Workshop: Methodological dimensions of the RECON democracy models

WP 3 - Representation and Institutional Make-up

WP 3 events 

Vienna, 18 December 2009

The Institute for European Integration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences will host a workshop on methodology and empirical analysis as part of RECON's work package 3 on Representation and Institutional Make-up.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together young scholars engaged in empirical research in the framework of the RECON programme. The workshop will act as a bridge between the different work packages, and focuses on the empirical dimension of the research conducted in each of them. In particular, it invites researchers to present the methodological framework of their work including issues of operationalisation, methodological techniques and data analysis. The workshop will allow researchers to learn from each others’ experience and best practices and highlight how the same or similar data can be used in different ways and for different research purposes.

Read more on the research objectives of WP 3 and on the overall research objectives of RECON. 

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Programme

09:30	We meet at the entrance of Alma Hotel and walk to the Academy
10:00 - 10:45	The challenge of operationalising and analyzing political claims under the RECON models Manos Sigalas, Austrian Academy of Sciences
10:45 - 11:30	Collective identification and the RECON models: Constraints of the conceptualization and operationalisation Olga Brzezińska and Magdalena Góra, Jagiellonian University
11:30 - 12:15	Patterns of MEP co-ordination within the EU’s multilevel parliamentary field Eric Miklin, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45	The content and quality of representation in the European Assembly: Towards building an updated Discourse quality index at the EU level Dionysia Tamvaki, University of Reading
14:45 - 15:30	Claims-making analysis in Atlas.ti and SPSS: Between quality and quantity Pieter De Wilde, ARENA, University of Oslo
15:30 - 16:15	Four arenas of political communication in the EU constitutional process mapped through different data sets in empirical test of ideal types of public spheres parliamentary field: The case of the EU Services Directive Ewelina Pawlack, University of Bremen
19:00	Dinner

 

For further information, please contact Manos Sigalas.