Estonia: From Founding Elections to Democratic Consolidation
A Research Workshop
December 18, 2009
Zentrum für Demokratieforschung
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
9.30
Greetings and Introduction:
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Director, ZDEMO, Leuphana Universität
Lüneburg
9.45
“Founding Elections in Comparative Perspective”
Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Prof. Dr. Charles L. Taylor, Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia
Tech
10.15
“Estonia’s Founding Election: One or Two?”
Prof. Dr. Vello Pettai, DAAD Guest Professor, ZDEMO, Leuphana Universität
Lüneburg
Manuscript chapters:
Introduction: Estonia’s Founding Elections in Comparison
Chapter 1: Struggling for Independence and Democracy
11.00
Coffee Break
11.15
“Institutions and Actors in the Founding Elections”
Vello Pettai, DAAD Guest Professor, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Manuscript chapters:
Chapter 2: Electoral-Institutional choices
Chapter 3: Party Formation
Chapter 4: Political Elites
Special commentator: Dr. Allan Sikk, School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, University College London
13.00
Lunch
14.30
“Processes and Aftermaths in Founding Elections”
Vello Pettai, DAAD Guest Professor, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Manuscript chapters:
Chapter 5: Electoral campaigning
Chapter 6: Public opinion
Chapter 7: Parliamentary coalitions and government formation
Special commentator: Prof. Dr. Raivo Vetik, Institute of Political Science and
Governance, Tallinn University
15.45
Coffee break
16.00
“Political Support and Trust in the Baltic States”
Kadri Lühiste, Doctoral candidate, Institute of Government and Politics,
University of Tartu
16.45
“Private Member Bills”
Mihkel Solvak, Doctoral candidate, Institute of Government and Politics,
University of Tartu
17.15
Coffee break
17.30
“Political Agendas during Estonia’s Transformation”
Marju Lauristin, Professor of Social Communication, Institute of Journalism and
Communication, University of Tartu
18.30
Closure
20.00
Dinner
Other invited participants:
Dr. Axel Reetz, School of Business Administration, Turiba
Lauri Jaakson, Doctoral candidate, Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu
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