The empathy gap: understanding why some people don’t vote Not everyone votes. Using data from the 2015 Finnish National Election Study, Kimmo Grönlund and Hanna Wass look at what factors make a person less likely to go to the polls or get involved in politics. They warn against assuming non-voting is a matter of personal … New blog post: The empathy gap: understanding why some people don’t vote
The Democratic Innovations section at the ECPR General Conference Prague, 7-10 September 2016 Best Paper Award The Standing Group on Democratic Innovations of the ECPR has decided to award Hannah Werner and Sofie Marien from the KU Leuven, Belgium, for their paper “Why Citizen Involvement is a Story of Apples and Oranges. Studying Individual Differences … Best Paper Award, ECPR General Conference 2016
Welcome to the Standing Group´s business meeting at the ECPR General Conference in Prague. The meeting will take place on Thursday 8 September from 1430-1530. The location is FL220. This information will shortly appear in the conference timetable on the website, and will also appear in the conference programme.
The accepted fellows to the Visiting Fellowship Program at Åbo Akademi University are: Hilde Coffe, Victoria University of Wellington Holly Garnett, McGill University Johanna Söderström, University of Uppsala Åsa von Schoultz, Mid Sweden University Sergiu Ghergina, Frankfurt
Deliberative Democracy Summer School Call for applications deadline, 30 June 2016 The Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance is convening the Second Deliberative Democracy Summer School from 15-17 February 2017. The three-day summer school will focus on classical debates and emerging themes in deliberative theory and practice, including deliberative cultures, representation in the deliberative system … Deliberative Democracy Summer School
