The Department of Political Science’s Magda Giurcanu traveled extensively over the summer to Germany, Czechia, the UK, and Romania. In Germany, she spent about a month as a Visiting Scholar at the GESIS Eurolab Institute, where she delivered a talk on “The Emergence of New Anti-EU Parties in EP Elections: Strategic Elite Calculations and European Union Debates”.
In the UK, she participated in the Council for Europe (CES) 2017 conference at the University of Glasgow, where she presented two papers on 1) “New Party Politics in European Parliament Elections” and 2) the electoral linkages in European elections, “In Search for an Electoral Link Between the EU Electorate(s) and the EU Proposals: Reality or Wishful Thinking?” (Co-authored with Petia Kostadinova, University of Illinois at Chicago).
In Glasgow, she also served as discussant for two panels on European Union politics and Party Systems in Europe. In Romania, she spent one week in the National Archives in Bucharest to collect data on new party manifestos. In Czechia, Magda met with faculty from the Charles University to coordinate visits of Czech scholars at ECU under the Visegrad in the 21 Century grant. She also met with faculty from the Anglo-American University to set up a new Study Abroad program for ECU students, which is currently under review at the Office of Global Affairs.
