Date: 19-21 June 2014
Venue: Edinburgh, at the
Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Call for Papers: Is now open, submit your paper here. Deadline: December 13, 2013.
Hotel Information. We have arranged rates with
several hotels with details and booking information available through
the on-line registration system.
The fourth annual conference of the European Political Science
Association will take place from June 19-21, 2014 in the beautiful and
historic centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. This site for the conference is
consistent with EPSA’s policy of holding the Annual General Meeting in
unique, central, and interesting venues. We are expecting upwards of 700
participants from all over the world to attend the Edinburgh
conference. You can expect that the EPSA 2014 meeting will maintain its
commitment to featuring cutting-edge research paired with excellent
networking opportunities in a great urban setting. This year we are also
placing a renewed emphasis on making partners welcome, with a variety
of social events before, during, and following the conference. These
will include whisky tastings, a castle barbecue, a golf tournament, a
massive Friday night party with music, and tours of the old city. This
is not a conference you will want to miss!
The capital of Scotland, Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful and
charming cities in Europe. With its magnificent architecture and
stunning skyline, Edinburgh combines history and culture in a vibrant
atmosphere, offering opportunities for conference participants to enjoy a
wide range of fantastic attractions. Our venue lies in the centre of
the city in the beautiful Georgian "New Town", just a few minutes walk
from the river and the looming Edinburgh Castle and the famous Royal
Mile. A city of contrasts, Edinburgh juxtaposes traditional pubs, modern
world cuisine, and hip coffee shops, age old skills and crafts on
display in specialist shops with major fashion stores.
Edinburgh has something for everyone, and our conference will take
place right in the centre of it. The conference venue is located right
in the centre of Edinburgh, in two beautiful Georgian locations just a
block apart and close to the major hotels for which we have reserved
rooms for our delegates. The
Royal Society of Edinburgh and the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
are both professional conference venues that will provide a perfectly
organized and highly tailored conference experience with a classical
flavour, in rooms that are showpieces of their own.
The conference aims not just to bring together the best of the latest
political science research, but also to do so in a convenient fashion
for our delegates, and to make sure they also have a great time during
the conference.
Conference presentations are organized by topic into ten broadly
defined sections, designed to attract a wide variety of specific
proposals for papers within each section. One of the innovations on the
proposal web site this year is that participants can propose to attend
as a panel chair and/or discussant.
The call for papers is now open. For the first time in 2014, we will also have
poster sessions.
Papers can be tagged using keywords for consideration by a list of
categories, with each category associated with a category chair as indicated:
Electoral Behaviour (Michael Marsh, Trinity College Dublin)
This section welcomes papers addressing any aspect of voting (and not
voting), including: the effects of institutions on the vote, the
individual-level basis of the vote, the relationships between public
opinion and vote choices, the effects of strategic competition on
voting, and the effects of campaigns, mobilization, and different forms
of communication on voting. Priority will be given to papers showing
innovation in research question and in research design.
Representation and Electoral Systems (Andy Eggers, LSE)
Covering all aspects of electoral systems, election laws, campaigning, and election analysis.
Political Institutions and Decisions (Torun Dewan, LSE)
The Political Institutions and Decisions section of EPSA welcomes
proposals using formal and/or quantitative methods to analyze political
institutions and the strategic incentives they give rise to.
Substantive areas of interest include, though are not restricted to:
executive-legislative relations; legislative behaviour; cabinet
governance; political careers; and party competition.
Political Economy (Thomas Pluemper, Essex)
We encourage paper submissions that explain how political processes and
institutions affect economic outcomes and the converse, how economic
forces influence politics. Studies of the functioning of economic
institutions and of the determinants of economic policies are also
welcome, as are papers that apply economic and game-theoretical models
to political phenomena.
International Relations (Erik Gartzke, University of Essex)
For the International Relations section, we are looking for papers that
pursue formally stated arguments and/or present / analyze
systematically collected empirical data. Otherwise, we welcome papers
across the entire range of international relations.
EU Politics (Bjørn Høyland, University of Oslo and Gail McElroy, Trinity College Dublin)
This section invites papers, panels and roundtables on any aspect of
comparative European and European Union politics, from political
behaviour to institutional analysis. We welcome proposals that are
theoretically innovative and/or methodologically rigorous and deal with
both established and emerging research themes in European politics.
Conflict Resolution (Sabine Carey, University of Mannheim)
The conflict resolution category seeks papers that systematically
analyze intergroup or interstate conflicts, theoretically or
empirically. The section concentrates on violent conflict, but welcomes
work on other forms of intergroup conflict that does not fit naturally
into other sections.
Public Policy (Martin Lodge, LSE)
We invite papers, panels and roundtables on any aspect of public
policy. Proposals could therefore address redistributive and regulatory
policies, agenda-setting, implementation and evaluation, or questions
of bureaucratic politics in the formulation and operation of public
policies. Panel and paper proposals should seek to show innovation in
theoretical thinking and research design, and deal with both established
and emerging themes in the study of public policy, broadly defined.
Quantitative Methods (Ben Lauderdale, LSE)
The quantitative methods section invites proposals for papers, panels,
and roundtables addressing all areas of empirical methodology
including, but not limited to, research design, causal inference
(broadly defined), model specification, estimation, and measurement.
Proposals that develop new techniques for empirical political analysis
or involve innovative applications of existing methods to political
science research are particularly encouraged.
Qualitative and Mixed Methods (John Gerring, Boston University)
The Qualitative and Mixed Methods
section invites papers on all aspects of methodology including (but not
limited to) case studies, small-sample analysis, process tracing,
ethnography, interpretivism, sociology of social science, philosophy of
social science, and methods that combine techniques traditionally
associated with qualitative and quantitative methodology. We are also
interested in innovative applications of these research approaches (the
methodological innovation should be highlighted in the abstract).
Political Theory (Peter Stone, Trinity College Dublin)
This section welcomes paper or panel proposals dealing with the
concepts and values relevant to the study of politics. This includes the
formation of normative political principles and the analysis of our
fundamental terms of political discourse, such as democracy, legitimacy,
justice, power, and rationality. We particularly welcome submissions
dealing with the normative principles that underlie, or should underlie,
our political institutions. We also welcome proposals that use
normative analysis to justify, defend, or critique institutions.
Big Data, Social Media, and Text (Pablo Barbera, New York University and Kenneth Benoit, LSE)
We welcome any papers applying text analysis methods to political and
social problems, especially those using automated methods, quantitative
text analysis, or machine learning techniques to text on a large scale,
especially social media. We also invite proposers to flag their papers
under this category if they are applying or developing qualitative
empirical text analysis methods.
Comparative Politics of Industrialized Countries (TBA)
The section invites proposals on a variety of topics related to
industrialized polities such as electoral politics, political economy,
political culture, individual behavior, and political institutions.
Theoretically driven studies of substantive topics, and studies
involving comparisons are particularly welcome. Proposals employing any
methodological approach are welcome.
Comparative Politics of Developing Countries (TBA)
This section welcomes papers and panels on a broad range of topics,
including the study of institutions (institutional effects, endogenous
institutions, and institutional weakness), processes of democratic
transition and consolidation, political behavior (participation, voting,
and social movements), and political economy.
Political Communication (Philip Habel, University of Glasgow)
This section welcomes proposals addressing a broad range of topics
relevant to political communication including the role and influence of
mass media in the political process, the quality of the information
environment and its effects on public opinion and political behaviour,
changes brought about by new media technologies, and novel approaches to
the study of international communication. Proposals developing new
methodological techniques to address important substantive questions are
encouraged.
Political Geography (Eric Neumayer, LSE)
Political Sociology (Geoff Evans, University of Oxford)
This section welcomes papers addressing the relationship between social
structure, public opinion & political behaviour. This includes
links between inequality, identity and interests, the factors
influencing the expression of those in political behaviour, the
mechanisms that connect personal experience and political choice, the
conditioning effects of social characteristics on political preferences
and/or actions. A variety of approaches are welcomed, including
comparative and single case survey-based studies, survey-experiments,
field experiments, panel studies, and mixed methods.
Political Parties (Margit Tavits, Washington University St. Louis)
We invite papers on any aspect of party politics, including (but not
limited to), party system development, stabilization and change; party
organization; new party emergence; party ideology; party strategies in
different arenas (electoral, legislative, government); coalition
bargaining; radical parties; parties in authoritarian systems. Papers
that explore a novel research question, apply an innovative research
design, and/or pay close attention to causality are especially welcome.
EPSA employs a policy of non-discrimination and therefore does not
have panels for graduate students only. In the spirit of this equal
participation policy, however, all attendees face the same registration
fees, although registration will be discounted for EPSA members. (EPSA
may be joined separately
here.)
For general questions about the conference or questions about the
proposal submission software, or about proposals or the proposal
submission process please address queries to
conference@epsanet.org .
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT PAPER SUBMISSIONS
How do I submit a paper for the conference?
To submit a paper you will need to log on to the members area at:
http://members.epsanet.org. You do not need to be a full member but you need to be registered on the site to submit a paper.
When is the deadline for paper submissions?
The deadline for paper submission is 13 December 2013.
Is it possible to propose a panel for the conference? If so, what is the process to do so?
Yes it is possible to propose a panel for the conference. You should
send the proposed panel together with the name of the section you want
the panel to be considered in, the name of the panel theme, list of
authors and paper titles to
conference@epsanet.org
. Please note that the authors should submit their individual papers on
the system (the authors/titles need to correspond to the author/titles
in the panel proposal).
When is the registration for the conference?
Registration for the conference opened in March 2014 and is available at any time including on-site during the conference.
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