On April 26-27, REPRESENT will host a conference, Political Parties in the Age of Populism, at the University of Birmingham. The conference will examine the challenges populism poses to traditional political parties, the opportunities it might create for new forms of political participation, and the implications of both for efforts to promote democracy overseas. A distinctive […]
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New Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy
Organised under the auspices of the Standing Group on Central East European Politics and with the support of the Standing Group on Political Parties of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the inaugural Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy will bring together an international team of academics and practitioners to train and instruct […]
REPRESENT holds first research seminar
On 29 January 2018, Professor Cees van der Eijk and Dr. Annemarie Walter from the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham presented at REPRESENT’s first seminar in Birmingham. Their latest research examines the effects of negative campaigning on party preference and election outcome in the 2015 UK election. Their findings suggest […]
REPRESENT to cooperate with international IDEA
REPRESENT has announced an agreement to cooperate with International IDEA on a new project, ‘Party Funding in Asia.’ This collaboration will centre on the Political Finance Database (PFDB) project, a leading global resource on political finance. International IDEA, through its Political Participation and Representation Processes Programme, plans to launch a new version of the PFDB in 2018. […]