Participation and Mobilization

Dear all, This is just a gentle reminder that the deadline to send your paper proposal for the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops will close on 6 December. The Standing Group Participation and Mobilisation endorsed the workshop  “The Citizens’ Voice? When and How Advocacy Groups Represent and Affect Public Preferences”. Please see below additional details about this workshop. “Dear colleagues, The call for paper proposals for the upcoming ECPR joint sessions in Nicosia (10/05-14/05) is now open. You are cordially invited…

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Dear all, You can submit section proposals for the ECPR General Conference 2018 in Hamburg until 15 November: https://ecpr.eu/MyEcpr/Forms/SectionProposalForm.aspx?EventID=115 If you would like to receive the Standing Group’s official endorsement (which can increase the odds of being approved) you have to send your proposal (following the ECPR guidelines) to me (j.de.moor@keele.ac.uk) before 25 October. We will evaluate the proposals we will communicate our feedback and decisions on 8 November. Best, Joost

Dear all, Below the call for papers for the workshop on “The Citizens’ Voice? When and How Advocacy Groups Represent and Affect Public Preferences“, which was endorsed by the standing group. “Dear colleagues, The call for paper proposals for the upcoming ECPR joint sessions in Nicosia (10/05-14/05) is now open. You are cordially invited to submit a paper to our workshop titled “The Citizens’ Voice? When and How Advocacy Groups Represent and Affect Public Preferences”. The workshop seeks to bridge and expand…

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Dear Standing Group members,   According to our Standing Group’s constitution (see attachment), our SG is governed by a Steering Committee which is selected from among the SG’s members every two years. This December, the current Steering Committee will be in place two years. The nomination/election procedure for Steering Committee members should be held six months before the incumbent Steering Committee’s term expires, which is now. The first round of this selection process consists of inviting the members of the…

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7-9 May 2018 Forum for Civil Society and Social Movement Research, University of Gothenburg Course Leaders: Professor Håkan Thörn, and Mattias Wahlström With around 15 researchers studying different forms of social movements, the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg is one of the major research environments in Europe in the field. In order to further strengthen the environment, the Forum for Civil Society and Social Movement Research (CSM) was formed in 2011. In 2016, CSM…

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September 6, 2017, from 3 to 6 pm. Institute for Social Research, Munthes gate 31, Oslo   We kindly invite postdoctoral researchers (or early career scholars in a similar stage) attending the ECPR General Conference in Oslo to participate in a mentoring session on career development. The event is organized by the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization, in collaboration with the Standing Groups on Political Parties, Political Networks, Political Violence, Interest Groups, and Environmental Politics. This event will take…

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COSMOS and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore invite applications for the upcoming Summer School on “Media in Political Participation and Mobilization” which will be held in Florence (Italy) in June 2017, from Monday 26th to Friday 30th included.

For members of the SG a number of panels could be of interest for you: The SG has endorsed Lorenz Zamponi and Priska Daphi’s session titled “Beyond Social Movements: Cross-Field Insights on Contentious Politics”, which addresses a broad range of classic and timely topics in research on social movements and political participation, and connects them to other fields of political science (e.g. parties, migration, media). For more details: https://ecpr.eu/Events/SectionDetails.aspx?SectionID=653&EventID=96 For those with an interest in methodological issues in participation research, the section “Measuring Political…

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