Work package 6 - European Electoral Democracy Under Stress

Description

This workpackage, the responsibility of UMA, will use data from the national and European voter studies to evaluate electoral accountability and representation in the context of regional integration, depolarisation of electoral choice and the legacies of communism. Tasks: 1. Develop literature review, research question and research design; 2. Analyse available data employing advanced quantitative techniques (e.g. multi-level modelling); 3. Issue final report; 4. Produce research paper for submission; 5. Undertake training in key methodologies and complementary skills.

Details

Lead partner institution

University of Mannheim

Start and end dates

1 October 2009 - 30 September 2012

Early Stage Researcher (ESR)

Federico Vegetti

I started university in 2001 studying languages and literature at the University of Milan, and took the Bachelor Degree in 2005 with a thesis about Anglo-American Culture. In 2006 I began a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences, at the faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Milan, and graduated with honors at the beginning of 2009. The title of my Master’s thesis was “The Dilemmas of Italian Left Voters in 2008”, and it was made with Professor Paolo Natale as supervisor and Professor Paolo Segatti as co-supervisor. The main purpose of the dissertation was to try to trace some lines to describe the Italian left electorate after the more recent changing in parties’ scenario, and to do this, some quantitatives and qualitatives techniques were used.  I am now a PhD at the Graduate School of the University of Mannheim under the supervision of Hermann Schmitt.

During my ELECDEM research contract I spent time on secondment at the Central European University (Budapest Hungary).

Final Report - Work package 6 - European Electoral Democracy Under Stress