Lawrence Ezrow (University of Essex): Is Anybody Listening? Some Preliminary Findings on Voters’(Non) Responses to Changes in European Parties’ Policy Programmes (co-authored with James Adams and Zeynep Somer-Topcu)

Susumu Shikano (University of Mannheim): Interplay between Duvergerian Equilibrium and Linkage: Implications from Agent-Based Modeling and Empirical Tests via Bayesian Statistics

Discussants: Gary Marks (UNC / VU Amsterdam)

Aida Paskeviciute (University of Essex): Citizenship, Political Context, and Immigrant Political Engagement in Europe (co-authored with Christopher Anderson)

Seth Jolly (University of Chicago): French Xenophobia and the Radical Right: Public Attitudes Toward Immigration (co-authored with Gerald DiGiusto)

Discussants: Milada Vachudova (UNC)

Jan Rovny (UNC), Gary Marks (UNC / VU Amsterdam), and Liesbet Hooghe (UNC / VU Amsterdam): The Logic of Party System Change in Europe

Erica Edwards (VU Amsterdam) and Jan Rovny (UNC): Struggle over Dimensionality: Party Competition in Europe

Christine Arnold (Maastricht University) and Catherine de Vries (Leiden University): Making the Polity: Exploring the Link between European Citizens’ and Political Elites’ Preference for European Union Public Policy

Discussants: Madeleine Hosli (Leiden University), Wouter van der Brug (University of Amsterdam)

Nicole Bolleyer (University of Exeter): Managing the State: Political Parties and Policy-Coordination

Robin Best (Leiden University): Numbers Count: The Declining Electoral Relevance of Traditional Cleavage Groups for Christian and Social Democratic Parties

Sarah Binzer Hobolt (University of Oxford): The Dynamics of Party Competition: Party Leader Rhetoric (co-authored with Robert Klemmensen)

Discussants:Liesbet Hooghe (UNC/VU), Bernhard Weßels (WZB)

Jane Green (University of Manchester): Evaluation Bias and Issue Ownership: How Voters Evaluate Opposition and Governing Parties' Competencies (co-authored with Will Jennings)

Hanna Bäck (University of Mannheim) and Martin Rosema (Twente University) Strategic Voting in Multi-Party Systems: Voting for Coalitions in the Netherlands

Sarah de Lange (Antwerp University): Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Government: Rational or Non-Rational Behaviour?

Discussants:Hans Keman (VU Amsterdam), Marco Steenbergen (Bern University)

Dominik Hangartner and Marco Steenbergen (University of Bern): Class-Based Voting in the UK: A Choice Set Modeling Approach

Martin Rosema (Twente University): The Irrational Dutch Voter: On Causal Heterogeneity in Basis of Evaluation

Marcel van Egmond (University of Amsterdam) and Heinz Brandenburg (University of Aberdeen): Media Bias and Partisan Attitudes: Studying Individual-Level Effects of Political Commentary on Changing Party Evaluations during the 2005 UK Election Campaign

Discussants: Wouter van der Brug (University of Amsterdam), Bernhard Weßels (WZB), Hans Keman (VU Amsterdam)

Erik Tillman (University of Nebraska): European Integration, Economics, and Voting Behavior in the 2001 British General Election

Catherine de Vries (Leiden University): Why Do Issues Become Relevant to Voters: Introducing a Model of EU Issue Voting

Ryan Bakker (University of Georgia): Goldilocks and the Two Measures

Discussants: Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham)