Call for Applications - 8th Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies<https://www.ipz.uzh.ch/en/studium/phd/democracy-studies/summer-school/2022-Zurich.html> The 2022 school will focus on Advances in Comparative Democracy Research and will take place in person in Zurich from 12-16 September 2022. This year's program will deal with recent theoretical and methodological advances in the comparative study of democracy, including political institutions, democratic representation, election campaigns, gender and politics, and social media as a novel source to study democratic politics. For more information check the Zurich S3DS 2022 Programme<https://www.ipz.uzh.ch/en/studium/phd/democracy-studies/summer-school/2022-Zurich/programme.html> and the attached flyer<https://www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:5e2d39f1-9708-444f-9aaf-ed55b3919baa/S3DS_2022_CfA_web.pdf>. The Summer School is open to doctoral students and advanced master's students worldwide from the social sciences and related disciplines. The school is limited to 20 participants. 2 ECTS and a certificate are awarded for participation in the full academic programme. Participation is subject to a fee, reduced or no fees can apply. Grants are available through a separate application process. All interested candidates should read the application instructions<https://www.ipz.uzh.ch/en/studium/phd/democracy-studies/summer-school/application-instructions.html> and apply online as participants<https://t.uzh.ch/1kp> by filling in the online form. The deadline for submission is 20 June 2022. Please forward this message to potentially interested candidates. DR. MATHILDE M. VAN DITMARS SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE Department of Political Science Frohburgstrasse 3 | P.O. Box 4466 | 6002 Luzern, Switzerland mathilde.vanditmars@unilu.ch Personal website<https://sites.google.com/view/mathildevanditmars/> twitter.com/VanDitmars<https://twitter.com/VanDitmars> Recently published: Van Ditmars (2022) Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology.<https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.12517> European Journal of Political Research