Best Paper Award

The Democratic Innovations ECPR Standing Group awards the prize for the Best Paper in the section “Democratic Innovations: Uses and Perceptions” at the ECPR General Conference 2021 to the following paper “Reinforcing the legitimacy of deliberative citizen forums: contingent views from outside the forum” co-authored by Saskia Goldberg and André Bächtiger. Nominations of the panel Best Paper Award

End of Term Report – Democratic Innovations Standing Group

The Steering Committee of the Standing Group on Democratic Innovations is concluding its three-year term this year. You can find our end of term report here. This report celebrates the standing group’s achievements and invites all our members to continue building a vibrant and collegial democratic innovations community. With a new steering committee taking over End of Term Report – Democratic Innovations Standing Group

Elections for the steering committee

In the fall elections for the steering committee are planned as the three-year term of the current Steering Committee is coming to an end. We would like to encourage interested members to put themselves forward as candidates.  The Steering Committee handles the day-to-day management of the Standing Group and consists of five members, elected from within the members of the Standing Group (Procedure here). Any member of the Group is eligible for election, but the Steering Committee must consist of at least 50% Elections for the steering committee

Cevipol/ULB Webinar series: ‘Parties, Elections & Representation’

During the next weeks and months, weekly webinars are organized online by the Centre for the Study of Politics (Cevipol, Université libre de Bruxelles), on various topics related to party politics, participation and representation. These webinars usually take place on Thursday, 12h-13h15 (Brussels time). They constitute a great opportunity to hear about and discuss on-going Cevipol/ULB Webinar series: ‘Parties, Elections & Representation’