The steering committee has decided that that we shall initiate two sections for the 7th ECPR General Conference that will take place in Bordeaux in France 5th-7th September 2013; one section where the theme is within general comparative public opinion and voting behaviour and one section which focus on public opinion and voting behaviour in connection to EU-elections.

The section chairs and the two section proposals are outlined below.

Section on general comparative public opinion and voting behaviour:

Information, Competition and the Comparative Study of Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour

Section chairs:

Susan Banducci, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Email: s.a.banducci@ex.ac.uk

Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Email: rachel.gibson@manchester.ac.uk

Section on public opinion and voting behaviour in connection to EU-elections:

European elections, Euroscepticism and the media

Section chairs:

Wouter van der Brug, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Email: W.vanderBrug@uva.nl

Olga Gyarfasova, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Email: olga.gyarfasova@gmail.com

Mark Franklin, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Email: Mark.Franklin@eui.eu