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Welcome

This website is the home of the PARTIREP research project. PARTIREP analyzes changing patterns of participation and representation in modern democracies.

PARTIREP is an Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP) funded by the Belgian Science Policy. It involves the universities of Antwerp (UA), Brussels (VUB and ULB), Leiden (Universiteit Leiden), and Leuven (KULeuven).

Upcoming events and novelties

• 30.08.2012 - 02.09.2012 | 108th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
  During the Annual Meeting of the APSA, various PartiRep scholars will present their ongoing work, with regard to representative role, political trust and electoral behavior.

• 01.08.2012 - 04.08.2012 | Second ISA Forum of Sociology
  The MAPP working group organizes 4 sessions in the Research Committee 18 on Political Sociology at the Second ISA Forum of Sociology. Session A: 'Going, going, ... gone? The decline of party members...
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• 08.07.2012 - 12.07.2012 | 22nd World Conference on Political Science
  During the IPSA conference (Madrid, 2012), PartiRep members will organize three panels, on Participation, Political Trust, and Personality and Participation.

• 04.05.2012 | Seminar 'Parties and elections' (Cevipol) *** Stealth democrats or deliberative democrats? Preliminary findings from a study of British citizens' attitudes towards political participation - Paul Webb (University of Sussex)
  http://dev.ulb.ac.be/cevipol/fr/agenda.html

• 01.05.2012 | Francqui Chair on Representation
  prof. dr. K. Celis (VU Brussels) will hold the Francqui chair on Political Participation during the Spring Semester of 2012 at the University of Leuven. More information: http://www.francquifoundatio...
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