ECPR Standing Group on Political Parties

3^rd ECPR Mentoring Session on Career Development for Early Stage Career Researchers

Date and time Wednesday 22 August, 15:00–17:00

Location VMP 5, Room 0077

The Standing Group on Political Parties welcomes contributions on Political Parties and Participation and Mobilisation, Political Networks, Political Violence, Interest Groups, and Environmental Politics and other subjects with a link to the study of Political Parties. After two successful sessions over the last two years, we hope this year's will be similarly productive.

Session programme

• 15:00–16:00 Feedback session on participants’ post-doctoral grant application from Nicole Bolleyer, University of Exeter, and Emilie van Haute, Université libre de Bruxelles
• 16:00–16:30 How to apply for funding (speaker tbc)
• 16:30–17:00 Getting your work published as a book (speaker tbc)

How to participate

To register, email Felix-Christopher von Nostitz no later than Tuesday 31 July, indicating whether you want to receive feedback on your funding application.

If you do want feedback, please restrict the proposal to no more than two pages, specify the duration of your research project/postdoc proposal and the funding body to which you aim to submit.

In the limited time available, we cannot guarantee that all proposals will be accepted for discussion, but if yours is, please prepare a 2–3 minute presentation for the rest of the group.

About the presenters

Nicole Bolleyer is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Exeter. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. Nicole's research interests include institutional and organisational theory, party politics, the study of voluntary organisations, comparative federalism and multilevel governance as well as theories of legitimacy. Currently, Nicole directs a five-year research project on Regulating Civil Society: A Comparative Study of Parties, Interest Groups and Welfare-Providing Organisations funded by the European Research Council, which underpins her third monograph The State and Civil Society: Regulating Interest Groups, Parties and Public-Benefit Organisations in Contemporary Democracies (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).

Emilie van Haute is Associate Professor at the Cevipol (ULB). Her research interests focus on party membership, intra-party dynamics, factionalism, elections and voting behaviour. Her current research projects include the MAPP working goup, Partirep, and PPDB projects. She is co-editor of Acta Politica and of the ECPR-Oxford University Press Comparative Politics Book Series. She has published extensively on her various research interests and she was co-editor of the recent book Party Members and Activists (Routledge, 2015).