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ECPR SSMT 2012 Handbook

Contents

Welcome 3

Contact Information & Location 5

General timetable 7

Detailed class information 8

Plenary programme and methodological cross-fertilisation 8

1. Welcome plenary session 9

2. The ‘Appetiser Monday Mix’ 9

3. Finding secondary data for my research 10

4. Poster session, ‘get back together’ reception and awards 11

5. The ‘Dessert Monday Mix’ 12

6. IBM SPSS as a social sciences data analyses tool 13

7. ...and your own cross-fertilisations, facilitated by Moodle and social 14

networking tools

Local Information 14

Local transport 14

Getting around Ljubljana by bike 15

[Daily academic timetable - centre pages]

Currency, exchange rates, and credit card services 18Telephone and postal services 18Useful telephone numbers 18Other telephone numbers and addresses 19Embassies and consulates 19Shop opening hours 19Laundries 20Bookstores 20Eating out 20Around the faculty of social sciences 21Finding your way around Ljubljana 21

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The city of Ljubljana 22Guided tours of Ljubljana 23Leisure activities 24Entertainment and culture 24

SSMT social events 25

Future ECPR Events 26


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welcome...from the Academic Convenors:

Welcome to the seventh ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques! We are particularly happy to welcome you to Ljubljana, along with the Local Academic Coordinator, the local organising team and ECPR Central Services.

We would like to stress four points with regards to the spirit of this Summer School:

• First, it is meant to be a place of dialogue and fruitful discussion between disciplines and various fields of study: indeed, this Summer School gathers advanced students and junior researchers from various subfields of political science, as well as other disciplines.

• Second, and quite crucially, we have designed the programme in order to cover all stages of a research project and covering methods both at the macro and at the micro level, covering quantitative, comparative and qualitative designs. We have also designed a plenary programme (in particular the ‘Monday Mix’ and the poster session) in order to facilitate some cross-fertilisation across different methodological perspectives.

• Third, we hope there will be a lot of interaction during the courses and also outside of course hours. Naturally, your instructors and teaching assistants (if applicable) will be there to help. Experience also shows that much is to be gained by exchanging and sharing information between participants.

• Fourth, we very much want to take stock of this experience, to further improve this Summer School for its eighth edition in 2013, which is why every one of you will be asked to fill in an on-line evaluation questionnaire (more information will be given to you in due course). Be assured that we will do our best to take your viewpoint into consideration for 2013. We look forward to welcoming you again next year, with a still further enriched programme.

As you may guess, it is quite a challenge to organise such an event. We will do our very best, along with the Local Academic Coordinator, the local organising team as well as ECPR Central Services, to find practical solutions to queries and difficulties. If you encounter any difficulty, please report it to the person in charge so we can come up with solutions as soon as possible.

Finally, we would like to advise you of the second ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques (WSMT) at the University of Vienna, Austria from 17 to 22 February


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2013. The Summer School and Winter School are designed to be fully complementary and to form the “ECPR Methods School”. We will provide more information at the “Welcome” plenary session on Sunday 29 July.

We wish you hard work, great intellectual and non-intellectual fun and lots of sun. We hope you will discover “the sunny side of methods”!

Bernhard Kittel and Benoît Rihoux, Academic Convenors

... from the Local Academic Coordinator

On behalf of the Faculty of Social Sciences, the whole Summer School organising team and myself, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you. Or, as we say in Slovene: “Dobrodošli v Ljubljani, dobrodošli na Fakulteti za družbene vede”!

This year we host our seventh ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques. We are pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to the evident success of the first six, and we are looking forward to continuing our partnership with ECPR in the years to come. We very much hope that you will find the Faculty of Social Sciences a stimulating environment for great learning achievements, and at the same time a place to gain a valuable experience, both in social and cultural terms.

Allow me to use this opportunity to briefly introduce the University of Ljubljana and the Faculty of Social Sciences. The University is almost 100 years old and was established on educational tradition dating back to the 16th Century. It is an umbrella for 23 faculties and 3 art academies. There are approximately 50,000 students, enrolled in over 300 educational programmes. The Faculty of Social Sciences is one of the oldest and largest members of the University of Ljubljana, with almost 4000 students, 13 undergraduate programmes and 23 graduate programmes in political science, sociology, communication and cultural studies. Within the Faculty, there are 22 research centres organised within the framework of the Social Sciences Research Institute, where almost 100 research projects are carried out annually.

In conclusion, we hope that this Summer School will be the most successful so far and that all participants will return home both scientifically and socially enriched.

Thank you for coming to Ljubljana and have a great time with us!

Professor Samo Kropivnik – Local Academic Coordinator


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contact information & locationThe Summer School will be held at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. It is one of the University’s largest faculties, located in a spacious campus relatively close to the town centre (10 minutes by bus numbers 6 and 8 or 25 minutes on foot). The faculty offers adequate facilities and conditions for plenary as well as for working group sessions.

Address: ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Kardeljeva Ploščad 5 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia

The Faculty of Social Sciences (including computer labs and areas/rooms for study and discussions) will be open: Thursday 26 July 8am to 8pm Friday 27 July 8am to 8pm Saturday 28 July 8am to 8pm Sunday 29 July 8am to 8pm Monday 30 July to Friday 10 August 8am to 10pm Saturday 11 August 8am to 12pm

Computers in labs and wireless internet access (available throughout the faculty building) can only be used with usernames and passwords (these can be found in your registration packs).

The Faculty Library will be open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 8am to 3pm, Wednesdays from 8am to 5pm and closed on the weekends. The library, its materials, and facilities are available for use to members only but as Summer School participants you can enter and use all books and reviews free of charge inside the Library. It is also possible to purchase one month’s membership for a small fee (€3.20) and take books or reviews out.

The National University Library is the main library for students of the University of Ljubljana and is located in the city centre (Turjaška ulica 1). The library can be used by any student possessing a student card and an identity card or passport. For more information please go to: www.nuk.uni-lj.si.

The copy shop on campus will be open from 8am to 4pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and from 8am to 5pm on Wednesday.


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Summer School Office Location: Faculty of Social Sciences, Kardeljeva ploscad 5

The staff who will be working from this office are: Denise Chapman – ECPR Methods Schools Manager Anne Evans - ECPR Finance Manager Sabina Otonicar – Local Summer School Office Manager Ira Sobočan, Ana Urbanc, Žana Močnik, Tjaša Smrekar - Graduate Assistants

Opening Hours of Summer School Office All week days from 8am to 6pm (Friday 27 July to Friday 10 August) Saturday 28 July from 9am to 6pm Sunday 29 July from 8am to 6pm Please note the office will be closed on Saturday 4 August and open 2pm to 6pm on Sunday 5 August.

Only in the case of an emergency outside these hours, you can call Sabina Otoničar – +386 41 481 110, Denise Chapman +44 7714 897530.

Contacting the Academic Convenors, Instructors and TAs:

The Academic Convenor Bernhard Kittel will be based in room AP19 (as well as Beno�t Rihoux on Monday 30 July). The local Academic Coordinator Samo Kropivnik will be based in room AP32. The Instructors’ office is in Senate room AP7. The Teaching Assistants’ office is room P28.

Study areas

Please note that in addition to your rooms and the library, you will also be able to study in Room 7 (quiet room) and Room 2 (discussion and team work room). Free wireless connections will be available throughout the building and computers with internet connections can be found in computer rooms 24, 25, 26, 27. Of course, when the computer labs are fully attended, priority access should be given to those needing to use the computers for a scientific purpose (e.g. linked to the Summer School courses). Please adopt this code of good conduct, as a courtesy to the other participants.

The computer labs may be used by participants to study from 8am to 9pm during study days when the lab is not being used for courses or group work, the door of each classroom will display a timetable so that participants may check availability.


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general timetable

Registration for:

Refresher Courses is open between 2pm and 6pm on Thursday 26 July and between 8am and 9am on Friday 27 July

All courses (Main 2 week, Week 1 and Week 2)

is open between 9am and 6pm on Saturday 28 July, between 8am and 6pm on Sunday 29 July and between 8am and 9am on Monday 30 July

Week 2 Courses only (1 week course only)

is open between 2pm and 6pm on Sunday 5 August and between 8am and 9am on Monday 6 August.

Two week courses

Tuesday 31 July – Friday 10 August

Registration: 9am to 6pm on Saturday 28 July. 8am to 6pm on Sunday 29 July

Monday Mix Monday 30 July

Main courses Tuesday 31 August – Friday 10 August

Examinations Saturday 11 August - 9am – 12pm

Plenary programmeSun 29 July 6pm to 8pm Welcome plenary session and BBQ

Mon 30 July 9am to 5pm Appetiser Monday Mix

Wed 1 August 6pm to 8pm Finding secondary data for my research

Sun 5 August 6pm to 8pm Poster Session, Awards & Reception

Mon 6 August 9am to 3.30pm Dessert Monday Mix

Wed 8 August 6pm to 8pm IBM SPSS as a social sciences data analyses tool

Course timingsMorning Sessions 9am to 12.30pm

Lunch 12.30pm to 2pm

Afternoon Sessions 2pm to 5.30pm


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detailed class informationGeneral course information and obligations

• All participants are requested to attend all the course sessions in order to obtain certification. The instructors will circulate attendance forms at each course session.

• In the second week of the Summer School a compulsory online evaluation survey will be available (further information will be sent to your email address).

plenary programme and methodological cross-fertilisationThe academic coordination of this plenary programme is jointly ensured by Profs. Benoît Rihoux & Bernhard Kittel (Academic convenors) and by Prof. Samo Kropivnik (Local academic coordinator)

The purpose of the Summer School is not only to provide high-quality, interactive training on specific methods, it also provides a venue for methodological cross-fertilisation, where participants can open up their methodological perspectives. A series of additional events (including receptions, more on the socialising side) offer such opportunities. These activities are not conceived as a simple ‘side dish’ to the main courses – rather, they are very much linked to the courses and lie at the heart of the Summer School concept. These different types of events, in different formats, are designed to enable more interaction, as well as methodological debates.

Our goal is that instructors, teaching assistants and as many participants as possible have opportunities to engage in informal and open debates in a broader setting. For each event, we also outline the decisive “plusses” – each event, in a specific way, is an opportunity for you to seize.


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1. Welcome plenary session

(Sunday 29 July 6pm to 8pm, Main Auditorium)

During this first session, each instructor gives a short presentation on the topic of his/her course. Thus, participants have the opportunity to get a grip on each one of the courses offered. This way, participants also know ‘who is who’, so they can possibly make appointments during the Summer School with other instructors apart from the instructor(s) of the course they are following.

[NB at this plenary session, a series of important practical instructions are also provided – it is therefore highly recommended that you attend]

This welcome plenary session is followed by a welcome barbecue.

The «plus» of this event: it gives you a first ‘appetiser’ with regards to each one of the courses offered – and also helps you to select the “Monday Mix” lectures you’d like to attend the next day. And if you prefer non-academic ‘appetisers’, you’ll get them at the barbecue.

2. The ‘Appetiser Monday Mix’

(Monday 30 July 9am to 5.30pm)

The first teaching day (Monday 30 July) is split into four, 90 minute time slots. During each of these slots, 4 instructors present the introductory lecture for their respective courses(*). Thus: each participant of a two-week full course(**) may attend lectures for up to 3 courses, in addition to the one he/she has registered for, providing insight into some other methodological perspectives and tools.

(*) NB : On Monday 30 July, the instructors of 2-week courses only teach for 90 minutes (i.e. their introductory lecture).

(**) Each participant of the one-week courses starting from week 1 has the possibility to attend one lecture at the Monday Mix, in addition to the course he/she has registered for (as his/her one-week course covers 2 other time slots). (See page 13 for more details)


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Class 09:00-10:30 11:00-12:30 14:00-15:30 16:00-17:30

23 B1 Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Comparative Cross-national Surveys Data

B4 Political Game Theory

B7 QCA and Fuzzy Sets: Basics and Advanced Issues in Set Theoretic Methods

B10 Introduction to Simultaneous Equation Modelling

7 B2 Multiple Regression Analysis

B5 Methodologies of Case Studies

B8 Introduction to Network Analysis with Pajek

C5 Data Problems and Solutions. Social Science Statistics in Practice

22 B3 Experimental Methods

B6 Survival Analysis and Event History Analysis

B9 Network Analysis: Applications in Political Science

C6 Issues in Political, Policy and Organisational Ethnography

21 C1 Expert Interviews for Qualitative Data Generation

C2 Process Tracing Methodology

C3 Strategies of Interpretive / Qualitative Political Research

C7 Introduction to Bayesian Inference

The «plus» of this event: this is quite a unique opportunity to attend (for free) a full introductory lecture on up to 3 other methodological topics, apart from the course you are following. This may encourage you to come again next year to attend another course, or to engage in further readings etc.

3. Finding secondary data for my research (Wednesday 1 August 6pm to 8pm, Main Auditorium)

Secondary data analysis saves time that would otherwise be spent collecting data and provides larger and higher-quality databases that would be unfeasible for any individual researcher to collect on their own. In addition, analysts of social and economic change consider secondary data essential, since it is impossible to conduct a new survey that can adequately capture past change and/or developments (Wikipedia, 2012).


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Class 09:00-10:30 11:00-12:30 14:00-15:30 16:00-17:30

23 B1 Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Comparative Cross-national Surveys Data

B4 Political Game Theory

B7 QCA and Fuzzy Sets: Basics and Advanced Issues in Set Theoretic Methods

B10 Introduction to Simultaneous Equation Modelling

7 B2 Multiple Regression Analysis

B5 Methodologies of Case Studies

B8 Introduction to Network Analysis with Pajek

C5 Data Problems and Solutions. Social Science Statistics in Practice

22 B3 Experimental Methods

B6 Survival Analysis and Event History Analysis

B9 Network Analysis: Applications in Political Science

C6 Issues in Political, Policy and Organisational Ethnography

21 C1 Expert Interviews for Qualitative Data Generation

C2 Process Tracing Methodology

C3 Strategies of Interpretive / Qualitative Political Research

C7 Introduction to Bayesian Inference

Advantages and disadvantages of secondary analysis will be discussed. Emphasis will be given on data services that provide social science data. We will present several services, their main collections and access to data.

Speaker: Irena Vipavc Brvar, Slovene Social Science Data Archives

4. Poster session, ‘get back together’ reception and awards

(Sunday 5 August 6pm to 8pm, main hall of Faculty of Social Sciences)

The purpose of this poster session is to enable you to present your “work in progress” (typically, this would be a PhD research project, but it can also be an ongoing applied research project, etc), and to receive feedback from fellow participants. We invite you all to present your work at this session. It is up to you to choose how to set up the poster, e.g. in terms of relative emphasis on substantive, theoretical and methodological issues.

There will be no formal presentations, rather this session will take place during a ‘get back together’ reception after the weekend. This will enable informal interaction between the poster authors and the audience of participants, teaching assistants and instructors.

Practical Instructions:

• Participants who send their posters to Sabina Otonicar no later than 6pm on 23 July will have their posters printed in colour by the SSMT office (with costs covered). Later contributions are possible, but after the deadline participants will have to arrange printing and cover the costs themselves;

• The posters will be displayed in the main hall from Thursday 2 August onwards;

• On the day of the poster session, the SSMT office will make arrangements to display the posters in the main hall of the Faculty. Participants will be allocated space in order of arrival.

• The posters will remain on display for the second week of the full courses (6–10 August) and if they so wish, the authors of the posters will be able to collect them at the end of the SSMT.


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Procedure to allocate the “Best Poster Awards”:

• Each poster will be identified by a number;

• Each SSMT participant will be issued with a voting slip;

• Between Thursday 2 August (beginning of the display) and Sunday 5 August at 7pm (mid-way through the poster session and reception), each participant will have the possibility to (anonymously) cast his/her voting slip in a ballot box;

• Between 7pm and 8pm, the voting slips will be counted by a team of UL-based teaching assistants;

• At around 8pm (end of the poster session), the Best Poster Awards will be announced. The Dirk-Berg Schlosser Awards for best posters come with a first prize of €250, a second prize of €150 and a third prize of €100.

The «plus» of this event: if you have a project of your own, you have the unique opportunity to receive feedback, in an informal way, by any other participant, teaching assistant or instructor. You also have the opportunity to inform many people about your ongoing work. Finally, it also enables you, if you have not yet done so, to elaborate a first poster, which could be useful for other occasions (conferences etc.).

5. The ‘Dessert Monday Mix’

(Monday 6 August, 9am to10.30am & 2pm to 3.30pm)

On the first teaching day of the 1-week courses that take place during the second week (Monday 6 August), the first 90-minute lecture of these 5 courses is made accessible to other interested participants (same principle as the ‘Appetiser Monday Mix’). Thus:

• Each participant of a two-week full course has the possibility to attend one Dessert Monday Mix lecture (one lecture that takes place in the morning if his/her main course is scheduled in the afternoon, or one lecture that takes place in the afternoon if his/her main course is scheduled in the morning);

• Each participant of a one-week course (during week 2) also has the possibility


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to attend one Dessert Monday Mix lecture (one lecture that takes place in the morning if his/her main course is scheduled in the afternoon, or one lecture that takes place in the afternoon if his/her main course is scheduled in the morning);

• In addition, a participant that only took a one-week course during week 1, and who would still like to gain new insights, could stay until Monday 6 August and attend up to two Dessert Monday Mix lectures (one in the morning and one in the afternoon).

This is how the Dessert Monday Mix lectures are spread over two time slots:

Class 9am – 10.30am 2pm – 3.30pm

2 D4 Analysing Text, Sound and Image with NVivo

D3 Simultaneous Equation Models

3 D1 Analysing Discourse – Analysing Politics: Theories, Methods and Applications

D6 Content Analysis

6 D2 Missing Data

The «plus» of this event: this is quite a unique opportunity to attend (for free) a full introductory lecture on up to 3 other methodological topics, apart from the course you are following. This may encourage you to come again next year to attend another course, or to engage in further readings etc.

6. IBM SPSS as a social sciences data analyses tool

(Wednesday 8 August 6pm to 8pm, Main Auditorium)

The potential of IBM SPSS data management and analyses software package in the heterogeneous, vibrant and demanding social sciences research field will be demonstrated and discused. This is an opportunity to learn about the logic, the challenges and the vision behind this well know computer program from the first hand as well as discuss its benefits and downsides in comparison to other data analyses packages as you have experienced them. The presentation will be given by Miha Vogelnik, Valicon’s parter and regional SPSS representative, a recognized expert in data mining and social sciences data analyses.


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7. …and your own cross-fertilisations, facilitated by Moodle and social networking tools

For the whole duration of the SSMT, some specific online collaborative tools will be made accessible to all participants, to facilitate contacts and various initiatives by the participants themselves. The Moodle platform (the SSMT e-learning platform used for the courses and plenary programme) will feature various tools and links which will enable you to network in many ways, following a “bottom-up” logic.

All the participants will be able to exploit these tools as they wish, to exchange experiences, launch discussion groups, forums, etc. This could also lead (if you find it useful), for instance, to ‘fringe meetings’ initiated by the participants themselves, along any topic (substantive, theoretical, methodological) – the SSMT office will be there to help for logistics, if needed.

Naturally you will also be able to use these tools for “non-academic” purposes (e.g. organise parties, weekend trips, get-togethers, social events, etc.). There will also be a University of Ljubljana student assistant specifically employed for the duration of the SSMT, to assist you in self-organising anything you wish.

Some of the tools, if useful, will remain active after the SSMT, for instance if some specific groups want to pursue interactions etc.

The «plus»: this will enable you to ‘self-organise’ as you wish and to take part in any network or initiative you want to join.

local information

Local transport

The most efficient public transport in Ljubljana is the city bus system. City buses have an electronic payment system based on a no-contact smart card called Urbana. Urbana cards are electronic ticket carriers. A single journey fare is €1.20 and it covers an up to 90-minute journey regardless of the number of buses needed to be changed to reach the destination.


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Value ticket: a single fare paid using pre-paid credit on the Urbana card that enables free transfers within 90 minutes.

For more information see: www.jh-lj.si/en/lpp/city-public-transport tel. +386 (0)1 430-51-74, e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.jh-lj.si/en/lpp

From the city centre Bavarski dvor to the Faculty of Social Sciences take lines 6 and 8, bus stop is Mercator.

Getting around by Ljubljana Bike

The Bicike(LJ) bicycle hire network consists of 30 docking stations located within the greater Ljubljana city centre area.

300 bicycles are available for hire from the docking stations. As the Bicike(LJ) scheme is mainly intended for short journeys, the first hour is free and after five minutes from returning a hired bicycle, a new one can be hired.

The docking stations are equipped with terminals providing information on the availability of bicycles for hire and locations of docking stations.

The use of the Bicike(LJ) bicycle hire scheme

The weekly use of the Bicike(LJ) bicycle hire scheme, targeted mainly at visitors to Ljubljana, is available upon registration on the Bicike(LJ) website at: //en.bicikelj.si/Subscribe

The registration process requires you to enter your email address and credit card number. When your registration is completed, you receive a nine-digit code required to access the Bicike(LJ) system and a four-digit personal PIN code to be entered when hiring a bicycle.

The weekly registration fee is €1.00.

Hire prices First hour: free Second hour: €1.00 Third hour: €2.00 Each additional hour: €4.00


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Terms and conditions The maximum bicycle hire period is 24 hours. In order to register to the Bicike(LJ) scheme, you are required to provide an authorisation for €350 to be withdrawn from your bank account as a refund in case the bicycle is damaged, returned after the expiry of the maximum hire period of 24 hours or not returned at all. In case of an accident or theft, call the free phone number 080 23 34 and report the theft or accident to the police within 24 hours.

Bicike(LJ) dock station: 29 Dunajska cesta - Mercator office building is the docking station nearest to the Faculty of Social Sciences (next to the bus stop Mercator)

Currency, exchange rates, and credit card services

Slovenia’s currency as of January 2007 is Euro. More info: www.nlb.si/cgi-bin/nlbweb.exe?doc=3940 Eurocard, Visa, Diners Club, American Express, and other cards are widely accepted in shops, hotels and restaurants.

Drinking water The water is safe and drinkable across the country.

Electricity The current is 220 V, 50 Hz (EU plugs). If you are bringing your own laptop, please make sure that you have an EU plug.

Telephone and postal services Calls may be made from private homes, phone booths or post offices. The rates are the same in all cases. Public telephone boxes can be found in all central places in urban areas. The phones operate with magnetic cards that can be bought at newspaper and tobacco stands, as well as at all post offices.

Useful telephone numbers Slovenian Country Code 386 Ljubljana City Code 1 Slovenian Exit Code 00 Police 113 Fire Brigade 112 Emergency First Aid 112

In Ljubljana there are around 30 post offices. They are open Monday to Friday from 7am to 7pm, and on Saturdays until 1pm. The post office at the central train station is also open at night. Ljubljana’s postcode is 1000.


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Name Address Telephone Fax/ Email/ Web

Medical Assistance Klinični center Ljubljana

Bohoričeva 4

522 50 50

Faculty of Social Sciences

Kardeljeva pl. 5 58 05 100 58 05 101

Office of International Cooperation

Kardeljeva pl. 5 58 05 305 58 05 102

University of Ljubljana - International Relations Office

Kongresni trg 12 24 18 592 24 18 593

[email protected]/ www.uni-lj.si

National University Library

Turjaška 1 20 01 110 42 55 007 www.nuk.uni-lj.si

Central Technical Library

Trg republike 3 47 63 739 42 56 667 [email protected]

Medical Insurance ZZZS Mala ulica 3 30 77 700

Local Transport Ljubljanski potniški promet, p.o.Celovška cesta 160

58 22 460 51 94 409

Other telephone numbers and addresses

Embassies and consulates

For a list of embassies and consulates, please see www.ljubljana.si/en/ljubljana_az/433/kategorija.html

Shop opening hours

Weekdays: 8am to 7pm (some are open to 9pm) Saturdays: 8am to 1pm (some are open to 9pm) Sundays and holidays: designated supermarkets open on Sundays (8am - 3pm), on-duty pharmacies, small markets and some private shops.


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Laundries

• Bistra, Dunajska 59 (Linhartov podhod), phone: 23 10 922 (9am to 5pm, closed Saturdays and Sundays)

• Dijaski Dom Bezigrad - Guests staying here have access to the accommodation laundry.

• Usluga Šiška, Derčeva 31, phone: 51 32 280 (6am to 7pm) Saturdays (8am to 1pm) www.usluga-siska.si

• Hostel Celica, Metelkova 8, 1000 Ljubljana, phone: 230 9700

Bookstores

There are many bookstores in Ljubljana but you can most easily find periodicals and books in foreign languages at:

Cankarjeva založba – Oxford Centre, Kopitarjeva ulica 2, Phone: 360 37 89, website: www.centeroxford.com.

Cankarjeva založba, Slovenska cesta 29, Ljubljana Phone: 244 26 38, website: www.cankarjeva-z.si.

MK – Knjigarna Konzorcij, Slovenska cesta 29, Ljubljana Phone: 241 06 50, website: www.mladinska.com

Eating out

The influences of the East and West, North and South have mingled in Slovenia, a phenomenon reflected in Slovenia’s traditional dishes. The city of Ljubljana offers a great variety of cuisine and prices. Most restaurants serve food until 11pm and some carry on until early in the morning. There are also numerous specialised restaurants: Chinese, Italian, Mexican and Spanish. To view the list of restaurants, please visit: www.visitljubljana.si/en/experiences/eating_out/


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Around the Faculty of social sciences

Self-Service Restaurant Šumi – Address: conveniently located at the ground level of the Faculty of Social Sciences building (offering inexpensive lunches yet variety of foods on weekdays)

Bistro Barbado – Dunajska 106 (open until 5pm on weekdays)

Self-Service Restaurant Glažuta – Dunajska 119

Self-Service Restaurant Mercator – Dunajska cesta 107

Špagetarija Favola, Italian food – Dunajska cesta 129, Phone: +386 (0)1 566 20 94

Sofra, Bosnian food – Dunajska cesta 145, Phone: +386 (0)1 565 68 00

Pizza Delivery Halo Pinki Phone: +386 (0) 1 544 1111

Finding your way around Ljubljana

For directions to either a particular address or a point of interest (i.e. supermarkets, shopping centres, museums, galleries, healthcare facilities, restaurants, infrastructure, tourist organisations, etc.), please see the following link to view the Interactive City Map of Ljubljana: www.visitljubljana.si/en/maps.html


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the city of ljubljanaIn Ljubljana you will feel a mixture of the Slavic charm and sincerity, as well as the Mediterranean temperament and a touch of Nordic reserve. You will also be able to enjoy the architecture, its museums, archaeological sites, monuments, many theatres and one of the oldest philharmonic orchestras in the world.

The city’s increasingly vibrant commercial and trading life and rapid increase of foreign diplomatic representatives are giving it an ever greater cosmopolitan touch. Ljubljana offers a wide variety of cafes, pubs, bars and restaurants. Relief from the hustle and bustle of life in the capital can be found in the many parks and woodland areas, which in some places extend almost right into the city centre.

The branches of the city park willow trees almost spill into the green coloured river Ljubljanica in the old town quarter and not very far away in the very centre behind the Town Hall rise the wooded slopes of Castle Hill. The castle itself is the main place of pilgrimage, and whoever leaves the city without going there has not really seen Ljubljana. The municipality Ljubljana connected Ljubljana Castle with the old city core at the end of 2006 by an urban means of transport – a funicular railway.

From Ljubljana people go skiing in Kranjska Gora, horseback riding in Lipica, for a coffee in Trieste, and a little further for cappuccino and exhibitions in Venice. Nowhere is more than a two-hour drive away.

The most popular events during the summer in Ljubljana are:

Festival Ljubljana: The Ljubljana Summer Festival is held between July and August. It attracts notable opera stars, ballet and theatre performers and also eminent international rock and jazz musicians. Further information can be found at: www.ljubljanafestival.si/en

Metelkova Mesto (Metelkova City): Metelkova is an internationally renowned alternative community culture in the centre of Ljubljana, that often draws comparisons to Copenhagen’s Kristiania. A self-declared ‘Autonomous Culture Zone’ consists of seven buildings and 12,500m2 - making it a sort of city within a city - comprising a former prison (now Celica Hostel), several clubs, live music spaces, art galleries and artist studios. Dedicated to organising social and cultural activities for the public, Metelkova has a nonstop events schedule and is arguably the best after-dark destination in Lubljana for those looking to experience something wholly unique and unpredictable. Further information can be found at: www.metelkova.org


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Trnfest: The TRNFEST Festival is one of Ljubljana’s most popular cultural and social events on the summer calendar. All outdoor events are free of charge. Further information can be found at: www.visitljubljana.si/en/events/23413/detail.html

Open air theatre: Every summer there is an open air theatre in Ljubljana’s castle. You can bring your own drinks and food. Tickets can be bought in the castle every day one hour before the start of the movie and from then on. Tickets cost around €4. Further information can be found at: www.kinodvor.org/kinodruzenja-in-festivali/film-pod-zvezdami/

Guided tours of Ljubljana

Ljubljana, especially its old city centre, is renowned for its unique architectural appearance, which is due to the picturesque combination of the legacy of the Roman era, Baroque and Art Nouveau masterpieces, and a unique and original character given to the city by the famous European architect Jože Plečnik, a native of Ljubljana, in the first half of the 20th Century. Guided sightseeing tours of the city are organised by the Ljubljana Tourist Board.

Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre (TIC) Address: Adamič-Lundrovo nabrežje 2, Ljubljana Phone: +386 (0)1 306 12 15 Fax: +386 (0)1 306 12 04 Email: [email protected] www.visitljubljana.si

Opening hours: 8am to 9pm daily

Apart from numerous tourism publications and the city map, which are available free of charge, the two Ljubljana TICs offer tourist literature on Ljubljana, postcards with stamps, souvenirs of Ljubljana, and T-shirts with motifs of Ljubljana. Also available are bookings for guided tours of the city, accommodation in Ljubljana and its surroundings, trips to the surroundings of Ljubljana, car hire, etc.

Guided tours enquiry and booking

Guided tours on request which give you an opportunity to get thoroughly acquainted with the city’s different faces, are available throughout the year in 17 different languages (Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish).


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Contact: Ms. Alenka Štular Phone: +386 (0)1 306 12 30 Email: [email protected].

TIC Ljubljana Souvenir Shop

Why not take a little something of Ljubljana home with you? The souvenirs available from the Ljubljana Tourist Board reflect the feel of Ljubljana by combining the city’s arts and crafts tradition with modern design. On sale at the TIC Ljubljana souvenir shop.

Phone: +386 (0)1 306 13 36 Email: [email protected].

leisure activities

A rich and varied selection of sports and cultural activities is available to our students ranging from athletic teams, choirs, photo and film clubs, dance and theatre groups. There are three cultural or information centres in Ljubljana:

Institute Français Charles Nodier, phone: 200 05 00 website: www.institutfrance.si/si/

The British Council, phone: 200 01 30 website: www2.britishcouncil.org/slovenia.htm

American Centre, US Embassy, phone: 200 55 00 website: www.usembassy.si

entertainment and culture

Various concerts are held at: Cankarjev dom (phone: 241 71 00, website: www.cd-cc.si), The Philharmonic (phone: 241 08 00, website: www.filharmonija.si) and in churches.


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Besides classical music, there are many pop, rock, electronic and alternative music concerts in halls, clubs, pubs and discos.

There are five cinemas in the city that screen the latest movies. Foreign movies are shown with Slovenian subtitles. Throughout Ljubljana there are about 15 museums and 25 galleries and collections, and seven major theatres. For further information, please see www.visitljubljana.si/en/experiences/culture_and_art/

A detailed programme of daily events is listed in daily newspapers.

For more information and a free copy of a monthly event schedule in Ljubljana, contact the Tourist Information Centre located in the city centre at Stritarjeva 7 (phone: 306 12 15, website: www.ljubljana.si/usefulinformation/touristinformation)

ssmt social eventsThe Summer School Office will organise the following events during weekdays:

Tours of Ljubljana (2 hours, around €5*) Karaoke nights Pub crawl Sports day Ljubljana cycling tour (max 10 persons at a time, 2 hours, around €15*) Walking tour of Ljubljana Castle’s nooks and crannies (1 hour, around €4*)

For the second weekend (Saturday 4 August, Sunday 5 August) the SSMT Office can help you to arrange the trip through tour operators to see some more of Slovenia:

Ljubljana Moors nature park cycling tour (max 10 persons, 3 hours, €31*)

Raft ‘n Free (Bled) (max 16 persons, full day excursion around €55*)

The view from Šmarna Gora (4 hours, around €29*)

Free Climbing at Bled (max 16 people, 6 hours, around €48*)

Karst and Coast Mystery (max 16 people, full day excursion, around €45*) Breathe Mediterranean (Portorož & Piran) (full day excursion, €57 *)


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Piran and Slovenian Coast (full day excursion, around €59*)

Cycling to the source of the river Kamniška Bistrica (full day excursion, cycling time 4 hours, max 10 persons, around €38*)

Alpine Fairytale – Bled (5 hours, max 16 persons, around €36*)

...or help you with arranging something else.

*All prices depend on the number of the group so they may vary.

If you prefer to do things on your own, further information can be found at: www.visitljubljana.si/en/

future ecpr events

2nd ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques

University of Vienna, Austria, 17 – 22 February 2013

The ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques (WSMT) is an annual event, complementary to the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques (SSMT), and for the same public of advanced students and junior researchers in political science and adjacent disciplines.

Integrated with the SSMT, The WSMT features both introductory courses and more advanced courses, in a one-week course format, while the intermediate-level courses will continue to be held at the SSMT in Ljubljana, in a two-week course format for quantitative techniques and two consecutive one week courses for qualitative techniques.


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41st ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops

Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany, 11 – 16 March 2013

Workshops are designed to be a forum for substantive discussion on research in progress and collaboration among scholars and are gatherings of approximately 15 to 20 participants from several institutions, lasting about 5 days. The topics of discussion are precisely defined, and only those scholars currently working in the workshop’s field are accepted to participate.

The main aim of the workshops is the participation and equality of endeavour between advanced students, younger and newer members of the profession and well-established professors. Each participant is expected to be carrying out research in the field of the workshop, so that he or she can present a paper or research document for discussion, as well as take part in the discussion of the other papers presented. Participants may attend only one workshop and should stay for the duration of the Joint Sessions. It is hoped that some of these workshops will lead to publications and the creation of permanent Standing Groups, as well as to continuing collaboration between members.

7th ECPR General Conference

Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, 5 – 7 September 2013

The academic programme takes the standard conference format of sections, which have within them between 4 and 10 panels. These sections are organised around a common theme and major research questions.

The traditional conference format provides the opportunity to present recent research to an audience in order to expose it to the criticism, suggestions, and support of peers. The purpose of the conference is to further scientific discussion and research across all national scientific communities and across all areas of political science. In addition to sections and panels, there are round tables, a plenary lecture and an interesting social programme.

A call for panel proposals will be announced in August 2012.


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5th ECPR Graduate Conference

Innsbruck, Austria, 3 – 5 July 2014

The academic programme takes the standard conference format of sections, which have within them between 4 and 10 panels. These sections are organised around a common theme and major research questions. Sections provide the opportunity to present research to a large audience and to expose it to the criticism, suggestions, and support of peers.

In addition to sections and panels, there are round tables, a plenary lecture and an interesting social and networking programme. This is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to come together from all over Europe to share their work and experience by presenting papers or by simply observing.

A call for Panels and Papers will be announced in June 2013.

3rd Research Sessions

Florence, summer 2013 (dates to be confirmed)

The ECPR’s Research Sessions can be seen as a ‘mini Joint Sessions’ where established or newly formed groups of around eight researchers can come together to discuss a project at any stage.

Funding

In order to help individuals participate in all of the above events, the ECPR offers a number of funds and scholarships to scholars in all stages of their careers.

Every year the ECPR awards approximately 150 grants to individuals who belong to member institutions; this funding alone is a key benefit of membership of the ECPR.

Funding is available for most of our events – for more information please see our website www.ecprnet.eu.


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2nd ECPR Winter School in Methods and TechniquesUniversity of Vienna, 17-22 February 2013

course list

A. Introductory Courses (15 hours) A1 Introduction to Statistics

A2 An Introduction to Qualitative Methods for Political Scientists

A3 Working with Comparative Survey Data

A4 Comparative Research Designs

A5 Knowing and the Known: The Philosophy of Social Sciences

A6 Research Design Fundamentals

A7 Tools for Data Mining, Data Production and Data Documentation

A8 Introduction to Social Network Analysis

B. Advanced Courses (15 hours)B2 Maximum Likelihood and Limited Dependent Variables

B3 Panel Data Analysis

B4 Multilevel Regression Modelling

B5 Writing Ethnographic & Other Qualitative/Interpretive Research:

An Inductive Approach

B6 Analysing Political and Social Sequences

B7 The Analysis of Deliberative Politics

B8 Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)

B9 Election Forecasting

B10 Focus Groups – Qualitative Data Generation

B11 Agent-based Modelling in the Social Sciences

B12 Advanced Process Tracing Methods

B13 Advanced Content Analysis

B14 Political Anthropology Methods

B15 Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis

B17 Statistical Modelling of the Spatial Theory of Voting


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B18 Interpreting Binary Logistic Regression Models

B19 Visual Statistics: Analysing your Data Visually

B20 Categorical Data Analysis

C. Software Courses (7.5 hours)C1 Introduction to R

C2 Introduction to SPSS

C3 Introduction to STATA

C4 Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis with Atlas-ti

C5 Introduction to NViVo 10

C6 Introduction to Data Access & Management

Course outlines will be available in August 2012 on the ECPR website (www.ecprnet.eu); registration opens September 2012.

Each participant may attend: One introductory course, or one advanced course. In addition they may attend one (optional) software course.

For more information please contact Denise Chapman ([email protected])

methods schools

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www.ecprnet.eu/ecprpress

ECPR Press Books can be bought and collected from the Summer School Offi ce

between 08:00 - 18:00

Benefi t from 60-70% discountson ECPR Press books

We have a wide range of politi cal science books, from leading politi cal scienti sts who have left a deep impression on the discipline, to new and up-coming scholars who are breaking new ground.

Current authors include:

Barry BuzanJosep ColomerHans DaalderLewis Anthony DexterOscar GabrielSilke KeilEric KerroucheMatt KillingsworthErol KülahciMarti no Maggetti Stein Rokkan Giovanni SartoriPhilippe Van Parijs


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