Programme:
09:30-09:50 Welcome and opening keynote
Welcome remarks, framing and discussion
Zsolt Boda (Director General, ELTE CSS) & Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz (Director, CSS Institute for Legal Studies)
09:50-11:20 Session 1: Regulation, enforcement and dispute resolution
Moderator: Oceane Raverdy (University of Strasbourg)
Evaluating electoral regulation practices
Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth (CSS Institute for Legal Studies)
It shall be free & fair – Judicial and constitutional review of general elections
Nóra Chronowski (CSS Institute for Legal Studies)
Election adjudication, social media activity and contested elections
Bogdan Dima (University of Bucharest) (online)
Discussant:
Max Steuer (Comenius University/Universität Münster)
11:35-13:05 Session 2: Elections in the digital age: media, social media, and the “permanent campaign”
Moderator: Zitan Peng Hao (Cardinal Herrera Universtiy, Valencia)
Campaign, manipulation and disinformation on social media
Márton Bene, Veronika Kövesdi (CSS Institute for Political Sciences)
AI, election administration and democracy
Juliane Müller (International IDEA)
The permanent campaign and the relevance of the formal campaign period
Dániel Mikecz (CSS Institute for Political Science)
Discussant:
Yann Lorans (NOVA School of Law)
Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 3: Participation and representation: geography, inducements, minorities, diaspora
Moderator: Oceane Raverdy (University of Strasbourg)
Votes from abroad – kin-minorities and diaspora participation
Vizi Balázs (CSS Institute for Minority Studies)
How poverty and insecurity shape participation and mobilisability
(including civic action and support infrastructures)
Vera Messing (CSS Institute for Sociology)
National minorities and elections
Dobos Balázs (CSS Institute for Minority Studies)
Discussant:
Stefan Szwed (Columbia University)
15:45-17:00 Session 4: Mobilisation, civil society activity, and solidarity
Moderator: Zitan Peng Hao (Cardinal Herrera Universtiy, Valencia)
Solidarity and civil activity patterns in the pre-election period
Bernadette Csurgó (CSS Institute for Sociology)
Two faces of charismatic attachment: Institutionalised authority and emergent mobilisation in Hungarian politics
Rudolf Metz (CSS Institute for Political Sciences)
Doing migration in an illiberal or liberal context? Broader consequences of the national elections
Zsuzsa Árendás (CSS Institute for Sociology)
Discussant:
Imre Kovách (CSS Institute for Sociology)
17:00-17:45 Closing discussion on comparative lessons and methodological takeaways
Closing discussants:
Moderator:
Edit Zgut-Przybylska (Polish Academy of Sciences)
