Category: News
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A Tribute to Dave Olson
Posted 12th May 2023 Our beloved colleague, Dave Olson, has passed away. He cherished our RC08, IPSA very much. He was proud of the work of the committee, and, more importantly, he felt so fortunate to have worked with and known so many of our members! He especially loved our meetings in person, where we…
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IPSA RC08 & RC13 Conference Within Conference
IPSA RC08 & RC13 Conference Within Conference in collaboration with the Southern Political Science Association 11-14 January 2023, St. Beach, Florida, USA Posted 6th January 2023 RC08 (Legislative Specialists) and RC13 (Democratization in Comparative Perspective) have collaborated on organizing a conference to bring together academics and practitioners from around the world to discuss topics related…
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RCLS at SPSA Conference
Posted 14 November 2022 RCLS and “RC13 Democratization in Comparative Perspective” are holding a joint conference within the SPSA conference, 11-14 January 2023 in St. Pete Beach, Florida. RCLS and RC13 have organised 13 exciting events at the conference, full details of which can be found by downloading the file below. More information about the…
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Call for Papers: RCLS at the 27th IPSA World Congress
Posted 14 November 2022 Legislatures in a Changing World of Crises for the 27th IPSA World Congress “Politics in the Age of Transboundary Crises”, to be held in Buenos Aires, 15-19 July 2023 Legislatures around the world have been challenged by external and internal shocks. Those included – but were not limited to – the…
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Nine Working Groups formed for Parliaments in the Pandemic (PiP)
Posted 8th August 2022 In-depth analysis in the international collaboration on “Parliaments in the Pandemic” is starting now. Based on the expert panel survey (comprising 380 questions), researchers will now analyse how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected parliaments. Nine Working Groups have been installed for the analysis. To find out more, please see here.
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Call for Papers: IPSA RC08 & RC13 Conference Within Conference
IPSA RC08 & RC13 Conference Within Conference in collaboration with the Southern Political Science Association 11-14 January 2023, St. Beach, Florida, USA Posted 16th May 2022 RC08 (Legislative Specialists) and RC 13 (Democratization in Comparative Perspective) are collaborating on organizing a conference to bring together academics and practitioners from around the world to discuss topics…
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Call for Papers: Parliaments in Pandemics International Workshop
Parliaments in Pandemics International Workshop 26-27 May 2022, Prague and Online Posted 6th April 2022 During the Covid-19 pandemic, democracy worldwide continued to deteriorate. As established and new democracies faced unprecedented challenges to public health and the economy, their democratic quality declined. While established democracies could largely prevent pandemic erosion of democratic quality, democracies in…
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Call for Papers: Parliaments in Crises – Crises in Parliaments International Workshop
Parliaments in Crises – Crises in Parliaments International Workshop 6-7 October 2022 Taipei, Taiwan The world has faced major global crises during the last years that cut across the borders of nation states: the financial and the climate crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and most recently the war on Ukraine. These situations are often understood as…
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Call for Papers: ECPR Parliaments Conference
7th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments 30 June-2 July 2022 Paris The Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po in Paris will host the 7th conference of the Standing Group on Parliaments of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). This is an inspiring, focused and extremely useful conference…
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