SUMMER SCHOOL ON INTEREST GROUP POLITICS, BELGIUM

The Summer School on Interest Group Politics is a new initiative of the ECPR Standing Group on Interest Groups. Three schools, to be organized in 2010-2011-2012, aim to provide students of political science and public administration sound knowledge about these organized interests and their impact on public policy making.
 
The Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp will host the first summer school in 2010. It focuses on the population ecology of interest representation as well as the professionalization of interest groups. The proximity to an important international venue when it comes to interest groups – Brussels – enables to include practitioners and to bring a visit to the EU institutions in Brussels. The summer schools in 2011 and 2012 will be hosted by the University of Virginia (US) and the Agder University (Norway).

The course includes lectures and discussions led by well-known scholars in the field. Examples are drawn from both national and European politics. Furthermore, attendees receive constructive feedback on their own research on aspects of interest groups politics. Invited scholars for the 2010 school include David Lowery, William Maloney, Dirk De Bievre, Arlo Poletti, Anne Rasmussen, Caelesta Poppelaars and Jan Beyers.

Summer School on Interest Group Politics:
Mobilization Processes and Interest Group Communities
30 June - 8 July 2010 - Antwerp
For PhD and master students

The Summer School on Interest Group Politics is a new initiative of the ECPR Standing Group on Interest Groups. Three schools, to be organized in 2010-2011-2012, aim to provide students of political science and public administration sound knowledge about these organized interests and their impact on public policy making.

Deadline for registration: 31.03.2010.

You can find further details here.