Comparing Democracies: Electoral Politics in New and Old Societies

小行星9410345 该项目涉及一个国际会议，该会议是由于最近的历史事件推动了关于民主进程的学术工作的扩大而产生的。 拟议的会议有四个主要目标： 1)对已建立的民主国家的选举形成专题理解。 2)整合，综合和巩固理论，实证和制度研究比较选举，政党和选民。 3)通过出版一本经过编辑的书，向国际读者广泛传播会议成果。 民主国家的比较研究传统上大量借鉴西方主要国家的经验。 通过这次会议，研究将得到更新，以考虑到过去十年中许多已建立的民主国家的实质性变化，以及南地中海，中欧和东欧，拉丁美洲，亚洲和非洲的“第三波”民主国家的增长。 会议将汇集在已建立和新兴民主国家具有专门知识的同事。 一组参与者将提交论文，概述和综合现有的理论和经验工作，这些工作涉及与成熟民主国家的政党和选举研究有关的关键主题。 第二组参与者将从新兴民主国家的角度撰写侧重于类似主题的论文。 会议的目标是整合这些文件，以发展对民主制度的广泛理解，包括建立和新兴的民主国家。

9410345 Niemi This project involves an international conference arising from the expansion of scholarly work on democratic processes, fuelled by recent historical events. The key goals of the proposed conference are fourfold: 1) to develop a thematic understanding of elections in established democracies. 2) to integrate, synthesize and consolidate theoretical, empirical and institutional studies comparing elections, parties, and voters. 3) to disseminate the conference results widely to an international readership through publication of an edited book. Comparative research on democracies has traditionally drawn heavily on the experience of major Western countries. Through this conference, the research will be updated to take account of substantial changes within many established democracies during the last decade, as well as the growth of 'third wave' democracies in the Southern Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The conference will bring together colleagues with expertise in established and emerging democracies. One set of participants will contribute papers providing an overview and synthesis of existing theoretical and empirical work on key topics associated with the study of political parties and elections in established democracies. A second set of participants will write papers focussing on similar themes from the perspective of newer democracies. The conference objective is to integrate these sets of papers to develop a broad understanding of democratic systems that includes established and emerging democracies.