ELECDEM: Training Network in Electoral Democracy
Programmegroup Challenges to Democratic Representation
This Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) will bring together 11 expert teams from 9 European countries to provide substantive and methodological training in elections research to a cohort of early stage and experienced researchers.
Marie Curie Initial Traing Network (ITN)
Period: 1/10/2009 - 30/9/2012
The research projects draw on cross-national election studies, European Election Study, the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and industry partners TNS-Opinion and Kieskompas to provide training and research opportunities.
ELECDEM proposes a comprehensive approach to the study of electoral democracy using cross-nationally comparative databases, content analysis and experiments in order to examine the impact of globalisation, technological developments in communication and institutional change on representation and accountability.
Three network themes
- Globalisation, Diversity and Elections
- Institutions, Mobilisation and Preferences
- Communication, Mobilisation and Preferences.
AISSR/University of Amsterdam is one of the partner organisations and responsible for work package 2 an 14.