The CISE Seminar Series - Party (system) crashers? Trajectories of genuinely new parties in Western Europe after 1945

The CISE (Italian Center for Electoral Studies) organizes a seminar series articulated on a weekly basis. After the first, experimental series of seminars held in autumn 2018, the new series will run from February to June 2019.

The CISE Seminar series was born from:

· the need and interest of the CISE to establish a practice of open discussion for the work in progress of its researchers;
· the aim to establish and consolidate a network of scientific interaction relating the CISE within the LUISS research community (both in the Department of Political Science and in other departments) and with other universities in the Rome area.
As a result, it is open to any researcher wishing to present their empirical work in progress (both quantitative and qualitative) on issues of democratic representation broadly meant (e.g., but not limited to, electoral behavior, party competition, party systems, electoral legislation), from any scientific discipline.

We believe this provides a great opportunity for PhD students, postdocs and faculty engaged in empirical research to discuss their work with an audience that is not necessarily specialized in the specific field, thus providing wide-ranging feedback, and for the audience to learn about the everyday practice of empirical research in the social sciences.

Vincenzo Emanuele (LUISS Guido Carli), Party (system) crashers? Trajectories of genuinely new parties in Western Europe after 1945

Luiss, Roma