WARSAW, OSCE, 19-25 Aug 2019, 2nd ECPR-OSCE/ODIHR Summer School on Political Parties and Democracy

Organised under the auspices of the Standing Group on Central East European Politics and with the support of the Standing Group on Political Parties of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the School will bring together an international team of academics and practitioners to train and instruct a group of 20 MA/PhD researchers, practitioners and civil society leaders in the field of political parties and democracy. The School is sponsored by ECPR, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw and the Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy

Aims

The main aims of the School include:

• to provide instruction and discussion on a wider range of analytical perspectives in the study of political parties, party systems, elections and democracy;
• to develop a multinational forum for both junior scholars and practitioners to critically discuss their research projects and the development of the subfield;
• to assist PhD researchers to develop their dissertation projects at the cutting edge of the field, contributing to innovation in conceptualisation, measurement, analysis and theory;
• to prepare PhD researchers for the requirements and criteria of international academic publishing, and to encourage them to submit their work to academic journals;
• to help practitioners to understand the main academic findings regarding party politics and democracy promotion;
• to build on the most recent developments and challenges of political party development and democracy promotion presented by the “Global Agenda for the Renewal of Representation”;
• to stimulate international collaboration in the field of parties, party systems, elections and democracy and to encourage PhD researchers and practitioners to take part in such collaboration.

https://www.osce.org/odihr/415502/