Conference program

Program of the 9th Annual CAP Conference Geneva, 27-29 June 2016

Uni Mail Building

Day 1 – 27/06 – Monday

Morning

10:00 – 12:00

Data Book Project

Room MR060

Afternoon

13:30 – 14:00

Registration

Main lobby

14:00 – 16:00

First panel session

Panel 1: Framing Room: MR030	Chair: Anke Tresch Discussant: Rens Vliegenthart / Laura Morales
Cost of Ruling as a Game of Tones. News Framing and Incumbents Vote Loss	Gunnar Thesen
It is not (only) what you say but how you say it: explaining framing mechanisms in 2011 and 2015 election campaigns in Switzerland	Olga Litvyak
Under What Conditions Does Media Framing Influence U.S. Public Opinion on Immigration?	Amber E. Boydstun, Ross Butters, Noah Smith, Dallas Card, Justin Gross
Do parties frame policies in terms of owned issues? Parties’ policy position motivations in Voting Advice Applications in Belgium	Jonas Lefevere, Julie Sevenans, Christophe Lesschaeve, Stefaan Walgrave

Panel 2: Parliamentary interventions and parties Room: MR030	Chair: Frédéric Varone Discussant: Emiliano Grossmann / Tinette Schnatterer
When and why do MPs ask questions to the minister? A study of opposition behavior in the Danish parliament	Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Rebecca Eissler, Peter B. Mortensen, Annelise Russell
Network Centrality and Agenda-Setting Power of MPs	Manuel Fischer, Roy Gava, Pascal Sciarini, Frédéric Varone
Examining the Foundations of Legislative Speech: Constituency Links, Clientelism and Personal Attributes	Alsper Bulut

Panel 3: Agenda Dynamics I Room: MR170	Chair: Anne Hardy Discussant: Christian Breunig / Shaun Bevan
Policy Dynamics in Hungary : Testing the Friction Hypothesis	Miklos Sebok, David Heffler
Patterns of policy change in road safety and air pollution policies in Israel	Ehud Segal
The evolution of the EU policy agenda : (in)congruence between political institutions	Leticia Elias, Arco Timmermans
European Mood and Partisan Support for European Integration	Isabelle Guinaudeau, Simon Persico, Tinette Schnatterer

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Joint Plenary Session MR060

Opening Lecture : Hanspeter Kriesi (EUI) “Old vs. New Politics: The Transformation of the Political Space in Southern Europe in Times of Crisis”

18:30 – 19:30 Reception and welcome cocktail with the Geneva Chancellery at Hôtel de Ville

Day 2 – 28/06 – Tuesday

Morning

8:30 – 10:30 First panel session

Panel 3: Parties in the U.S. Room: MR170	Chair: Jeroen Joly Discussant: Bryan Jones / Gunnar Thesen
The Interplay of Macrohandling and Macropartisanship in the United States	Amnon Cavari
The Agendas of U.S. Partisan Policy Elites, 2001-2014	E.J. Fagan
Individual legislative responsiveness and the Need for Orientation in the Florida House of Representatives	Patrick Merle, Carol Weissert, Matthew Pietryka
Electoral Institutions and Political Engagement on Issues	Florence So

Panel 2: Austerity and economic crisis Room: MR160	Chair: Pascal Sciarini Discussant: Gerard Breeman / Peter Mortensen
Responsiveness during hard times: The Global Financial Crisis and banking reform	Roy Gava, Oriol Sabaté, Laura Morales
Political Sophistication, Elite Rhetoric and Support for Austerity: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis	Teresa Stanquist
Political attention and agenda-setting in Portugal (1995-2015)	Ana Maria Belchior
Between contraction of agendas and issue expansion: The impact of the Euro crisis on parties’ issue attention	Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Anna Palau, Enrico Borghetto

Panel 3: Executive Speeches and Responsiveness Room: MR170	Chair: Julie Sevenans Discussant: Henrik Seeberg / Michelle Whyman
Policy Change and Institutional Responsiveness in Mexico: An application of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory in an Emerging Democracy	Ana C. Aranda-Jan
Presidents and their Policy Agendas : A Study of Multiple Tools	Rebecca Eissler
Dynamic Agenda Representation in Comparative Perspective	Shaun Bevan, Will Jennings
Secrecy and Executive Agenda-Setting: Preliminary findings from a dataset on declassified cabinet meetings in Croatia	Daniela Širinić, Anka Kekez, Dario Nikić Čakar

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00 Second Panel Session

Panel 1: Information processing by decision-makers Room: MR030	Chair: Derek Epp Discussant: Frank Baumgartner / Enrico Borghetto
Examining the Policy Consequences of Policy Makers’ Information Processing	Peter B. Mortensen, Søren Kølbæk, Martin Bækgaard
Elites’ information processing and the quality of representation	Stefaan Walgrave
Information processing in politics: How politicians make decisions	Søren Kølbæk
Agenda Setting on Twitter : An Emerging Venue for Policy and Political Priorities	Annelise Russell

Panel 2: Interest Groups Room: MR160	Chair: Patrick Merle Discussant: Arco Timmermans
Gentlemen’s agreements? The banking industry in the shaping of Swiss financial regulation	Roy Gava, Frédéric Varone
Organizing the Disadvantaged: Strategies of Coalition Formation Among Minority Interest Groups	Maraam Dwidar
Explaining the link between interest groups and political parties in the parliamentary arena	Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Luz Muñoz Márquez

Panel 3: Media and Politics Room: MR170	Chair: Christoffer Green-Pedersen Discussant: Amber Boydstun / Ana Belchior
Partisan moderators of the relationships between media agenda and parliamentary agenda in consensus democracies: Switzerland and the Netherlands compared	Pascal Sciarini, Anke Tresch, Rens Vliegenthart
PMP and MPM. How political and media agendas mutually reinforce each other	Julie Sevenans, Rens Vliegenthart, Anne Hardy
Mirror or Molder? Longitudinal Analysis of Political Agenda-Setting Power of Media in Croatia	Daniela Širinić, Josip Šipić, Danijela Dolenec
Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse. Introducing Live Television Coverage of Parliament’s Question Period	Jeroen Joly, Kaspar Beelen

Afternoon
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch	Cafeteria
14:00 – 16:00	Third Panel Session

Panel 1: European Union and National Agendas Room:MR030	Chair: Julia Fleischer Discussant: Petya Alexandrova / Simon Persico
The Europeanization of parliamentary attention in and out of the European Union: France, Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland compared	Pascal Sciarini, Sylvain Brouard, Roy Gava, Julien Navarro, Ana Palau, Frédéric Varone, Rens Vliegenthart
The European agenda-setting dynamics of European police cooperation in the fight against transnational organized crime	Agathe Piquet
Domestic Consequences of the Council Presidency – Pioneering and Agenda-Setting Roles Intertwined	Daniela Beyer
Re-Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union: The legislative power of the Commission, the Council, and the Parliament	Andreu Casas

Panel 2: Agenda Dynamics II Room: MR160	Chair: Frank Baumgartner Discussant: Isabelle Guinaudeau / Will Jennings
The Dynamics of Policy Liberalism	Derek Epp, Gregory Wolf
The Dynamics of Policy Change	Christian Breunig, Samuel Workman, Martin Elff
Explaining Policy Punctuations	Peter B. Mortensen, Carsten Jensen
The Great Broadening: Expansion and Complexity in Law	Bryan Jones, Michelle Whyman, Sean Theriault

Panel 3: Government, Accountability and Party Popularity Room: MR170	Chair: Isabelle Engeli Discussant: Stefaan Walgrave / Anke Tresch
When is the government held to account by the voters? A cross-issue, cross-time study of the impact of real-world problems and opposition criticism in the UK	Henrik Seeberg
How and why political parties engage in blame shifting strategies	Laura Chaqués Bonafont
Party popularity, issue attention and tone	Emiliano Grossman
Radical right in government? – The impact of Jobbik on the agenda of law-making (2010- 2014)	Balázs Böcskei, Csaba Molnár

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Joint Plenary Session MR060

Presentation of National Project: New Zealand/Australia (Rhonda Evans)
Roundtable: Innovations in Data Coding (Chair: Bryan Jones, with presentations by Andreu Casas, Matt Loftis/ Peter Mortensen, Guy Freedman)

19:30 Conference Dinner at La Belotte, Chemin des Pêcheurs 11, 1222 Vesenaz

Day 3 – 29/06 – Wednesday

Morning

9:30 – 11:30 First panel session

Panel 1: Protests and Courts Room: MR030	Chair: Frédéric Varone Discussant: Christoffer Green-Pedersen / Ana Palau
Protesting for Asylum. How the interaction between signal, context and receiver determines the parliamentary agenda	Rens Vliegenthart, Ruud Wouters, Julie Sevenans, Stefaan Walgrave
Contested Agenda Setting: Challengers and Incumbents in Grassroots Lobbying	Arco Timmermans
Is online protest effective? The impact of offline and online protest against ACTA	Luca Bernardi, Louisa Parks, Laura Morales
Converging Agendas? A Study of Issue Attention across the High Court of Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald	Rhonda Evans, Maraam Dwidar

Panel 2: Executive and Parliamentary Bureaucracy Room: MR160	Chair: Roy Gava Discussant: Laura Chaqués Bonafont / Annelise Russel
The World Does Revolve Around Them? Parliamentary Bureaucracy and the Legislative Agenda in Germany	Julia Fleischer
Issue Salience, Bureaucratic Capacity, and Oversight	Christian Breunig, Marco Radojevic, Tinette Schnatterer
The Public Administration and the Policy Agenda	Henrik Seeberg, Peter B. Mortensen, Martin Baekgaard
Intra-Institutional Policy Drift in the European Commission	Petya Alexandrova

Panel 3: Gendered Agendas Room: MR160	Chair: Alexandra Feddersen Discussant: Isabelle Engeli
Are Minority-Party Women More Effective Legislators? A Comparative Analysis of the Florida and Pennsylvania Legislatures	Teresa Stanquist, Kevin Fahey, Carol Weissert
The legislative activity of female legislators in the Hungarian Parliament	Burteijn Zorigt
Issue Competition in Election Times: Parties’ Issue Strategies in Different Channels and their Media Coverage	Caroline Dalmus, Regula Hänggli, Laurent Bernhard

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 Closing Plenary Session MR060

CAP Website (Rebecca Eissler)
Evaluation of the conference and planning of next meeting