Activities

Besides research projects, publications and seminar series, we organise a wide range of activities including meetings and data archives. We are also an active member in national and international professional associations.

Conferences and congresses
We host and organise numerous conferences, congresses and workshops, such as the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in April 2011. Recently we have organised:

• The annual congress of the Swiss Political Science Association in January 2009.
• The meeting of the Council of Europe in June 2010 bringing together politicians, academics, representatives of the civil society and international organisation from all member countries.

"Global Democratic Governance"
The profile area "Global Democratic Governance" is a research unit of the School of Economics and Political Science of the University of St.Gallen. Its main purpose is to assess the causes, consequences and democratic legitimacy of new forms of governance. The profile area brings together scholars from different disciplines to collaborate in producing first-rate research output.

Centre for Security, Economics and Technology (C SET)
C SET is a research centre established with the support of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (VBS). It is an interdisciplinary institution directed towards the analysis of the conceptual, organisational, economic, and technological dimensions of state-provided security. It aims to ensure a high level of information exchange through the establishment of an international network with other institutions working in the field of security economics.

The "Constituency-Level Elections Archive"
CLEA is the largest and most authoritative data archive on election results at the level of single constituencies world-wide. Its coverage is global, and historically it includes time series since the beginning of competitive elections. The CLEA project is carried out in collaboration with the University of Michigan. The goal of CLEA is to collect, process and consolidate data in one comprehensive and reliable reference resource that is ready for analysis and publicly available at no cost.

International collaborations
Besides numerous research collaborations and institutional collaborations between research programmes at our department with universities around the world, our members are active in various associations among which:

• The International Political Science Association (IPSA)
• The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
• The Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA)