Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) of Democratic Institutions

Abstract

The European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Standing Groups on Political Methodology and on Analytical Politics are sponsoring two panels on the "Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) of Democratic Institutions" at the 3rd ECPR Conference in Budapest, Hungary, 8-10 September 2005. Organizationally, the two panels will occur, respectively, in the Standing Group on Political Methodology’s section 20, "Methodological Innovations and Dilemmas in Contemporary Political Research", and in the Standing Group on Analytical Politics' section 9, "The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation". For these two panels, we seek papers that, following the goals of the EITM initiative, advance the cutting edge of the discipline in integrating formal theoretical analyses more tightly, directly, and precisely with empirical evaluation. Substantively, we seek analyses of the effects and/or the choice of "Democratic Institutions". We employ a broad definition including of institutions and include (1) representation (such as electoral and party systems), (2) authority allocation (such as parliamentarism/presidentialism and the legislative structure and executive-legislative relations more generally; federalism, regional autonomy, supra-nationalism, and the subdivision of authority more generally; bureaucratic and/or judicial autonomy, structure, and processes, etc.), and (3) the rules of the policymaking process (such as proposal and amendment procedures, seniority or other politician career-process institutions, etc.). Papers that tightly integrate theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of alternative institutional arrangements for democratic representation in, accountability for, or influence on public policy and policymaking and/or the implications of those effects for the strategic choice of such institutions are especially appropriate for these panels.

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