The BIT-ACT team at the 2022 ECPR General Conference in Innsbruck

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At the 2022 European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Alice Mattoni, the BIT-ACT Principal Investigator, is chairing the panel “Digital media and contentious politics during the COVID-19 pandemic” in which she will also be presenting a paper co-authored with Anwesha Chakraborty. Also working on the impacts of the pandemic on civil society participation, Ester Sigillò will present the paper entitled “Covid-19 and shrinking space for civil society mobilisations in hybrid regimes and fragile democracies. The cases of Algeria and Tunisia”.

Aiming to explore the link between democratic innovations and (anti-)corruption initiatives, Oksana Huss and Fernanda Odilla are organizing the panel Democratic Innovations and (Anti-) Corruption: Promises, Limits, and Outcomes that will be held online. 

Fernanda Odilla will also present the paper entitled “Identifying individual conditions for being sanctioned for corruption: the case of the Brazilian federal executive” at the panel Corruption and Bureaucracy in International Perspective: New Concepts and Evidence.

The 2022 ECPR General Conference will combine online and face-to-face panels in the Austrian Tyrol, at the University of Innsbruck from August 22nd to the 26th. More info can be accessed here.