The Comparative Agendas Project Studying the changing issue priorities of governments 2015 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 8th Annual CAP Conference LISBON 22-24 JUNE
The Comparative Agendas Project DAY 1 22/06 MONDAY MORNING (ISCTE) 10:00 12:00 Workshop Text as Data (John Wilkerson) Auditório B203 Building II 22/06 AFTERNOON (ISCTE) 14:00 14:30 Arrival of Participants Building II Main entrance 14:30 16:00 3 panels Panel 1: Party 1 What s on the Agenda? Reshaping West European Party Politics Conditional partisanship. Capacity, incentives and partisan influence on policymaking. The mass-elite linkage: Do voters respond to government announcements? Chair: Weissert, Carol Discussant: Benoit, Kenneth Green-Pedersen, Christoffer Brouard, Sylvain ; Caterina Froio; Grossman, Emiliano; Isabelle Guinaudeau; Persico, Simon Seeberg, Henrik Panel 2: Policy 1 Room: B201 (Building II) Fighting for Asylum. The role of frequency, size, disruptiveness and diversity in the outcome of asylum seeker protest. Engagement or avoidance? The effect of coalition politics on the politicization of morality policies Information processing and policy change in the EU s fisheries conservation policy Panel 3: Agenda & Institutions 1 Room: Auditório C104 (Building II) Institutional interaction in the agenda-setting process in the EU: The case of the European Council and the European Commission Policy Agendas of National Courts: Australia and New Zealand Compared Policy agendas and bureaucratic structures in Germany: A longitudinal analysis in stability and change Chair: Breeman, Gerard Discussant: Chaques, Laura Wouters, Ruud; Sevenans, Julie; Vliegenthart, Rens; Walgrave, Stefaan Euchner, Eva-Maria Princen, Sebastiaan; Siderius, Katrijn Chair: Derek, A. Epp Discussant: Mortensen, Peter Elias, Leticia; Timmermans, Arco Rhonda, Evans; Eissler, Rebecca, Fleischer, Julia 16:00 16:45 Coffee Break & Poster Session Next to the panel rooms Poster session Islands of power - How Policy Monopolies Shape Citizen Participation What we care about Individual-level determinants of MIPs Using CAP Data to Identify Perverse Goals of Term-Limited Legislators Mediatizing EU issues? The tone of media coverage and the visibility of EU and domestic actors in the Spanish news (2000-2012) The Logic behind Institutionalised Expertise Provision in the EU From Simulation to Data: A Comparative Analysis of Cue-taking Behavior Among Policy Elites Thematic classification of roll call votes of the Lithuanian parliament: challenges and opportunities for automatic procedures Policy innovations shaping political decisions: The Case of the Overhead Reduction Initiative in Hungary Questions to the Portuguese Prime-Minister - responsiveness to EU issues before and during the bailout Building II Next to the panel rooms Kis György Márk Beyer, Daniela; Breunig Christian Fahey, Kevin; Weissert, Carol Palau, Anna M.; Ansemil, Miguel Alexandrova, Petya; Hönnige, Christoph; Panke, Diana Thomas, Herschel Mickevicius, Vytautas; Morkevicius, Vaidas Balazs, Bocskei Rodrigues, Ricardo
The opposition parties behaviour in Portugal between internal constraints and external challenges News Media and Politics: The Influence of Media Attention on Parliamentary Questions De Giorgi, Elisabetta; Russo, Federico Yildirim, T. Murat; Overby, Marvin 16:45 19:00 Joint Plenary Session Auditório B203 Building II Project Presentation: Local government agenda setting project (Mortensen, Peter B.) Russian Agendas Project (Litvyak, Olga; Shadurskiy, Andrey) Agendas Project (Lopez-Varas, Miguel A.; Miranda, Nicolas; Valenzuela, Pablo) Brazilian Agendas Project (Brasil, Felipe; Niedhardt Capella, Ana Cláudia) CAP Website Presentation (Bryan Jones, Michelle Whyman) Opening lecture: Kenneth Benoit The Comparative Agendas Project DAY 2 23/06 TUESDAY MORNING (ISCTE) 9:00 10:30 3 panels Panel 1: Budget Budgetary Change and Punctuated Equilibrium A Typology Authoritarian Budgets Fixing the Figures: Amending Budget Drafts in Authoritarian Legislatures Chair: Elias, Leticia Discussant: Bevan, Shaun Breunig Christian; Koski, Chris Derek A. Epp; Baumgartner, Frank R.; Bishtawi, Petra; Carammia, Marcello; Noble, Ben; Rey, Beatriz; Yildirim, T. Murat Noble, Ben Panel 2: Legislative & Executive Agendas 1 Room: Auditório C104 (Building II) Studying Government Issue Attention on the Web Cross-national and longitudinal Analysis of the regulatory output of Israel and England Policy Priority Setting in Coalition Governance Chair: Palau, Ana Discussant: Timmermans, Arco Wilkerson John; Gade, Emily Levi-Faur, David; Haber, Hanan; Kosti, Nir Breeman, Gerard; Timmermans, Arco Panel 3: Public Opinion & Responsiveness Room: B201 (Building II) All about Issues: Electoral Systems, Interparty Dynamics, and Public Opinion Shifts Public Opinion, Media Agenda Setting and Individual Legislative Responsiveness in Florida Chair: Varone, Frédéric Discussant: Boydstun, Amber So, Florence Weissert, Carol; Driscoll, Amanda; Fahey, Kevin; Merle, Patrick; Stanquist, Teresa; Pietryka, Matthew 10:30 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 12:15 3 panels Panel 1: Policy 2 Policy Feedback and the Politics of Crime and Punishment: a time series analysis of crime rates, punitive opinion and the criminal justice policy agenda in Britain Responsibility, conflict and politicization as determinants of political attention. Evidence from a survey experiment with political elites in Belgium Agenda Diversity and Income Inequality Chair: Princen, Sebastiaan Discussant: Foucault, Martial Jennings, Will; Farrall, Stephen; Gray, Emily; Hay, Colin Sevenans, Julie; Van Camp, Kirsten; Walgrave, Stefaan Derek A. Epp
Panel 2: Legislative & Executive Agendas 2 Room: Auditório C104 (Building II) Chair: Sciarini, Pascal Discussant: Green-Pedersen, Christoffer Agenda dynamics in times of crisis: the case of Spain Chaqués Bonafont, Laura; Baumgartner, Frank R.; Palau, Anna M. The transmission of policy agendas. The effect of party competition on the gap between electoral priorities and policy outputs When and where does gridlock happen? Carammia, Marcello; Federico, Russo; Borghetto, Enrico Breunig Christian; Tinette, Schnatterer Panel 3: Policy 3 Room: B201 (Building II) Politicization without party discipline: Clustering around social identities Identifying gradual transformative changes using Policy Agendas data Chair: Gava, Roy Discussant: Grossman, Emiliano Preidel, Caroline; Euchner, Eva-Maria Shpaizman, Ilana 12:15 14:15 Free Lunch & Transfer to FCSH The Comparative Agendas Project DAY 2 23/06 TUESDAY AFTERNOON (FCSH) 14:15 16:15 3 panels Panel 1: Agenda & institutions 2 Room: T9 3rd Floor Tower B The Priorities of a President: Understanding the Presidential Agenda via Budget Messages The Policy Agenda of the European Commission Intergovernmental Attention and Government Priorities in Canada Presidential Leadership of the Public Agenda: An Individual-Level Analysis Chair: Jennings, Will Discussant: Breunig, Christian Eissler, Rebecca Alexandrova, Petya Gauvin, Jean-Philippe; Montpetit, Éric; Foucault, Martial Cavari, Amnon Panel 2: Interest groups Room: T10 3rd Floor Tower B Interest groups in Parliament: First results from the Swiss case (2000-2011) Interest Groups and Agendas in the US The Agenda Setting Power of Organized Interest On Your Enemy s Turf: Producer Group Agenda Setting and the Regulatory Politics of Addictive Activities Chair: Tinette, Schnatterer Discussant: Baumgartner, Frank Gava, Roy; Christe, Julien ; Ciao-Bianco, Corinne ; Eichenberger, Steven ; Mach, André; Varone, Frédéric Bevan, Shaun; Rasmussen, Anne Berkhout, Joost; Caelesta, Braun; Timmermans, Arco Jensen, Carsten; Seeberg, Henrik; Timmermans, Arco Panel 3: Party 2 Room: T11 3rd Floor Tower B Cost of Ruling as a Game of Tones. News Framing and Incumbents Vote Loss The strategies of mainstream and challenger parties in the government-opposition game: the case of Spain (2001-2014) Radicalising the mainstream? The rise of Golden Dawn and its impact on Greek party politics Policy issues and party system(s) in Belgium Chair: So, Florence Discussant: Vliegenthart, Rens Thesen, Gunnar; Green-Pedersen, Christoffer; Mortensen, Peter B. Palau, Anna M.; Márquez, Luz M.; Chaqués Bonafont, Laura Halikiopoulou, Daphne; Nanou, Kyriaki; Vasilopoulou, Sofia Dandoy, Régis; Joly, Jeroen 16:15 16:30 Coffee Break Next to the panel rooms 16:30 18:00 Presentation of CAP website for PIs Auditório 2 3rd Floor Tower B (TB). 20:00 Joint dinner
The Comparative Agendas Project DAY 3 24/06 WEDNESDAY MORNING (FCSH) 10:00 11:30 3 panels Panel 1: Media Room: T9 3rd Floor Tower B (TB) Congressional Cues: Simultaneously Communicating Policy and Political Information in 140 Characters Driven by politics: agenda setting and policy making in Hungary 2010-2014 Is Consumer Confidence More Responsive to Media Reports of the Economy or Actual Economic Conditions? Any news is good news... unless you re too big! Chair: Eissler, Rebecca Discussant: Walgrave, Stefaan Russell, Annelise Boda, Zsolt; Patkós, Veronika Boydstun, Amber; Highton, Benjamin; Linn, Suzanna Grossman, Emiliano; Thesen, Gunnar Panel 2: PET Room: T10 3rd Floor Tower B (TB) Transformative Policy Change: A study of dynamic multivariate relationships Patterns of Punctuations Comparing Europeanized and Sovereign Policy-Making in Germany Incrementalism and punctuated equilibrium in Hungarian budgeting (1991-2013) Chair: Carammia, Marcello Discussant: Jones, Bryan Mortensen, Peter B.; Loftis, Matthew Beyer, Daniela Sebok, Miklos; Tamás, Berki Panel 3: Legislative & Executive Agendas 3 Room: T11 3rd Floor Tower B (TB) Who Europeanizes the attention, on which issues and how? An analysis of parliamentary interventions in Switzerland The impact of party priorities on Portuguese legislative activities Chair: Alexandrova, Petya Discussant: Wilkerson, John Sciarini, Pascal; Gava, Roy; Varone, Frédéric Belchior, Ana; Borghetto, Enrico Discourse Polarization in the US Congress Brattig Correia, Rion; Chan, Kwan N.; Rocha, Luis M. 11:30 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 13:00 Closing Plenary Session Auditório 1 1st Floor Tower B (TB) CAP: past, present and future (Walgrave, Stefaan, Boydstun, Amber) Celebrating ten years of The Politics of Attention Roundtable Evaluation of meeting & Planning next meeting 17:00 18:30 Lisbon-Mouraria Tour (limited number of participants allowed) SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS