The International Workshop Change in Political Attitudes: Panels and Experiments will take place the 7th and 8th of June 2012 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. This workshop will bring together scholars working on the analysis of political attitude change with longitudinal and experimental methods. Papers will focus on the analysis of short and long term changes in a wide range of political attitudes such as political preferences, political involvement, attitudes towards democracy, etc.

The following scholars will participate in the workshop: André Blais (University of Montreal), Jose Fernández-Albertos (CSIC), Simon Jackman (Stanford University), Martin Kroh (Humboldt University), Michael Lewis-Beck (Univeristy of Iowa), Yotam Margalit (Columbia University), Markus Prior (Princeton University), Natalie J. Stroud (University of Texas). More information here.

The call for papers is already closed. However, if you are still interested in attending the conference, please fill in the form in the registration section of the website and we will get in touch with you. 

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The research group on Democracy, Elections and Citizenship (DEC) is part of the Department of Political Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The main goal of the group is the analysis of citizens’ political involvement. For this purpose we develop externally funded projects. Our approach is empirical (we collect and analyze data) and mainly, but not only, quantitative.

The group shares a relative short but very intense experience of team work, starting in 2005. In 2009 we have been officially recognized as emergent research group by the Catalan government.

The group is currently developing five main research lines:

• Digital media and political participation
• The institutional context of electoral participation
• Political mobilization and protest in comparative perspective
• Migrants’ political attitudes, participation and representation
• Stability and change of citizens’ political attitudes