The panel organizers like to cordially invite you to submit a paper proposal to one of the ten panels of the section “Democratic Innovations” at the ECPR General Conference Bordeaux 4-7 September 2013. You can find the panel list below and at the following URL, where you can also propose a paper: http://ecprnet.eu/Events/PanelList.aspx?EventID=5&SectionID=89 We and the panel chairs look forward to your proposals, Peter H. Feindt (Cardiff University) and Carsten Herzberg (University of Potsdam) (section chairs) Panel list: 1 Historicizing deliberative democracy (chair: Paula Cossart, co-chair: Sandra M. Gustafson, discussant: Julien Talpin) 2 What explains (the absence of) participatory reforms? (chair: Joan Font, co-chair: Brigitte Geissel, discussant: Graham Smith) 3 The quality of deliberation – Theory and empirical evidence (chair: Irena Fiket, co-chair: Stefania Ravazzi) 4 Learning from Each Other: Democratic Innovation Research and Quality of Democracy Measurements (chair: Brigitte Geissel, Goethe University Frankfurt, co-chair: Quinton Mayne) 5 Discussing the Relation between Social Movements and Deliberative Democracy: Is there Countervailing Power in Europe? (chair: Carsten Herzberg, co-chair: Graham Smith, discussant: Giovanni Allegretti) 6 Mapping and measuring deliberative processes: Macro-micro interfaces (chair: André Bächtiger, co-chair: John Parkinson, University of Warwick) 7 Democratic Innovations through Direct Democracy: What is the Relation between Direct Democracy and Representative Democracy? (chair: Zoltán Tibor Pállinger, co-chair: Theo Schiller) 8 Roundtable on Democratic Innovation Research: The theoretical, methodological and practical challenges of the past, present and future (chair: Peter H. Feindt, co-chair: Mark Bevir) 9 Direct and Deliberative Democracy (chair: Norbert Kersting) 10 Democratic Innovation and Theories of Political Representation (chair: Samuel Hayat, co-chair: Charles Girard, discussant: Yves Sintomer)

Dr Peter H. Feindt Reader Director of Postgraduate Research Co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning - Included in Thomson Reuters JCR from 2011: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cjoe