Swarmed with international PhD students

2012 Kristiansand Summer School on Interest Group Politics (Photo: Jan Arve Olsen, UiA)

A group of 35 international PhD students participated in the 2012 Kristiansand Summer School on Interest Group Politics during 17-26 July. The ECPR - European consortium for political research - hosted its 3rd annual summer school along with the Department of Political Science and Management at UiA. In the faculty building on Campus Kristiansand this summer the buzz was about various aspects of ‘influence’.

In-depth study of influence and power

By way of in-depth analysis and discussions, both in class and during breaks, the PhD students dived into

Theoretical concepts of political influence and power
Recent research efforts as well as methodological innovations aimed at measuring influence
Recently started research project on interest group activity in the European Union

Welcome by Associate Professor Stefan Gänzle, UiA (Photo: Jan Arve Olsen, UiA)

Excerpts from the day-to-day programme:

18 July: Influence and interest groups, general perspectives, by David Marshall (London School of Economics)
19 July: Interest group influence in the European Union, Measurement Strategies for Conflictual and Non-conflictual Lobbying, by Adam Chalmers (Leiden University)
20 July: Quantitative Text Analysis in Interest Group Research, by Christine Mahoney (University of Virginia) and Heike Klüver (Oxford University)
21 July: A practitioner’s view on measuring effectiveness, by Tanja Beer, Center for Evaluation Innovation, Washington, DC
22 July: Social activities (TBA)
23 July: Conceptualizing and measuring interest group influence, by Andreas Duer (University of Salzburg)
24 July: Bureaucratic politics and the influence of interest groups, by Caelesta Braun (University of Antwerp)
25 July: Policy networks, advocacy coalitions and influence, by Jan Beyers (University of Antwerp)

Publisert av Unni Henriksen <unni.henriksenSPAMFILTER@uia.no> 25.07.2012
Sist oppdatert 26.07.2012

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