ECPR 2007 Joint Session, Helsinki Finland, Workshop 19

Politicising Socio-Cultural Structures: Elite and Mass Perspectives on Cleavages

Workshop Participants:

A list of workshop participants in a (theoretically, at least) spam-proof format.

Workshop Goals:

Because of its ambitious goals in finding some terminological and methodological consistency before the Helsinki meeting, the organizers will take an active approach to coordinating papers and their conceptual frameworks by encouraging use of a common workshop weblog and other on-line open-editing collaboration tools.  If the scholarship produced for the workshop warrants publication, the organizers will continue their coordination efforts after the workshop and integrate appropriate papers into one or two edited volumes, with a follow-up meeting planned for April 2008 as part of the annual Course on Divided Societies hosted by the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 

Workshop Organizers:

Zsolt Enyedi is Associate Professor at the Central European University, Budapest. His research interests include party politics, church and state relations, and political attitudes. His recent publications include Church and State in Contemporary Europe (Frank Cass, 2003, co-edited with J. Madeley), articles in EJPR and Democratization, and chapters in a number of edited volumes, including the Handbook of Political Parties (2006, Sage). He was the 2003 recipient of the Wildenmann Prize and the 2004 winner of the Bibo Award. In 2005 he received the Marie Curie Fellowship at the European University Institute.

Kevin Deegan-Krause is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University and a Research Associate with the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan. His recent publications include Elected Affinities: Democracy and Party Competition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Stanford University Press, 2006), articles in Party Politics, the Journal of Democracy, East European Politics and Societies and chapters in many edited volumes. His current book project is Voting for Thugs: Explaining Support for Postcommunist Strongmen.  He has received Truman and Fulbright scholarships and IREX grants.