Publications

• Forthcoming

  Lengauer, Günther and Johann, David: Candidate and Party Bias in the News and Its Effects on Party Choice: Evidence from Austria. Studies in Communication Sciences 13.

  Zeglovits, Eva and Kritzinger, Sylvia: New Attempts to Reduce Overreporting of Voter Turnout and Their Effects, International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

  Zeglovits, Eva and Zandonella, Martina: Political interest of adolescents before and after lowering the voting age: the case of Austria, Journal of Youth Studies.

  Aichholzer, Julian, Kritzinger, Sylvia, Wagner, Markus and Zeglovits, Eva: How has radical right support transformed established political conflicts? The case of Austria, West European Politics.

  Dolezal, Martin, Eder, Nikolaus, Kritzinger, Sylvia and Zeglovits, Eva: The structure of issue attitudes revisited: A dimensional analysis of Austrian voters and party elites, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

  Dunn, Kris and Singh, Shane: Pluralistic Conditioning: Effective democracy and social tolerance, Democratization.

  Singh, Shane and Dunn, Kris: Veto Players, the Policymaking Environment, and the Expression of Authoritarian Attitudes, Political Studies.

• 2013

  Aichholzer, Julian (2013), Intra-individual variation of extreme response style in       mixed-mode panel studies, Social Science Research, 42(3), 957-970.

• 2012

Zandonella, Martina and Zeglovits, Eva (2012), Young men and their vote for the radical right in Austria: Can personality traits, right wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation contribute to the explanation of radical right voting? Politics, Culture and Socialization, 3(1), 63-80.

Thelen, Tatjana and Gingrich, Andre (2012), Comparative Anthropology: Achievements, failures and future, Ethnologie francaise, 42(2), 385-391.

Thelen, Tatjana, Kay, Rebecca and Shubin, Sergei (2012), Rural Realities in Post-socialist Space: Introduction, Journal of Rural Studies, 28(2), 55-62.

Thelen, Tatjana (2012), The natural order of things and state policies: Parenting in eastern Germany after 1989, Ethnologie francaise, 42(1), 45-54.

Fazekas, Zoltán and Littvay, Levente (2012), Choosing sides: The genetics of why we go with the loudest, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 24(2), 389-408.

van der Brug, Wouter and Kritzinger, Sylvia (2012), Generational differences in electoral behaviour, Electoral Studies, 31(2), 245-249.

Dunn, Kris (2012), Voice and trust in parliamentary representation, Electoral Studies, 31(2), 393-405. 

Wagner, Markus, Johann, David, and Kritzinger, Sylvia (2012), Voting at 16: turnout and the quality of vote choice, Electoral Studies, 31(2), 372-383.

Wagner, Markus and Kritzinger, Sylvia (2012), Ideological dimensions and vote choice: age group differences in Austria, Electoral Studies, 31(2), 285-296.

Horvath, Kenneth (2012), National numbers for transnational relations? Challenges of integrating quantitative methods into research on transnational labour market relations, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(10). 

Lefkofridi, Zoe and Horvath, Kenneth (2012), Migration Issues & Representation in European Liberal Democracies, in: Representation, 48(1), 29-46. 

Johann, David (2012), Specific Political Knowledge and Citizens' Participation: Evidence from Germany, in: Acta Politica, 47(1), 42-66. 

Hansen, Martin Ejnar and Debus, Marc (2012), The behaviour of political parties and MPs in the parliaments of the Weimar Republic, in: Party Politics.

Wagner, Markus (2012), When do parties emphasize extreme positions? How strategic incentives for policy differentiation influence issue importance, European Journal of Political Research, 51(1), 64-88. 

Vivyan, Nick and Wagner, Markus (2012), Do voters reward rebellion? The electoral accountability of MPs in Britain, European Journal of Political Research, 51(2), 235-264.

Wagner, Markus and Ruusuvirta, Outi (2012), Matching voters to parties: Voting advice applications and models of party choice, Acta Politica.

• 2011
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2011), A Random Process? Commitee Assignments in Dáil Éireann, Irish Political Studies, 26(3), 345-360.
  
  Johann, David (2011), Spielregeln und AkteurInnen: Politisches Wissen als Ressource verschiedener Formen politischer Partizipation, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 40(4), 377-394.
  
  Fazekas, Zoltan (2011), Institutional effects on the presence of trade unions at the workplace: Moderation in a multilevel setting, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 17(2), 153-169.
  
  Wagner, Markus (2011), Defining and Measuring Niche Parties, Party Politics.
  
  Casado-Asensio, Juan and Lefkofridi, Zoe (2011), Representation in the European Union: Congruence between Citizens and Elites in the EP's Two-Level Setting, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 12(2), 161-179. 
  
  Wagner, Markus (2011), The Right in the European Parliament since 1979, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 12(1), 52-67.
  

• 2010
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2010), The Parliamentary Behaviour of Minor Parties and Independents in Dáil Éireann, Irish Political Studies, 25(4), 643-660.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2010), Committee Assignment Politics in the Danish Folketing, Scandinavian Political Studies, 33(4), 381-401.
  
  Horvath, Kenneth and Rosenberg, Jakob (2010), EUROschools 2008: The Difficult Relationship of Culture, Nation, and Anti-Racism in UEFA's Campaign Work, Soccer and Society, 11(6), 829-842.
  
  Westle, Bettina and Johann, David (2010), Das Wissen der Europäer/innen über die Europäische Union, in: Arzheimer, Kai, Faas, Thorsten, and Roßteutscher, Sigrid (eds.), Information -- Wahrnehmung -- Emotion: Politische Psychologie in der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 353-374.
  
  Debus, Marc and Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2010), Die Dimensionalität der Reichstage der Weimarer Republik von 1920 bis 1932, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 51, 15-42.
  
  Krizinger, Sylvia; Lefkofridi, Zoe and Casado-Asensio, Juan (2010), Policy-Repräsentation und europäische Integration: Wählerpräferenzen im Spiegel der Parteien, in: Pfefferle, Roman, Schmidt, Nadja, and Valchars, Gerd (eds.), Europa als Prozess: 15 Jahre Europäische Union und Österreich (Festschrift für Peter Gerlich), Wien: LIT Verlag, 2010.
  
  

• 2009
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2009), Change and Lasting Impact Achieved, Survival Not: The Progressive Democrats 1985-2009, Nordic Irish Studies, 8, 135-150.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2009), The Positions of Irish parliamentary actors 1937-2006, Irish Political Studies, 24(1), 29-44.
  
  

  Kritzinger, Sylvia and Michalowitz, Irina (2009), Methodenkonflikt oder Methodenpluralismus? Policy-Forschung auf dem Prüfstand, in: Schubert, K.; Bandelow, N. C. (eds.), Lehrbuch der Politikfeldanalyse 2.0, München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 245-272.
  
  Johann, David (2009), Charakteristika und Motive der Stimmensplitter bei der Bundestagswahl 2005, in: Kühnel, Steffen, Niedermayer, Oskar and Westle, Bettina (eds.), Wähler in Deutschland. Sozialer und politischer Wandel, Gender und Wahlverhalten, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 399-423. 
  
  Johann, David (2009), Eine Betrachtung der Wahlbeteiligung bei der Bundestagswahl 2005 auf Basis von Rational-Choice-Konzepten, in: Kühnel, Steffen, Niedermayer, Oskar, and Westle, Bettina (eds.), Wähler in Deutschland. Sozialer und politischer Wandel, Gender und Wahlverhalten, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 424-449.
  
  Bamberg, Simone and Johann, David (2009), Kultur kostet und macht Arbeit. Veränderungen des Kultursektors und die Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt, Sozialwissenschaften und Berufspraxis (SuB), 32(1), 67-75.

  Lefkofridi, Zoe (2009), European Integration and National Political Parties: Theoretical framework of the Greek Case. In: Konstantinidis, J., Marantzidis, N., and Pappas, T. (eds), The New Political Party Landscape in Greece, Athens: Kritiki (in Greek).
  
  Casado Asensio, Juan (2009), Transposition Beyond Policy Legacies and Veto Players? The Case of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Austria, Croatian Political Science Review, 5, 153-174.

• 2008
  
  Casado Asensio, Juan (2008), Cutting through the "misfit" jungle: Can a re-construction of the goodness-of-fit hypothesis help us understand the transposition of EU anti-discrimination directives in Austria?, IHS Working Paper Political Science Series, 117. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies. Available online at: http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_117.pdf.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2008), Reconsidering the party distances and dimensionality of the Danish Folketing, Journal of Legislative Studies, 14(3), 264-278.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2008), Back to the Archives? A critique of the Danish part of the manifesto dataset, Scandinavian Political Studies, 31(2), 201-216.
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia (2008), EU External policy-making: ‘Realistically’ Dealing with Authoritarianism? The case of Morocco [with Francesco Cavatorta, Raj Chari and Arantza Gomez Arana], European Foreign Affairs Review 13 (3) . 
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia (2008), Governance Modes and Interests: Higher Education and Innovation Policy in Austria, Journal of Public Policy, 28(3) [with Helga Pülzl]. 
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia (2008), Trends und Probleme der komparativen Parteienforschung: eine Einleitung [with Hubert Sickinger], Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 37(1).
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia (2008), Politische Parteien und die Europäische Integration, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 37(3) [with Hubert Sickinger]. 
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia (2008), Vergleichende Parteien: Trends und Probleme,  Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 37(3) [with Hubert Sickinger]. 
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia (2008), Security through authoritarianism? The Euro-Mediterranean partnership and Morocco [with Francesco Cavatorta and Raj Chari], in: R. Barbeito (ed.), Migraciones y Seguridad, Madrid. 
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe (2008), An Integrated Model of National Party Response to European Integration, IHS Working Paper Political Science Series, 115. Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies. Available online at:http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_115.pdf.
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe and Sylvia Kritzinger, (2008), Battles fought in the EP arena: Developments in National Parties’ Euro-manifestos, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 37(3).
  
  Ludvig, Alice (2008), Can Cross-Border Bargaining Coordination Work? Analytical Reflections on its Feasibility and Evidence from Germany's and Austria's Metal Industry, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 14 [with Franz Traxler, Vera Glassner and Bernd Brandl].

• 2007
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia (2007), Methodenkonflikt oder Methodenpluralismus? Policy-Forschung auf dem Prüfstand [with Irina Michalowitz], in: Janning, F. and Toens, K. (eds.), Die Zukunft der Policy-Forschung: Theorien, Methoden, Anwendungen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 191-210. 
  
  Ludvig, Alice (2007), Neue Selbstständige in Wien. Beschäftigungsentwicklung, Erwerbsdaten und Unterstütungsbedarf, in: Wien in Zahlen 2007: Beschäftigung, Stadt Wien, Statistische Analysen MA 5, 39-45.
  
  

Conference Papers

• 2012
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia, Freire, Andre, Willmann, Johanna, and Santana-Pereira, José (08.07-12.07.2012), In the Long-run to the Short-term: Explanations of Voting Behaviour Shifting from Social to the Political Context, XXIInd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, Spain.
  

  Zandonella, Martina and Zeglovits, Eva (08.07-12.07.2012), Can personality traits, right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain voting for the radical right FPÖ?, XXIInd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, Spain.

  Zeglovits, Eva and Zandonella, Martina (08.07-12.07.2012), Political Interest of 8th Graders: Do School and Parents Matter?, XXIInd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, Spain.

  Fazekas, Zoltan (10.07.-14.07.2012), Personality traits and attitudes towards coalition formation and government, 16th European Conference on Personality, Trieste, Italy.

  Hansen, Martin (24.06.-27.06.2012), Democratization of Committee Assignments: The Impact of Reform in the United Kingdom House of Commons , "Parliaments in Changing Times" - The Inaugural General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Dublin, Ireland.

  Aichholzer, Julian (21.06.-23.06.2012), Intra-individual Variation of Survey Response Styles in Mixed-Mode Panel Studies, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Fazekas, Zoltan (21.06.-23.06.2012), Everything is important so nothing is extreme: Individual differences in extreme political attitude formation, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Fazekas, Zoltan and Krouwel, Andrew (21.06.-23.06.2012), Personality traits and attitudes towards coalition formation and government , 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Hansen, Martin and Klemmensen, Robert (21.06.-23.06.2012), Institutional Influences on Government Policy Positions, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Hansen, Martin (21.06.-23.06.2012), Less Conflict and Much Consensus? Voting Behaviour in the Constitutional Convention of Denmark, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Meyer, Thomas, Johann, David, and Wagner, Markus (21.06.-23.06.2012), Testing Spatial Voting Models Using Simulated Data, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Wagner, Markus (21.06.-23.06.2012), Fear and anger in Great Britain: the political sources of emotional reactions to the financial crisis, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Wagner, Markus and Meyer, Thomas (21.06.-23.06.2012), Explaining parties’ salience strategies: the moderating role of party size, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Wagner, Markus and Vivyan, Nick (21.06.-23.06.2012), The dynamic effects of politician misconduct on satisfaction with democracy: evidence from the UK Expenses Scandal, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Zeglovits, Eva and Zandonella, Martina (21.06.-23.06.2012), Voting for a radical right party - evidence from a psychologist's point of view, 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, Germany.

  Kritzinger, Sylvia, Schwarzer, Steve and Zeglovits, Eva (17.05-20.05.2012), Reducing Overreporting Voter Turnout in Seven European Countries – Results from a Survey Experiment, AAPOR 67th Annual Conference, Orlando (FL), USA.

  Horvath, Kenneth (12.04.-13.04.2012), Unmaking Citizenship, Managing Migration: New Types of Labor Migration in Central Europe and the Transformation of Citizenship in the Enlarged EU, Changing Patterns of Migration – Changing Patterns of Social Inequalities? Borders and Boundaries in the Enlarged Europe, International Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany.

  Aichholzer, Julian (19.04.-21.04.2012) 'Detecting Response Style Variation in Mixed-Mode Panel Surveys', QMSS Seminar Overtime Analysis in Comparative Research, Vienna, Austria.

  Hansen, Martin (11.04.-14.04.2012), Maintaining Intra-Party Cohesion: Examining Unrecorded Amending Activity, 71st MPSA Annual National Conference, Chicago, USA.

  Hansen, Martin (11.04.-14.04.2012), Congressional Debate, Position-taking, and the Issue of Immigration , 71st MPSA Annual National Conference, Chicago, USA.

  Johann, David, Meyer, Thomas, Steinbrecher, Markus, and Zeglovits, Eva (11.04.-14.04.2012), Issue Voting and Voters’ Personality in German Federal Elections, 71st MPSA Annual National Conference, Chicago, USA.

  Fazekas, Zoltan, van Dalen, Arjen, Klemmensen, Robert, and Moller-Hansen, Kasper (11.04.-14.04.2012), Campaign Dynamics on Social Media Explained: How the Campaign Agendas of Political Parties on Social Media Respond to Change in Public Opinion, 71st MPSA Annual National Conference, Chicago, USA.

  Wagner, Markus and Meyer, Thomas (22.03.-24.03.2012), 'Explaining parties’ salience strategies: the moderating role of party popularity', 19th International Conference of Europeanists, Boston, USA.

  
  
  
• 2011
  

   Zeglovits, E. (02.12.2011). Votes at 16: Turnout of the Youngest Voters -- Evidence from Austria, ÖGPW Tag der Politikwissenschaft, Salzburg.

  Aichholzer, J., Kritzinger, S., Wagner, M. & E. Zeglovits (02.12.2011). How are they different? Comparing supporters of the radical right and mainstream parties in Austria, ÖGPW Tag der Politikwissenschaft, Salzburg. 
  
  Zeglovits, E. & M. Zandonella (25.-27.08.2011). Political interest among young Austrians before and after lowering voting age, ECPR 6th General Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  
  Horvath, Kenneth (23.-25.06.2011), Conflicting rationalities? The complex interplay of securitization and economization in the framing of temporal migrant worker programmes - the example of Austria's seasonal workers scheme, 6th Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference, Cardiff, Wales.

  Tarlov, Jessie; Vivyan, Nick and Wagner, Markus (16.-18.06.2011), Misbehaviour, Voter Perceptions and Accountability: Evidence from the 2009 Expenses Scandal, 1st Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Dublin, Ireland.

  Zeglovits, E. & S. Kritzinger (18.-22.07.2011). Reducing Overreporting in the Voter Turnout Question, Fourth Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Lausanne.  
  
   Zandonella, M. & E. Zeglovits (09.-12.07.2011). Political Interest and Turnout -- a long-time relationship is up for debate, Annual Scientific Meeting of the ISPP, Istanbul, Turkey.

  Hansen, Martin Eijnar (16.-18.06.2011), Commitee Assignment Politics in Newly Established Legislative Assemblies, 1st Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Dublin, Ireland.

  Fazekas, Zoltan (16.-18.06.2011), Important yet Indifferent: Personality Traits, Extremity of Individual Political Attitudes and Personal Importance, 1st Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Dublin, Ireland.

  Fazekas, Zoltan (16.-18.06.2011), The Guarantor of Extreme Political Attitudes: Varying Effects of Personal Importance across Political Issues, 1st Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Dublin, Ireland.

  Konstantinidis, Iannis and Lefkofridi, Zoe (12.-17.04.2011), Ticket-splitting in EU 'Split-Level Democracy’: Policy Representation Across National & EP Arenas, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  

  Lefkofridi, Zoe; Wagner, Markus and Willmann, Johanna (12.-17.04.2011), Seeking Policy Representation across Issue Dimensions in the EU, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  
  Ludvig, Alice (12.-17.04.2011), How do Naturalisation Rates relate to Policy Measures? The Austrian Citizenship Case?, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe (13-14.01.2011), Taxation without Representation? Migration Regimes & Parties’ Policy Offers, Dreiländertagung 2011, Basel, Switzerland.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar and Kritzinger, Sylvia (13-14.01.2011), Regional Differences in Congruence between Voter and Government, Dreiländertagung 2011, Basel, Switzerland.
  

• 2010
  
  Katsanidou, Alexia and Lefkofridi, Zoe (18-19.11.2010), Citizen Representation in the European Union: Policy Congruence in the 2009 EP Election, Final User Conference of 7th Framework Programme: Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU), Brussels, Belgium.
  
  Kenneth, Horvath (19.09. - 22.09.2010), Conflicting Rationalities? Some Considerations of the Interplay of Securitisation and Economisation in the Framing of Migration Politics/Policies - Based on the Case of Austria, Conference of the ESA-Research Network on Sociology of Migration (in Constitution), University of Vienna, Austria.
  
  Johann, David (30.08. - 01.09.2010), Political Knowledge as Predictor of Political Participation, ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin City University, Ireland.
  
  Willmann, Johanna (30.08. - 01.09.2010), The Problem of Attidudinal Cross-Pressures. What Determines the Vote Choice when Partisanship and Issue Attitude are in Conflict?, ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin City University, Ireland.
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe and Casado-Asensio, Juan (28-29.05.2010), European Vox Radicis: Representation & Policy Congruence on the Extremes, Representation & Policy Congruence in Europe, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany.
  
  Wagner, Markus and Vivyan, Nick (13.-14.5.2010), Do voters reward rebellion? The legislative accountability of MPs in Britain, Second Political Science and Political Economy Conference, London School of Economics, UK.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (22.-25.4.2010): Towards an Understanding of Reshuffles of Committee Members between Elections in Parliamentary Systems, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  
  Kritzinger, Sylvia and McElroy, Gail (22.-25.04.2010), Meaningful Choices? Voter perceptions of party positions in European Elections, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe (29.03. - 01.04. 2010), Sleeping with the Enemy? The Greek Radical Left & the EU, PSA 60th Anniversary Conference, Edinburgh, UK.
  
  Wagner, Markus and Kritzinger, Sylvia (22.-27.03.2010), Issue voting behaviour in Austria: de-alignment or re-alignment?, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
  
  Johann, David (22.-27.3.2010), Translating issue preferences into vote choice: the impact of political knowledge, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe (22-27.03.2010), Changing Policy, not Structure: Greek Office-Seekers Facing Voters and EU Partners, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
  

• 2009
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (27.-28.11.2009), Austrian Local Government Politics, International Conference on Independent Local Lists and Local Parties Politics at Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (22.-23.10.2009), Reaction or Career? Analysing Changes in Committee Membership Between Elections, Annual Meeting of the  Danish Political Science Association, Vejlefjord, Denmark.
  
  

  Casado-Asensio, Juan & Lefkofridi, Zoe (10.-12.9. 2009), "Representation in the European Union: Congruence between Citizens and Elites in a Multilevel Setting", Conference Paper, Fifth General 
  ECPR Conference, Section: Policy Representation in Comparative Perspective, Potsdam, Germany.

  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (10.-12.9.2009), A dimension too far? Policy Congruence in Scandinavia, ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, Germany.
  
  Wagner, Markus and Ruusuvirta, Outi (3.-6.9.2009), Faulty Recommendations? Party Positions in Online Voting Advice Application, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada.
  
  Wagner, Markus (3.-6.9.2009), Issue Interconnections in Party Competition: Policy Linkages and Ideological Change in 23 Democracies, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada.
  
  Willmann, Johanna (29.6-3.7. 2009), Measuring Social Capital and its Influence on Voting Behaviour at the Aggregate Regional Level, Paper presentation at the Conference of the European Survey Research Conference, Warsaw, Poland.
  
  Ludvig, Alice (12.-13.6.2009), Effekte von Arbeitslosigkeit auf Psyche, Gesundheit und soziale Beziehungen: Ergebnisse neuerer Forschung in Österreich, Arbeitswelten im Wandel, Vienna, Austria.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (2.-5.4.2009), Committee assignment politics in multi-party parliaments, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  
  

• 2008
  
  Casado Asensio, Juan (2-5.10.2008), Tied up by Europe, tied down by domestic politics? The transposition of the EU Anti-Discrimination Directives in Austria.
  Paper presentation at Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) 2008 Conference on Europeanization of National Politics, Opatija, Croatia.
  
  Casado Asensio, Juan (25-27.9.2008): When ‘progressive law’ hits home: the transposition of the Anti-discrimination Directives in Austria, Germany and Spain,
  Paper presentation at Fourth ECPR Pan European Conference on EU politics, Riga, Latvia.
  
  Hansen, Martin Ejnar (18.12.2008): The Parliamentary Behaviour of Independents and Minor Parties in the Dáil Eireann 1937-2007, Paper presentation at conference on "Minor parties in Irish political life", Dublin, Ireland.
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe (14-15.11.2008): The impact of European Integration on National Political Parties: Evidence from four Greek Parties, Paper Presentation for Workshop "The International Dimension of Political Party (System) Development: Assessing Actors, Methods, Effects, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe (2-5.10.2008): An Integrated Model of National Party Response to European Integration. Paper presentation at Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) 2008 Conference on Europeanization of National Politics, Opatija, Croatia, Panel 2: Political Institutions.  
   
  Lefkofridi, Zoe (25-27. 9.2008): The impact of EU Institutions and Policies on National Political Parties. Paper Presentation at Fourth ECPR Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Riga, Latvia.
  
  Lefkofridi, Zoe (3-4.04.2008): Οι επιπτώσεις της ευ ωπαϊκής ενοποίησης στα εθνικά πολιτικά κόμματα: θεω ητικό πλαίσιο μελέτης της ελληνικής πε ίπτωσης. Eισήγηση στην Διημε ίδα Το  έο Κομματικό Τοπίο στην Ελλάδα, Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας, Θεσσαλονίκη. {The Impact of European Integration on National Political Parties: Theoretical framework of the Greek Case, Paper Presentation at Conference: The New Political Party Landscape in Greece, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece}.  
  
  Ludvig, Alice (24.6.2008): Integration von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund am Wiener Arbeitsmarkt. Fachtagung der Senatsverwaltung für Integration, Arbeit und Soziales, Pfeffenwerk Berlin, Germany.  
  
  

• 2007

Casado Asensio, Juan (6-8.9.2007): Beyond the misfit: norms and ideology in the transposition of anti-discrimination legislation in Austria and Germany, Conference Paper, ECPR General Conference, Pisa, Italy.

Kritzinger, Sylvia (8.9.2007): Europeanisation impact on democratic representation? A theoretical approach, Presentation at the ECPR General Conference 2007, Pisa, Italy.

Kritzinger, Sylvia (18.05.2007): Europeanisation in Austria: the impact of EU-membership on parties and interest groups, Paper Presentation at EUSA-Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Lefkofridi, Zoe (18-21.10.2007): Intra-party organizational change due to EU membership: The Case of Greece, Paper Presentation at Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium@20, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. 

Lefkofridi, Zoe and Sylvia Kritzinger, (6-8.9.2007): Changes in the Political Space: Developments in Parties’ Policy Positions due to European Integration, Paper Presentation at ECPR General Conference 2007, Pisa, Italy.