Support for workshop proposals and research sessions proposals
The steering group has – after receiving various workshop proposals - decided to endorse the following three workshop applications for the Joint Sessions in Mainz during 2013:

• Electoral Competitiveness in Cross-National Research: Challenges and New Directions for Research
  Workshop directors: Susan Banducci, Sylvia Kritzinger and Heiko Giebler
• Innovations in the Study of Campaigns and their Effects
  Workshop directors: Thorsten Faas and Hajo Boomgaarden

Dear Members of ECPR’s Standing Group on Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective,

1. Reykjavik General Conference
The ECPR General Conference took place in exotic Reykjavik 24-27 August. The standing group had initiated an 8 panel section on “Old and New Models in Electoral Research. Comparative Perspectives” with the two convenors as section chairs. One of us attended all eight panels which were well organised and had a significant audience.

1. The Reykjavik General Conference

All details regarding the various sections and panels for the Reykjavik conference are now settled and available on the ECPR website.

http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/sections.asp

Here are the details regarding the sections which the standing group has supported:

Section 46 - Mass Politics in the EU: Public Opinion, Elections, and Referendums

Dear members of the ECPR’s Standing Group on Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective,

Please find news from us below:

1. Patrick Fournier’s summer school course on Political Psychology: Citizen Behaviors and Opinions

As we informed you about in the 2010 November newsletter, we have got financial support from
The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at the McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

http://csdc-cecd.mcgill.ca/indexEN.html

and the Training Network in Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM).

http://www.elecdem.eu/

Dear members of the standing group,

This time we have two issues:

1. The 2012 ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops will take place at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, 10-15 April. The deadline for submission of workshop proposals is 1st February 2011.

How you should proceed to propose a workshop can be found here:
http://www.ecprnet.eu/joint_sessions/documents/how_to_propose_a_workshop...

Dear members of the standing group,

It is some time since you have heard from us. However, we hope we have good news for you. The news is outlined below in this newsletter:

The Joint Sessions of Workshops in St. Gallen

On of the workshops we supported was accepted. This was the workshop on “Issue Congruence and Policy Responsiveness in European Governance” (Workshop ID: 18) with Christine Arnold from the University of Maastricht and Mark Franklin from the European University Institute as workshop directors.

Dear members,

The deadline for applications for sections for the 2011 General Conference in Reykjavik is approaching (15 April). The steering committee has decided to initiate a general section proposal which should cover many research interests among members of the standing group. This proposal is called “Old and New Models in Electoral Research”. You can find the text at:

http://povb-ecpr.org/sites/default/files/old-new-models.pdf

Dear members of the standing group,

The steering group has decided to support the following three proposals for the St.Gallen Joint Sessions of Workshops:

Empirical and normative models of voters, parties, and governments
Workshop directors:
Romain Lachat,
University of Zurich
and
Christopher J. Anderson
Cornell University

Innovations in the Study of Campaigns and their Effects
Workshop directors:
Thorsten Faas

Dear Members of the POVB Standing Group,

As you know, the deadline for workshop proposals for the 2011 joint Sessions in St. Gallen in 2011, is February 1 next year. The Standing Group's Steering Committee would very much like to endorse a maximum of three workshop proposals.

Therefore, if you are considering submitting a proposal, please send us the information, until January 10th. The POVB Board will then decide which three workshop proposals it will endorse, and will inform all candidates until the January 20.