Find the Calls for Proposals for the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting from all of our Partner Organizations below. The title of the group and the call will appear below the group title. Some groups have chosen to submit a fully formed panel rather than construct one from a call. If that is the case, it will be noted under the group, and we advise that you reach out to the contact listed if you would like to be considered for their panel.
The deadline to submit a proposal is January 17, 2024 11:59 p.m. PST. The Call for Proposals is now open.
AMECIP
Contact: Azul America Aguiar Aguilar, ITESO, Jesuit University of Guadalajara, azulaguiar@iteso.mx
To learn about panel opportunities, please reach out to the point of contact above.
Association for Israel Studies
Contact: Oded Haklai, Queen’s University, haklai@queensu.ca
Grave concerns about the perils of regime change in Israel demand serious scholarly attention. As Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt wrote in their acclaimed How Democracies Die (2018), contemporary democracies are in danger when politicians “try to weaken the institutional buffers of our democracy, including the courts,” “intimidate the free press,” “treat political rivals as enemies,” and more broadly “subvert the very process that brought them to power” (Levitsky and Ziblatt, 2018: 2-3). Systems of checks and balances are the cornerstone of liberal democracies. In their absence, civil liberties, including the right to pursue and disseminate knowledge, are at risk.
The AIS seeks to sponsor a panel on the perils of regime change in Israel. We are interested in papers focusing on diverse aspects of the topic, including the “”judicial reform””, media, the place of religion in public life, and the rights of groups based on ascriptive identities (e.g. minorities, gender, etc.). Scholars are welcome to propose additional related areas as long as they fit within the broader theme.
Association for the Study of Nationalities
Contact: Zsuzsa Csergo, Queen’s University, Canada, csergo@queensu.ca
The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) invites proposals that focus on the relationship between nationalism and the sustainability of democratic government. We are particularly interested in papers that include a focus on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe; Russia; the Caucasus; and Eurasia. Information about the ASN may be found at http://nationalities.org/.
Association of Chinese Political Studies
Contact: Nele Noesselt, University of Duisburg-Essen, nnoesselt@gmail.com
The Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS) welcomes submissions from interested scholars and practitioners for its panel at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. ACPS invites paper proposals that apply diverse theoretical and empirical approaches to the analysis of China-related research questions, particularly those that address political, economic, historical, and sociological dimensions of domestic political change and the global repercussions of China’s global rise. ACPS encourages submissions that combine cross-disciplinary theory approaches with empirical research (and, whenever possible, primary sources in Chinese).
Brazilian Political Science Association
Contact: VANESSA OLIVEIRA, UFABC, vanessa.oliveira@ufabc.edu.br
To learn about panel opportunities, please reach out to the point of contact above.
Canadian Political Science Association
Contact: Silvina Danesi, CPSA ED, silvina_danesi@cpsa-acsp.ca
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Cato Institute
Contact: Eric Gomez, Cato Institute, egomez@cato.org
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Central European Political Science Association
Contact: Miro Hacek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, miro.hacek@fdv.uni-lj.si
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Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society
Contact: Erik Jones, European University Institute, erik.jones@eui.eu
Italian Politics: Making Democracy Work, Conference Group on Italian Politics (CONGRIPS)
The CONGRIPS call for papers is aligned with APSA’s general theme for the 2024 Annual Meeting to focus on the retrenchment, renovation, and reimagination of democracy. We have borrowed the title from Robert Putnam’s famous book to underscore the importance of the Italian case in exploring fundamental challenges to liberal democracy.
CONGRIPS is especially interested in papers that address issues relevant to the political debate in Italy – including ranging from populism, extremism, and electoral volatility to the role of the judiciary, the strengthening of the executive, and the devolution of political authority. Following Putnam, papers that explore the relationship between social capital or informal institutions and democratic performance would be particularly welcome.
Papers may be theoretical or empirical in nature, focus on Italy alone or highlight Italy in comparative or international perspective. We welcome interdisciplinarity and are eager to see a diversity of approaches.
Applications should be submitted via the APSA process. Informal inquiries can be made to the CONGRIPS program chair, Erik Jones (erik.jones@eui.eu).
Eric Voegelin Society
Contact: David Walsh, Catholic University of America, walshd@cua.edu
Call for proposals, 2024 meeting:
The Eric Voegelin Society, for its 40th annual international meeting in 2024, to be held as part of the APSA annual meeting, invites papers in the general field of political philosophy with particular attention to the work of Eric Voegelin and the broad range of interdisciplinary and comparative concerns reflected in his scholarship. This includes: resistance to tyranny, classical philosophy, Christian thought, philosophy of history, the interface of religion and politics including radical Islam, modernity, post-modern thought, terrorism, ideological politics with its authoritarian and totalitarian manifestations, and contemporary challenges (both foreign and domestic) to liberty, free government, rule of law, the integrity of the American constitutional order and federal system including liberty, individual rights, and the tradition of Anglo-American
constitutionalism–all prominent interests of the Society.
Send a 200 word precis with any proposal, a title, author’s name, affiliation, and email address to the contact above (Prof. David Walsh).
European Consortium of Political Research
Contact: Helen Cooper, ECPR, hcooper@ecpr.eu
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French Politics Group
Contact: Amy Mazur, Washington State University, mazur@wsu.edu
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French Political Science Association
Contact: Delphine Allès, Inalco University, Paris, delphine.alles@inalco.fr
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International Churchill Society
Contact: James W. Muller, University of Alaska, Anchorage, jwmuller@alaska.edu
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International Political Science Association
Contact: Mathieu St-Laurent, IPSA, mathieu.stlaurent@ipsa.org
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International Public Policy Association
Contact: Philippe Zittoun, General Secretary, icpublicpolicy@gmail.com
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IPSA RC on Biology and Politics
Contact: Jordan Mansell, McMaster University, mansellj@mcmaster.ca
We seek cutting-edge research contributions on the relationship between biological mechanisms, broadly construed, and political behavior and institutions. For more details on scope, see the current and past issues of Politics and the Life Sciences at https://cambridge.org/pls. Within that broad scope, though, we include pertinent research on health and politics, criminal justice and the criminal justice system, new methods for the study of life sciences-related phenomena including political differences, public policy and opinion regarding climate change, evolutionary and life science approaches to political phenomena, and political and social consequences of digital technology. We strongly encourage the submission of Pre-analysis Plans (PAPs) for pre-data collection research projects.
IPSA RC on Concepts and Methods
Contact: Tobias Hofmann, Free University of Berlin, hofmannt@gmail.com
The International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on Concepts and Methods (RC 01) invites proposals for full panels as well as individual papers from across the entire spectrum of research in political methodology. We welcome theoretical and applied contributions, quantitative and qualitative scholarship, observational and experimental work, and especially innovative panel or roundtable proposals that address issues related to the “Democracy: Retrenchment, Renovation, & Reimagination” theme and bring together conceptually and methodologically diverse authors and approaches.
IPSA RC on Political Power
Contact: Giulio Gallarotti, Wesleyan and Columbia Universities, ggallarotti@wesleyan.edu
Panel Theme: Power and Democracy: Retrenchment, Renovation, or Reimagination
The past decade has exhibited considerable political turmoil in democracies across the world. Democratic institutions have been challenged with nativist and authoritarian incursions across the world. Indeed the configuration of political power has been in flux, even in nations with the longest standing democratic cultures. Being immersed in the historical moment, ascertaining a clear systemic picture of this democratic crisis proves difficult for scholars. Is democracy withering, transitioning or just being reimagined? We invite papers that speak to this issue of democratic crisis.
If you wish to participate on the panel, please contact Giulio Gallarotti at ggallarotti@wesleyan.edu or Alina Vladimirova alina.v.vladimirova@gmail.com.
IPSA RC on Political Sociology
Contact: Karina Kosiara-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, kp@ifs.ku.dk
To learn about panel opportunities, please reach out to the point of contact above.
Political Studies Association
Contact: Michelle Doyle Wildman, Chief Executive, michelle.doylewildman@psa.ac.uk
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Political Studies Association Ireland
Contact: Jennifer Kavanagh, President PSAI, psaipresident@gmail.com
The 2024 conference theme for APSA focuses on the perils and promises of the democratic project over time: how to understand backsliding, defining, and meeting threats, renovating institutions and practices, and imagining new ones.
Drawing on this theme, the call for papers for the Political Studies Association of Ireland panel seeks to examine these issues through the politics of Ireland, both North and South focusing on the concepts of retrenchment, renovation and reimagination welcoming proposals which touch on these ideas.
PSAI welcomes diversity of approach and interdisciplinarity from a wide-ranging collection of researchers.
Society for Catholic Social Scientists
Contact: Kenneth Grasso, Texas State University, kg03@txstate.edu
To learn about panel opportunities, please reach out to the point of contact above.
Women’s Caucus for Political Science
Contact: Ivy Cargile, Cal State Bakersfield, icargile@csub.edu
This year’s APSA theme focuses on both the imperiled status of the democratic project and the possibilities for rehabilitation or reinvigoration. Much of the costs of democratic backsliding rests on the shoulders of society’s most vulnerable communities—women of color, Queer or transwomen, women who are neuroatypical and those who are income-, resource-, and/or power-constrained. We can see the symptoms of democratic degradation in the rolling back of reproductive choice, the unaddressed injustices of femicide, domestic violence and violence against trans women, health care scarcity and maternal mortality. The more worrisome the prospects for democracy, the more costly the choices are for women—especially those targeted by multiple forms of bias. However, we are also witnesses to women being creative reformers and problem solvers who show up and fix what is broken. The Women’s Caucus welcomes papers that not only explicate the gender disparities that stem from democratic backsliding but also aim to identify the possibilities for reform and reinvestment. In other words, in what ways are people who identify as women working within or outside of the system in order to stop the democratic backsliding and instead reimagine and work towards a more responsive government. As always, we are committed to methodological, theoretical, and regional diversity and are especially eager to learn from early career scholars, scholars of color, Queer or trans scholars and those whose work calls attention to communities who are marginalized and silenced.