Papers
You can download the papers presented at the conference below:
Labour’s reluctance to reform the electoral system at Westminster - Thomas Lundberg (University Glasgow)
Prospective vs. Retrospective Strategic Motivations in Electoral Reforms –Jean-Benoit Pilet (Universite libre de Bruxelles)
The Politics of Electoral Reform: The State of Research – Gideon Rahat (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Is there a trend towards greater proportionality in electoral systems in established democracies? – Alan Renwick (University of Oxford)
Performance Politics and the New Issue Agenda – Harold Clarke (University of Texas, Dallas), David Sanders (University of Essex), Marianne Stewart (University of Texas, Dallas) and Paul Whiteley (University of Essex)
Evaluation Bias and Issue Ownership: How Voters Evaluate Opposition and Governing Parties’ Competencies – Jane Green (University of Manchester) and Will Jennings, (LSE)
Valence and Position: Structuring Party Competition – Alexia Katsanidou (University of Essex)
Does Civic Education boost youth Turnout? A Canadian Natural
Experiment – Henry Milner (University of Montreal)
Becoming Democrat by Voting the Democrats: Examining the impact of vote on party identification among young voters and their parents – Elias Dinas (European University Institute, Florence)
Are Parties ‘old school’? An analysis of age group differences in party membership across Europe – Achim Goerres (University of Cologne)
Values In Context: A Comparative Analysis of Engagement. Kingsley Purdam and Mark Tranmer (University of Manchester)
The Feminization of the Conservative Party: Party Member views – Sarah Childs (University of Bristol) and Paul Webb (University of Sussex)
The Liberal Democrats and the substantive representation of women – Elizabeth Evans (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Second among unequals? A study of whether France’s “quota women” are up to the job – Rainbow Murray (Queen Mary, University of London)
Zapatero, Zippers, Zebras and UK Local Government: Are quotas needed to redress a century of women’s under-representation - Chris Game (University of Birmingham)
European Integration and the balance of power within national political parties – Elisabeth Carter (Keele University) and Thomas Poguntke (Ruhr University Bochum)
Close Friends and Estranged Folks Within the European Centre-Right Bloc – Iannis Konstantinidis (University of Macedonia)
The Electoral Consequences of Social Pacts in Western Europe, 1980-2006 – Kerstin Hamaan (University of Central Florida), Alexia Katsanidou (University of Essex), John Kelly (Birkbeck, University of London)
The Comparative Studies of Electoral Systems Project: Past, Present and Future' - Ian McAllister (Australian National University)
Measuring citizen orientations to political organizations and institutions in Comparative Survey Research' - Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham) and Michael Marsh (Trinity College, Dublin)
Mobilizing Political Engagement and Reducing Inequalities in Diverse Societies' - Jeffrey Karp and Susan Banducci (University of Exeter)
Making a Difference? Coalition and Single-Party Governments, Public Perceptions, and Turnout'- Jack Vowles (University of Exeter)
What political discussion means and how do French and the (French speaking) Belgian deal with it – Sophie Duchesne and Florence Hegel (CEVIPOF, CNRS, France)
The impact of everyday political talk on involvement, knowledge and informed voting – Gabor Toka (CEU, Hungary & University of Oxford)
Booming diversity in deliberative democracy: An overview of normative concepts and empirical findings – Andre Baechtiger (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Voters’ political conversations during the 2005 German Parliamentary Election Campaign – Rudiger Schmitt-Beck & Thorsten Faas (University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany)
Ballot-paper photographs and multi-member constituencies: The potential impact of candidate appearance in Scottish STV elections – Robert Johns and Mark Shephard (University of Strathclyde)
Beauty in the eye of the voter - Fiona Buckley and Theresa Reidy (University College Cork)
Ballot photographs as cues in low information elections – Susan Banducci and Jeffery Karp (University of Exeter); Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (University of Plymouth)
Measuring Partisan Stability and Change using Autoregressive Latent Trajectory Models” – Thomas Scotto (University of Essex)
A reference group theory of partisan bias: the competing influences of party identity and other social identities – Maria Sobloweska (University of Oxford)
A method for measuring and decomposing electoral bias for the three party case – Galina Borisyuk (University of Plymouth), Michael Thrasher (University of Plymouth), Ron Johnston (University of Bristol) and Colin Rallings (University of Plymouth)
Measuring and decomposing electoral bias in an AV electoral system: elections to the Australian House of Representatives – Ron Johnston (University of Bristol) and Jim Forrest (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Disproportionality between votes, seats and cabinet portfolios in 16 Parliamentary Democracies – Adrian Blau (University of Manchester)
The growth of “effective competition space” in British and Indian post-war general elections: How small parties change the electoral playing field for all parties – Patrick Dunleavy and Rekha Diwakar (London School of Economics)
Structural Change, Party Strategy and Cleavage Evolution in Britain, 1964-2006 – Geoffrey Evans and James Tilley (University of Oxford)
Measuring Ethnic Political Cleavages in African Democracies – Nick Cheeseman (University of Oxford) and Rob Ford (University of Manchester)
Evaluating Labour: Social Mobility and Class Inequalities under Blair and Brown – Fiona Devine and Yaojun Li (University of Manchester)
Improving Election Forecasting in the United Kingdom – Michael Lewis-Beck (University of Iowa), Richard Nadeau (University of Montreal) and Éric Bélanger (McGill University)
Segmented Responsiveness? Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion – Stuart Soroka (McGill University) and Christopher Wlezien (Temple University)
"Political Representation in Britain: A Dynamic Left-Right Approach"– Armèn Hakhverdian (Nuffield College, Oxford)
It was ‘YouTube’ What Won it?: Campaigning Online in the Australian 2007 Federal Election – Ian McAllister (ANU) and Rachel Gibson (University of Manchester)
Internet surveys and hard-to-reach groups: an analysis of mode effects – Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck, University of London) and Kristi Winters (University of Essex)
Do web-based voting advice applications influence the direction and quality of vote decisions? – Outi Ruusuvirta (London School of Economics) and Martin Rosema (University of Twente)
Electoral Reform and Electoral System effects in Lithuania – Terry Clark (Creighton University) and Zilvinas Martinaitis (Vilnuis University)
Much ado about nothing: Electoral reform in Slovenia – Danica Fink-Hafner (University of Ljubljana)
Electoral Reform debates in Poland – Frances Millard (University of Essex)
Information, Interests and Ideas in Electoral System Reform: Romania in Comparative Perspective – Marina Popescu (University College London)
Globalization and the Turnout Decline in Advanced Industrialized Democracies, 1960-2000 – John Marshall and Stephen D. Fisher (University of Oxford)
Region and primary political communities: individual-level predictors of turnout in sub-state elections – Ailsa Henderson and Nicola McEwen (University of Edinburgh)
The effect of compulsory voting on turnout and equality: A cross-national comparison – Ellen Quintelier, Sofie Mariën and Marc Hooghe (University of Leuven)
Process evaluations and political disengagement: The immediate impact of the ‘rejected ballots fiasco’ in Scotland 2007 – Christopher Carman and Robert Johns (University of Strathclyde)
Exit, Voice, and Cyclicality: Testing the Micro-Logic of Second-Order Elections Theory - Till Weber (European University Institute)
Comparison of methods for the estimation of voter transition rates
Ioannis Andreadis and Theodore Chadjipadelis (Aristotle University of Thessalonki)
Political Cynicism and Electoral Choice - Martin Rosema (University of Twente) and Aida Paskeviciute (University of Essex)
Parties and Voters: Political Congruence across Europe – Ana Maria Belchoir (CIES-ISCTE, University of Lisbon)
Does one Trust (Model) Fit All? Linking Theory and Empirics – Justin Fisher (Brunel University), Jennifer van Heerde (University College London) and Andrew Tucker (University College London)
Political Community and Trust in Politics – Lauren McLaren (University of Nottingham)
The Experience and Perception of Political Corruption: A Structural Equation Model with Russian Survey Data – William Mishler (University of Arizona) and Richard Rose (University of Aberdeen
How did they vote? Voters’ use of the STV ballot paper in the 2007 local elections – John Curtice (University of Strathclyde) and Michael Marsh (Trinity College, Dublin)
Switch Voting in the AMS (MMP) Elections to the Scottish Parliament – James Gilmour
Voter Reactions to a Preferential Ballot: The 2007 Scottish Local Elections – David Denver (University of Lancaster), Alistair Clark (Queens University, Belfast) and Lynn Bennie (University of Aberdeen)
Comparing American and British gender gap theories with British data – Kristi Winters (University of Essex)
A right royal mess: why did the French say ‘non’ to the opportunity of having a women president? – Rainbow Murray (Queen Mary, University of London) and Shelia Perry (University of Nottingham)
Do women vote for women - Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck, University of London) and David Cutts (University of Manchester)
My heart says one thing but my head says another’? Sex and the psychology of partisanship in Britain - Rob Johns (University of Strathclyde), Kristi Winters (University of Essex) and Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck, University of London)
Who Selects the Party Leader? A Cross-National Analysis” – William Cross (Carleton University) and André Blais (University of Montreal)
Democracy and Political Parties: On the Uneasy Relationship between Participation, Competition and Representation – Reuven Y. Hazan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Gideon Rahat (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Richard Katz (John Hopkins, University of Baltimore)
Constitutionalizing party democracy: The constitutive juridification of political parties in post-war Europe – Ingrid van Biezen (University of Birmingham)
Social capital and neighbourhood composition in England. - Does diversity damage social capital? Edward Fieldhouse and David Cutts (University of Manchester)
The Institutionalisation of immigration as an electoral issue: individual and contextual determinants – Sergi Pardos-Prado (European University Institute, Florence)
The Cultural Basis of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: Testing An “Assimilationisit Threat” Scale – Anthony Mughan (Ohio State University)
The opinionated British press and their influence on political attitudes during the 2005 UK Election Campaign – Heinz Brandenburg (University of Aberdeen) and Marcel van Egmond (University of Amsterdam)
Testing the connection between negativity and information: Evidence from presidential and local elections in Taiwan – Jonathan Sullivan (University of Nottingham)
Have the Tories got religion? – Tim Bale (University of Sussex)
Changing the guard or moving the deckchairs: political change and performance change in English Local Government – George Boyne (Cardiff University), Oliver James (University of Essex), Peter John (University of Manchester) and Nicolai Petrovsky (Cardiff University)
Are the Tories Mad? Rationality, Power and Party Strategy – Rob McIlveen (University of Sheffield)
Building Nationalist Success? The Scottish Nationalist Party at the Grassroots in the 2003 and 2007 Scottish Parliament Elections – Alistair Clark (Queens University, Belfast)
Who are the SNP member? James Mitchell (University of Strathclyde), Lynn Bennie (University of Aberdeen) and Robert Johns (University of Strathclyde)
Unionist Devolutionism: Devolution as an Exercise in Political Legitimation – Richard Wyn Jones and Roger Scully (Aberystwyth University)