Program and further information
Day 1 (September 24)
10:00-11:00 Registration and welcome coffee
11:00-12:45 Panel 1: Political Economy and Public Policy
- 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
12:45-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:45 Panel 2: Women in Politics
- 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
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:30 Keynote 1: Diana O’Brien (Rice University): The Remains of the Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Gender Gaps in Unified Germany
Day 2 (September 25)
9:00-10:30 Panel 3: Digitization and Computational Social Science
- 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
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:45 Keynote 2: Yannis Theocharis (University of Bremen): Dynamics and Democratic Consequences of Incivility in Political Communication
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 Keynote 3: Christian Rauh (WZB Berlin): Analysing (parliamentary) democracy with computational methods: why investments in data collection pay off
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Panel 4: Partisan Behavior in Parliaments
- 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
16:00-16:30 Goodbye coffee and cookies