

 "Apathy or Anger. How Crime Experience Affects Vote Intention in Latin America" Sarah Berens and Mirko Dallendörfer (CCCP) "The Influence of Group Size on Distributional Fairness under Voting by Veto” Jan Sauermann and Paul Beckmann (CCCP) “’What’s the Matter with America?’ An Update on Political Realignment after the 2016 Presidential Election” Prof. Herbert Kitschelt (Duke University)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Session 4

“Programmatic Heterogeneity and Voting for New Parties”
Prof. Ingo Rohlfing (CCCP) “Putting Party Organization in Comparative Perspective: First Findings and Next Steps for the Political Party Database Project”
Prof. Susan E. Scarrow (University of Houston)

13:00 Closing Lunch