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Could you edit an ECPR publication?

Publishing new research by the political science community it serves is at the heart of the ECPR’s mission. As such, editing one of its publications is a chance to be at the cutting edge of the discipline, shaping its direction and focus. In 2015 four editors will complete their term of office; the ECPR is therefore now seeking their replacements

Comparative EJPR – Co-Editor

Politics series – The European Journal of Political Research (EJPR) is a leading journal Co-Editor in political science and the flagship Published in partnership with Oxford journal of the ECPR. Published four University Press, times a year, the EJPR specialises in is a series for scholars and students articles articulating theoretical and of political science. It focuses on comparative perspectives in political contemporary government and science, and welcomes quantitative politics, with a particular interest in and qualitative approaches. the comparative domestic politics of political institutions and behaviour. EJPR also publishes short research notes outlining ongoing research in Global in scope, books in the series more specific areas of research. The Application procedure are characterised by a stress on Journal includes the Political Data comparative analysis and strong Yearbook, published as a double issue The closing date for all applications is 24 August 2014. Appointments will be made at the methodological rigour. Since the at the end of each volume and now next Joint Sessions of Workshops in Warsaw, in spring 2015. The successful candidates launch of the series in 1990 some of online as the PDY Interactive. will begin their editorships on 1 August 2015. the most influential books in political science of the last twenty years have The EJPR is published in partnership Find detailed adverts for each position at www.ecpr.eu/Vacancies.aspx been published within it. with Wiley-Blackwell. Please email Rebecca Gethen at [email protected] with any questions.

The ECPR is seeking a Co-Editor to The ECPR is seeking a Co-Editor work alongside continuing Editors to join continuing Editor Ioannis Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (University Papadopoulos (Université de of Luneburg) and Emilie van Haute Lausanne). (Université libre de Bruxelles).

2 news EPS – Co-Editor ECPR Press – EPS is the professional journal of Co-Editor the ECPR devoted to contributions by and for the political science ECPR Press is the publishing imprint community. It publishes pieces on of the ECPR. Established in 2005 how the discipline is, can and ought with a remit to publish classic works to be. The unique and indispensable of political science that had gone nature of EPS to the political out of print alongside cutting- science community has led to the edge research from established and continuing success of this journal, as younger members of the profession, demonstrated through an improving the Press has quickly grown to the Impact Factor year on year. point where it now operates in much the same way as a university press. Articles address research matters (including debates in the discipline, Eight years on from its launch, 2013 research projects, political science saw a record 23 titles published; and information sources, funding Press authors – Giovanni Sartori, opportunities); professional matters Richard Rose, Peter Mair, Hanne (such as career structures and Marthe Narud, Donatella della prospects, external evaluation, higher Porta, Rosie Campbell, to name education reforms, accreditation a few – show the appeal of the issues); doctoral training provision service, marketing reach, rigour and and teaching matters; and relations professionalism the Press can offer. between academia and politicians, policy makers, journalists and In addition to the two original series ordinary citizens. (ECPR Classics and Monographs) the Press now publishes an Essays series, EPS also includes more substantive along with a well-established series pieces that provide a political science of multi-authored edited volumes, perspective on important current Studies in European Political Science. events. In addition to original articles, the journal carries shorter The ECPR is seeking a Co-Editor to Application procedure notes, review articles and symposia, work alongside Peter Kennealy (EUI), progress reports on lively areas of Alexandra Segerberg (University of The closing date for all applications is 24 August 2014. Appointments will be made at the research and profiles of people in Stockholm) and Peter Triantafillou next Joint Sessions of Workshops in Warsaw, in spring 2015. The successful candidates the profession. EPS is published in (Roskilde University). will begin their editorships on 1 August 2015. partnership with Palgrave Macmillan.

Find detailed adverts for each position at www.ecpr.eu/Vacancies.aspx The ECPR is seeking a Co-Editor Please email Rebecca Gethen at [email protected] with any questions. to join continuing Editors Heather Savigny (University of Bournemouth); Jonathon Moses (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim); and Lasse Thomassen (Queen Mary, University of London).

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New editor joins EPSR

The ECPR is delighted to announce that Carlos Closa has been appointed as Co-Editor of the European Political Science Review (EPSR) replacing B Guy Peters when his term ends this December

urrently Senior Fellow in University Rotterdam), building the Global Governance on the excellent work of the two Programme at the establishing editors (Donatella della European University Porta and B Guy Peters) to take this CInstitute, Professor Closa has been journal forward. Deputy Director at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid, and member of the Venice Speaking of his appointment Commission for Democracy through I feel really Professor Closa said ‘I feel really Law of the Council of Europe. excited about the honour that Carlos Closa has published widely excited about supposes EPSR editorship. Egregious in Spanish, English and Italian, on scholars such as Donatella della Porta topics such as EU citizenship, the the honour that and Guy Peters have preceded me EU constitutional structure and the supposes EPSR and this represents an even greater relationship with the Member States. challenge. I aim to keep the broad Professor Closa will join continuing editorship outlook of EPSR and its outstanding Co-Editor Wil Hout (Erasmus and increasing reputation and impact.’

‘About‘ the EPSR Published four times a year in partnership with Cambridge University Press, EPSR aims to be a place for the best research in all areas of political science, offering an indispensable and stimulating source of new scholarship. As a ‘general’ journal in political science, it publishes articles that speak to as large an audience as possible, meeting the needs of all who wish to maintain a broad awareness of important new work in the discipline.

As a benefit of ECPR membership, one print copy of each issue is sent to ECPR Official Representatives.

To subscribe to EPSR and take advantage of all of the extra benefits of online access, including reading content ahead of print publication, please see the Cambridge University Press website.

4 news All eyes on Glasgow in 2014

A referendum on Scottish independence from the UK, the Commonwealth Games and the ECPR General Conference... the world’s eyes will be trained on Glasgow this year

ositioned comfortably between the 20th Commonwealth Games (23 July – 3 August) Pand Scotland’s referendum on independence on 18 September, the ECPR’s 8th General Conference could be argued as bridging these two high profile, but very different events.

The Games will gather athletes from the 53 Commonwealth countries for two weeks of sporting endeavour; the ECPR General Conference will, likewise, bring together an internationally diverse group for four days of academic endeavour and political debate; and the referendum has the potential to affect the political landscape of Europe. Spending too Much, Taxing too Little? Conference discounts! Also on the Plenary programme are two Roundtables: Democracy and its Finally, the ECPR has negotiated Welcome Address Discontents and Contested Human Rights. discounts with travel operators and Both address topical issues, firstly the hotels for Conference participants, and Plenary Lecture mounting Euroscepticism reflected so if you haven’t yet made your travel Indeed, as Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy in the recent European elections, and plans do so now; see www.ecpr.eu First Minister of Scotland, says ‘The secondly the creation of new human eyes of the world are on Scotland as rights claims such as those for lesbian we decide our nation’s future, and and gay people. Find out more on it is very welcome that up to 2,500 the ECPR website. political scientists from near and far are here just two weeks before the vote.’ Sturgeon will deliver the Online timetable tool Welcome Address at the General Also online is a new Timetable tool. Conference on the Thursday evening. With 66 Sections and 420 Panels across the Conference, it can be hard Sturgeon’s Address will be followed for participants to organise their time by the Plenary lecture from Iain to get the most out of the event. McLean (University of Oxford) This new tool lets users explore the which draws on the Scottish scheduling of Sections, Panels and referendum as a prompt for some Papers. You can filter activities by day, general reflections on subordinate search by Section or Panel number or parliaments and fiscal federalism, by keywords such as ‘Street Politics’, entitled Parliaments in Fiscal Federalism: ‘Turkey’ or ‘Room C407’.

news 5 Your first choice for books on the European Union www.ecpr.eu/ecprpress

Integrating Indifference Practices of Inter-Parliamentary Contesting Europe Perceptions of Europe A Comparative, Qualitative Co-ordination in International Exploring Euroscepticism in A Comparative Sociology and Quantitative Approach Politics The European Union Online Media Coverage of European Attitudes to the Legitimacy of European and Beyond Ben Crum and Pieter de Wilde, Asimina Daniel Gaxie, Nicolas Integration Virginie Van Ingelgom John Erik Fossum (Eds) Michailidou, Hans-Jörg Trenz Hubé, Jay Rowell (Eds) ISBN 9781907301483 ISBN 9781907301308 ISBN 9781907301513 ISBN 9781907301155

Political Participation in Greece in the Euro Europeanisation and Party Functional Representation France and Germany Economic Delinquency Politics How the EU Affects and Democracy in the EU Oscar W Gabriel, Silke I Keil, or System Failure? Domestic Actors, Patterns The European Union and Eric Kerrouche (Eds) Eleni Panagiotarea and Systems Erol Külahci (Ed) Social NGOs Corinna Wolff ISBN 9781907301650 ISBN 9781907301537 ISBN 9781907301223 ISBN 9781907301650

Organising the European European Integration and A Political Sociology of Deliberation Behind Closed Parliament The Role of its Limits Intergovernmental Transnational Europe Doors Transparency and Committees and their Legislative Conflicts and their Domestic Niilo Kauppi (Ed) Lobbying in the European Influence Nikoleta Yordanova Origins Daniel Finke ISBN 9781907301858 Union Daniel Naurin ISBN 9781907301391 ISBN 9781907301373 ISBN 9781907301849 Innsbruck plays host to the 5th ECPR Graduate Student Conference

Young political scientists converge on the beautiful Austrian city of Innsbruck this July as the ECPR holds its Graduate Student Conference at the University. The event continues to be a vital step on the path to a succesful academic career

he Graduate Student discussion through the presentation Conference is a unique and discussion of Papers. Maybe next time? event on the political Registration for this event closed on science calendar that Plenary programme 25 May, but if you feel the Graduate providesT an opportunity for Masters Student Conference could be for you, and PhD level students to experience A plenary programme complements the next one is in Tartu, Estonia, in their first professional conference the academic side of the Conference. 2016. Find out more at www.ecpr.eu fully supported by the expertise and This year’s Plenary Lecture, given by network of the ECPR. Alan Scott (University of Innsbruck) addresses the subject Seeing Like Involved at every level a Political Scientist. Structured in the same way as the Roundtables cover themes including ECPR’s extremely successful General Being on the Academic Job Market; How to Conference, the Graduate event Write a Research Proposal; Research has students involved at every level, Funding from the European Union not just presenting a Paper – from and How to Get Published. organising and chairing Sections, through to being Panel Chairs and Discussants. In this environment where every participant is at the same stage in their career, participants can gain conference experience while developing their own research.

This year, the Conference will comprise 27 Sections, including an Open Section encompassing Panels that have no natural home in the main Section themes. Covering the full range of sub-disciplines, from Area to Security Studies, Sections then house an average of five Panels, each taking a topic for further

news 7 Is it time to top up your methods skills?

A reputation for pedagogical excellence plus an exciting social programme, all in a beautiful city, makes the ECPR’s Summer School in Methods and Techniques an unmissable event

he 2014 Summer School in both quantitative and qualitative Methods and Techniques approaches as well as more positivist (SSMT)takes place between and interpretative perspectives. 24 July and 9 August at theT University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. By combining courses at two or The SSMT is half of the ECPR’s more events (WSMT and SSMT), Methods School, which also includes participants can follow diverse the Winter School (WSMT). training tracks of introductory and advanced courses, in various formats. Launched in 2006, the ECPR Methods School offers world-leading The Summer School and Winter training in research methods in School host institutions grant ECTS political science and neighbouring Credits Certificates, and the ECPR disciplines. The broad programme also issues certificates of attendance, offers courses that deal with all including a joint certificate of stages of a project, caters to the attendance for following a given needs of research set at the macro training track over two events or more. and at the micro level, and covers

8 news It’s not too late to book your place at the 2014 Summer School - the full course list is below. Visit the ECPR website for more information and to make your booking.

Course Instructor Type

Introduction to SPSS Gregor Petric Refresher Introduction to R Andrej Blejec Refresher Linear Algebra and Calculus Anton Cedilnik Refresher Basics of Inferential Statistics for Political Scientists Janez Stare Refresher Introduction to STATA Training Course Anže Burger Refresher Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Comparative Crossnational Surveys Data Bruno Cautrès & Two Week Steven M. Van Hauwaert Case Study Research: Method and Practice Ingo Rohlfing Two Week Event History and Survival Analysis Janez Stare Two Week Set-Theoretic Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Related Carsten Schneider Two Week Approaches & Patrick Mello Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling Jochen Mayerl Two Week Advanced Topics in Applied Regression Levi Littvay Two Week Multiple Regression Analysis and Generalised Linear Modelling Bernhard Kittel & Two Week Federico Vegetti Analysing Discourse I and II – Analysing Politics: Theories, Methods and Michał Two Week Applications Krzyżanowski Research Designs Samo Kropivnik Week One Multiple Regression Analysis: Estimation, Diagnostics and Modelling Bernhard Kittel Week One Analysing Discourse I – Analysing Politics: Theories, Methods and Applications Michał Week One Krzyżanowski Expert Interviews for Qualitative Data Generation Alenka Jelen Week One Process Tracing Methodology I – Foundations and Design Rasmus Brun Week One Pedersen Issues in Political, Policy, and Organizational Ethnography Dvora Yanow Week One Advanced Topics in Applied Regression I: Assumptions, Extrapolation and Levi Littvay Week One Hetrogeneity Applied Multilevel Modelling Kim Mannemar Week One Sonderskov Introduction to Generalized Linear Modelling Federico Vegetti Week Two Process Tracing Methodology II - Evidence & Empirical Testing in Practice Derek Beach Week Two Analysing Discourse II – Analysing Politics: Theories, Methods and Applications Michał Week Two Krzyżanowski Qualitative Data Analysis: Methods and Procedures Marie-Hélène Paré Week Two Content Analysis Kostas Gemenis Week Two Advanced Topics in Applied Regression II: Operationalisation, Measurement, Levi Littvay Week Two Weighting and Non-Response Correction

news 9 JOINT SESSIONS

Political Science blossoms in sunny Salamanca

Spain’s oldest and, arguably, most beautiful university hosted the ECPR’s 42nd Joint Sessions of Workshops this April. A key event on the annual political science calendar, the Sessions are a unique chance for scholars to collaborate in small, focused groups

ome 450 participants came Salamanca’s Old City was declared the city against the backdrop of together from across the a UNESCO World Heritage Site the two cathedrals, the Clerecía, the world to share ideas, develop in 1988 and the historic buildings plateresque facade of the University, their work, and grow their were the perfect environment for the Baroque architecture of the Plaza networksS in the beautiful buildings of hard academic graft and the equally Mayor, the San Esteban Convent and the Universidad de Salamanca. stimulating social programme. The the millennial Roman Bridge. annual Stein Rokkan Lecture took place within the exquisite cloisters Salamanca: of Archbishop Fonseca college. Centre of excellence a model university The ECPR was delighted that, as Easter treats a member of the Consortium, the Founded almost 800 years ago, the University of Salamanca offered to Universidad de Salamanca is the Joint Sessions participants also host the Joint Sessions this year. oldest in Spain, the fourth oldest experienced the spectacle of the city’s western university, and the model Easter celebrations, as more than The University is widely regarded as on which many Spanish and Latin 9,000 members of sixteen religious one of the best centres of teaching American universities were founded. guilds paraded through the streets for and research of political science in More than 35,000 students from ten days. Some 50 different carvings Spain. The Political Science Faculty 80 countries currently study in representing stages of the Passion has ten permanent members, and Salamanca, making it a thriving hub of Christ that date back to the hosts visiting scholars from other of Spanish university life. fifteenth century are carried through countries every year.

10 news Plenary highlights

Lecture by Former Chair, Luciano Bardi

Fomer Chair, Luciano Bardi was invited back to the ECPR to present a lecture at this year’s Joint Sessions, titled Political parties, responsibility and responsiveness in multi-level democracy. Former Chair of the ECPR (2009-2012), Luciano Bardi is Professor of Comparative Politics and International Relations and at the University of Pisa, and part-time Professor at the European University Institute and co-Director of the EUI’s Schuman Centre’s Observatory on Political Parties and Representation. Professor Bardi’s lecture was followed by a reception sponsored by the ECPR’s publishing partners, Wiley-Blackwell, Palgrave Macmillan and Cambridge University Press. Professor Bardi’s lecture will be published in the ECPR’s journal European Political Science (EPS) later this year.

Stein Rokkan Lecture This year’s Stein Rokkan Lecture was delivered by Jean Blondel, Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at the . Professor Blondel, who was the first Director of the ECPR, stepped in at the last minute to deliver the Stein Rokkan Lecture entitled Some reflections on where political science might preferably go, after Scott Mainwaring was unable to travel due to ill health. Professor Blondel’s lecture will be available on the ECPR YouTube channel this summer.

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e Workshops

96 Workshop proposals for 24 slots; 761 Paper proposals but only 419 accepted… The ECPR’s Joint Sessions remain an extremely popular and competitive event. We asked a number of this year’s Workshop Directors to share their experiences

Workshop Workshop Workshop Sharing Natural Political Capital and Climate Ethics and Resources in Time Dynamics of Leadership: Climate Economics of Climate Change: Exploring the Leadership Our Workshop gathered economists, Justice, Culture and Capital Index philosophers and political theorists to Natural Resource discuss the economics and ethics of The Workshop proved a great success climate change. Governance and we hope participants got as much out of it as we did. Papers About half the Papers dealt with The group’s interdisciplinary included interesting adaptations ‘discounting the future’: whether make-up made for truly inspiring of our Leadership Capital Index future costs and benefits should be and constructive debates across and very high-quality discussion assigned less weight than present established boundaries, which of related concepts. There was a ones. Other topics included the ethics advanced our understanding of genuinely positive group dynamic and of carbon offsets, risk diversification, the normative and socio-political interesting ideas about how to better and ‘borrowing from the future’ to challenges facing sustainable understand what is a notoriously mitigate climate change. The latter resource governance in times of challenging area to research, from provoked particularly lively debate, anthropogenic climate change. how leaders stay in power, to why with some economists questioning their communication skills fail. whether it was even possible – let This Workshop was only the alone desirable – to shift a substantial starting point, though, since future The discussion and operationalisation share of the costs of mitigation to collaboration between participants is of the LCI have helped us move this our descendants. already being planned (Workshops, project forward. Special thanks go to joint Papers, collaborative funding Jean Blondel for his enthusiasm, ideas The format allowed us to devote proposals, etc). We also had some and unflagging energy. To find out an hour and a half to each Paper, discussion concerning future more, please see our new blog http:// but we could easily have talked still publications based on some of the measuringleadership.wordpress.com/ longer. We are already discussing the papers discussed. possibility of future meetings. Ben Worthy Overall, the Workshop was a great Birkbeck, University of London Dominic Roser success and we could not have asked Mark Bennister University of Oxford for more. The Joint Sessions were Canterbury Christ Church University Matthew Rendall once again an event not to be missed: Paul ’t Hart University of Utrecht University of Nottingham expertly organised; the perfect place to make contacts, exchange ideas and plan future output. The 2015 Joint Sessions will be held in Warsaw, Poland. For more information about how to take part, please see Fabian Schuppert www.ecpr.eu  Queen’s University, Belfast Chris Armstrong University of Southampton

12 news Workshop members and supporters; the impact of regulation, changing forms of Contemporary organisation and affiliation on party Meanings of Party volunteering; digital activism; and Membership party membership in Latin America and at the EU level. Over four productive days, scholars from Australia, , Brazil, Intellectual exchanges revolved Canada, France, Germany, Israel, , around the creation of common the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, concepts and typologies, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK and organisational versus individual the USA came together to ponder approaches to party membership, the nature of party membership in methods for researching party Above: Members of the Contemporary contemporary democracies. membership (surveys, ethnographic Meanings of Party Membership Workshop research) and the need for greater enjoy the Salamanca sunshine. While party membership may have integration and collaboration declined in many countries, the same between European and cannot be said about the group’s non-European party scholars. enthusiasm for studying changing forms of party affiliation and Anika Gauja activism. Fascinating Papers were University of Sydney delivered on the topics including Susan Scarrow the blurring distinction between University of Houston

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e people

Just over 450 people from across the world came together in Salamanca to share ideas, create networks and further the work of the political science community. Here are just a few of them...

Fabienne Greffet Liza Mügge Martin Mölder Université de Grenoble University of Amsterdam Central European ‘I like attending the ECPR Joint ‘The Joint Sessions offer a unique University Sessions because they are a unique format to discuss work-in-progress in moment in academia when a group depth with peers at different career ‘The Joint Sessions is a great of scholars sharing the same research stages, from full professors to PhD opportunity to have top experts in interest spend four days in a room, students. It also allows Workshops the field read and comment on your presenting and discussing their to move scholarships forward by work, as well as get an overview of research work. The Joint Sessions are exploring ideas for joint publications, what their state of the art is and what based on the principle of spending research grants and getting our finds they are struggling with.’ time together; it makes it easy to get out to a broader public through a lot of feedback as well as socialising blogs.’ with colleagues.’

A word of thanks

As always, the ECPR could not stage the Joint Sessions without the support and hard work of the member institutions that provide their university buildings, staff and resources for the organisation and duration of the event. The ECPR would therefore like to extend its sincere thanks to the University of Salamanca and all who worked tirelessly to make the 2014 Joint Sessions a success.

The ECPR is always interested in hearing from member institutions that would like to host an event. For more information please email Sandra Thomspon on [email protected]

14 news Dominic Roser Kaare Strøm Anna Sroka University of Oxford University of California, University of Warsaw San Diego ‘I just love how much time we have to ‘It is an amazing possibility to change really discuss each Paper thoroughly. ‘Intense, sustained and very often the knowledge in my research field.’ And Salamanca’s atmosphere is just fruitful conversations with scholars a perfect backdrop for the whole from other countries engaged in Sessions.’ similar research.’

And finally... three generations of ECPR leadership meet in Salamanca

Founding member of the ECPR and Executive Director 1970–79, Jean Blondel (on the right), shares a joke with member and Vice Chair of the Executive Committee 1994–2000, Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (centre) and member and Chair of the Executive Committee 2006–2012, Luciano Bardi (left).

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Jean Blondel PhD Prize

ince October 2003, the ECPR has awarded an annual prize for the best PhD thesis in politics. The prizeS fund is €1,000 and the winner is offered the chance to adapt their thesis for publication as an ECPR Press Monograph.

This year the Prize was presented by Jean Blondel himself, who also stepped in at the last minute to deliver the annual Stein Rokkan lecture after Scott Mainwaring was unable to travel to the event.

This year’s winner The 2013 prize went to Christian Rauh (right), Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung and Freie Universität Berlin, for his thesis Politicisation, Issue Salience, and Consumer Policies of the European Commission: Does Public Awareness and Contestation of Supranational Matters Increase the Responsiveness of Europe’s Central Agenda-Setter? the dynamics of policy development in relation to European integration. Blondel shortlist Chaired by Peter Kennealy (EUI Florence) representing the ECPR Rauh demonstrates how the Patrick Bayer Press, the jury comprised Paolo extent of public awareness, issue University of Mannheim Bellucci (University of Siena), contestation and salience constrain Distributional, Institutional, and Birgit Sauer (University of Vienna) the Commission’s positions, and Informational Dynamics in and Paul Heywood (University of explain the location of its policy International Cooperation on Nottingham). stance between laissez-faire and Climate Change interventionism in consumer and Rauh’s thesis challenges the image of market regulation. Hanna Schwander the EU Commission as a technocratic University of Zürich actor removed from societal and The jury felt that the research design The Politicisation of the Insider- political demands. On the contrary, nicely combines public-opinion and Outsider Divide in Western his analysis shows that European public-policy analyses, relying on Europe: Labour Market elites adapt their decisions to multiple sources (including public Vulnerability and a politicised context. opinion surveys, media analysis, its Political Consequences elite interviews, and process tracing) His research provides an insightful which produce compelling evidence The 2015 Prize opens in October account of the European for the conditions (when? why? 2014. For more information Commission’s approach to policy how?) that promote EU institutions’ please see the ECPR website. making, helping us better understand responsiveness to European citizens.

16 news Rudolf Wildenmann Prize

Wildenmann shortlist

Raimondas Ibenskas Electoral Implications of Party Fission Åsa Knaggard Framing the Problem: Knowledge Brokers in the Multiple Streams Approach Martin Mölder Fluid Voters behind a Stabilising Party System? Investigating Party System Parameters in Estonia Manuela Moschella Monitoring Macroeconomic Imbalances in the EU: Lessons from IMF Francisca Piccin Managing External Humanitarian Crises: the EU Humanitarian Aid Policy Between Bilateralism and Multilateralism Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen Bounded Rationality and the Diffusion of Modern his prize is awarded Donor Fragmentation and Democratisation, Investment Treaties annually to the best paper investigates the influence of foreign Maria Laura Sudulich presented at the previous aid fragmentation on democracy in Campaign Effectiveness in Joint Sessions. Candidates recipient countries. a Comparative Perspective mustT be under 35, and within five Federico Vegetti and Zoltán years of gaining their PhD. The prize The Paper distinguishes between Fazegas The Conflictual was presented by Manual Sánchez the effects of aid fragmentation in Nature of Ideological de Dios, member of the Executive general, and aid fragmentation of Polarisation Committee with responsibility for democracy assistance. It confirms this year’s Joint Sessions. previous findings by arguing that the former is detrimental to democratisation, the latter beneficial. The jury felt that Ziaja’s thesis, which This year’s winner Dr Ziaja finds that diverse democracy meets the highest technical standards, aid has beneficial effects on the provides an excellent overview of the The 2013 prize has been awarded to institutional setup in the recipient current state of research, from which Sebastian Ziaja (above), who received country by providing more options the central hypotheses are derived. his PhD from the Department of from which local actors can choose. The large-n analysis was considered Government at the University of But more than an analysis of foreign well executed and methodologically Essex, and is now a researcher at aid effectiveness, his Paper contributes advanced. A standout feature was the German Development Institute. to the study of democratisation, qualitative evidence from a case study His prizewinning paper, Diversity particularly the debate on pluralism on Ghana to illustrate the proposed Trumps Quantity: Types of Foreign Aid, in young democracies. causal mechanism.

news 17 The European Consortium for Political Research Are you making the most of YOUR membership?

ECPR brings people together across the Your institution’s ECPR membership entitles you spectrum of political science and its related to great benefits that will advance your studies disciplines. We offer unrivalled opportunities and help further your career. Set up a MyECPR to collaborate with scholars who share account, and make the most of them! your research interests, and to explore this n Reduced fees for all our conferences constantly changing academic field. n Funding to attend ECPR events Our conferences and events are a forum for n Eligibility to join Standing Groups lively and fruitful discussion and idea exchange, while our biannual Methods School invites you n Big savings on ECPR Press book titles to hone your research skills under the tutelage n Opportunities to win prizes and awards of internationally renowned experts. n Regular e-bulletins – including job alerts 18 news The European Consortium for Political Research Are you making the most of YOUR membership?

Your institution’s ECPR membership entitles you to great benefits that will advance your studies Set up an account at and help further your career. Set up a MyECPR account, and make the most of them! www.ecpr.eu/myecpr n Reduced fees for all our conferences n Funding to attend ECPR events n Eligibility to join Standing Groups n Big savings on ECPR Press book titles n Opportunities to win prizes and awards n Regular e-bulletins – including job alerts news 19 STANDING GROUPS

Open access to new organised crime journal

The ECPR’s Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC) has launched a new open access journal The European Review of Organised Crime (EROC). Fully peer-reviewed and international in scope, SGOC Convenor, Felia Allum (University of Bath), talks about the aims of this new publishing venture

he main aim of the journal The research Lombardo conducted Finally, José Carlos Cisneros Guzmàn is to offer a forum for the in Chicago’s Italian communities (Autonomous University of Sinaloa) study of organised crime in provides valuable empirical details offers an ethnographic piece of its different manifestations and offers support for the social research on the role of women in andT to promote a dialogue between disorganisation and differential social Mexican cartels. The article examines the academic community and organisation theories. several contemporary profiles practitioners. EROC’s unique feature of women inside Mexican drug is that it will be free for authors to Carina Gunnarson (Uppsala trafficking organisations and identifies publish and free for readers to access. University) examines the Addiopizzo the tactics women used to arrive at We are also dedicated to publishing anti-mafia campaign started by key positions in the cartel. This article articles rapidly upon submission and private businesses in Palermo. Based is full of fascinating details about the actively seek manuscripts coming on an original dataset collected from life and criminal careers of women from early career professionals and 277 firms that joined the Addiopizzo working for drug-trafficking cartels non-native speakers of English. campaign, and from interviews the author obtained from multiple with almost 100 entrepreneurs, the field-trips to Sinaloa—a Northwest Furthermore, we have adopted article is an interesting contribution state in Mexico. It will definitely a rolling deadline structure for to the body of knowledge about be of interest to both novice and submissions in order to maximise the civic movements against crime experienced readers on Mexico’s potential of our digital platform and and corruption. drug-related problems. hope to publish accepted manuscripts with a six-month period from the An in-depth comparative analysis date of receipt. of approaches to preventing Practitioners share organised crime policy in Australia Importantly, EROC’s inaugural issue and the Netherlands is presented will also offer several practitioners’ ‘Outstanding by Julie Ayling (Australian essays. We hope that the experience contributions’ National University). practitioners have shared with EROC can open new avenues for research We have received several outstanding This article evaluates the preventive on organised crime as well as raise contributions for EROC’s inaugural strategies in both countries, arguing awareness about what practitioners issue. Robert Lombardo (Loyola in favour of the Dutch administrative do, what kind of results they have University) evaluates the impact of approach, an example of a situational achieved and what kind of challenges the Chicago Area Project, a juvenile crime prevention that is not they have encountered in their work. delinquency prevention association primarily aimed at the perpetrators based in Chicago, on preventing of organised crime but rather at the Franco Roberti, Italian National young people from pursuing a life various circumstances that facilitate Antimafia Prosecutor, reflects of organised adult crime. organised crime. upon the role of Italian mafias

news in the global economy while Stan Call for contributions Gilmour, Detective superintendent for Thames Valley Police (UK), Having completed EROC’s first discusses the challenges law issue, available to the public in June, enforcement has encountered in we have started collecting papers the policing of cyberspace. for EROC’s second issue due for publication in autumn 2014.

Conceptual We invite theoretical and empirical ambiguity contributions on organised crime broadly conceived from a variety In addition to practitioners’ of disciplines, such as criminology, contributions, the readers will find criminal justice, political science, law, a debate essay by Leticia Elias and security studies, sociology, gender Arco Timmermans (University of studies, economics, media studies, Leiden), in which they discuss the anthropology, and history. conceptual ambiguity of the concept ‘organised crime’ and consequences Contributions from practitioners of this ambiguity for policy-making who can share knowledge about on organised crime in the EU. organised crime by drawing upon their on-the-ground experience are The authors focus on the policy also extremely welcome. dynamics and agenda-setting on organised crime as the latter appeared on the list of concerns of the European Council. Importantly, their discussion relates to a wide set of European Council’s policy patterns To find out more go to and institutional transformations www.sgocnet.org/index.php/the- that may appeal to a larger audience european-review-of-organised-crime working on issues that go beyond or contact the editorial team at the study on organised crime. [email protected]

news 21 STANDING GROUPS

Bridging the East-West divide: Central and Eastern European politics as an evolving eld of research

Petra Guasti, Convenor of the ECPR’s Standing Group on Central and Eastern European Politics, discusses key areas of study in this field and how the Standing Group is supporting them

ith the recent Today, none of these countries can Sessions in Salamanca, where Aron tumultuous be described as fully functioning Buzogany and Antoneta Dimitrova developments in the consolidated democracies, and some led the Ten Years On: Evaluating Eastern Ukraine, Central and are clearly authoritarian states led Enlargement Workshop, sponsored by EasternW European (CEE) politics by strong and charismatic leaders. the Standing Group on Central and are once again back on the world’s On the other hand, countries in Eastern European Politics. front pages. CEE encompasses Central Europe and the Baltic Region countries until 1989/1991 described embarked on a (mostly) successful as the Soviet Block and Warsaw Pact, reform course, establishing stable Outcomes and impact which were, for the larger part of the (and consolidated) democracies and The Workshop evaluated the twentieth century, ruled by communist market economy, joining NATO (in outcomes and the impact of the most governments in a non-democratic way. three waves 1999, 2004 and 2009) and recent EU enlargement on democratic, After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the the European Union (also in three societal and economic developments development in the region represents waves 2004, 2007 and 2013). in the CEE Member States and one of the largest political shifts in on conceptual issues concerning European history. This historical development offers Europeanisation research. The focus scholars in the field of CEE on the complex domestic impact politics, but also in comparative of EU membership on the CEE Post-communist politics, European studies and IR an countries offered an opportunity to transformation abundance of research themes and revisit many existing theoretical and material. This is mirrored in the rich methodological issues. The transformation of CEE body of literature in the past two after 1989/1990 did not follow a and a half decades, as well as in the Most importantly, the extent to straightforward trajectory. On the growing attention to the region by which the East-West divide is still contrary, the post-Soviet countries both specialised and general learned dominant in political research and in East Europe (and Central Asia), journals. Most recently, many leading CEE countries are thus mostly treated with the exception of the three Baltic journals dedicated special issues to as a separate and special case, to which states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), the tenth anniversary of Eastern general categories developed for the did not follow a positive transition Enlargement of the European study of, for example, extreme right path – their transition to democracy Union. This interest within the political parties, are still largely deemed and market economy was partial, discipline was also mirrored in the not applicable to the populist and inconsistent and often unstable. Workshop at the 2014 ECPR Joint extremist parties emerging in CEE.

22 news Firmly rooted in the Europeanisation beyond path-dependency; and states to sustain democratisation and research tradition, the Workshop was third, the need to shift the focus prevent backsliding. Furthermore, an attempt to bridge the East-West from dominant process-centered transcending conditionality and divide, bringing together established approaches to stronger actor-focused posing a question, whether the EU and emerging scholars from Western research, incorporating state and can make a difference in areas such and Eastern Europe whose varied non-state actors. as respect for human rights via new research expertise contributed post-enlargement tools such as the to an improved theoretical and Most of these issues will be Eastern Partnership, energy co- empirical understanding of European considered in the forthcoming Section operation and security, and further integration. Focusing on the analysis at the ECPR General Conference formal and informal strategies to of actual political changes in the entitled Rethinking Conditionality: engage with the wider European region and the scholarly analysis Incentivising Integration Across Central and Neighbourhood (post-Soviet Central thereof, the Workshop highlighted Eastern Europe and Central Asia, led by Asia, Middle East, North Africa, etc) that methodological choices often Eamonn Butler and Luca Anceschi, via political engagement and trade. lead scholars to over-emphasise and developed with and sponsored by the role of the EU in the domestic the Standing Group. In comparing the politics of CEE countries (Dimitrova) impact of EU conditionality on new ‘Dynamic and that while growing in quantity, EU member states, as well as on CEE development’ CEE Europeanisation is still rather countries, where EU membership is a marginal topic in mainstream EU not on the agenda (Eastern Europe, The Standing Group and its members research (Buzogany). the Caucasus, and Central Asia), are happy to be one of the driving the Section seeks to re-engage forces contributing to the above- Future research with the conditionality concept, described dynamic development by examining how its perception of research and research agenda In taking stock of the field, the has been modified by recent on CEE politics. Building on the Workshop highlighted three issues enlargements and EU approaches pioneering work of its first generation to be incorporated in the future to co-operation/integration with its of convenors, the main focus of the research of CEE Politics. First, the wider Eastern neighbourhood. Group today remains the closing of need to put the EU’s influence in the East-West divide by integrating the region into a broader perspective Examining the legacy of CEE scholars into ECPR activities and to re-connect the study of CEE conditionality, its relevance in and opening the CEE region up to politics with the main themes and the post-enlargement era and its all scholars interested in the richness questions of comparative politics; limits, in terms of geographical, of the region’s political development, second, to refocus on the internal political and economic scope, and last but not least, by taking variation within the region across allows multiple new avenues for stock of existing research agenda countries, sectors and time, and on research, for example looking at and initiating new research and the search for causal mechanisms the incentives for new EU member research co-operation.

news 23 5th ECPR Graduate Student Conference University of Innsbruck 3 – 5 July 2014

Tailored to graduate students looking for their first conference experience, networking and academic development, this conference offers a comprehensive programme of lectures, roundtables, themed Sections and Panels in political science, theory, international relations and European studies. To find out more, visit www.ecpr.eu 24 news 5th ECPR Graduate Student Conference University of Innsbruck 3 – 5 July 2014

Tailored to graduate students looking for their first conference experience, networking and academic development, this conference offers a comprehensive programme of lectures, roundtables, themed Sections and Panels in political science, theory, international relations and European studies. To find out more, visit www.ecpr.eu news 25 26 news An ECPR year on a page (or two)...

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