{"id":52,"date":"2020-06-17T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:44:22","slug":"conferences-and-affiliated-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/conferences-and-affiliated-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Info"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Information for APSA 2026 | Boston, MA<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>September 3 \u2013 6 | <strong>\u201cDemocracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division Chair:<\/strong>\u00a0Kaija Schilde, Boston University \u2013 kschilde@bu.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Politics and Society section invites paper and panel proposals that examine contemporary challenges to democracy through the lens of state-society relations and the changing sociology of politics in European institutions. As democratic institutions face unprecedented threats, the interplay between social structures, political behavior, and state transformation is at the center of understanding democratic crisis and renewal.<br \/><br \/>We welcome proposals that address the conference\u2019s three core questions through comparative analysis of European politics and society:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Understanding Democracy\u2019s Crisis in Europe<\/em>: How do changing social structures and political sociology explain democratic backsliding? We seek comparative work examining the social bases of illiberalism, transformation of party systems, state-society relations, and how social polarization drives democratic erosion.<\/li>\n<li><em>Protecting European Democratic Space<\/em>: What role do social forces and state structures play in defending democracy? We invite scholarship on civil society mobilization, the sociology of resistance movements, institutional responses to social demands, and comparative variation on how states enable or constrain democratic protection.<\/li>\n<li><em>Rebuilding and Reimagining Democracy<\/em>: How might evolving state-society relations inform democratic renewal? We encourage proposals exploring emerging forms of political participation, changing citizen-state relationships, and how different European societies grapple with modifying democratic practices to address inequality, demographic change, and economic transformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We explicitly welcome and encourage diversity in approaches, methodologies, and perspectives. The section values comparative research, varied methodological approaches including qualitative and quantitative methods, historical and contemporary analyses, and work spanning different regions of Europe. We strongly encourage submissions from scholars at all career stages, including graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, contingent faculty, and community college educators, and from all backgrounds, irrespective of gender identification, ethnic, racial, or national-origin background.<br \/><br \/>We invite proposals for individual papers, complete panels, roundtables, and innovative formats that foster comparative discussion and debate. Given the historical role of Boston and democratic revolution, we particularly welcome work that draws comparative insights between European and American experiences of state-society relations and democratic change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/\">https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information for APSA 2026 | Boston, MA September 3 \u2013 6 | \u201cDemocracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild\u201d Division Chair:\u00a0Kaija Schilde, Boston University \u2013 kschilde@bu.edu The European Politics and Society section invites paper and panel proposals that examine contemporary challenges to democracy through the lens of state-society relations and the changing sociology &#8230; <a title=\"Conference Info\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/conferences-and-affiliated-groups\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Conference Info\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25307,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}