WORKSHOP: Strengthening Electoral Participation

Session 1

09:15-09:30 Welcome and opening
   remarks

09:30-11:15 PANEL 1: Have non-electoral
   participatory processes any impact on
   strengthening electoral participation?
Panel chair: José Luis Martí - University
   Pompeu Fabra

Pierre-Etienne Vandamme - Université
   Catholique de Louvain
Can Democratic Innovations Save Electoral
   Representation?
Abstract

Yanina Welp - Graduate Institute, Geneva
The effects of participatory democracy,
   beyond false oppositions and
   reductionisms
Abstract

Laurențiu Gheorghe - University of
   Bucharest
Switching from activists to politicians in
   Romania - ethical, practical and electoral
   challenges
Abstract

11:15-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-13:15 PANEL 1 (continued)
Panel chair: Michele Giavazzi - University
   of Genoa

Victoria Kristan and José Luis Martí -
   Pompeu Fabra University
Non electoral citizen engagement and the
   quality of electoral participation
Abstract

Jacob Garrett - University of Genova
Local schools as national microcosms: How
   participation at schools engenders national
   political consciousness
Abstract

David Farrell - University College, Dublin
The importance of context in determining
   how mini-publics can impact on
   maxi-publics: the Irish experience
Abstract

Session 3

09:30-11:30 PANEL 3: The role of political
   parties in stregthening electoral
   participation
Panel chair: Victoria Inostroza -
   University Pompeu Fabra

Fabio Wolkenstein - University of Viena
How can political parties integrate today?
Abstract

Francisco Garcia-Gibson - London School of
   Economics
Climate change and compromises in party
   coalitions: The Austrian Greens case
Abstract

Dimitrios Efthymiou - Goethe University
   Frankfurt
Are all populists against immigration?
   Distinguishing between ‘thick’ and ‘thin’
   conceptions of populism
Abstract

Berta Barbet Porta - Institut d'Estudis
   d'Atogovern de Catalunya
Why are they not representing their people?
   Incorporating the notions of agenda and
   schemes of thinking into the study of
    party’s substantive representation
   conceptions of populism
Abstract

11:30-12:00 COFFEE BREAK

12:00-13:15 PANEL 4: Democracy, elections
   and youth - The role of young people's
   activism and participation
Panel chair: Chiara Destri - Goethe
   University Frankfurt

Alexandru Volacu - University of Bucharest
Age and electoral participation.
   A proposal for the expressive
   enfranchisement of children
Abstract

Carles Feixa, Roger Soler - Pompeu Fabra
   University
From the camp to the parliament. Youth
   political participation after the 15M
   movement
Abstract

Alejandro Cozachcow - Pompeu Fabra
   University
10 years of lowering the voting age in
   Argentina (2012-2022). Lessons and
   challenges on young people’s political
   rights, political mobilization and political
   parties.
Abstract

Session 5

10:30-12:30 PANEL 6: Elections and the
   pandemic emergency - Ethical challenges
   and lessons learned
Panel chair: José Luis Martí - University
   Pompeu Fabra

Ismael Peña López - Catalan School of
   Public Administration
Ethics and legitimacy of institutions solving
   wicked problems: The Catalan elections
   during the COVID-19 Crisis
Abstract

Toby S. James - University of East Anglia
Electoral integrity and the Covid 19
   pandemic: Lessons from an international
   crisis
Abstract

Teresa Nunes Violante - Max Planck Institute
Voting in the Pandemic: The Case of Portugal
Abstract

12:30-12:45 Closing remarks