Workshop 3 and Specialized Course
Electoral Control in Eastern Europe
December 12 – 13, 2014
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw, Poland
This international workshop and specialized course brings together scholars who are currently analyzing data on candidates and parliamentarians in Eastern Europe to address critical questions on electoral control and accountability, political and party systems, representation, and political inequality. The workshop invites scholars who are analyzing the Eastern European Parliamentarian and Candidate Database (EAST-PaC) — a dataset on parliamentarian candidates for all elections since 1989 in Poland, Ukraine and Hungary — and invites new scholars to join the project team and to use these data.
Building on the theoretical, methodological and empirical discussions of Workshop 1 and Workshop 2, Workshop 3 features (a) intensive discussions of empirical research that uses EAST PaC data on Poland, Hungary and Ukraine, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe; (b) methodological discussions on collecting and analyzing candidate and electoral data; and (c) networking and planning of academic products that present the empirical analysis of EAST PaC to be published in 2015 and beyond.
Workshop 3 also functions as a Specialized Course for PhD students on theoretical issues in electoral control and political inequality and the analysis of EAST PaC data. As such, we will invite PhD students from the Graduate School for Social Research to be part of the two-day proceedings. Attending the Specialized Course, like the Workshop, is free of charge, but to attend students must first contact the organizer.
This event is funded by a grant from Poland’s National Science Centre (decision number 2012/05/E/HS6/03556) and with additional support from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR), and organizational support from Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT).
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WORKSHOP 3 AND SPECIALIZED COURSE
Electoral Control in Eastern Europe
December 12 – 13, 2014
Staszic Palace, Nowy Swiat 72, Warsaw, Poland
Day 1
Friday, December 12
10:00 – 11:00 in Room 200
Introduction to the Workshop, Organizational matters, and status report on the project and the data collection effort for Eastern European Parliamentarian and Candidate Data (EAST-PaC)
by Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Polish Academy of Sciences and CONSIRT
11:00-11:20 — Coffee Break in Room 146a
11:20-12:30 in Room 200
Electoral Control in Hungary
“Career determinants of Hungarian legislators’ electoral performance, 2002-2010”
HANDOUT: Tables and Figures
by Dr. Zsofia Papp, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Moderator: J K Dubrow, CONSIRT
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 in Room 200
Electoral control in Ukraine
“Ukrainian Election Administration: between technical requirements and political expediency”
by Nazar Boyko, CIFRA, Ukraine
“Circulation of the political elite in Ukraine 1990-2014”
by Nataliia Pohorila, SOCIS – Center for Social and Marketing studies, Ukraine
Moderator: J K Dubrow
15:00 – 15:30 — Coffee Break in Room 146a
15:30 – 16:30 in Room 200
Electoral Control beyond Eastern Europe
“Parliamentarian and Candidate Data in Nepal, 1990 to the present”
by Sanjaya Mahato, Graduate School for Social Research, Poland
Day 2
Saturday, December 13 10:00-12:30
10:00 – 11:00 in Room 104
Electoral Control in Poland
“Inter-party list mobility among parliamentary candidates in Poland 1985-2011”
Justyna Nyćkowiak and Tomasz Kołodziej, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
“The Ties that Bind: Do Political Parties or Group Associations Matter Among Legislators?”
Peter Tunkis, The Ohio State University, USA
Moderator: J K Dubrow
11:00-11:20 — Coffee Break in Room 146a
11:20 – 12:30 in Room 104
Electoral Control in Romania
“The role of incumbency, gender and party factors in predicting candidate list placement in closed list PR”
Mihail Chiru, Central European University Budapest and Lucian Blaga University Sibiu
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 in Room 104
Work session 1: Moving from idea to research and publishing featuring EAST PaC data
15:00 – 15:30 — Coffee Break in Room 146a
15:30 – 17:00 in Room 104
Work session 2: Moving from idea to research and publishing featuring EAST PaC data
Discussion Leader for both sessions: J K Dubrow
19:00 Common Dinner, Location TBA
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