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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”

PD Dr. Martin Gross im Interview mit der Abendzeitung

Der Artikel “Linksrutsch bei den Grünen? Wie es mit der Partei weitergeht” dreht sich um die Zukunft der Partei nach einem nicht zufriedenstellendem Wahlergebnis. Der Artikel erschien am 10.03.2025 zunächst in der Online-Version und ist unter folgendem Link abrufbar: https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/politik/linksrutsch-bei-den-gruenen-wie-es-mit-der-partei-weitergeht-art-1043240 Außerdem wird der Artikel am 12.03.2025 in der Print-Version der Abendzeitung lesbar sein.