CCS forum

You are warmly invited to join us at our Business Meeting, taking place as a side event at the upcoming ECPR General Conference in Krakow (8-11 September 2026). Like last year, we will organize the meeting jointly with the Consortium of National Election Studies (CNES): https://www.cnes.community/

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 18:15-19:15 in room 201 (2nd floor) of the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagellonian University.

The Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS) website has been updated to a new version of Drupal. Please contact us should you encounter any issues.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has awarded a grant for the implementation of the proposal "Coding of the open-ended questions for the Comparative Candidates Survey" that will enable us to use new technologies and automated content analysis techniques to code the open-ended questions of CCS.

The dataset "Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS) Wave II - Cumulative Dataset 2013 - 2019" has been republished. With this update, the dataset passes to the version 4.0.0.
The following changes have been made:
- Added election from Ireland 2016
- Added election from Australia 2016
- Added election from Australia 2019
- Added election from Spain 2016.

For details on how you can download the data go to: http://www.comparativecandidates.org/data-access

Section Title: What Citizens Want and What Elites Do: Inequalities in Political Representation in Contemporary Democracy
Chairs
Katrine Beauregard and Ioannis Andreadis
Panels
Campaigns and Electoral Behaviour (P036)
Chair: Julia Partheymüller
Discussant: Katrine Beauregard
Time: 25/08/2020 09:00 - 10:45
Papers

The CCS Business Meeting is taking place on Thursday 5th September from 12h50 to 13h50 (room 201 in building B) at the ECPR conference.

Agenda topics include:

1. Introduction to the CCS project
2. CCS Steering committee 2018-2023
3. Module 1: data availability and edited volume
4. Module 2: data availability and new release of comparative file
5. Module 3: outlook and questionnaire
6. CCS website and social media
7. Periodic CCS meetings
8. Discussion