The Department of Political Science and the Social Science Research Institute of Åbo Akademi University, Finland, have the pleasure of inviting paper proposals to an international conference called "Democracy: A Citizen Perspective" to be held in Åbo (Turku), Finland, on May 27-28, 2015.

The conference marks the completion of the activities of the Center of Excellence in democracy research (D:CE) that has been in operation since 2006. By bringing together a wide range of international researchers, the conference aims at portraying the state of the art in central fields of democracy research.

The conference consists of keynote addresses by Professor Diana C. Mutz and Professor David Farrell, as well as five panels chaired by members of the D:CE International Advisory Board (open the attached link or see www.dce.abo.fi for more details). Each panel is designed to include four paper presentations.