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Day 1 (September 24)

Chair: Sven-Oliver Proksch (CCCP)
Discussant: Björn Bremer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne)
Dennis Abel/Armin Mertens (CCCP): United in disagreement: Analyzing policy networks in EU policy-making
Franziska Deeg (CCCP): Moving North and Coming Back – How concerns about different types of migrants affect social policy demands among low and high skilled Mexicans
Iasmin Goes (University of Texas at Austin): Do international organizations influence domestic legislation? Evidence from natural resource funds and the IMF
Felix Hartmann (University of Gothenburg): Learning from Disasters: Political Selection under Economic Distress

Chair: Chitralekha Basu (CCCP)
Discussant: Diana O’Brien (Rice University)
Jana Birke Belschner (University of Bergen): Why do parties (not) comply with electoral quotas? A framework for comparative analysis
Daniel Höhmann (University of Bamberg): Male MPs and the Representation of Women's Interests - The Effect of Electoral Security
Alba Huidobro (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals): Do you have what it takes? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of gender and age on bargaining over government formation
Jens Wäckerle (CCCP): Blending in or Standing out - Gender Polarization and the Substantive Representation of Women in European Parliaments

Chair: Ingo Rohlfing (CCCP)
Discussant: Yannis Theocharis (University of Bremen)
Anthea Alberto (Humboldt University): Coalition governments and party competition: The electoral effect of differentiating from coalition partners
Guy Mor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Transfer Learning and its Applications for Political Science Research
Franziska Pradel (CCCP): Hate speech in search engines – Providing insight into how hate speech impacts political attitudes using an online experiment
Ayjeren B. Rozyjumayeva (CCCP): Mapping the drivers of political interactivity on Twitter: affect and sentiment during campaigns

Chair: Bruno Castanho Silva (CCCP)
Discussant: Christian Rauh (WZB Berlin)
Verena Kunz (University of Mannheim): How Electoral Cycles Affect Voting Behaviour and Speechmaking in Response to Competing Principals: Evidence from the European Parliament
Jana Paasch (MZES, Mannheim): Better late than never? EU Implementation beyond the National Level – An Analysis of the Sixteen German Regional Parliaments and their Political Parties between 1990 and 2018
Jan Schwalbach (CCCP): The Influence of the Electoral Cycle Effect on the MP Behaviour in Parliament