REJECTED EUROPE. BELOVED EUROPE. CLEAVAGE EUROPE?

May 18-19, 2017

Robert Schuman Centre, EUI

This conference takes up the question of how contestation over Europe has affected voters, party competition, party systems. Which theory or theories are most helpful in explaining the changing voter and party landscape in Europe? Are we seeing fundamental change in the bases of partisanship? How can one explain country variation? Does it make sense to conceive what is happening as de-alignment, realignment, or the creation of a new political cleavage? This conference brings together leading experts on political parties, public opinion, and European integration to explore and debate these questions.

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Organizers

Liesbet Hooghe | W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill
Brigid Laffan | Professor and Director of Robert Schuman Centre, EUI
Gary Marks | Burton Craige Distinguished Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill

Participants

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Contact: Elisabetta Spagnoli

Information

• About Florence
• About the UNC Center for European Studies, a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence

Dinner is by invitation only.

Sala del Teatro, Badia Fiesolana
Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole

Image of Badia Fiesolana: By Sailko (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

This workshop was co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.