{"id":6580,"date":"2025-06-30T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:12:00","slug":"news_2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/news_2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Presented at EPSA 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In June 2025, Dr. Jozef Michal Mintal attended the European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference in Madrid, held from June 26 to 28, 2025. The EPSA Annual Conference is a leading international event in political science, bringing together scholars from around the world to share and advance cutting-edge research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Mintal presented a paper titled\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Paradox of Representation: How Identity Fragmentation Complicates Voter-Party Congruence,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0co-authored with colleagues from the Central European University (CEU). It asks how democratic representation should be measured in an era of increasingly individualized and volatile political identities, and introduces a novel framework\u2014multi-point congruence\u2014for assessing representation in contemporary democratic societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to presenting his research, Dr. Mintal also participated in the roundtable discussion&nbsp;<em>\u201cA New Wave of Social Movements in CEE and Turkey?\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;together with Filip Kostelka, Gizem Arikan, Endre Borb\u00e1th, Fanni Toth, and Marta Vukovic, under the chairmanship of \u0110or\u0111e Milosav.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2025, Dr. Jozef Michal Mintal attended the European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference in Madrid, held from June 26 to 28, 2025.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6588,"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions\/6588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demokracia.umb.sk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}