Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy

Events

2025

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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.

 

Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy

University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD


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