Conference "People and Parliament in the European Union in the context of the 2009 elections"
"People and Parliament in the European Union in the context of the 2009 elections"
5 March 2008
Room A5G- 3
Topics and proposed speakers (discussants TBA)
9h30 - 10h - Opening of Conference: Keynote address by the President of the European Parliament, Dr Hans-Gert Pöttering
10h-10h30 -Keynote address by the Commissioner of the European Commission, Mr Janez Potočnik (TBC)
10h30 - 11h00 - People and Parliament: A framework for analysis and key data from special Eurobarometer on European Parliament, autumn 2007 - Prof Richard Sinnott, University College Dublin; Prof Palle Svensson, University of Aarhus
11h00 - 11h30 - The impact of candidates, parties and the media - Prof David Farrell, University of Manchester; Dr Federica Bicchi, London School of Economics; Professor Jean Blondel, European University Institute; Prof Susan Banducci, University of Exeter
11h30 - 12h30 - Plenary DEBATE: discussants - Leaders of EP Political Groups-MEPs
12h30 -13h00 - Question and Answer session with journalists
13h - 14h30- lunch break
14h30 - 15h00 - Institutional arrangements for European Parliament elections: Do they facilitate? Do they mobilise? - Prof Colin Rallings and Prof Michael Thrasher, University of Plymouth; Prof Eva Anduiza-Perea, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; Dr Joan Font, Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas, Madrid
15h00 - 15h20 - Civic participation and voter turnout - Prof Hans Rattinger and Dr Markus Steinbrecher, Universitaet Bamberg
15h20 - 15h40 - Disability and political participation - Prof Patricia Noonan Walsh, University College Dublin; Prof Gabor Toka, Central European University Budapest
15h40-16h00 - Gender and turnout in EP elections: - Dr Yvonne Galligan, Queen's University Belfast; Prof Bernadette Hayes, University of Aberdeen; Prof Susan Banducci, University of Exeter.
16.00 - 16h45 - People and Parliament on the eve of the 2009 elections: What have we learned? Round table discussion with MEPs and the research team
16h45-17h15 - Question and Answer session with (specialised) journalists (TBC)
17h15- 17h30- Final Remarks - Prof Richard Sinnott, University College Dublin
NB: see next page for proposed poster presentations to cover additional topics
Conference
"People and Parliament in the European Union in the context of the 2009 elections"
5 March 2008
Poster presentations
- Referendums on European integration in Western Europe - Prof Palle Svensson, University of Aarhus and Prof Richard Sinnott, University College Dublin
- Referendums on European integration in Central and Eastern Europe - Prof Radek Markowski and Dr Mikolaj Czesnik, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw
- Lessons from aggregate analysis of participation in European Parliament elections - Prof Soren Risbjerg Thomsen, University of Aarhus
- Participation in European Parliament elections: the French experience - Dr Bruno Cautres, CEVIPOF Paris
- Cartographical analyses of turnout in European Parliament elections -Dr Atle Alvheim, Norwegian Social Science Data Services Bergen
