26. – 28. June 2025: 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Christoph Ivanusch and Leonce Röth will present the paper “Who Drives Priorities in the European Union? Analyzing Inter-Institutional Dynamics in Migration Communication (1999-2024)”, co-authored with Radu-Mihai Triculescu and Klaus Goetz. This expands the measurement of time pressure across communication from the European Council, the European Parliament, and the European Commission. More information as well asContinue reading “26. – 28. June 2025: 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid”

24.-25. June 2025: Pharmaceutical Policy Symposium

Paula Dornbusch will present her draft paper entitled “Time for TDEV? Tracing the Inclusion of Transferable Data Exclusivity Vouchers in the EU’s Proposed Pharmaceutical Package” at the 2nd virtual Pharmaceutical Policy Symposium. This is hosted by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Evidence Based Practice (University of KwaZulu-Natal), and co-hosted byContinue reading “24.-25. June 2025: Pharmaceutical Policy Symposium”

11. June 2025: Day of Parliamentary Research at Parliament Austria

Christoph Ivanusch and Klaus Goetz will present the SYNCPOL-paper “Do national parliaments drive attention and priorities in the EU multi-level system?”, co-authored with Leonce Röth, at the Day of Parliamentary Research at the Austrian Parliament in Vienna, thereby introducing national-level temporalities into the SYNCPOL research agenda. More information as well as the conference program areContinue reading “11. June 2025: Day of Parliamentary Research at Parliament Austria”

26. May 2025: Issue Competition Workshop at Aarhus Universitet

Christoph Ivanusch was invited to present the research agenda “When to act? Temporal preferences and issue salience in party competition”, co-authored with Leonce Röth, at a Workshop organised by Aarhus Universitet. This expands the measurements of time pressure invocations into the field of party competition by drawing on party manifesto data.

24. -26. April 2025: 7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025

Leonce Röth presented the paper “Procedural responsiveness: The European Union and migration policy (1990-2024)”, co-authored with Radu-Mihai Triculescu, Christoph Ivanusch and Klaus Goetz to introduce a text-analytical measurement of time pressure invocations and use it to analyse how the European Commission communicatively responds to changes in public opinion and problem pressure. More information as wellContinue reading “24. -26. April 2025: 7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025”

New publication by PD Dr. Martin Gross

The article “Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils” was published by PD Dr. Gross and his co-authors in the European Journal of Political Research. You can find the article here: https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6765.70019

Issue ownership and government participation. Explaining parties’ issue attention at the subnational level

Check out this new open-access publication by Svenja Krauss, Katrin Praprotnik and Martin Gross: Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13540688241306732 Abstract: The level of attention parties devote to specific issues is one of the key factors in parties’ electoral campaign strategies. Research so far only scarcely focused on parties’ attention towards specific issues at the subnational level—even though some issuesContinue reading “Issue ownership and government participation. Explaining parties’ issue attention at the subnational level”