We hope that in the new academic year 2017-2018 we will witness both individual achievements and tighter cooperation of the members of the Party Leader Database project.

The project is constantly developing and last year we managed to extend the circle of contributors as well as updating the data on the webpage. One of the measurable results of this work consisted in organizing the panel during the 22nd Central European Political Science Association Conference in September 2017.

We would very much like the coming year to be the time when our cooperation escalates to include international comparative studies which will be concluded with publications.