VIII International Seminar on Electoral and Political Communication "New trends in electoral campaign"
The Eighth International Seminar on Electoral and Political Communication, which is entitled "New trends in electoral campaign", will analyze the new language, channels and strategies used by candidates from different countries, with particular emphasis on how political communication will be after Barack Obama. The seminar,...
George Lakoff at the 15th EAPC Conference
George Lakoff has confirmed his participation as speaker at the 15th EAPC Conference in Vienna, Austria, under the main topic "Emotions in Politics and Campaigning"
His current research covers many areas of Conceptual Analysis within Cognitive Linguistics: (i) The nature of human conceptual systems, especially metaphor systems...
The Resurgence of right wing parties in Austria
Recent regional elections in Austria bring sweeping gains for the Freedom Party. The party formerly lead by Jörg Haider almost doubled its votes in the regional states of Vorarlberg (25,1%) and Upper Austria (15,3%) in the elections on September 20 and 27, 2009. In both elections, the governing conservative People’s Party was...
The 10 Who Are Changing the World of Politics & the Internet in 2009
The EAPC is proud to announce that our college and member Marko Rakar has been nominated as finalist for the eDemocracy Awards for his work
For the fifth consecutive year, the World e-Democracy Forum, organized in Issy-les-Moulineaux, will be rewarding those who have made a commitment to affecting meaningful political...
Austrian Elections 2008. Strategies, Winner, Upsets
EAPC Board Member Thomas Hofer presents the first (and so far only) book that analyzes the campaigns for the Austrian general elections 2008. Together with co-editor and journalist Barbara Tóth, Hofer discusses the strategies of all relevant candidates and their parties. He singles out the most important campaign factors that...
Rising Stars at the EAPC
EAPC Board Member has been nominated Rising Star 2009 by the Campaign & Elections' Politics Magazine.One of the most prestigious honors in politics, the award goes to people 35 or under who have already made a significant mark in political consulting or advocacy. The magazine chose 10 Democrats, 10 Republicans and seven...
Building a Database for Fundraising
One of the most important tasks in the beginning of a campaign is gathering potential donor lists and building a donor database for fundraising and communications. It is a time consuming task that campaigns usually piece together as they go along. Doing solid research on which lists to gather and then gathering biographical...
Obama. The black visionary
The book is one of the first German publications to explain and analyze Barack Obama's triumph in the US-presidential elections 2008. It appeared just a few weeks after Obama's historic victory on November, 4. In various policy chapters, the author focus on the issues that dominated Obama's campaign as well as those that lie...
Welcome to Zurich
The XIV European Conference of the EAPC is taking place in Zurich, Switzerland, from thursday the 7th to Saturday the 9th May. During these days, political consultants of Europe, America, Africa and Asia are discussing among others over the last trends in political campaigning or the challenges for campaigners in tomorrow's...
How the Croatian PM Stole Christmas, Arrested Some Facebookers and Became an Online Nazi
It all started on November 14th when Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader announced that as a measure of fighting ongoing crisis he ordered to all government offices and state owned companies to cancel traditional Christmas lunches and ban all gifts. In the wake of crumbling stock markets, with banks struggling for liquidity and...
