On June 7th and 8th the principal investigator of the GovLis project Anne Rasmussen attended a workshop about “Political Inequality and How Representative Democracy Functions” at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. She presented a paper, co-authored by GovLis team members Anne Binderkrantz and Heike Klüver and about how organized interests …
Early April 2018 GovLis team members Anne Rasmussen and Jeroen Romeijn presented three papers at the annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago. One key presentation was about the extent to which interest groups can strengthen the links between public opinion and policy. Subsequently, the GovLis team met up at the Joint Sessions …
Project members Anne Rasmussen, Jeroen Romeijn and Dimiter Toshkov recently published a paper in Scandinavian Political Studies! The study focuses on 4 policy issues in Sweden and studies whether both the political agenda and policy react to both media advocacy and public opinion. It finds that although politicians seem to pay more attention to popular policy …
This page contains all news updates from before 01-01-2018. October 30-31, 2017 The GovLis project organized the workshop ‘New Avenues in the Study of Policy Responsiveness’ with speakers from Europe and the US. October 26-27, 2017 Wiebke Marie Junk participated in the Annual Meeting of the Danish Political Science Association in Vejle. September 6-9, 2017 Wiebke Marie …