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Monitoring Electoral Democracy
The European infrastructure for unlocking the true potential of data-driven democracy research.
Monitoring Electoral Democracy (MEDem) is a new, evolving European research infrastructure that will enable better, more comprehensive, and highly innovative comparative democracy research on electoral democracies by bringing together and linking data sources on the functioning of democracies, and by building standards and instruments for data collection and analysis.

Supporting Community
European scholars, (inter)national research groups, networks, institutions, infrastructures & everyone who supports MEDem becomes part of the growing MEDem Community.
MEDem Conference & Workshop 2023
From 30th to 31st of March, the first MEDem Conference & Workshop took place at the University of Vienna, bringing together scholars from 37 institutions and 23 countries to discuss the future of democracy research and the development of the MEDem research infrastructure.

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⚠️📢 The #JRC published aniInternational Call for Experts on ‘Challenges and opportunities for the Future of Democracy’.
⏰Deadline: 9 October 2023
More information on the call & application process⬇️
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/news/international-call-experts-%E2%80%98challenges-opportunities-future-democracy%E2%80%99-project_en
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Since communication has changed dramatically in the last decades, one of the most powerful designs in communication research – linkage analysis – has been adapted, developed, and diversified! How? Find out in our paper with @fe_loe and @rensvl
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Thrilled to announce the publication of my first PhD paper in
@ECSR_Soc. I analyse the use of gender-inclusive language in German media over the past 20 years using the DeReKo @IDS_Mannheim.
Main finding: a surprising increase from 2018 onwards.
Well, well, well, if this isn’t a new version of the PopuList 😍😍😍
Such a great effort!
https://popu-list.org/