Political Science Matters
By ECPR
Political Science MattersOct 23, 2023
The 2024 early election in Portugal: The Rise of Right-Wing Populists and the Change of the Party System
In the 50th anniversary of democracy, Portugal held snap legislative elections on March 10. The President of the Republic called the elections in response to the early termination of the Costa III cabinet in November 2023 and the corruption scandal surrounding it.
Most noticeably, the election outcomes show a loss of support for the incumbent Socialist Party (-13%), the rise of the radical right-wing populist Enough! (+11%), and a 15% turnout increase.
What explains these changes? What issues did political parties emphasize in the electoral campaign? How will the success of Enough! affect coalitional patterns and the Portuguese party system?
Michelangelo Vercesi, Political Data Yearbook co-editor, poses these questions, and more, to experts José Magone (Berlin School of Economics and Law) and Sofia Serra-Silva (University of Lisbon). This episode was recorded four days after the elections.
Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy
Why do some presidents with authoritarian ambitions succeed while others fail? How can we resist democratic backsliding?
Laura Gamboa (University of Utah) discusses the research and outcomes of her latest book Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy with Benedicte Bull (University of Oslo). Chaired by Luis Ramiro, Reviews Editor of European Political Science.
Read Benedicte's complete review here.
2023 Dutch General Election: Earthquake or Tremor?
The Netherlands goes to the polls on 22 November in what is set to be a nail-biting general election. Pieter Omtzigt’s New Social Contract, a challenger party created only last summer, is predicted to become one of the major political parties in the Dutch parliament - and probably, too, in the next Dutch government. What does the new party stand for? How will its emergence affect the Dutch party system? What are the other key contenders in this election? And why did former Prime Minister Rutte decide to call a snap election in the first place? In this episode, Raul Gomez, co-editor of the Political Data Yearbook, discusses the upcoming Dutch general election with Léonie De Jonge (University of Groningen) and Simon Otjes (University of Leiden).
This podcast was recorded on 24 October.
Voters Under Pressure: What Drives Electoral Volatility?
How do group-based cross-pressures lead to instability in voters' choices? What explains increased net electoral volatility in the democracies of advanced countries?
Ruth Dassonneville (University of Montreal) discusses the research and outcomes of her latest book Voters under Pressure: Group-Based Cross-Pressure and Electoral Volatility with Nick Martin (University of Amsterdam). Chaired by Luis Ramiro, Reviews Editor of European Political Science.
Read Nick's complete review here.
Polish 2023 Parliamentary Elections: A Vote Against the Government?
On October 15 2023, Polish citizens went to the polls to the renew the Parliament, producing the highest turnout ever in post-Communist Poland. The main result has been the defeat of the ruling PiS led by Jarosław Kaczyński and the victory of the opposition coalition, led by Donald Tusk. What were the main points of contentions between and withing the two political camps? Why did many Polish citizens go to vote for the opposition parties? What can one expect with regard to government formation and future policies? Michelangelo Vercesi, co-editor of the Political Data Yearbook, discusses these issues with Krzysztof Jasiewicz (Washington and Lee University of Lexington) in this episode, recorded three days after the elections.
Slovakia 2023: What next after Fico's (weak) comeback?
The recent victory of the populist party Smer (Direction) in the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election has sparked concerns about Slovakia’s return to national populism. Are these fears warranted? Is Slovakia sliding into illiberalism and drifting away from the West? Or is the excessive focus on populism preventing analysts from seeing underlying opposing changes in Slovakia’s political landscape? In this episode, recorded two days after the election, Raul Gomez, co-editor of the Political Data Yearbook, discusses these issues with Kevin Deegan-Krause (Wayne State University), Erika Harris (University of Liverpool), and Erik Láštic (Comenius University).
Spain at a crossroads: the July 2023 general election
What are the prospects of the radical right entering the next Spanish government? Will the coalition government between the Social Democrats and the radical left survive the general election? What are the main issues in this campaign? And what might Spanish politics look like after 23 July? With only a few weeks remaining before Spain’s next general election, Raul Gomez, co-editor of the Political Data Yearbook, talks to Ana Mar Fernandez-Pasarin (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Asbel Bohigues (University of Valencia) about upcoming events.
The conditions of planetary citizenship
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speaker discusses planetary movements in the 21st century and how it challenges traditional political agency through activism and resistance for justice. Speaker Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Fariba Adelkhah, the Embodiment of Scientific Freedom
Held in conjunction with the 2023 ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Sciences Po Toulouse and part of our House Series, this year's Stein Rokkan Lecture's speaker illustrates how Fariba Adelkhah's embodiment of scientific freedom, including her preservation of autonomy from political authorities and defense of independence from intellectual or scientific trends, can inspire a broader discussion on current trends challenging scientific freedom in authoritarian countries like Iran and democracies alike. Speaker Béatrice Hibou, Sciences Po Centre for International Studies Chair Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans, Sciences Po Toulouse Find out more about the event: https://ecpr.eu/Events/231
The Digital turn to public service provision to migrants and asylum seekers during Covid-19
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on the European Union, our speakers talk about how the EU struggles with a lack of coordination in its asylum and migration policies, but the pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of public services for migrants, and they have used a comparative analysis of four European cities to reveal varying approaches to coordinative Europeanization based on a discourse of humanitarian civic duty. Speakers Sarah Wolff, Queen Mary University of London Federica Zardo, University of Krems Discussant Leila Hadj-Abdou, European University Institute Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Online Seminar - Immigration & Federalism
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, Mireille Paquet of Concordia University, Montreal offers a synthesis of her research on federalism and immigration in Canada, Australia, and the United States. More on the Seminar Series: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
Online Seminar - Migration, political socialization and the emigrant vote
In this instalment of our Seminar Series from the Standing Group on Migration & Ethnicity, Eva Østergaard-Nielsen (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) presents the question: Do political attitudes and behaviour change in migration? More from the Seminar Series: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
Survey research on the integration of EMMs across Europe – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity
Survey research on the integration of ethnic and migrant minorities (EMMs) across Europe: Identifying research strengths and gaps with the survey metadata of the EMM Survey Registry Speaker – Laura Morales, Sciences Po Paris This seminar presents a detailed analysis of the survey metadata retrieved through the newly created EMM Survey Registry (compiled through COST Action 16111 Ethmigsurveydata and the H2020 project SSHOC) for nearly 1,200 surveys focusing on the integration of EMMs across 24 countries in Europe. The study identifies the strengths and weaknesses of survey research in this field by paying attention to the survey and sample designs, the geographical coverage, the coverage of various subpopulations, the thematic coverage and the availability of documentation. More on the seminar series: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
Why Do Migration and Diversity Policies so Often Derail? – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity
Why do migration and diversity policies so often derail? A complexity perspective on the governance of migration and diversity Speaker – Peter Scholten, Erasmus University Rotterdam There are few policy areas that are so often in some form of ‘crisis mode as migration and (migration-related) diversity policies. In this contribution, speaker Peter Scholten takes a complexity governance perspective on migration and diversity policy. Peter analyses why migration and diversity policies so often derail in their effort to come to terms with complexity. In this regard, he distinguishes various forms of alienation in policy processes, ranging from political forms of alienation to institutions, social and problem-related alienation. Building on complexity literature, Peter also sketches the contours of a governance approach to embracing complexity, while establishing links with the literature on environmental and gender mainstreaming as illustrations of complexity governance. More on Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
What 2020 Revealed about Overseas American – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity
What 2020 revealed about overseas Americans: Elections in a pandemic year
Speaker – Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies
The pandemic and election year of 2020 revealed both the vulnerability and the potential power of overseas Americans (US citizen migrants), once again emphasising their differential inclusion in the United States.
Providing votes that put President Biden over the top in both Georgia and Arizona, and forcing the run-off election for Senator Ossoff in Georgia, overseas votes have never been more powerful. Yet at the same time, lack of universal healthcare in the US was the key reason that US citizens residing overseas did not respond to the US Government’s injunction to ‘Return Home NOW’ in March 2020 (data from small opt-in survey).
The differential inclusion of overseas Americans with respect to political engagement is known: voting in federal elections as individuals in one of 50 states, they form a diasporic block in one election only: the Democrats Abroad Presidential Primary. While they do not constitute, in the eyes of the United States population or government, a diaspora, they lobby and advocate on common issues of concern, including the requirement to file federal tax returns.
Structurally, the American federal political system does not allow overseas Americans to constitute a single constituency, but even so, they have been able to make their impact. In this unusual year of 2020 where so much campaigning and GOTV (get out the vote) activities moved online, diasporic voters were thus on equal virtual footing with those based in the United States, even as waves of the pandemic moved around the world.
More on Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
Anti-Racist Mobilisations in Europe – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity
Anti-Racist Mobilisations in Europe: Changes and Continuities Speaker – Marco Martiniello, Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), University of Liege The presentation looks at more than 40 years of anti-racist mobilisation in Europe. It first compared more specifically the mobilisation in the 1970’s and 1980’s with the mobilisations in the 2010’s and 2020’s to document the changes and the continuities between these two periods in terms of anti-racist struggle. It then discusses the hypothesis of a globalisation on the anti-racist struggle in the wake of the BLM movement in the USA. Finally, it looks at the structuration of a new leadership in anti-racist movement and its connection with the older anti-racist leadership. More on the Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
The curious case of Austria’s citizenship policy – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity
Blocked democratic inclusion in an immigration society: the curious case of Austria’s citizenship policy Speaker – Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute Austria has been an outlier in terms of adapting its citizenship policies to international migration. With 24% of its population having a “migration background” (i.e. two parents born abroad), Austria is among Europe’s foremost immigration societies. Yet it has repeatedly tightened its citizenship law for immigrants, has been steadfastly refusing to join the international trend of dual citizenship toleration and has failed to introduce conditional jus soli for the second or third generation. Naturalisation is officially regarded as a reward for individual integration achievements. Income barriers to naturalisation are among the highest in Europe. The Austrian Constitutional Court has struck down weak attempts to extend local voting rights for EU citizens under EU law to third country nationals. In this seminar, Rainer Bauböck, suggests that the puzzle of Austria’s restrictive citizenship policies cannot be fully explained by the electoral strength of the far-right nativist Freedom Party. Explaining the persistence of this attitude over fifty years of massive immigration and changing government coalitions requires also a historical account of Austria’s construction of national identity since World War Two and the replacing of the discredited German nationalism of the past with an increasingly culturalist interpretation of Austrian national identity. More on Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Temporary Migration – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity
Temporary Migration: Category of Analysis and Category of Practice Speaker – Anna Triandafyllidou, Ryerson University, Toronto In seminar, our speaker, Anna Triandafyllidou, builds on the line of research that focuses specifically on temporary migration, on one hand, and on the interplay between drivers and agency on the other. She presents a paper which develops an analytical framework that seeks to make sense of the role of policies on one hand, and of migrant agency, on the other, in the increasing prevalence of different forms of temporary migration. The paper looks therefore at temporariness as a policy category, and as a category of practice. As a policy category, the paper examines the role of the state or of international conventions that regulate migration and distinguishes among forced temporariness (refugees, people seeking temporary international protection); regulated temporariness: people who come as seasonal or temporary migrants for a limited period of time; and flexible temporariness: people who can circulate relatively freely within a given world region – within what is called ‘an enhanced mobility regime’ (such as the EU, or NAFTA, MERCOSUR or also ECOWAS). Looking at temporary migration as a category of practice, the paper explores the relationship between temporary migration and migrant agency: - Is temporariness intentional, planned or befallen upon the migrant? - How do migrants react to the opportunities and limitations forced upon them by policies and other structural factors (labour markets) - How do they work around them? - Does it make sense to distinguish between planned temporariness and unplanned/unforeseen or open-ended temporariness, where the initial intention is not fully thought through? The paper aims at building an analytical framework for better understanding temporary migration and uses examples from different countries and programs to illustrate the theoretical arguments. More on Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
Is there a ‘Latin American’ approach to migration governance? – Seminar Series Migration & Ethnicity
Is there a ‘Latin American’ approach to migration governance? How much do national policies converge/differ across the region today? Latin America has developed new mechanisms of migration governance since the turn of the century. For some, these represented a distinctive approach as, in contrast to trends in the Global North, the region put an emphasis on migrant rights, relatively open border control measures, multilateral efforts to facilitate mobility and coordinate policies, and non-criminalization of irregular migration. As migration dynamics have rapidly evolved and become increasingly complex in the last two decades (including a dramatic refugee crisis triggered by massive intra-regional displacement of Venezuelans since 2015), such approach has lately appeared less distinct from other regions and acquired new components and variants across Latin American countries. This presentation tackles such evolution, with an eye on the factors that induce or preclude policy convergence across the region. The analysis touches on several areas of migration governance, such as irregular immigration, border control, diaspora engagement policies, multilateral management of intra-regional mobility, and forced migration. Selected cases studies from Central and South America will be used to illustrate the main points. Speakers: Ana Margheritis, University of Southampton, and Luicy Pedroza, El Colegio de México
Repertoires of migration governance in the EU – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity
Speaker – Andrew Geddes, European University Institute What factors shape European and EU responses to potential Afghan displacement and refugee movement towards the EU? In this presentation, it will be argued that these responses form part of a repertoire of migration governance that is grounded in how European and EU governance systems as organisational processes make sense of international migration. Rather than international migration in its various forms being something that simply happens to governance systems – an external challenge – to which they respond, governance systems are shown to be powerfully constitutive of international migration through their actions and inactions and through the categories and classifications that are developed at borders and boundaries (typically of states). These repertoires, it is argued, are grounded in understandings of the normality of migration to Europe that prefigure responses to crisis. More on the Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
The linkages between migration and corruption – Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity
Speaker – Melissa Siegel, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT The relationship between corruption and migration has received very little scholarly attention until now. This talk will cover at least 10 ways in which migration and corruption can be interlinked. These linkages can be neutral, positive or negative. Migration can affect corruption but corruption can also affect migration. The existing research can be broadly divided into three parts: First, it examines how corruption influences the decision of individuals to migrate. Second, it analyses how corruption facilitates (irregular) migration, including human trafficking and smuggling. Third, several studies investigate how migration and the sending of remittances influence levels of corruption in the country of origin. This talk will examine these areas and more both theoretically and in practice. More on the Seminar Series in Migration and Ethnicity: https://ecpr.eu/Events/165
The politics of the European Minimum Wage
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on European Union, our speakers investigate the multilevel politics of the European Minimum Wage. Their article shows that the emergence of pro-minimum wage coalitions in key-member states and the increase of party-competition dynamics at the EU level was crucial to overcoming the manifold lines of conflict that had long braked EU initiatives on minimum wage coordination. Speakers Marcello Natili, University of Milan Stefano Ronchi, University of Milan Discussant Amandine Crespy, Université libre de Bruxelles Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
EU mobilization and party support: An analysis of EU issue voting in the European elections
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on European Union, our speakers focus on the party-voter dyad and analyze patterns of EU issue voting in the European elections. They make use of a combination of data from CHES and EES, showing that voters are mobilized on the EU, with EU party positions operating as a driving factor of the voting preferences of the electorate, with a differentiated impact on the pro-European and the Eurosceptic parties. Speakers Luca Carrieri, Sapienza University of Rome Nicolò Conti, Sapienza University of Rome Discussant Giuseppe Carteny, University of Mannheim Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Online Seminar - Ultrasociality & the idea of European federalism
In this instalment of our Seminar Series from the Standing Group on the European Union, Mai’a K. Davis Cross (Northeastern University) presents her book manuscript with the working title, 'International Cooperation in the Ultrasocial World'. She is joined by discussant Ana Juncos (University of Bristol). Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Online Seminar - Simpler, clearer, and less transparent
In this instalment of our Seminar Series from the Standing Group on the European Union, Amie Kreppel (University of Florida) and Michael Webb (University of Florida) discuss how political actors are expected to behave amid a growing lack of transparency in the EU’s legislative process. They are joined by discussant Joseph Dunne who is the Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC. More on the Seminar Series: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
The EU’s attitude towards Afghan refugees
The EU’s attitude towards Afghan refugees: an analytical framework to account for EU immigration and policy
0:00:12 Welcome: Jonathan Zeitlin
0:04:25 Presentation: Virginie Guiraudon
0:35:10 Commentary: Florian Trauner
0:43:00 Discussion
0:56:17 Audience Q&A
1:34:11 Closing
This seminar proposes an analytical framework to account for the enduring features of EU immigration and asylum policy, including its efforts to delegate immigration control to third countries. From the initial venue shopping of security bureaucracies to the increased polarisation within and between member states that comfort certain narratives over others, EU immigration is a case of 'policy drift', inertia or deadlock despite ineffectiveness or in the face of new developments.
Speaker – Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po Paris
Discussant – Florian Trauner, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Chair – Jonathan Zeitlin, University of Amsterdam
Find out more about the Online Seminar Series on the European Union: https://ecpr.eu/Events/184
Explaining the discourse-vote choice gap in the European Parliament
Polarisation or accommodation? Explaining the discourse-vote choice gap in the European Parliament
0:00:12 Welcome – Nathalie Brack
0:02:02 Presentation – Natasha Wunsch
0:11:53 Presentation – Marie-Eve Bélanger
0:27:40 Commentary – Maurits Meijers
0:37:23 Discussion and Q&A
1:22:22 Closing
The strengthening of Eurosceptic voices in its ranks has put pressure on the European Parliament (EP), increasing the salience of the pro-/anti-EU cleavage. Taking EU enlargement as a test case, this seminar examines how the changed composition of the EP has affected the structure of political conflict in the EP.
Speakers
Natasha Wunsch, Sciences Po Paris / ETH Zurich
Marie-Eve Bélanger, ETH Zurich
Discussant
Maurits Meijers, Radboud University Nijmegen
Chair
Nathalie Brack, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Find out more about the Online Seminar Series on the European Union: https://ecpr.eu/Events/184
EU regulation between uniformity, differentiation, and experimentalism
In this seminar, our speakers examine how far and under what conditions experimentalist governance (XG), defined as a recursive process of provisional goal setting and revision, based on comparative review of implementation in different local contexts, may be an effective and legitimate means of responding to diversity among EU member states, in comparison both to conventional uniform regulation (UR) and to differentiated integration (DI). 0:00:14 Welcome – Nathalie Brack 0:02:02 Presentation – Jonathan Zeitlin 0:15:52 Presentation – Bernardo Rangoni 0:25:36 Presentation – Jonathan Zeitlin 0:39:20 Commentary – Sandra Eckert 0:50:38 Discussion and Q&A Speakers Jonathan Zeitlin, University of Amsterdam Bernardo Rangoni, University of York Discussant Sandra Eckert, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and Goethe University Frankfurt More on the Seminar Series on the European Union: https://ecpr.eu/Events/184
Do reforms in public administration increase trust in government in transitional settings?
Seminar Series on the European Union This seminar presents a paper that analyses, based on survey and survey experiment data in Ukraine, how citizens’ assessments of improvements of public services and processes, affect support for government and trust in institutions in Ukraine’s transitional setting. Speakers Antoaneta Dimitrova, Leiden University Honorata Mazepus, Leiden University Discussant Karina Shyrokykh, Stockholm University More on the Seminar Series on the European Union: https://ecpr.eu/Events/184
Democratic backsliding in the European Parliament
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on the European Union, our speakers discuss issues surrounding the discursive and strategic coalitions in the European Parliament. Speakers Nathalie Brack, Université Libre de Bruxelles Ramona Coman, Université Libre de Bruxelles Discussant Fabio Wolkenstein, Universität Wien More on the Seminar Series: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Parties between nations? Introducing the multilevel party field
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on the European Union, Gilles Pittoors addresses the role of political parties as organisational foundations for EU democracy. Speaker Gilles Pittoors, University of Groningen Discussant Ben Crum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
National governments and the enforcement of rule of law
In this instalment of our Seminar Series in the European Union, our speaker considers why some states may oppose enforcing article 7 whilst others are more inclined towards enforcing it. Speaker Gisela Hernández, Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP-CSIC) Discussant Daniel Naurin, University of Oslo Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Inaugural ECPR House Series – The resurgence of nationalism by David Miller
Inspired by Harbour House, our HQ in the UK, which provides both a literal and metaphorical ‘home’ for the ECPR community, we developed The House Series, launching this December to round off our 50th Anniversary celebrations. Our first lecture focused on the resurgence of nationalism, delivered virtually by David Miller, winner of the ECPR’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. There is a widely held view that liberal democracies have experienced an upsurge in nationalism in recent years, and that this is best explained as a form of backlash against social and cultural change. In this lecture, David Miller challenged the underlying Enlightenment narrative used to support this explanation, which foresees the progressive disappearance of nationalism as a political force.
ECPR House Series – Declining standards of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Inspired by Harbour House, our HQ in the UK, which provides both a literal and metaphorical ‘home’ for the ECPR community, we developed The House Series, which launched in December 2020, rounding off our 50th Anniversary celebrations. In the second instalment of the series, the 2020 recipient of our Rising Star Award, Veronica Anghel, considers threats to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. During this talk, Veronica addresses some of Central Eastern Europe's most pressing structural, elite and societal challenges for the democratisation process, as well as the institutional incentives and constraints that support its endurance. Veronica pays particular attention to the negative effects of informal institutions on democratisation outcomes and make the case for an extended research agenda on how informal norms may structure citizen and elite behaviour.
ECPR House Series – Political science at risk in Europe: Frailness and the study of power
In the third instalment of our House series, speakers David Paternotte and Mieke Verloo expose risks to political science in Europe and call for the urgent development of a strategic response. More on our House Lecture series: https://ecpr.eu/TheHouseLectures
ECPR House Series – The Stein Rokkan Edition – Bridging the East-West Divide
Organised by Charles University as part of our 2021 Joint Sessions of Workshops, this lecture assembles scholars whose work transcends the East-West divide to discuss the extent to which both the East and the West are artificial constructs and shortcuts attempting to simplify the complex reality of contemporary democracy and how to move beyond this outdated paradigm – bridging the East-West divide. The speakers, eminent scholars of political parties, social movements, and democracy, touch on these issues in their work and discuss routes to balancing out general trends and unique features of the Central European region. Speakers: Lenka Bustikova, Arizona State University Ondrej Cisar, Charles University Fernando Casal Bertoa, University of Nottingham Zsolt Enyedi, Central European University/Oxford University Milada Vachudova, UNC Chapel Hill Chair: Petra Guasti, Charles University
ECPR House Series – Methods Edition: Replication and Political Methodology
In this special, Methods Edition of our House Series, our panel provide reflections on questions around replicability and reproducibility and offer practical suggestions on how to produce replicable findings in quantitative and qualitative settings. Speakers Uri Simonsohn ESADE Business School and Co-founder at datacolada Vera Troeger University of Hamburg and Editor at the Journal of Politics Sebastian Karcher Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University Chairs Lisa Lechner University of Innsbruck Bernd Schlipphak University of Münster More on the House Series: https://ecpr.eu/TheHouseLectures
The House Series: Stein Rokkan Edition (Edinburgh, 2022)
Watch Robbie Shilliam (John Hopkins University) deliver the Stein Rokkan Lecture from the University of Edinburgh. Titled 'The Academic Legacies of British Empire: Social Anthropology and International Relations', his talk addresses the contemporary moral panic over 'wokeness', its supposed infiltration into academic spaces and its purported degeneration of the ethos of higher education.
The Rise of Illiberalism: An International Roundtable
Delivered as part of our House Series in collaboration with our blogsite, The Loop, this roundtable takes stock of the Loop's popular 🌊 Illiberalism essay series and brings the discussion forward with a group of international experts. 0:00:12 Introduction by Luca Manucci, University of Lisbon 0:06:12 Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University 0:18:34 Yuko Sato, University of Gothenburg 0:32:37 Andrea Pető, Central European University 0:44:18 Laura Gamboa, University of Utah 1:00:46 Discussion and Q&A 1:28:16 Contribute to The Loop Find out more: https://ecpr.eu/Events/212
Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics: Why Objects Matter in Protest, Revolution and Resistance
In this talk delivered as part of the ECPR House Series, editors of the forthcoming Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics (The University of Michigan Press, 2023) draw from the book's findings to consider the scope of symbolic objects in contentious politics as an area of study and explore key theories about how symbolic objects tend to present across cases. 0:00:15 Introduction by David Swartz, Boston University 0:02:41 Presentation by Benjamin Abrams, University College London and Peter Gardner, University of York 0:54:06 Discussion and Q&A Find out more: https://ecpr.eu/Events/216
Challenges to Euro-Mediterranean cooperation via mobility partnerships
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on European Union, our speaker Stefania Panebianco presents her research which seeks to critically analyse EU cooperation on mobility with MENA countries within the framework of democracy promotion.
Speaker
Stefania Panebianco, University of Catania
Discussant
Michelle Pace, Roskilde University
Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Communicating migration research to academic and non-academic audiences
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speakers address the communication and dissemination strategies of academic researchers and revolve around the questions on how to develop a strategy that serves both academic and non-academic users; publishing in a policy-oriented journal and developing alternative ways to reach out to policymakers. Speaker Jan Rath, University of Amsterdam Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Migrants, Refugees, and Displacement Crises
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speakers discuss receiving countries' migration governance in terms of their policy reactions, focusing on displaced people and the migrant-refugee binary classification. Speakers Leiza Brumat, EURAC Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico Victoria Finn, European University Institute Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
The ethics of migration policy dilemmas
In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speakers Julia and Martin discuss key ethical dilemmas of migration policy and how can they be best analyzed, illustrating their approach with regard to two issues that pose hard ethical dilemmas: Search and Rescue at Sea and Temporary Labour Migration Programmes. Speakers Julia Mourão Permoser, University of Innsbruck Martin Ruhs, European University Institute Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
Debating immigrants and refugees in Central Europe
This instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity Focuses on the politicisation and framing of immigrants in the media and political arena of two countries, Czechia and Slovakia, in the period surrounding the so-called ‛refugee crisis’ in Europe. Speaker Jan Kovář, Institute of International Relations Prague Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...
How to Research Climate Change: A Debate on Methods and Perspectives from Political Science
Held in conjunction with the 2023 ECPR Winter School, this House Series debate takes stock of the contribution that political science can make to tackling the climate crisis. The event brings together quantitative and qualitative methods specialists to discuss the various ways of studying political phenomena related to climate change politics and policy, and the implications these different methods have on the knowledge created. Speakers Molly Andrews, University College London Erik Bucy, Texas Tech University Silvia Fierascu, Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara Akos Mate, Centre for Social Sciences Budapest Chairs Susana Salgado, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon Sebastian Koehler, Kings College London Find out more about the event: https://ecpr.eu/Events/229
Lifetime Achievement Award 2022: Celebrating Jean Blondel's career
Our event celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award joint winner Jean Blondel, and reflecting on the development of political science during his career. Full news story on our website.
Recorded at Harbour House in August 2022. Speakers, in order of appearance:
- David Farrell
- Jean Blondel
- Maurizio Cotta
- Ian Budge
- Ivor Crewe
- Dominique Blondel
- Jean-Louis Thiébault
- David Styan
See also our parallel podcast celebrating the career of Beate Kohler!
Lifetime Achievement Award 2022: Celebrating Beate Kohler's career
Our event celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award joint winner Beate Kohler, and reflecting on the development of political science during her career. Full news story on our website.
Recorded at Harbour House in September 2022. Speakers, in order of appearance:
- David Farrell
- Beate Kohler
- Diana Panke
- Helen Wallace
- Florian Koch
See also our parallel podcast celebrating the career of Jean Blondel!
The EU and the pandemic: analytical perspectives and research agendas
In this roundtable, leading scholars of the EU engage in a reflexive and prospective dialogue on EU policy developments since the start of the pandemic. We ask them whether the handling of the pandemic challenges existing scholarly understandings of the EU, the heuristics of their own work and could thus influence the research agendas of EU studies.
The discursive construction of discontent: Varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive networks in Europe
In our first-ever hybrid lecture, live streamed from Luiss University, Vivien Schmidt presents a Paper that, using discursive institutionalist analysis, theorises and investigates the varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive networks in Europe – with illustrative examples from EU and national level. This lecture was sponsored by the Journal of European Integration.