RC06 - Political Sociology

The CPS Newsletter of October 2019 has been issued. It includes a farewell from our former Chair and a welcome from our new Chair, that introduces our new Board; a reflection about Political Sociology by our Vice-Chair Robert Fishman; information about upcoming congresses of IPSA, ISA and APSA; and the announcement of new publications.

Dear Member of the Research Committee on Political Sociology (IPSA RC06/ISA RC18),

the electoral phase to renew the CPS Executive Board for the period 2018-2022 has been closed and the final results are now available. Below, you may find the list of names and the total of valid votes obtained. More details can be read in the final electoral report.

1.   MOREL Laurence 42
2.   KOSIARA-PEDERSEN Karina 40
3.   FISHMAN Robert M. 38
4.   ALENDA Stéphanie 34
5.   SUAREZ-CAO Julieta 31
6.   TAKEDA Hiroko 31
7.   VERCESI Michelangelo 29
8.   SLATER Dan 28
9.   STEGER Manfred B. 26
10. JANSEN Giedo 24
11. KASI Eswarappa 24
12. ESCOFFIER Simón M. 20

The election of the new CPS Chair will take place in September 2018. The CPS will keep all members posted.

The Institute for Social Change and Sustainability of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria) will be hosting an international research workshop  on 'Transition Impossible? Ambiguous Transformations and the Resilience of Unsustainability'. The workshop will take place on 19-21 September 2018. The main aim of the workshop is to conceptualize recent socio-political developments in modern societies. Both conceptual and theoretically informed empirical papers are welcomed.

Check the dates for submitting abstracts (350 words) and full draft papers (6.000 words):
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2018
Deadline for full draft papers: 20 August 2018
Please send your abstracts to: michael.deflorian@wu.ac.at
 
Please, consider that limited travel/accommodation support might be available.
A detailed descriptiona and relevant information may be found in the extended call for papers.

Latest news!

The international conference 'Redefining Political Sociology' is approaching. The state of discipline as well as salient topics in various subfields will be discussed by leading scholars from different parts of the world at the Andrés Bello University of Santiago de Chile, 11-13 December 2017.

See how to register and all the relevant information, including an extended programme below on this website.

The CPS is glad to announce that it will be present at the next 2018 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, to be held in Boston (USA) from 30 August to 2 September 2018. The main theme of the event is 'Democracy and Its Discontents.'

You are welcome to submit panel and paper proposals for the CPS section, chaired by Emilie van Haute (Université Libre de Bruxelle) and Laurence Morel (European University Institute). This is the abstract. We welcome panels and papers that aim at understanding the determinants of citizens’ assessment of parties, but also that aim at understanding how these assessments are related to party (elite) resentment among citizens.

The deadline is 16 January 2018 (11.59 p.m., local time). Further information on the rules and instructions as well as the link to submit the proposals may be found on the Call for Proposals page.

The CPS Summer 2017 has been issued. The newsletter includes a call for papers of the next 2018 ISA World Congress; a call for panels and papers for the next 2018 IPSA World Congress; and the announcement of the next Conference 'Redifining Political Sociology', to be held in December 2017 in Santiago de Chile. The issue can be read online.

A Call for Sessions is open for the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, to be held in Toronto from 15 to 21 July 2018. The CPS has launched a call on the theme Dynamics of States and Identities in Contemporary Global Era (Programme Coordinators: Stéphanie ALENDA and Eswarappa KASI. Chair: Laurence MOREL). You may find details and information by reading the Call_for_sessions). Please, consider that the deadline to reply to this call or to propose other sessions is 15 March 2017.

The CPS will be present at the next 2017 APSA Annual Meeting on 'The Quest for Legitimacy: Actors, Audiences and Aspirations' (31 August-3 September 2017, San Francisco, USA) with the panel 'The Legitimacy of Political Executives in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes' (see detail), organized by Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (muero@uni.leuphana.de). Papers dealing with this topic are invited. The procedure to propose a paper closes on 9 Janurary 2017.

The CPS has published a contribution for a debate on the state of Political Sociology as a field of scientific inquiry. This contribution aims to be a first of a series. The article, entitled 'The Interdisciplinary Hybrid: Some Discussions on the State of Political Sociology', is co-authored by Joshua Dubrow (corresponding author, dubrow.2@osu.edu), Marta Kolczynska, and Anna Gromada. You can access the pdf version here.