The conference Social democracy after the 2006 elections was held on 23 – 24 May 2008 in Bratislava. The event was organised by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung e. V. (FES) representation in Slovakia in cooperation with the Institute for Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science, Comenius University. IVO programme director Oľga Gyárfášová spoke at the conference and prepared, together with Vlado Krivý from the Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, a lecture entitled Voters of Smer – a Sociological Portrait.

The programme of the conference included contributions by national and foreign experts (for example: Zdeněk Lukáš, Wiener Institut fuer Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche,  Pavel Hynčica, University of Jan Evangelist Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Kevin Deegan-Krause, Wayne State University, Karen Henderson, University of Leicester). In the coming months, FES will publish an edited volume summarizing not only the lectures from the conference but also a record of the discussion.