Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy

Events

2024

Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution

Date
12 February 2024 (15:00-17:30)
Location:
Hybrid
Description
A hybrid event hosted in collaboration with Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR)

Why Norms Matter: The Normalisation of the Radical Right

Date
13 February 2024 (15:00-16:30)
Location:
C12 Monica Partridge Building
Description
REPRESENT welcomes Dr Vicente Valentim to present new work on the radical right

Participation, Gender, and Legitimacy in Party Leader Selection

Date
21 February 2024 (14:30-16:00)
Description
Join REPRESENT for this online event with Dr Zeynep Somer-Topcu (University of Texas)

 

2023

Local Candidates in Indian Elections

Date
01 February 2023 (13:00-14:30)
Location:
hybrid event - online and in person
Description
POSTPONED: A REPRESENT research seminar with Dr Dishil Shrimankar

Big Ideas Sandpit Luncheon

Date
16 February 2023 (13:00-14:30)
Location:
C102 Law and Social Sciences
Description
*POSTPONED - new date to be announced*A structured conversation about network colleagues' ideas for collaborative grant capture.

Political Parties and Post-Truth Politics

Date
22 February 2023 (14:00-15:30)
Location:
hybrid event - online and in person
Description
A REPRESENT research seminar with Nathalie Brack

Voters Under Pressure: Group-Based Cross-Pressure and Electoral Volatility

Date
23 March 2023 (16:00-17:30)
Location:
Online
Description
Book launch with our guest Ruth Dassonneville

The Independent Voter in American Politics

Date
29 March 2023 (16:00-17:30)
Location:
D08 Monica Partridge Building
Description
Thom Reilly (Arizona State University) presents his new book on who independent voters are and why they matter in American politics.

Patronage Distribution, Co-optation, and Invisible Electoral Manipulation

Date
03 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)
Location:
D09 Monica Partridge
Description
A hybrid research seminar with Halfdan Lynge (University of Witwatersrand)

Glass Ceilings & Cliffs: Gendered Party Leadership in Parliamentary Systems

Date
29 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)
Location:
D13 Monica Partridge building
Description
a research seminar with REPRESENT and Andrea Aldrich (Yale University)

Quotas in Context: Gender and Elections in Sierra Leone, India, and Europe

Date
11 October 2023 (12:30-14:00)
Location:
A100 Law and Social Science, University Park
Description
REPRESENT invites you to kick off the year with an in-person research panel and discussion on the use of gender quotas for promoting women's equal representation and democratic quality in three global contexts.

Let's Think about Funding: Writing Proposals for ESRC DTP Strategic Joint and Collaborative Studentships

Date
23 October 2023 (12:00-13:00)
Location:
Online event
Description
Join us for an online discussion about the new ESRC call for studentship proposals for the 2024 Collaborative and Strategic Joint Midlands Graduate School DTP.

Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Insights from Argentina, Brazil, and Guatemala

Date
29 November 2023 (16:00-17:30)
Location:
Online Only
Description
Join REPRESENT to discuss contemporary challenges to democracy in Latin America

Centrist Anti-Establishment Parties and their Struggle for Survival

Date
06 December 2023 (16:00-17:30)
Location:
Online Only
Description
Join REPRESENT to discuss Sarah Engler's new book exploring the fate of anti-establishment parties in Central and Eastern Europe

 

2022

REPRESENT Mini-Workshop on Works in Progress

Date
10 November 2022 (10:00-16:00)
Location:
D13 Monica Partridge building, University Park
Description
Featuring the works in progress of our network colleagues.

Baltic Exceptionalism: Russian Minorities as a Blessing, Rather than Curse

Date
26 October 2022 (15:30-17:00)
Location:
Hybrid event
Description
Please join us for a research talk with Tõnis Saarts (Tallinn University).

The State of Representation in Britain

Date
05 October 2022 (13:00-14:30)
Location:
A3 Law and Social Sciences
Description
Roundtable event with REPRESENT.

 

2021

REPRESENT PGR Symposium

Date
08 December 2021 (16:30-18:00)
Location:
Zoom
Description
Come and listen to presentations of ongoing work from PGR students affiliated with the subject aims of the REPRESENT Research Network.

The Same Old Newness: the Elections in Bulgaria

Date
18 November 2021 (13:00-15:00)
Location:
Zoom
Description
Bulgaria goes to the polls for the third time this year. Why has the country held so many elections? An event held by POLSIS, Temple University, REPRESENT, and Leiden University's Central and East European Studies Centre Seminar.

Democratic Decay and Authoritarian Resurgence

Date
17 November 2021 (15:00-16:30)
Location:
Zoom
Description
Why do democracies fall apart and what can be done about it? A conversation with Natasha Lindstaedt (Essex) and Licia Cianetti (Birmingham): held by REPRESENT and POLSIS.

Democracy Promotion: an Appraisal

Date
27 October 2021 (16:00-17:30)
Location:
Online event

REPRESENT event: A Changing of the Guard? The 2021 German Elections

Date
06 October 2021 (17:00-18:00)
Location:
Zoom
Description
REPRESENT invites you to their first seminar of the year, in cooperation with IGES and POLSIS.

 

2020

Pernicous Presidentialization and Democratic Backsliding: Hungary and Turkey in Comparative Perspective

Date
24 February 2020 (17:00-18:30)
Location:
E02 Teaching and Learning Building, University Park
Description
Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy (REPRESENT) will invite Hakan Yavuzyilmaz (Hacettepe Üniversitesi) for his presentation.

 

2019

How to Rig an Election

Date
10 December 2019 (14:00-15:30)
Location:
A44 Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy (REPRESENT) will invite Dr Brian Klaas (University College London) for his presentation.

'The origins of right-wing populism in Israel: Peace Process and collective identities' struggle'

Date
19 November 2019 (13:00-14:30)
Location:
C102 Law and Social Sciences
Description
Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy (REPRESENT) will invite Dr Anna M Bagaini (University of Nottingham) for her presentation.

United We Stand, Divided We Fall? The Effects of Parties' Brexit Rhetoric on Voters

Date
29 October 2019 (13:00-14:30)
Location:
B2 The Hemsley University Park
Description
Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy (REPRESENT) in association with Centre for British Politics (CBP) will invite Dr Jae-Hee Jung (Oxford University) for her presentation.

Evolving Party Systems, Ideological Configurations and Values

Date
17 May 2019 (10:00-17:00)
Location:
B55 Law & Social Sciences Building, clive gran
Description
The Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy and the Centre for British Politics collaborate to host a one day workshop

The Multiple Roots of the populist Radical Right: voting for Populist Radical right Parties in Cities and the Countryside

Date
16 May 2019 (15:00-16:00)
Location:
A3 Law and Social Sciences Building
Description
A REPRESENT seminar with Professor Wouter van der Brug (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

'There is no fate but what we make for ourselves': Historical legacies and electoral change in Asian democracies, 1948-2017

Date
09 May 2019 (12:00-13:30)
Location:
A2 Law and, A2 Law and Social Sciences Building
Description
The Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy (REPRESENT) is delighted to announce a seminar hosted by Fernando Casal Bertoa and Don Lee

Parties and Partisanship in Presidential Democracies

Date
30 April 2019 (12:00-13:00)
Location:
A19 Trent Building
Description
CANCELLED: REPRESENT is delighted to announce a seminar with Marcelo Camerlo (ICS)

 

2018

NICEP/REPRESENT joint seminar with Natasha Wunsch (ETH Zurich)

Date
08 November 2018 (12:00-13:00)
Location:
b7, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
Natasha Wunsch (ETH Zurich) will deliver a talk for NICEP, co-hosted with REPRESENT.

Winning Friends and Influencing People: Campaigning in Central and Eastern Europe

Date
03 May 2018 (15:00-16:30)
Location:
University of Nottingham
Description
A seminar with REPRESENT.

Drivers of party system institutionalization in Africa's young democracies

Date
03 May 2018 (15:00-16:30)
Location:
A3 Law and Social Sciences, University Park
Description
Dr Edalina Rodrigues Sanches (University of Lisbon) presents in the second NICEP seminar held in collaboration with Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy.

Political parties in the age of populism

Date
26 (10:00) - 27 April 2018 (15:00)
Location:
University of Birmingham
Description
On April 26-27, REPRESENT will host a conference, Political Parties in the Age of Populism, at the University of Birmingham.

Do Arabs not do parties?

Date
01 March 2018 (16:30-18:00)
Location:
Muirhead Tower, Room 427, University of Birmingham
Description
Dr Lise Storm presents at the next REPRESENT seminar at the University of Birmingham.

Dyadic representation and Brexit: The limited effects of congruence in the 2017 UK general election

Date
15 February 2018 (15:00-16:30)
Location:
A2 Law and Social Sciences, University Park
Description
NICEP collaborate with the Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy (Represent) to present Professor Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway).

The effects of negative campaigning on party preference and election outcome in the 2015 UK election

Date
29 January 2018 (16:30-18:00)
Location:
University of Birmingham
Description
A REPRESENT seminar

 

 

Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy

University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD


email: fernando.casal.bertoa@nottingham.ac.uk