[ecrea] Public Opinion, Communication and Elections Seminar, Israel, June 2007

>Call for Abstracts
>WAPOR Regional Seminar
>"Public Opinion, Communication, and Elections"
>
>Jerusalem and Haifa, Israel, June 26-29, 2007
>
>Since Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet published their seminal 1940 Erie
>study, elections have been a central research topic, connecting
>political science, sociology, communication, and public opinion
>research. As Elihu Katz and Yael Warshel note, this is probably because
>"election studies are good for science". Elections offer us an
>opportunity to explore, in a heightened context, questions relating to
>individual and public choice, media effects, political parties, public
>opinion dynamics and more. Together with possible insights on such
>processes, election studies offer societies the opportunity to
>understand specific elections and their results. We love to conduct and
>read election research, but we still lack a clear understanding of the
>answers to lingering questions such as what decides an election? What
>issues will dominate an election campaign? Do campaigns matter?  Why do
>journalists cover elections the way they do? Does this coverage help
>voters make up their minds?  How should pollsters minimize errors in
>election predictions? Does publication of polls impact public opinion,
>campaign contributors, opinion leaders or journalists? And do election
>results actually matter for public policy?
>
>More than 70 countries worldwide are expected to hold national elections
>in 2007, and many more have held national and local elections in 2006
>(including Canada, Israel, Italy, the Palestinian Territories, Mexico
>and more). The US will be holding a midterm legislative elections in
>November. All of these offer us the opportunity to advance our
>understanding of the interaction between public opinion, communication
>and elections, and as a result, to better prepare for designing election
>research in the future (with an eye towards the 2008 US presidential
>elections and the 2009 European elections).
>
>WAPOR seeks to bring together scholars with a historical, sociological,
>political science or communications science background, using a variety
>of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, who will present
>original research papers at the seminar.
>
>And what better place to hold an elections seminar than in Israel - a
>politically charged society? In the past 10 years Israelis have gone to
>the polls five times for national elections. Furthermore, Jerusalem is a
>focal point for one more polity - the Palestinian National Authority.
>Indeed, in 2006 Jerusalem was the only city in the world in which two
>separate national elections were held -- Israeli and Palestinian. The
>seminar will convene 26-29 June 2007, beginning in Jerusalem and ending
>in Haifa. Seminar participants will have pre-arranged ground
>transportation from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, from
>Jerusalem to Haifa, and from Haifa back to the airport. The seminar is
>co-sponsored by WAPOR and the Israeli Communication Association.
>
>Proposals should include a general description of the research paper
>(research topic, specific research questions or hypotheses, methods and
>results), as well as full contact information (mailing address, e-mail
>address and telephone number) and affiliation for each co-author or
>participant on a separate sheet. The extended abstract should not exceed
>three double-spaced pages or 750 words.
>
>Deadlines: Deadline for proposals: January 31st 2007; Deadline for full
>papers: May 20th 2007
>
>Contact and electronic submission: Yariv Tsfati -
>(ytsfati /at/ com.haifa.ac.il); Tamir Sheafer - (msstamir /at/ mscc.huji.ac.il);
>Lilach Nir - (lnir /at/ mscc.huji.ac.il)
>

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