ECPR Summer School on Parliaments

University of Bamberg, Germany, August 2-14 2010



Programme highlights

  • The State of Parliaments and of Legislative Studies - Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth and Suzanne Schüttemeyer

  • Legislative Recruitment and Careers in Liberal Democracies - Ursula Hoffmann-Lange

  • Women and Minorities in Parliaments - Lena Wängnerud

  • Theoretical Models in the Study of Parliaments and Legislatures - Bjørn-Erik Rasch

  • Analysing the European Parliament - Richard Whitaker

  • Legislative Debates, Questions and Oversight - Matti Wiberg

  • MPs and Citizens - Rudy B. Andeweg

  • Parliamentary Party Groups - Stefanie Bailer (to be confirmed)

  • Content and Discourse Analysis as Methods for the Study of Parliamentary Deliberations - Andre Bächtiger

  • Legislative Voting - Thomas Saalfeld

  • Committees and Legislative Organisation - Shane Martin

  • Rational-choice institutionalism and the Study of Parliament - Kaare Strom (to be confirmed)

  • Sociological institutionalism and the Study of Parliament - Heinrich Best

  • Ethnomethodology and the Study of Parliament - Werner J. Patzelt



Please note: Participants arrive on Monday 02/08/2010 and depart on Saturday 14/08/2010.

The programme is subject to change.



Summer School Directors:
Professor Thomas Saalfeld
Dr. Shane Martin

Logo: Universität Bamberg standing group on parliaments