Vorträge - Dr. Sergiu Gherghina

Panel and Section Chair

09.2014	Panel Chair at the ECPR General Conference, Glasgow. Panel: “Deliberative Experiments and Constitutional Changes: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches”
08.2014	Panel Chair at the Fourth Global International Studies Conference, Frankfurt. Panel: “Lessons from Sub-National Participatory Practices – A European Perspective”
03.2013	Workshop Director ECPR Joint Session of Workshops, Mainz. Workshop: “Political Parties and the Recruitment of Appointed Elites in Contemporary Democracies”
05.2012	Panel Chair at the International Conference Re-Inventing Eastern Europe, Vienna. Panel: “Ethnicity and Its Contemporary Challenges in Eastern Europe”.
05.2011	Panel Chair at the 7th CEU Conference in Social Sciences, Budapest. Panel: “(Neo-Populism(s) and Radical Right in the Era of Crises"
04.2011	Panel Chair at the Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge. Panel: “Divergence or Convergence? Paths of Political Representation in Eastern Europe”.
08.2010	Party Politics Section Chair at the ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin.
06.2010	Europaeum Summer Workshop: “Political Parties, Migration, and Public Rhetoric in Contemporary Europe”, Leiden.
04.2010	Panel Chair at the 6th CEU Conference in Social Sciences. Panel: “Roles, Functions, and Organization of Political Parties in New Democracies”, Budapest.

Conferences

05.2015	Conference “Changing Parties, Changing Democracies. The end of traditional parties and its consequences”. Paper: “The Rights of Party Members in Central and Eastern Europe” (with B. von dem Berge), Cagliari.
04.2015	MPSA Conference, Paper: " Explaining the Electoral Turnout of Eastern European Immigrants in Western Europe: A Comparative Assessment" (with H.K. Tseng), Chicago.
03.2015	ECPR Joint Session of Workshops. Papers: “Conceptions of Democracy and Political Participation in Germany” (with B. Geissel), “The Multi-Faceted Challenges of Fiscal Capacity in Eastern Europe” (with C. Volintiru), Warsaw.
11.2014	International conference Direct democracy in factual issues. Paper: “Direct Democracy at National Level in Romania: The Instrumental Use of Referendums”, Dresden.
04.2014	ECPR Joint Session of Workshops. Papers: “Direct Democracy and Regime Legitimacy in Europe”, “A New Model of Clientelism: Political Parties, Public Resources, and Private Contributors in Romania” (with C. Volintiru), Salamanca.
12.2013	ECMI Expert Meeting on Distribution of Financial Support to Organizations Representing National Minorities, Paper: “Public Funding, Ethnic Parties, and Political Participation”, Flensburg.
11.2013	International Research Conference Immigration, Incorporation, and Democracy. Paper: “Different Countries, similar Challenges? A Comparative Assessment of Immigrant Political Participation in Western Europe”, Vienna.
09.2013	ECPR General Conference. Papers: “A New Game in Town: Party Primaries in Romania and Slovakia” (with P. Spac); “What explains trajectories of participatory innovations in comparative perspective? A research proposal” (with B. Geissel), Bordeaux.
09.2013	XXVII Congress of the Italian Society of Political Science. Paper: "From TV to Parliament: Populism and Communication in the Romanian 2012 Elections" (with S. Soare), Florence.
06.2013	Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Political Science Association. Paper: “Outside the Government: Why Ethnic Parties Fail to Join the Post-Communist Cabinets” (with G. Jiglau), Cluj-Napoca
04.2013	MPSA Conference "When Candidates and Vote Distribution Matter: A New Indicator of Electoral Competitiveness" (with H.K. Tseng), Chicago
03.2013	ECPR Joint Session of Workshops. Paper: "Stable table or fluid? Making Sense of Party System Changes in Post-Communist Romania" (with S. Soare, M. Popescu, M Chiru), Mainz
09.2012	Author Conference for the volume Autonomy in the World. Paper: “Reign over Me: Political Autonomy in Tanzania” (with Alexander Makulilo), Flensburg.
09.2012	EPOP 2012 Conference. Paper: “Explaining Party Level Volatility in New European Democracies”, Oxford)
07.2012	22nd World Congress of Political Science, IPSA. Paper: “The Politicization of Ethnicity in New Democracies” (with Monica Andriescu); Paper: “Data Availability Policies in Political Science Journals” (with Alexia Katsanidou), Madrid.
04.2012	International PIDOP Conference Political and Civic Participation. Paper: “Explaining the Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Post-Communist Europe”, University of Surrey.
04.2012	ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops. Paper: “Wuthering the Party Heights: The Primary Elections within the Romanian Social Democratic Party”, Antwerp.
03.2012	Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. Paper: “Outside the Government: Why Ethnic Parties Fail to get in Post-Communist Cabinets”, Cambridge.
01.2012	International Conference on Democracy as Idea and Practice. Paper: “Keeping the Doors Closed: Leadership Selection in Post-Communist Romania” (with Mihail Chiru), Oslo.
12.2011	International Conference Belarus and Its Neighbors. Historical Perceptions and Political Constructs. Paper: “Citizens’ Perceptions of the Political Regime in Post-Soviet Belarus” (with Lina Klymenko), Warsaw.
12.2011	International Conference The European Union and the Politicization of Europe. Paper: “Does the EU Enlargement Influence the National and European Identity? A Longitudinal Analysis in Old and New Member States”, Vienna.
11.2011	Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments. Paper: “The Winning Move: Defector MPs and Re-election in the Romanian Parliament”, Leiden.
10.2011	Annual Conference of the German Political Science Association, the International Relations section. Paper: “Treating Trust with No Confidence:: Caveats of Survey Data in Assessing the Public Support for the EU”, Munich.
09.2011	Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science. Paper: “Keeping the Doors Closed: Leadership Selection in Post-Communist Romania” (with Mihail Chiru), Palermo.
04.2011	ECPR Joint Session of Workshops. Paper: “Keeping the Doors Closed: Leadership Selection in Post-Communist Romania” (with Mihail Chiru); Paper: “Generating Dissent: Party Cohesion and Voting Loyalty in Romania Following the Electoral Change” (with Mihail Chiru); “Organizational Developments and Electoral Stability of Communist Successor Parties in New Democracies: A Comparative Approach” (with George Jiglau), St. Gallen.
04.2011	Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. Paper: “We all agree that we disagree too much: Attitudes of the Romanian MPs towards Party Discipline” (with Laurentiu Stefan and Mihail Chiru), Cambridge.
03.2011	International Conference European, National and Regional Identity. Paper: “Spinning the European Wheel: Benefits, Welfare, and Identity Layers in the Old and New Member States” (with Mihail Chiru), Oradea.
03.2011	International Conference Fading nation-states? The impact of European integration on Central and Eastern Europe. Paper: “Failing to deliver or getting the wrong message? Pre- and Post- EU Accession Attitudes in Central Europe” (with Mihail Chiru), Warsaw.
02.2011	IPSA-ECPR Conference Whatever Happened to North-South?, Workshop “Political Parties and Corruption”. Paper presented: “State Resources and Pocket Money: Shortcuts for Party Funding in Romania” (with Mihail Chiru and Fernando Casal Bertoa), Sao Paulo.
10.2010	Seminar Series of the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies. Paper presented: “Exogenous Influences on Political Trust in Central Europe” (with Mihail Chiru), Budapest.
03.2010	ECPR Joint Session of Workshops. Paper: “Does Government Performance Matter? Electoral Support for Incumbents in Six Post-Communist Countries”, Munster.
03.2010	User’s meeting GESIS ZA Eurolab. Paper: “Ideology and Vote for Extremists in New Democracies”, Cologne.
04.2009	ECPR Joint Session of Workshops. Paper: “Still Waters Run Deep: Party Organization and Electoral Stability in New Democracies”, Lisbon.
09.2008	The Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Political Science. Paper: “The Bumpy Road to Democracy: Transition Challenges in Kosovo”, Pavia.
06.2008	The 4th CEU Conference in Social Sciences. Paper: “Age and Type of Organization of Post-Communist Political Parties”, Budapest.
04.2008	Workshop The Radical Right in post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe – the Role of Legacies. Paper: ”Causes of Radical Right Success in CEE states”, New York University, New York.
04.2008	EUROPAEUM Workshop on Migration. Paper: “Ethnic Parties and Democratization in Europe”, Prague.
04.2008	ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops. Paper: “The Nationalization of the Romanian Political Parties” (with Daniel Bochsler), Rennes.
06.2007	Post-Graduate Conference on Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. Paper: “Extremist Parties in Central and Eastern Europe”, Brno.