An international scientific conference organized by the CISE, in collaboration with the LUISS School of Government and the ITANES Association - Italian National Election Studies. Rome, 6-7 October 2011 Main Meeting Room LUISS School of Government Via di Villa Emiliani 14 Participants: Paolo Bellucci University of Siena David Brady Stanford University Bruno Cautres CNRS and CEVIPOF - Paris Pasquale Colloca University of Bologna Piergiorgio Corbetta University of Bologna Chistophe Crombez University of Leuven, Stanford University Roberto D’Alimonte LUISS Guido Carli  - Rome Lorenzo De Sio LUISS Guido Carli - Rome Morris Fiorina Stanford University Donald Green Columbia University Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine Nicola Maggini SUM - Florence Radoslaw Markowski Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities Douglas Rivers Stanford University Hans M.A. Schadee University of Milano-Bicocca Hermann Schmitt University of...

Introduction Romania organized elections for the European Parliament (EP) for the third time since joining the European Union (EU) in 2007. This time the elections overlapped with Romania holding the six-month rotating Presidency of the EU. During this Presidency, Romania organized different meetings with representatives of the member states, intensively covered by national media. As a result, the European agenda became more visible in the public debate, the peak being reached during the informal summit of heads of state or government of the EU organized in Sibiu to discuss the EU strategic agenda for the post-election period. Political context Romania is regularly...

  Introduction Contrary to the general European trend, the Maltese Labour Party won the European election held on the 25 May by a comfortable majority and took four of the six European parliament seats allotted to Malta. In 2014 it had also won a majority of votes, but only three seats (Carammia and Pace, 2015). The opposition Nationalist Party failed to arrest its electoral decline whose roots go back to 2004, but won the other two seats. As in the previous three European elections the Europhile parties won more than 96% of the valid votes cast. This is consistent with...

  On May 25 European Parliament (EP) election was held in Slovakia, the fourth of its kind since the accession of the country to the EU. Two points are worth mentioning in the beginning. First, the turnout increased considerably since the previous election in 2014. However, with roughly one in four voters who attended the election, it was still the lowest number in the whole EU. Second, the results confirmed substantial changes in political life in the recent development of Slovakia with essential implications for the upcoming years. In line with other EU countries, the elections are held under proportional representation...

In our assessment of the current state of the British public debate based on the original data collected by the CISE as part of the comparative ICCP project, we have seen that among British voters have a great deal of interest in shared goals, although divisive economic policies are quite relevant as well, with the traditional left-wing positions having the upper hand. Here we look at political parties. Basically, what we have already seen in both France and the Netherlands is that two different party strategies emerge. On the one hand, they can present a consensual face, omitting conflicts and campaigning on their credibility...