RC06 - Political Sociology

The last CPS Newsletter is now available. In it, you will find information about the new Board and its composition, brief overview of the CPS activities during 2018-2023 and the latest publications of our members.

We especially want to thank the outgoing aboard for all their contributions made during their tenure: (Stephanie Alenda (President), Robert M. Fishman & Laurence Morel (Vice Presidents), Julieta Suarez-Cao (Secretary & Treasurer), Dan Slater, Manfred B. Steger, Hiroko Takeda, Karina Kosiara-Pedersen, & Michelangelo Vercesi (Board Members)

 We will put forth all our efforts to build upon the work already done.

You can access the Newsletter by clicking here: Newsletter December 2023

The July 2022 Newsletter is now available. In it, you will find information about the CPS activities during the first semester of 2022; the latest publications of our members, information about the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne 2023, and more.

You can access the Newsletter by clicking here Newsletter July 2022

We are pleased to leave you with the recording of the 8th CPS Permanent Seminar: “CPS Talks with Authors”. On this occasion, we were talking with Dr. Kellee S. Tsai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Dr. Chun-Chih Chang (Xiamen University) about their edited book called Evolutionary Governance in China. State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism, then discussed by Dr. Hiroko Takeda (Nagoya University).

You can have access to the full seminar by clicking here.

We are pleased to leave you with the recording of the 6th CPS Permanent Seminar: “CPS Talks with Authors”. On this occasion, we were talking with Dr. Cristóbal Rovira (Diego Portales University, Chile) and Dr. Tim Bale (Queen Mary University of London, UK) about their edited book Riding the Populist Wave. Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis, commented by Javier Sajuria (Queen Mary University of London, UK).

You can have access to the full seminar by clicking here.

The July 2021 Newsletter is now available! You will find in it detailed information about a proposal of collaborative approaches for comparative research, written by Anika Gauja and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen; the latest publications from our members; an overview of CPS activities during the first semester of 2021; information about the Digital Democracy Database project; information about the international conference: Comparative Aspects of Remembrance, Memory Politics and Inter-State Conflict: Eastern, Southeastern Europe, and the Middle East; and an obituary for Ronald Inglehart, courtesy of Pippa Norris.

You can access the Newsletter by clicking here: Newsletter July 2021

The RC06 Business Meeting was held On July 12th at the IPSA Congress. You will find attached the PowerPoint presentation at the following link.

Business Meeting Presentation

We are pleased to leave you with the second CPS Permanent Seminar recording: “CPS Talks with Authors”. On this occasion, we were talking with Dr. Joshua Kudrow, Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and with Adrianna Zabrzewska, Doctoral candidate in philosophy at the Polish Academy of Sciences, about his book: Gender Quotas Post-Communist World: Voice of the Parliamentarians thereafter commented by Dr. Karolina Gilas (Faculty of Political and Social Science, UNAM).

Click here to have full access to the seminar.

The RC18 Business Meeting was held On February 24th. You will find attached the PowerPoint presentation.

Business Meeting Presentation

The CPS Newsletter of August 2020 has been released. It includes various announcements and invitations. We invite you to read it and look forward to hearing from you.

You can find it here: Newsletter August 2020

Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CPS Annual Conference Political Parties and Democracy - Internal and External Challenges has been postponed to October 2021. We don't have yet the exact new date of the event but I will communicate it to you as soon as possible. I really hope that this unfortunate delay will allow more of you to join us in Rome next year.