Panel Analysis Workshop
Time: November 19-20, 2012
Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
The Department of Political Science, Aarhus University and the Centre for Survey and Survey/Register Data
are pleased to announce the organization of a workshop focused on the design and analysis of panel studies.
Prompted by the increasing access to and applications of individual level panel data in disciplines such as
political science, the workshop will consist of keynote lectures and presentations/discussion of panel analysis
work-in-progress. The keynotes are held by two prominent political scientists who have both worked with
and written about panel data and the analysis hereof: Professor Steven Finkel (University of Pittsburgh) and
Professor Harold Clarke (University of Texas at Dallas/University of Essex).
Preliminary programme:
Monday, November 19:
9.00 : Coffee and registration
9.30 : Keynote and discussion: Steven Finkel: Panel Analysis and Causal Inference
with Observational and Experimental Data
12.15: Lunch
13.15: Keynote and discussion: Harold Clarke: Latent Growth Curve and Mixed
Markov Latent Class Models for Studying Dynamics in Multi-wave Panel Surveys
15.45: Coffee
16.15: Presentation and discussion of panel analysis work-in-progress
18.00: Dinner
Tuesday, November 20:
9.00 : Presentation and discussion of panel analysis work-in-progress
12.15: Lunch
13.15: Concluding panel discussion initiated by Steven Finkel and Harold Clarke
15.15: Coffee and goodbye
There are a few slots open for presentation of panel data work-in-progress. Participants interested in
presenting their work at the workshop should indicate so by contacting Rune Stubager (stubager@ps.au.dk)
as soon as possible and no later than October 1, giving details of the work they would like to present.
A final selection will then be made among the analyses proposed.
Participation incl. lunches and dinner is free, but participants should cover their own expenses for travel and
accommodation.
Participants should register by sending an email to Charlotte Markussen (cma@sfi.dk) as soon as possible
and no later than October 29.
Questions may be addressed to the organizer, Rune Stubager at stubager@ps.au.dk.
About the keynotes:
Steven E. Finkel is Department Chair and Daniel Wallace Professor of Political Science at the University of
Pittsburgh. His areas of expertise include comparative political behaviour, public opinion, democratization, and
quantitative methods. Since 1997, he has conducted evaluations of the effectiveness of US and other international
donors' civic education programs in South Africa, Poland, the Dominican Republic, and Kenya. He has also pioneered
the use of survey research as an aid to peace negotiations in conflict settings such as Sri Lanka and Kosovo. He is the
author of Causal Analysis with Panel Data (Sage Publications, 1995) as well as numerous articles on political
participation, voting behaviour, and civic education in new and established democracies. Between 2004 and 2007, he
conducted the first macro-comparative evaluation of the impact of all USAID democracy assistance programs on
democratic development in recipient countries (published in World Politics, 2007). He holds a PhD in political science
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has taught previously at the University of Virginia, Arizona
State University, and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.
Harold D. Clarke, Ph.D. Duke University is Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy
Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex. He
also is editor of Electoral Studies. Clarke's research on electoral choice and the political economy of party support in
Great Britain, the United States and Canada has been supported by the National Science Foundation (U.S.), the
Economics and Social Research Council (U.K.), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada).
He is currently a principal investigator for the 2009/10 British Election Study and the 2008 Political Support in America
Study. Other current research projects include the 2009 Political Support in Germany Study, and the 2008 Political
Support in Canada Study. He is the author of numerous articles published in journals such as the American Journal of
Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics
and Political Analysis. His most recent books are Performance Politics and the British Voter (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009), Making Political Choices: Voting in Canada and the United States (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press), and Political Choice in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Clarke's teaching interests
focus on public opinion, voting and elections and research methods. He regularly teaches advanced time series analysis
at the Essex Summer School in Data Collection and Analysis and the Concordia University Spring School.