Programme
The provisional programme for the EPOP 2006 conference is downloadable from here. Please note however that all paper details and times are subject to change.
You can download the papers presented at the conference below, once they have been uploaded by their author(s):
Adrian Kavanagh, Stewart Fotheringham and Martin Charlton, A Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis of Election Specific Turnout Behaviour in the Republic of Ireland.
David Farrell, Simon Hix, Mark Johnson and Roger Scully, A Survey of MEPs in the 2004-09 European Parliament
Robert Ford, After Powell: Immigration, Race and Voting in Britain 1970-1979
William Cross and Lisa Young, Attitudinal and Motivational Differences between Young Party Members and Members of Advocacy Groups: A Preliminary Investigation of the Canadian Case
Colin Rallings, Michael Thrasher, Galina Borisyuk, Ballot structure, parties and voters: Measuring effects at the local elections, 2002-2006
Mary Shears, Candidate Recruitment and Campaigning: Preliminary survey results from the 2006 local elections
Ken Carty, Andre Blais & Patrick Fournier, Citizens' Choice to Reform SMP
Thomas Gschwend, Comparative Politics of Strategic Voting: A Hierarchy of Electoral Systems
James Tilley, Geoff Evans and Claire Mitchell, Consociationalism and the evolution of political cleavages in Northern Ireland, 1989-2004
Alison Holmes, Devolution, Coalitions and the Liberal Democrats: Necessary Evil or Progressive Politics?
Adrian Blau, Electoral Reform in The UK: a Veto-Player Analysis
Xiudian Dai, Ethical Challenges of eDemocracy: What Does Email Communication Mean to Parliamentarians in Europe?
Roger Mortimore and Kully Kaur-Ballagan, Ethnic Minority Voters and Non-Voters at the 2005 British General Election
Samantha Laycock, Experience versus perceptions. Accounting for the NHS ‘perception gap’ and assessing its impact on voting in the 2005 British general election
Sean Carey, Exploring the link between the economy and public attitudes to the European Union
David Deacon and Dominic Wring, From Tory to Tony But Now What? The Changing Dynamics of Press Partisanship in Britain
Stuart Soroka and Christopher Wlezien, Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Opinion-Policy Dynamics
Stephen D Fisher, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Sara Hobolt, John Curtice, How the effect of political knowledge on turnout differs in plurality electoral systems
Lonneke van Noije, Jan Kleinnijenhuis and Dirk Oegema, Loss of parliamentary control due to mediatisation and internationalisation
Harold Clarke, David Sanders, Marianne Stewart, Paul Whiteley, Mixed Logit Models of Party Choice: Towards Process Heterogeneity
Jane Green and Sara Hobolt, Owning the Issue Agenda: Party Strategies and Vote Choices in British Elections
Michael Marsh and Patrick Bernhagen, Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout in the 2002 Irish General Election
Eoin O’Malley, Populist Nationalists: Sinn Fein and Redefining the 'Radical Right'
Mark Franklin, Cees van der Eijk and Wouter van der Brug, Preference, Choice and Vote: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Effects of Changing Economic Conditions in 15 Countries
Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones and Min-Hua Jen, Regional variations in voting at British general elections 1950-2001
Lauren McLaren and Mark Johnson, Resources, Group Conflict, and Symbols: Explaining Anti-Immigration Hostility in Britain
Rosie Campbell and Kristi Winters, Sex and political talk: men and women discuss the 2005 British General Election
Raymond Duch and Randy Stevenson, Strategic Economic Voting
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Robert McIlveen, The Conservatives' City Seats Initiative
Achim Goerres, The Grey Vote. Determinants of Older Voters' Party Choice in Britain and West Germany
Susan A. Banducci and Jeffrey A. Karp, The Impact of Minority Group Representation on Attitudes and Engagement
Jack Vowles, The Liberated Genie: Will Electoral System Change in New Zealand be Overturned?
Iannis Konstantinidis, The Nature of Liberal Democratic Support: Stable or Transitory?
Will Jennings, The Public Thermostat, Policy Responsiveness and Bureaucratic Control: Border Protection and Asylum in Britain, 1994-2004
Stephen Ward, Wainer Lusoli and Rachel Gibson, The Same the World Over? Candidate Campaigning Online in the Uk and Australia
David Cutts, Sarah Childs, and Edward Fieldhouse, This is what happens when you don’t listen. All Women Shortlists at the 2005 General Election
Ivor Gaber, Too much of a good thing: the 'problem 'of political communications in a mass media democracy
Alistair Clark and Lynn Bennie, Traffic Light Politics? Electoral Volatility and its Implications for Party System Change in Scotland
Paul Webb, Tim Bale and Paul Taggart, Understanding Democratic Disconnect: An Agenda for Research
Tim Bale, What took you so long? Why the Conservative Party needed nearly a decade to come to its senses.
Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart, Where’s it all coming from? The Government’s difficulties in the House of Commons
Meg Russell and Maria Sciara, Why does the Government get defeated in the House of Lords? The Liberal Democrats as a Pivotal Group
Ben Seyd, Why Has Political Trust in Britain Declined?
Edward Phelps, Young Citizens and Declining Electoral Turnout: Trends and Explanations