Group Chair(s): Christian Dyogi Phillips, University of Southern California – cdphilli@usc.edu

The Asian Pacific American Caucus (APAC) welcomes proposals for papers and full panels on all aspects of Asian Pacific American (APA) political life and experiences in the United States. Proposals related to the 2025 conference theme “Reimagining Politics, Power and Peoplehood in Crisis Times” are particularly welcome. Among many others, these may include: How do Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) conceive of and construct their sense of political power as a group or as individuals? How do subgroups within these diverse communities understand and develop their power in politics in different ways? How might disinformation and weakened institutions have a particular impact on AAPI communities and voters?

The theme may also have particular resonance for a perennial question facing scholars of AAPI politics—how do members of this group view it? As patterns of division and polarization mark the contours of American politics writ large, do AAPIs perceive themselves as part of a large and growing panethnic group in politics? Or, it may be more salient to ask in what situations and contexts AAPIs perceive themselves to be part of a broader group? Do some groups and subgroups within this broader panethnic designation feel those connections, or distance, more acutely than others?

In addition to these theme-related proposals, we always welcome paper proposals on the role of gender, sexuality, class, generational differences, group consciousness, or experiences of discrimination in accounting for AAPI political behaviors, the ways that AAPIs interact with institutional conditions and how political institutions shape the trajectory of Asian American and Pacific Islander group politics. Analyses of transnational politics—for example, the relationship between U.S.-based AAPIs and their countries of ancestry, and comparisons between Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant-based communities in the U.S. and other countries—are also welcome. These analyses may occur at national, state, local, and even neighborhood levels; from elite to mass politics; and in historical and contemporary perspectives. We particularly welcome papers focused on the power, peoplehood and politics of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

Group Chair(s): Ji Yeon Hong, University of Michigan – jeanhong@umich.edu

The Association of Korean Political Studies (AKPS) welcomes submissions for its panels at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, September 11-14. We invite individual papers or panel proposals from any subfield in political science, including international relations and comparative politics. Papers may apply any theoretical or empirical approach to the study of Korea-related questions. The conference theme is “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” Proposals may or may not directly engage with this theme; but they should present a clear and compelling linkage to Korean politics, broadly defined. In keeping with APSA’s goals of increasing diversity, inclusion, and access throughout the profession, AKPS welcomes diversity of approaches and interdisciplinarity from a wide-ranging collection of researchers. Graduate students and junior scholars are strongly encouraged to submit a proposal. There is no AKPS-specific submission site. Please use the APSA’s official submission system and select “AKPS” from the “Related Groups.”

Group Chair(s): Matt Beech, University of Hull – m.beech@hull.ac.uk

The British Politics Group welcomes proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and other innovative formats on any topic related to British politics for the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 11-14. We are open to proposals that focus on the United Kingdom as a case study as well as those that provide comparative perspectives on British politics, regardless of methodological approach. Proposals may wish to consider the theme for the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting, “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times,” which invites participants to reflect upon the “…weakened political institutions, captured bureaucracies, fractured civil societies, and a “post-truth” politics.”

In line with APSA’s diversity statement, we welcome submissions from scholars from diverse backgrounds, and especially invite submissions from junior scholars or those new to the group. Note that all proposals must go through the APSA on-line process and must be submitted by the regular APSA deadline. Please follow APSA guidelines for submissions, e.g., paper proposals will need an abstract of the paper and full contact details for the presenter(s); panel proposals will need panelist names, paper titles, and abstracts. Please also note that all presenters including co-authors must be dues-paying members of the BPG in order to appear on the program (presenters may join the BPG after acceptance to the conference). Information about the British Politics Group, including membership information, may be found at britishpoliticsgroup.com. Additional questions may be addressed to the Program Chair, Dr. Matt Beech, at m.beech@hull.ac.uk or BPG Executive Director, Dr. Janet Laible, at jml6@lehigh.edu.

Group Chair(s): Jaclyn Kettler, Boise State University – jaclynkettler@boisestate.edu; Charles Hunt, Boise State University – charleshunt@boisestate.edu

The Campaign Finance Research Group welcomes paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on a wide range of topics about campaign finance. Proposals addressing the conference’s core theme of “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times” are especially encouraged, but we welcome any proposals examining money in elections and politics.

Political actors can use campaign contributions and expenditures to influence political discourse, shape the policy agenda, and alter policy outcomes in ways that can distort democratic political representation and create or deepen political divisions. Money also offers a window into the motivations and ambitions of candidates, voters, and outside groups alike.

The United States is likely to experience the most expensive presidential election in 2024, as well as costly congressional races following a decade of significant change in the campaign finance landscape. Recent elections across the globe also present opportunities to study the comparative role of money in politics. It is vitally important to study and understand money spent in campaigns and elections, especially how it shapes power and divisions among people.

We encourage proposals across a diverse range of methodologies and a diverse group of scholars – particularly those from groups underrepresented in the profession. We also welcome proposals examining campaign finance in any country and level of government.

Group Chair(s): Troy Smith, Utah Valley University – TroyS@uvu.edu

The Center for the Study of Federalism at the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government invites proposals on how federalism contributes to or inhibits civic education. America’s decentralized educational system empowers individuals and leaders at the state level to experiment, to find compromise, and to create laws and policies that respond to diverse local needs but federalism can also inhibit educational reform by limiting top down solutions. We seek papers that explore how the legal, Constitutional, and political framework of American federalism shapes civics in America. Topics may include the national government’s role in providing a strategy for civic education, current efforts at the state level to improve civics education, or the wider social and cultural impact of American federalism on “civic culture.” We welcome a diversity of approaches and interdisciplinarity from a wide-ranging collection of researchers.

Group Chair(s): Justin Litke, Catholic University of America – litke@cua.edu

CSS welcomes proposals concerning a very broad understanding of statesmanship, character, and political theory, especially papers concerning the history of philosophy and American political thought. Proposals about underrepresented views and schools of thought in higher ed are particularly welcomed.

Group Chair(s): Peter Levine, Tufts University – peter.levine@tufts.edu

The Civic Studies Related Group invites proposals for panels, round tables, and individual papers that make a significant contribution to the civic studies field; articulate a civic studies perspective on some important issue; or contribute to theoretical, empirical, or practical debates in civic studies. We especially encourage proposals that emphasize actual or potential civic responses to current social and political crises, their origins, and possible consequences.

Recent Civic Studies sessions have included a roundtable on achieving a more deliberative society, a panel on how COVID-19 affected civil society and an authors’ roundtable on the books Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy by Robert C. Lieberman and Suzanne Mettler and The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett.

Civic studies is a field defined by diversity yet connected by participants’ commitments to promoting interdisciplinary research, theory, and practice in support of civic renewal: the strengthening of civic (i.e., citizen-powered and citizen-empowering) politics, initiatives, institutions, and culture. Its concern is not with citizenship understood as legal membership in a particular polity, but with guiding civic ideals and a practical ethos embraced by individuals loyal to, empowered by, and invested in the communities they form and re-form together. Its goal is to promote these ideals through improved institutional designs, enhanced public deliberation, new and improved forms of public work among citizens, or clearer and more imaginative political theory.

The civic studies framework adopted in 2007 cites two ideals for the emerging discipline: “public spiritedness” (or “commitment to the public good”) and “the idea of the citizen as a creative agent.” Civic studies is an intellectual community that takes these two ideals seriously. Although new, it draws from several important strands of ongoing research and theory, including the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the Bloomington School, of Juergen Habermas and critical social theory, Brent Flyvbjerg and social science as phronesis, and more diffuse traditions such as philosophical pragmatism, Gandhian nonviolence, the African American Freedom Struggle. It supports work on deliberative democracy, on public work, on civic engagement and community organizing, among others.

Group Chair(s): Catherine Herrold, Syracuse University – ceherrol@syr.edu

The APSA Related Group on Civil Society, Policy, and Power invites proposals concerning the nongovernmental actors and spaces that shape politics and policymaking in the US and around the world. This universe includes policy advocacy organizations, trade and professional associations, unions, nonprofit service providers, grassroots groups, think tanks, grantmaking institutions, individual donors, and informal networks of social capital.

Reflecting the conference theme, we are especially interested in papers that address relationships between civil society, politics, and power in times of crises. The theme of collective action may be particularly relevant, as civil society is well positioned to promote collective action among diverse and divergent groups of people.
We welcome submissions that address civil society, politics, and power in local, regional, national, and international contexts and encourage work that addresses the topic from international and comparative perspectives.

Papers need not directly engage the conference theme; we welcome the full range of original contributions. We invite interdisciplinary work and empirical studies from methodological traditions, as well as works of political theory, from scholars who represent the diversity of the profession (including by rank, subfield, identity, and perspective). We are interested in work using original data sources and diverse methods to bring civil society organizations into the study of political institutions and processes. Proposals might focus on how non-governmental actors have shaped policy agendas, political dynamics, and state-building historically and at present. Alternatively, proposals might focus on how the state has shaped the size, power, activities, and scope of the non-governmental sphere. Research that views civil society in comparative perspective is especially relevant, as is research focusing on peoples and places that mainstream political science has neglected.

We encourage paper submissions and organized panel submissions. Panel submissions must include at least four papers, a panel chair, and a discussant. Where appropriate, the program co-chairs may add papers to these panels. We ask that all members submitting proposals also volunteer to serve either as panel chairs or as discussants. Because the conference includes new presentation formats, we encourage proposals for one of these new formats. Please also submit proposals to a second APSA division/group so that we have the opportunity to co-sponsor panels.

Group Chair(s): Jeffrey Paller, University of San Francisco – jpaller@usfca.edu

Cities are at the forefront of global transformation, as the convergence of a global pandemic, deepening political polarization, and mass organized protests demanding social justice and systemic change usher in a new era for more than seven billion people. The city is the site of intense change, where residents are rethinking, restructuring, and reconnecting with others. While reimagining the future, people across the world navigate inherited legacies of inequality and hierarchy. Cities are forced to rethink their design, transport systems, governance apparatuses, workplaces, and public spaces. But cities have been here before, and lessons from the past offer insights into the world’s future. What is the future of cities? How can past experiences of urbanization inform patterns of urban growth today? How can the study of cities inform new forms of politics and political science? In line with the conference theme, the Comparative Urban Politics related group welcomes panel and paper proposals addressing how politics, power, and peoplehood is experienced in the world’s cities. Panel proposals that include perspectives from both the developed and developing world, have broad appeal across the discipline, and draw from significant fieldwork will be favored. Since we only have one panel on the APSA program, it is advisable to submit your proposals to other sections as well.

Group Chair(s): Chien-Kai Chen, Rhodes College – chenc@rhodes.edu; Austin Horng-En Wang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas – austin.wang@unlv.edu

The 2025 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting will be held from September 11-14, 2025, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The conference theme is “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” CGOTS invites paper and panel proposals on Taiwan’s domestic politics, democratization, cross-Strait issues, and international relations that are consistent with main theme.

In early 2024, Taiwan underwent another presidential and legislative election, resulting in the second divided government since Taiwan’s democratization. The political impact of the 2024 election reverberated throughout the island, including legislative brawls, social movements, constitutional debates, military drills, and recall petitions. These episodes open a new window for examining party politics, legislative politics, and interactions among constitutional branches in Taiwan. The political gridlock caused by the divided government also offers an opportunity to advance our understanding of democracy through the lens of comparative politics.

The great power competition between the US and China, along with the Ukraine crisis, interacts with Taiwan’s 2024 election results and impacts cross-Strait dynamics. The US aims to reinvigorate its democratic allies, while the China-Russia coalition seeks to challenge the US-led international order. Taiwan is not only the frontline of the US-China competition but also a target of China’s rejuvenation efforts. How should Taiwan manage its position and strategies between the great powers? How does the world compare Taiwan and Ukraine, and shape global public opinion? How might the 2024 US Presidential election further change the status quo? CGOTS aims to offer a platform for this critical debate.

The rise of generative AI further complicates the international political economy, US-China-Taiwan relationships, and Taiwan’s economic development. The global shortage of chips strengthens Taiwan’s role in the global supply chain, but many countries are implementing new strategies to catch up in chip design and production technology. The next stage of AI development is expected to use more chips, data, and electricity. How will Taiwan’s economy, industry, and society be challenged by future developments? Meanwhile, generative AI also amplifies the potential impact of cognitive warfare and misinformation, and the increasing number of social media sites and political convergence between them make it harder to counter the influence of information operations.

CGOTS welcomes proposals that employ innovative and diverse approaches to comprehensively and comparatively examine Taiwan’s politics and beyond. The challenges Taiwan faces clearly embody the main theme “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” Our panels aim to foster reflective and critical discourse on these subject matters, with no limitations on the scope and topics covered. We aim to shed light on our understanding of Taiwan and its future within the global context while increasing Taiwan’s international visibility.

Please send proposals to APSA at https://connect.apsanet.org/apsa2025. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Dr. Chien-kai Chen (chenc@rhodes.edu), CGOTS Coordinator. Travel support for CGOTS panelists is subject to the availability of external funding.

Group Chair(s): Dimitri Courant, Harvard University – dimitri.courant.phd@gmail.com

The study and practice of democratic innovations is intimately related to the 2025 APSA theme of reimagining politics, power and peoplehood. Democratic innovations are intended to embody a new, more participatory mode of politics, to redistribute political power, and to reimagine who constitutes the public. They have long focused on facilitating communication and understanding across lines of division.

But can democratic innovations deliver on these promises in times of increasing crisis? Can they be sustained in a period of growing authoritarianism? Do they provide a political space that can counter problems of disinformation and polarization? What possibilities do they offer for developing new ideas to address the most pressing political and policy challenges, such as climate change, forced migration, wealth inequalities, global pandemics, inter- and intra-state conflict? And how should democratic innovations function in an increasingly digitized society?

APSA’s Democratic Innovations Related Group plans several panels that respond to these questions. We invite individual paper and complete panel proposals that speak to important theoretical and empirical questions related to innovative democratic practices and institutions. Democratic Innovations refer to a wide variety of innovations in participatory governance, including but not limited to deliberative minipublics (including citizens’ assemblies), participatory budgeting, ballot initiatives, and new applications of digital technologies for enhancing participatory governance. Democratic Innovations can occur within civil society, social movements, the bureaucracy (through governance-driven democratization), or within the politics of electoral representation.

The study of democratic innovations is an interdisciplinary field bridging normative theory and empirical political science. As such, we welcome proposals from a range of theoretical, methodological, and epistemological approaches. We are also open to critical scholarships, highlighting the challenges and limitations of democratic innovations. We seek to create a diverse program and therefore encourage scholarship and scholars that have been historically underrepresented in political science, including but not limited to diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, nationalities, sexual orientations, and gender expressions, as well as diverse career trajectories and scholars from non-US institutions, especially those from the global South. We also encourage junior and untenured researchers to participate.

Group Chair(s): Rob DeLeo, Bentley University – rdeleo@bentley.edu

The Disasters and Crises Related Group (DCRG) brings together scholars from all subfields within political science along with researchers from outside the discipline to foster collaboration and diffusion of ideas on hazards, disasters, and crises. The DCRG invites proposals for its related group panel at the 2025 American Political Science Association meeting the theme of which is Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times. Potential topics include how multiple actors – private firms, informal resident networks, faith based organizations, civil society organizations, and local, regional, and national governments – collaborate (or fail to do so) during threats, investigations of sources of trusted information for residents facing shocks, models for measuring resilience and vulnerability across developing and developed populations under stress, how different levels of democracy interact with state capacity to influence disaster outcomes, data sources for measuring the ability of institutions to transform during shocks, and the role of disasters in shaping policy change. We encourage proposals using a variety of methodological approaches including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods.

Group Chair(s): Jeff Feng, Northwestern University – jeff.feng@northwestern.edu

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from September 11 – 14, 2025. The Environmental Politics and Theory Related Group welcomes proposals for individual papers and panels on a wide range of environmental issues from diverse theoretical perspectives. We especially look forward to proposals that speak to the intersection between environmental politics, political theory, and the 2025 APSA theme of “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” Environmental political theory and adjacent fields have long investigated the relationship between democracy and environmental sustainability. Recent debates on topics ranging from eco-democracy and eco-authoritarianism to eco-populism and geoengineering continue dwelling on the theme of democratic politics in environmental political scholarship. We invite you to explore how calls for renewing and reforming democratic institutions, invigorating democratic social movements, and radically reimagining democratic societies might help build a more environmentally just and ecologically sensitive politics. We also invite you to reflect on how best to understand historical and contemporary challenges to democracy, as well as their relationship to environmental challenges like climate change, species extinctions, habitat loss, toxicity, and environmental injustice. How is democratic retrenchment used to advance anti-environmental backlash and extractivism? In what ways might renovation and reform of democratic institutions, norms, and movements cultivate a more robust response to the climate emergency? In what ways does democracy need to be reimagined in an era of massive environmental disruption and uneven global development? Are existing democratic institutions, norms, and movements up to the challenge of addressing environmental injustice and enacting a just transition?

As always, we are thrilled to read proposals that discuss new or emerging trends in environmental political theory, as well as those that comment on the broader state and trajectory of environmental politics and theory. What prevailing assumptions, arguments, and frameworks are in need of rethinking in order for environmental scholarship and politics to move forward? In what ways might political, economic, and social systems need fundamental restructuring to address the environmental crises of our time? Moreover, might the academic disciplines that study environmental politics and theory need to be rethought and restructured as well to meet the challenges of environmental scholarship in a time of crisis? Finally, in what ways might scholars reconnect with the world of practice and political action, and how might practitioners of environmental politics reconnect with neglected constituencies, movements, and ways of thinking (including, but not limited to, indigenous and postcolonial ones)?

In keeping with APSA’s goal of increasing diversity, inclusion, and access throughout the profession, we also strongly encourage proposals from scholars who belong to historically underrepresented groups, especially those from minority racial and ethnic communities, low-income and working-class backgrounds, non-Anglophone countries, and the LGBTQ+ community, as well as graduate students independent scholars, and contingent faculty.

Group Chair(s): Xiaoyu Pu, University of Nevada, Reno – xpu@unr.edu; Quansheng Zhao, American University – zhao@american.edu

The Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists invites scholars to submit their contributions for consideration to its panel(s) at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The overarching theme of the conference, as defined by APSA, is “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” We are looking for proposals that use innovative approaches and methodologies to investigate research questions related to the study of China. We welcome researchers with diverse approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives to contribute to a wide range of topics, such as China’s domestic governance, the Chinese political economy, and China’s evolving role in the global order.

Group Chair(s): Stan Hok-Wui Wong, University of St. Thomas – Hok.Wong@stthom.edu

The 2025 Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA) will be held between September 11 and 14, 2025 in Vancouver, Canada. The conference theme will be “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” We are excited that this is the first year for GRAPH to issue this “call for papers” as an official related group of the APSA. GRAPH invites paper and panel proposals on Hong Kong’s political identity, domestic politics, diasporas, and international relations consistent with the theme of “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.”

The conference theme provides a unique opportunity to delve into the evolving dynamics of Hong Kong politics. Few cities reflect the complexities of political crises and identity formation as vividly as Hong Kong, a city that has not fully emerged from the political unrest of 2019. As tensions between China and the US continue to escalate, Hong Kong remains poised on the brink of further crisis. Understanding these developments is crucial for reimagining political structures and identities, not only within Hong Kong but also in the broader context of global political instability.

Since 2019, Hong Kong has experienced waves of migration and immigration, profoundly reshaping its population and political landscape. These demographic shifts call for a renewed examination of Hong Kongers’ political identities and how peoplehood is conceptualized amidst ongoing global and local crises. The National Security Law, implemented in 2020, has further complicated the issue, casting a long shadow over Hong Kong’s communities, both at home and abroad. This legal framework has intensified questions of state power, autonomy, and individual freedoms, presenting an urgent need for scholars to explore how peoplehood is both shaped and constrained under such conditions.

Misinformation and disinformation may have left far-reaching political impacts in Hong Kong, contributing to political polarization, cynicism, and a weakening sense of political efficacy. This has led to the fragmentation of public opinion and further entrenched divides, making it harder to foster collective action or maintain political and social trust. Such dynamics exacerbate a growing sense of helplessness among many citizens, undermining their belief in the possibility of meaningful political change. These ongoing forces demand scholarly investigation into how disinformation and misinformation shape political behavior and identity, and explore strategies for countering their corrosive effects.

We invite scholars from diverse methodological backgrounds to contribute to this conversation, particularly those employing innovative approaches to address the difficult causal challenges within Hong Kong’s political context. How do we explain the persistent tensions and shifting identities in Hong Kong? What can be learned from these dynamics to inform broader theories of power, governance, and resistance in crisis times?
We welcome proposals that engage with these pressing issues, offering fresh perspectives and fostering critical discussions on how we might reimagine politics, power, and peoplehood in Hong Kong and beyond.

Group Chair(s): Sebastián Royo, Clark University – sroyo@clarku.edu; Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida – Kerstin.Hamann@ucf.edu; Bonnie Field, Bentley University – BField@bentley.edu

Related Group Panel: Reimagining Politics in Iberia in Crisis Times

This panel will focus on the status of democracy in Portugal and Spain. After decades of progress, over the last decade we have seen instances of retrenchment and regression driven by social and political inequalities; corruption; economic challenges that have undermined the capacity of our democracies to deliver on needs and expectations; or the raise of populists who have leveraged victories and the local, regional and national level to undermine democratic institutions. At the same time, Portuguese and Spanish democracies have shown remarkable resilience and the ability to adapt and address many of these issues, while experimenting at the local, regional and national levels to meet these new challenges.

This panel looks for papers that will deal with those issues and address questions such as: What are the roots of division and disorder in Portugal and Spain? Has there been democratic backsliding in Portugal and/or Spain? What are the threats and opportunities? Have institutions adapted and/or being renovated? What are the institutional and policy innovations that have been adopted to deepen the Iberian democracies? How are shifts in the economy, technology and society impacting politics in both countries?

We welcome diversity of approach and interdisciplinarity from a wide-ranging collection of researchers.

Group Chair(s): Burke Hendrix, University of Oregon – bhendrix@uoregon.edu

The themes of this year’s conference are polarization, misinformation, and cascading crises – all familiar topics to those working in the area of Indigenous politics. Indigenous peoples and governments have persisted, despite the falsely polarizing claims about human difference and ongoing crises of coerced social change rooted in colonization. Despite assaults on Indigenous political sovereignty, economies, culture, and natural resource, Indigenous peoples have continued to demonstrate skillful political navigation of the conditions around them, often building meaningful spaces of freedom in a hostile political world. The crises experienced as new by non-Indigenous societies are thus often old, deep, and familiar for Indigenous political actors.

The Indigenous Studies Network invite papers on all areas of Indigenous politics understood as a global phenomenon, with special interests for this year’s conference in Indigenous responses to crisis, misinformation, and polarization broadly understood. We welcome papers from scholars at all ranks and kinds of institutions (especially tribal colleges), as well as from practitioners with connections to academia. We encourage applicants to grapple sincerely with questions around Indigenous Knowledge (IK), Tribal Data Sovereignty, and to consider how our institutions may better collaborate with experts from tribal communities to answer the most intractable political issues facing tribal sovereignty to decrease misinformation in our discipline, and society more broadly. Indigenous politics remains a deeply understudied aspect of Political Science, and we welcome papers that help to build a deeper understanding of crises, Indigenous responses to it, and possible future trajectories.

Group Chair(s): Andrew Macpherson, University of New Hampshire – amx6@unh.edu; Fredric Baron, National Intelligence University – frederic.s.baron@odni.gov

“Politics, Power, and Peoplehood: The Role of National Security Intelligence”

Around the world, many media outlets convey a sense of division and disorder. Citizens seem to lack of trust in their governments that are struggling with international and domestic crises. Beyond intrastate conflicts, countries face societal, economic, and technological changes that will lead to significant restructuring. National security intelligence organizations in democratic countries often support decision-makers as they navigate international events. In authoritarian regimes intelligence organizations may use propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation for control and to project an image of their preferred outcomes.

The APSA Intelligence Studies Group encourages authors to submit papers on national security intelligence, focusing on the theme of reimagining politics, power, and peoplehood during times of crisis. The APSA Intelligence Studies section welcomes scholarship that includes, but is not limited to, original research, definitional and operational issues, theory development, case studies, and research methodologies. Submissions should be based on diverse interdisciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives and approaches. Papers may be considered for any session type.

Group Chair(s): Tania Islas Weinstein, McGill University – tania.islasweinstein@mcgill.ca

The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods (IMM) related group calls for paper, panel, and roundtable proposals that explore interpretive methodological issues or that apply interpretive methods (e.g., political ethnography, grounded theory, discourse analysis) in ways that demonstrate their comparative advantage for empirical research across all subfields of political science. Especially welcome are proposals that reflect on how political science itself is situated in the webs of meaning and historical context that it studies, and those that engage with interpretive methodologies and methods to explore “politics, power, and peoplehood in crisis times,” this year’s APSA theme. Interested presenters may contact the 2025 IMM program chair, Professor Tania Islas Weinstein at tania.islasweinstein@mcgill.ca.

Group Chair(s): Kristin Vekasi, University of Maine – kristin.vekasi@maine.edu; Yoshiku Ono, Waseda University – onoy.waseda@gmail.com

Over the last decade, natural disasters, geopolitical uncertainties, demographic challenges, and growing socioeconomic inequalities have steadily eroded Japanese confidence in formal and informal institutions. The Liberal Democratic Party’s electoral dominance, despite lackluster support for recent prime ministers, also continues to raise questions—fairly or unfairly—about the nature of democratic competition in Japan. These themes are in line with the APSA 2025 Theme of “Reimaging Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.”

For the APSA 2025 meeting, we invite scholars in all areas of the discipline to investigate questions related to perceived and actual changes in the quality of Japan’s representative democracy. We welcome research that looks at government actions and public reactions to domestic and international pressures, including (but not limited to):

• Analysis of recent elections and their aftermath, including voter behavior, electoral strategy, and party realignment.
• Trust in established institutions and actors, including political parties, the civil service, academic experts, and the mass media.
• Japan’s foreign and security policy in response to challenges to the international order and continuing tensions in East Asia.
• The consequences of an aging society, particularly generational differences in values and attitudes towards economic priorities and sociocultural identities.

Group Chair(s): Elizabeth K Parker-Magyar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – ekpm@mit.edu; Melissa Lyon, University at Albany, SUNY – mlyon@albany.edu; Matthew T. Lacouture, Wayne State University – lacouturematthew@gmail.com

APSA Labor Politics promotes scholarship on labor-related issues. We invite papers and panels to be submitted on any theme related to labor, work, unions, or employment. We encourage diverse perspectives on these topics from any range of academic specialties, including but not limited to economy, comparative politics, social movements, public policy, interest groups, state politics, immigration, theory, human rights, gender, race, ethnicity, history, and law. We seek to connect diverse scholars and particularly welcome international and comparative scholarship along with international and junior scholars.

We would be especially interested in papers discussing topics such as resurgent and alternative labor organizing, new patterns of working-class identities and mobilization, the role of labor in climate politics and “green capitalism,” intersections of labor mobilization and social movements, migration and refugee issues, popular resistance to austerity, labor and parties in advanced economies, issues related to employment and labor market policies, changes in union politics and political organizations, informal and precarious work, and unemployment.

We welcome papers from a wide range of methodological approaches, focused on any region of the world.

Group Chair(s): Sergio Wals, University of Nebraska–Lincoln – swals2@unl.edu; Tabitha Bonilla, Northwestern University – tabitha.bonilla@northwestern.edu

Whether we are thinking about democratic backsliding, wars, climate change, natural disasters, forced migration, pandemics and epidemics, economic downturns, growing inequalities, or socio-political backlashes, crises expose our socio-political vulnerabilities and resiliencies, and reveal the fissures and solidarities across and between identity-based groups. With this year’s APSA theme, the Latina/o/x Caucus welcomes papers that center the “politics, power, and peoplehood” of Latin@s/xs, who now comprise nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population. Paper topics may include but are not limited to: how crisis (de)mobilizes Latin@/x political behavior; the ways Latin@s/xs do and do not imagine themselves as a group; explorations of descriptive, substantive, and “authentic” political representation; practices of inclusion and marginalization among Latin@s/xs; how the growth of the Latin@/x population is imagined as a crisis; strategies for coalition-building along lines of class, gender, race, documentation status, disability and sexual orientation in times of crisis; and Latin@/x public opinion on matters of political polarization and violence, war, authoritarianism, climate change, management of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic inflation, housing shortages, restriction of reproductive rights, mass incarceration, and the treatment of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. The Caucus is keen to assemble panels and/or roundtables that feature methodological and theoretical diversity.

Group Chair(s): Emily Zhang, UC Berkeley, School of Law – zhanger@berkeley.edu; Rick Hasen, UCLA, School of Law – hasen@law.ucla.edu

To learn about panel opportunities, please reach out to the point of contact(s) above.

Group Chair(s): Elena Gambino, Rutgers University – elena.gambino@rutgers.edu

The LGBTQ Caucus invites proposals that address the 2025 conference theme. In particular, we welcome proposals that focus on how the politics of sexuality and gender generate new ways to understand political division and disorder, to narrate stories and experiences of peoplehood, and to reimagine the possibilities of politics. Theoretical, qualitative, and/or quantitative papers are welcome, as are descriptive studies that focus on pedagogical best practices.

Group Chair(s): Michael Promisel, Catholic University of America – promisel@cua.edu

The McConnell Center for Political Leadership invites papers examining the history of political thought to address timely questions concerning civic education, civic virtue, and political leadership.

Group Chair(s): Gerson Moreno-Riano, Cornerstone University – gmr@cornerstone.edu

“Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood during Crisis Times in the Middle Ages”

What were the roots of political division and disorder in the Middle Ages? In analyzing periods of crisis in the Middle Ages, can we better understand how shifts in technology, society, institutions, the economy, and other factors helped to restructure politics, power, and peoplehood and how these were understood? And how did medieval political thinkers and actors counter these roots of division and meta-shifts as well as seek to reimagine politics and power both for their time and even beyond their temporal horizon?

Politica: The Society for the Study of Medieval Political Thought seeks papers that address any aspect of its APSA 2025 theme through the lens of the above questions or other related questions.

Proposals must be submitted via APSA’s conference website no later than January 15, 2025. Inquiries about the session should be directed to Gerson Moreno-Riano at gmr@cornerstone.edu.

Group Chair(s): Charles Tien, Hunter College, CUNY – ctien@hunter.cuny.edu

The Political Forecasting Group invites both panel and paper proposals for the APSA Annual Meeting. We welcome forecasting research from a variety of subfields, including comparative politics, international relations, and elections. We are open to a diversity of methodological approaches and warmly welcome young scholars and members of underrepresented groups to submit a proposal to the Group.

Group Chair(s): Paul Nolette, Marquette University – paul.nolette@marquette.edu; Philip Rocco, Marquette University – philip.rocco@marquette.edu

Publius welcomes proposals analyzing contemporary developments in American federalism from a variety of perspectives and taking a variety of approaches.

Group Chair(s): Mark Joseph Lutz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas – Mark.Lutz@unlv.edu

The Society for Greek Political Thought is an interdisciplinary organization devoted to the study of classical political thinking in all of its forms: The Society promotes the study of ancient Greek philosophy, drama, poetry, history, and other works on politics and morals. The Society especially encourages the study of the Socratic revolution in thought that looks beyond cultural and ethnic traditions to examine enduring political and moral questions. In addition, the Society welcomes scholarship that discusses how ancient Roman, medieval Islamic, and early modern thinkers, among others, adopted, revised, or vigorously contested elements of classical Greek political thought.

Group Chair(s): Elvin Ong, National University of Singapore – poloje@nus.edu.sg; Jangai Jap, University of Georgia – jangai.jap@uga.edu

The Southeast Asian Politics Related Group (SEAPRG) invites proposals for the 2025 American Political Science Association conference, scheduled to meet in Vancouver, Sept. 11-14, 2025.

The conference theme is “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times.” We welcome submissions of papers and organized panels that address key questions and issues in Southeast Asian politics, including how groups, institutions, political actors, and processes at various levels navigate politics, power, and peoplehood in these uncertain times. In particular, we are interested in papers and panels examining the determinants and processes that contribute to division and disorder, against the backdrop of growing polarization, misinformation, disinformation, and social and technological changes. We welcome all methodological approaches, in both individual papers as well as organized panels/roundtables submissions. We have a strong preference for panels/roundtables that reflect diversity and inclusion, on as many dimensions as possible.

Group Chair(s): Joseph Prud’homme, Washington College – jprudhomme2@washcoll.edu; Frank Le Veness, St. John’s University – levenesf@stjohns.edu

We seek papers and discussants for the 2025 Walter Bagehot panel titled, “The 2024 Presidential Election in Theoretical and Historical Perspective.” This panel will bring together scholars of American political development, political theorists, and experts on American political institutions to discuss what, if anything, was truly novel about the 2024 presidential election, and what the election indicates about the health of American institutions and their future. We welcome a diversity of approaches and interdisciplinarity in addressing these questions.