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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 Junk and Anne Rasmussen participated in the ECPR General Conference in Oslo presenting two different papers from the GovLis Project.
August 31-September 3, 2017
Wiebke Marie Junk and Anne Rasmussen participated in the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco.
June 29-July 7, 2017
Together with Arndt Wonka (University of Bremen), Anne Rasmussen hosted the 8th ECPR summer school on interest groups in Bremen.
June 28-30, 2017
Dimiter Toshkov and Anne Rasmussen organized a panel at the 3rd International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) in Singapore.
June 1-2, 2017
Linda Flöthe co-organized the workshop ‘Representing the Public’ at the Politicologenetmaal in Leiden.
May 4-6, 2017
Anne Rasmussen participated in the Fifteenth Biennial EUSA in Miami.
April 6-9, 2017
Wiebke Marie Junk participated in the MPSA conference in Chicago.
December 19-20, 2016
Dimiter Toshkov and Anne Rasmussen attended the workshop: The Responsible Party Model in Times of Dealignment, University of Leuven.
October 27-28, 2016
Anne Rasmussen attended the annual meeting of the Danish Political Science Association in Vejle.
October 20-21, 2016
Linda Flöthe, Wiebke Marie Junk, Anne Rasmussen, Jeroen Romeijn and Dimiter Toshkov attended the Symposium on interest group influence at the University of Amsterdam.
September 20-21, 2016
Anne Rasmussen was invited to give a presentation during the workshop “Stein Rokkan’s Heritage to Comtemporary Politicsl Science: Understanding representational and policy-making challenges in multi-jurisdictional polities”, University of Bergen.
September 7-10, 2016
Anne Binderkrantz, Linda Flöthe, Wiebke Marie Junk, Anne Rasmussen, Stefanie Reher, Jeroen Romeijn and Dimiter Toshkov are participating in the ECPR General Conference in Prague presenting different papers from the GovLis Project.
June 30-July 8, 2016
Together with Arndt Wonka (University of Bremen), Anne Rasmussen is hosting the 7th ECPR summer school on interest groups in Copenhagen on “Interest groups and their Role in Modern Policy Making”.
June 23-25, 2016
Lars Mäder and Anne Rasmussen are participating in the annual meeting of the European Political Science Association in Brussels.
June 10-11, 2016
Dimiter Toshkov and Anne Rasmussen have put together three panels at the 1st Regional Conference on Public Policy, co-organised by Hong Kong University and IPPA and will be presenting research from the GovLis project in one of their own panels and in a panel on interest groups.
March 31- April 2, 2016
The GovLis project organized a lunch seminar at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen with David Lowery (Penn State) and Justin Phillips (Columbia), who also participated in a two day seminar together with the following GovLis team members and affiliates: Anne Binderkrantz, Benjamin Nikolaj Egerod, Linda Flöthe, Wiebke Marie Junk, Henrik Hermansson, Anne Rasmussen, Stefanie Reher, Jeroen Romeijn and Dimiter Toshkov.
April 1, 2016
Student Assistant Julie Worre joined the project team in Copenhagen.
March 29-31, 2016
Together with Rasmus Fonnesbæk Andersen, the GovLis team took the initiative to organize a three day PhD course on “Democratic Representation: New Perspectives on Policy Responsiveness in National and Subnational Politics”taught by Justin Phillips (Columbia), in which Linda Flöthe, Wiebke Marie Junk & Jeroen Romeijn participated.
March 1, 2016
Student Assistant Miriam Katharina Heß joins the project team at the University of Hamburg.
February 18, 2016
Anne Rasmussen was invited to give a presentation from the GovLis project at the LSE which formed part of the London Public Seminars organized jointly between the LSE, Kings College, UCL & Queen Mary.
January 7-9, 2016
Anne Rasmussen participated in the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association in San Juan Puerto where she presented the paper “The Role of Public Opinion in Advocacy” (co-authored with Lars Mäder and Stefanie Reher).
January 1, 2016
Students Assistants Adam Frederik Riis Hedegaard and Lisa Westling join the project team in Copenhagen and Jacolien Cornet joins the team in the Hague.
December 11, 2015
Anne Rasmussen was invited to give a presentation from the GovLis project at Trinity College Dublin.
December 2, 2015
Anne Rasmussen was invited to give a presentation from the GovLis project in the department of political science, at the University of Lund.
October 29-30, 2015
Lars Mäder, Anne Rasmussen and Stefanie Reher participate in the annual meeting of the Danish Political Science Association in Kolding.
September 3-6, 2015
Lars Mäder, Anne Rasmussen and Stefanie Reher participate in the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco.
September 1, 2015 New staff
PhD student Marie Wiebke Junk joins the project team in Copenhagen and PhD students Linda Flöthe and Jeroen Romeijn join the project team in Leiden.
June 22-27, 2015
Anne Rasmussen participated in the annual meeting of the Comparative Agendas Project in Lisbon June 22-24, and Lars Mäder, Anne Rasmussen and Stefanie Reher participated in the annual meeting of the European Political Science Association in Vienna June 25-27.
June 1, 2015
Student assistant Jeroen Romeijn joins the project team.
May 26, 2015
Stefanie Reher was invited to present the paper “The contextual determinants of political responsiveness in Europe” (co-authored with Anne Rasmussen and Dimiter Toshkov) at the workshop ‘Identifying new paths in research on responsiveness’ at Böttö organized by the Department of Political Science, University of Göteborg.
May 8-9, 2015
Anne Rasmussen was invited to present a paper on “Interest groups, public opinion and policy agendas in the US” (co-authored with Shaun Bevan) at the conference “Interest Group Populations in Comparative Perspective”, University of Hamburg.
May 14-15, 2015
Anne Rasmussen was invited to present a paper on “The contextual determinants of political responsiveness in Europe” (co-authored with Stefanie Reher and Dimiter Toshkov) at the conference “Beyond the Democratic Deficit: Policy Representation and Differentiated Responsiveness in the Union”, European University Institute, Florence.
May 1, 2015 New staff
Student Assistant Sophia Hunger joins the project team.
January 5, 2015 New staff
Research assistants Caecilie Venzel Andersen, Barend W. Bos, Benjamin Egerod and Carolin Frankenhauser join the project team.
November 1, 2014 New staff members join
Assistant Professor Lars Mader and Post Doctoral Fellow Stefanie Reher join the project team.
October 22, 2013 Workshop on Interest Group Research at the University of Amsterdam
Anne Rasmussen attended a workshop at the University of Amsterdam organized by Joost Berkhout where she gave a presentation on the GovLis project and the initial research steps undertaken.