Diversity, Inter-group Contact and Social Change, Keynote Speech
Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital conference Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, GermanyPutting your money where your mouth is: Political consumerism as political participation
Presentation at the workshop by the Montreal Health Equity Research Consortium (MHERC) on Social Networks and Health
Social Networks and Health Outcomes
Talk at the Department Speaker Series in Comparative Politics
George Washington UniversityLe « printemps érable » et l’élection québécoise de 2012
Colloque sur l’élection Québécoise 2012Quebec
(with Eva Falk-Pedersen, Allison Harell and Pascale Dufour)
Trust, Civic Engagement and Political Participation: some observations about the social capital research agenda, Keynote speech
Micro-Level Socialisation through Civic Engagement? Institutions, Associations and TrustQuebec
(with Eva Falk-Pedersen, Allison Harell and Pascale Dufour)
Diversity, intergroup contact, and trust
Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften Göttingen(with with Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann, Katharina Schmid, Joe Heywood)
Talk at the Bell Chair
Carleton University, Ottawa(with Michele Micheletti)
Social Cohesion and Integration Regimes: Redirecting our Attention to Immigrant-Native-Born Gaps
The Political Immigrant: A Comparative Portrait Workshop
Concordia University, Montreal(with Marc Helbling, Tim Reeskens, Cameron Stark and Matthew Wright)
Diversity and contact in German cities
Diversity and Contact
Max Planck Institute Göttingen. Germany(with Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann, Thomas Schmitt, Katharina Schmid)
Are vegetarians political? The conceptual and empirical difficulties in the expansion of political action repertoires
Communication, Consumers, and Citizens: Revisiting the Politics of Consumption University of Wisconsin, Madison(with Michele Micheletti and Daniel Berlin)
Political Consumerism and the Dynamic Responsibility of Citizens
The Dynamics of Citizenship in the Post-Political World, Stockholm(with Michele Micheletti and Daniel Berlin)
Ethnische Vielfalt und sozialer Zusammenhalt: tatsächlich schwer vereinbar?
NCCR Research Colloquium, University of Zürich, ZürichPolitische Partizipation im Umbruch?
University of Zürich, ZürichYouth—Losers of Social Capital or Winners of Diverse Societies?
Comparative Perspectives on Political Socialization Conference, Bruges
Shopping and Politics: Political Consumerism as Form of Political Participation
University of Hawaii, Hilo(with Michele Micheletti)
Ethnische Vielfalt und Sozialer Zusammenhalt: Tatsächlich schwer vereinbar?
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, BerlinNeue Ungleichheiten? Formen der Exklusion in neueren Formen der politischen Partizipation
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, BerlinIntegration Regimes in European Nation-states. Generalized trust and ethnocentrism in European societies
Institute for Public Policy Research (IRPP) 3rd IRPP Conference Diversity and Canada's Future, Québec, Canada(with Marc Hooghe and Tim Reeskens)
Re-conceptualization of Political Participation and Responsibility Taking
Carnegie Institute-Youth and Political Participation Meeting, Washington, DC
(with Michele Micheletti and Marc Hooghe)
The Role of Institutions in the Creation of Social Capital
CIFAR-Canadian Institute For Advanced Research, VancouverPolitical Consumerism: New Survey Evidence from Sweden
Oslo—International Seminar On Political Consumerism
Trust, Community and Civic Engagement -- A Research Agenda for Social Capital
INRS-Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Urbanisation, Culture et SociétéPolitischer Konsum als eine Form der politischen Partizipation
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin-AG ZivilgesellschaftSoziales Kapital in vergleichender Perspektive
Universität Potsdam—Soziologisches KolloquiumDie Entwicklung ziviler Werte: Soziales Kapital in vergleichender Perspektive
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin - Karl W. Deutsch Professorship TalkThe Gender Gap Reversed: Political Consumerism as a Form of Civic and Political Engagement
St. John’s College, University Of Manitoba: Gender And Social Capital Workshop(with Michele Micheletti)
Race in the City
Workshop Conceptualizing Trust—Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Nuffield College, Oxford Universitywith Melissa Marschall
Getting to trust-the sources of social capital
Stockholm University, Department Talk Göteborg University, Department TalkThe institutional embeddedness of generalized trust
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Centre for the Study of Democratic PoliticsWorkshop on Political Trust
(with Bo Rothstein)
The institutional sources of generalized trust
European Science Foundation, ExeterWorkshop On Social Capital
(with Bo Rothstein)
Political participation and political consumerism
City University, Stockholm, Sweden: International Seminar On Political Consumerism
(with Marc Hooghe)
Trust, Community and Public Action: Social Capital in Comparative Perspective
McGill University, MontrealPaper on regional differences in social capital in Sweden
LOS Center Bergen, Solstrand, Norway: Workshop "Investigating Social Capital."
Trust, Community and Public Action: Social Capital in Comparative Perspective
Pittsburgh University, PittsburghTrust, Community and Public Action: Social Capital in Comparative Perspective
Emory University, AtlantaTrust, Community and Public Action: Social Capital in Comparative Perspective
Harvard University, BostonVoluntary associations and generalized trust
European Science Foundation, MilanConference On Democracy And Social Capital
Organized 12 panels and a Workshop on the Political Psychology of Diversity
(with Allison Harell)
Co-organized the workshop on "Post-political Participation"
Co-organized with PSSA and Elisabeth Gidengil
Member of the Organizing Committee
Workshop Co-Director for the 2007 Joint Sessions: Social Capital, the State and Diversity (with Bo Rothstein)
Section Chair for the Field of Comparative-Developed. Organized 10 panels including a one-day workshop on "Diversity and Social Capital"
Workshop Co-Director for the 2004 Joint Sessions: Emerging Repertoires of Political Action. Toward a Systematic Study of Postconventional Forms of Participation (with Marc Hooghe)
Organized Panel Learning Politics: Comparative Research on Youth Socialization in Diverse Societies
Organized a workshop with 12 academic participants from Europe, Canada and the USA (with Marc Hooghe)
ECPR Conference. Invited to chair two panels "Social capital in Comparative Perspective." Presented two papers
Organized Panel: "Linking Social Capital and Political Institutions."
Joint Sessions
Workshop Co-Director for "Voluntary Associations, Social Capital and Interest Mediation: Forging the Link" (with Marc Hooghe)
Invited to organize a panel "Varieties of Trust."
Organized two panels on social capital: Varieties of Civicness and Social Capital and Social Capital in Comparative Perspective. Served as a discussant on the panel Social Capital in Comparative Perspective.
"Gender and Electoral Communication" (with Delia Dumitrescu, and Elisabeth Gidengil)
“How do I change Politics?” (with Sara Vissers)
“Maple Spring Up Close” (with Allison Harell, Eva Falk Pedersen, and Pascale Dufour)
“It’s Not What You Say, It’s the Way that You Say It: Candidate Nonverbal Style and Persuasion” (with Delia Dumitrescu, Elisabeth Gidengil and Stuart Soroka)
“Religious Symbols, Multiculturalism and Policy Attitudes” (with Allison Harell, Stuart Soroka and Jessica Behnke)
“Spill-over effects between Facebook and on/offline political participation? Evidence from a two-wave panel study” (with Sara Vissers)
“Religious Symbols, Multiculturalism and Policy Attitudes” (with Allison Harell, Stuart Soroka and Jessica Behnke)
“The mobilization potential of Facebook for political engagement: a multi-method approach” (with Sara Vissers)
“It’s Not What You Say, It’s the Way that You Say It: Candidate Nonverbal Style and Persuasion” (with Delia Dumitrescu, Elisabeth Gidengil and Stuart Soroka)
European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Reykjavik
“Consequences of Immigration-Related Diversity on Social Integration and Social Cohesion: Bringing Contact Back In” (with Sören Petermann, Karen Schönwälder, Thomas Schmitt and Joe Heywood)
“The Internet and new modes of political participation: Online versus offline participation?” (with Sara Vissers)
« Convergence générationnelle ? Les jeunes et la confiance généralisée au Québec et au Canada » (with Allison Harell)
Chair and Commentator
“Bringing Political Parties back in -- Cultural Diversity, Social Cohesion, and Political Mobilization"
(with Marc Helbling and Tim Reeskens)
"Effectiveness of Political Consumerism"
(with Michele Micheletti)
New Technology Conference, Barcelona
“The Impact of Online and Offline mobilization on Participation Modes. Citizen Politics: Are the New Media Reshaping Political Engagement”
(with Sara Vissers, Marc Hooghe, and Valérie-Anne Mahéo)
EU-COST Interdisciplinary Action on Gender and Well-Being, Amsterdam
“Boosting Women's Political Resources: The Power of Women's Social Networks”
(with Elisabeth Gidengil)
“Ethnic Identity in Multinational States: Linguistic Ties and the Development of Out-Group Solidarity"
(with Allison Harell)
«Qui sont ces jeunes qui ne participant pas? Un portrait socio démographiques des jeunes non-engagés, au Canada et en Belgique»
(with Yves Dejaeghere and Valérie-Anne Mahéo)
“What do Women Really Know? A Gendered Analysis of Varieties of Political Knowledge”
(with Elisabeth Gidengil)
International Conference on Experimental Methods, Brussels.
“The Potential of Political Mobilization. An Experiment on Internet and Face-to-Face Mobilization Efforts”
(with Marc Hooghe, Valérie-Anne Mahéo, and Sara Vissers)
“Social Networks and Immigrant Women’s Political Incorporation”
(with Elisabeth Gidengil)
“What's Different About the French? Generalized Trust in French-Speaking Communities: Comparing Belgium, Switzerland and Canada”
(with Eric Uslaner)
“What Does Politics Mean to You? Young Citizens and Emerging Forms of Political Action”
(with Ellen Quintelier, Allison Harell, and Laura Nishikawa)
“Network Diversity and Political Participation: A Complication or an Asset?”
(with Allison Harell and Ellen Quintelier)
“How Citizenship Education and Students? Political Resources Influence the Socialisation of New Citizens in Canada”
(with Ellen Caes and Marc Hooghe)
“Integration Regimes, Social Trust and Ethnocentrism. The Effects of Integration Policies on Social Cohesion in Europe”
(with Marc Hooghe, Tim Reeskens & Ann Trappers)
“Ethnic Diversity, Trust and Ethnocentrism and Europe. A multilevel Analysis of 21 European Countries”
(with Marc Hooghe, Tim Reeskens, and Ann Trappers)
“The Expansion of Political Action Repertoires: Theoretical Reflections on Results from the Nike Email Exchange Internet Campaign” (with Michele Micheletti)
“Shifting Inequalities? Patterns of exclusion and inclusion in new forms of political participation” (with Marc Hooghe)
“Chronicle of a War Foretold--A Comparative Study of Media Framing in Television News Broadcasts in Preparation to the War in Iraq” (with Marc Hooghe)
“Seeing or Living Diversity-Contact with Diverse Others and the Development of Generalized Trust,”
(with Melissa Marschall)
"The Study of Political Consumerism-A Multi-Method Approach"
(with Michele Micheletti)
"Roots of Civic Attitudes and Behaviors: The role of family in youth socialization" (with Allison Harell)
"Breeding Trust-The Family as a Source of Social Capital."
Colloque de la Société québécoise de science politique
"Forwarding Justice-Broadening our Concept of Political Participation" (with Michele Micheletti)
"Emerging Repertoires of Political Action. Toward a Systematic Study of Postconventional Forms of Participation"
(with Marc Hooghe)
Social Capital, Youth Civic Engagement and Democratic Renewal
Policy Research Initiative, Government Of Canada: Exploring New Approaches to Social Policy(with Cesi Cruz)
The Gender Gap Reversed: How women participate in politics
Mcgill Speaker Series Intersections Of Gender And Politics
(Research with Michele Micheletti and Marc Hooghe)
Post-Conventional Forms of Political Participation--An empirical test of the criticism against the Bowling Alone Thesis
University of Stockholm(with Marc Hooghe)
"The Causes and Consequences of Trust in Canada"
(with Ric Uslaner)
"Tomorrow’s Citizens. The Structure of Citizenship Concepts of Young Generations," (with Marc Hooghe)
Discussant Panel: Trust in Eastern Europe
"Political Consumerism—A New Phenomenon of Political Participation? An Exploratory Study in Canada, Belgium and Sweden"
(with Marc Hooghe and Michele Micheletti)
"How Political Institutions Create and Destroy Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust" (with Bo Rothstein)
"The Roots of Social Capital. The Effect of Youth Experiences on Participation and Value Patterns in Adult Life" (with Marc Hooghe)
Citizenship on Trial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Political Socialization of Adolescents
"Preparing for the Learning School of Democracy" (with Marc Hooghe)
"Preparing for the Learning School of Democracy—The Effects of Adolescent Involvement on Value Patterns and Participation in Adult Life"
(with Marc Hooghe)
"An Institutional Theory of Trust" (with Bo Rothstein)
"Inaccurate, Exceptional, One-Sided or Irrelevant? The Debate About the Alleged Decline of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Western Societies" (with Marc Hooghe)
"Race in the City—The Generation of Trust in Neighborhoods in Detroit"
(poster presentation with Melissa Marshall)
Workshop: Voluntary Associations, Social Capital and Interest Mediation: Forging the Link
"Social Capital—A Research Agenda"
"Clubs and Congregations—The Benefits of Joining an Association"
"Social Capital and Political Institutions"
(with Bo Rothstein)
"Local Politics as a Source of social capital—a regional comparative perspective in Sweden."
Nominated for the Sage Prize in Comparative Politics and for the Best APSA paper award
"The Benefits of Joining an Association"
"Diverse Associations and their Benefits"
"Getting to trust"
Paper nominated for the ECPR Rudolf-Wildenmann Prize
Conference of the sub- division Non-profit Sector Research.
"Associations and Trust"
"Voluntary associations and generalized trust"
Paper nominated for the Sage Prize in Comparative Politics
Europeanist Conference
"Are All Associations Alike?" (with Thomas Rochon)
GDR Research Association, Conway, USA
New Hampshire Symposium on Germany
"Identity change of East German women after the unification"
Invitation to participate in a Roundtable Discussion on Social Capital together with six scholars from across Canada and several senior federal officials
Social Capital Survey Project
Presented two talks on measurements of social capital for the General Social Survey 2003
Published newspaper article "Attentat auf das Soziale Kapital" (with Steffen Mau)