922 PIREDEU and the European Election Studies (EES), contributions to the design of a voter survey, media study, candidate study, and manifesto study for the 2009 European Parliament elections.

PIREDEU and the European Election Studies (EES) are now inviting
contributions to the design of a voter survey, media study, candidate
study, and manifesto study for the 2009 European Parliament elections.
Proposal can be submitted  via the PIREDEU Open Forum (www.piredeu.eu).

The deadline has been extended to 14th June 2008.

PIREDEU – Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in
the European Union – is a collaborative project funded by the European Union
under the Seventh Framework Programme. PIREDEU has its origins in the
European  Election Studies (EES). A cornerstone of this design study is to
collect data  on voters, elites and parties in the context of the 27
elections to the  European Parliament in 2009.

We invite proposals on each of five data collection components of PIREDEU:
   1. Voter survey
   2. Candidate survey
   3. Media study
   4. Manifesto study
   5. Contextual data

The PIREDEU Open Forum welcomes anyone who wants to make constructive
contributions to the design of any aspect of the PIREDEU data collection
instruments, including:

   – Proposals for questions to be used in the voter and/or candidate
surveys.
    – Proposals for coding categories for the media and/or manifesto study.
   – Suggestion for exclusion/inclusion on questions/coding categories used
in  previous European data collection efforts (including the EES).
   – Suggestions for collection of contextual data in the 27 electoral
contexts.

The aim of the Open Forum is to improve the quality and scientific value of
each of our data collections by encouraging the submission of proposals and
providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and comments.

For more information, and to register as a member of the PIREDEU Open Forum,
please go to: www.piredeu.eu/public/Open_Forum.asp

If you have any questions about the PIREDEU Open Forum, please contact Dr
Sara  Hobolt: sara.hobolt@politics.ox.ac.uk

Kind regards

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PIREDEU Design Study
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Phone: +39-055-4685-653 (Mark Franklin, Chair of the Steering Committee)
Phone: +39-055-4685-780 (Ingo Linsenmann, Project Manager)
Email: piredeu@eui.eu
Website: www.piredeu.eu