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5th ECPR Standing Group Summer School on Interest Groups: Interest Groups and Multi-Level Political Advocacy

1 - 9 July 2014
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Hosted by:
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Supported by:
Standing Group on Interest Groups
Application deadline
30 April 2014
Fees
€750
Further information and booking


Target Audience

The summer school is open to PhD students, research master students and master students from political science, public administration or related areas. A limited number of practitioners can participate as well. A basic requirement is that all applicants should have completed introductory courses in political and administrative sciences at the BA-level. 

Objectives

The Summer School is designed to offer a mix of intensive introductory courses into the field and more advanced courses on specific topics within the study of interest group politics. The 2014 Summer School will focus on political advocacy in multilevel governance systems, in particular mobilisation and strategic behaviour. Our goal is to provide graduate students with firm knowledge about how interest organisations mobilise to foster policy change in a tremendously complex and multilayered political environment. In doing so, the course pays special attention to how major changes in the patterns of governance at the global, European, national and sub-national level have transformed mobilisation and political strategies of interest organisations across time, across policy subsystems, policy venues, and countries. In particular we focus on mobilisation and organisational maintenance, multi-level venue shopping en advocacy strategies.

Courses

  • 7 substantive courses on multi-level political advocacy
  • 4 method sessions
  • 4 research discussion sessions



Contact Caelesta Braun



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