IPSA-ECP focuses on the analysis of elections, citizen activism, and political parties, within and across nation-states, using multiple methods. Elections include the role of electoral systems and electoral management, electoral reform, political representation, gender quotas, and the regulation of campaign and party funding. Parties are the key actors on the ‘supply-side’ of electoral competition, structuring voting choices, selecting candidates, offering policy platforms, campaigning, and organizing the allocation of legislative and executive offices. Lastly citizen activism includes research on political participation and voting behavior, the ‘demand-side’ of electoral competition determining party performance.
- Combining Voting and Deliberation in Citizen Participation Processes
Chair: Dr. Charlotte Wagenaar - Election Observation in the Digital Era
Chair: Prof. Régis Dandoy - Election, Citizens and Political parties in the 21st century
Chair: Dr. Meenakshi Bansal - Holding Elections amidst Institutional Stress
Chair: Prof. Manjari Katju - La Démocratie dans les Relations Internationales Contemporaines : Une analyse des Aspects procéduraux des élections en Afrique
Chair: Prof. Georges Munyenga Mulumbeni - On the Front Lines of Democracy: The Stories of Election Officials in Protecting the Vote
Chair: Ms. Jackie Wu - Perceived Quality of Elections in Autocratic Regimes and Polarized Societies
Chair: Dr. Maike Rump - Revisiting the Roots in Society: Opposition Party Institutionalisation and the Fate of ‘Third Wave’ Democratic Development
Chair: Mr. Julião Alar - Role of Institutional Credibility in Preserving Democracy- Test Case of Election Commission of India
Chair: Ms. Gurneet Tej - The Consequences of Electronic Voting
Chair: Prof. Régis Dandoy