Event sponsored by CPS
 
Call for papers - Deadline September 30, 2015 
The ISA/IPSA Committee of Political Sociology will be present with 12 sessions and 3 joint sessions at the next ISA Forum of Sociology in Vienna, 10-14 July 2016. Everybody interested is kindly invited to submit an abstract before September 30, 2015 directly on the ISA Website: http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/
 
List of sessions:
  • Citizenship: Dynamics of Choice, Duties and Participation (organizer: Jurate Imbrasaite)
  • Futures and Pasts in the Future of Political Sociology (organizer: Robert M. Fishman) NOT OPEN FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
  • How the Past Shapes Struggles for Equality: Contrasting Legacies of Reform and Revolution (organizer: Laurence Morel) NOT OPEN FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
  • Is Political Inequality Rising, Falling or Staying the Same? (organizer: Joshua K. Dubrow)
  • Parties as Membership Organizations: A Longitudinal Perspective (organizer: Giulia Sandri)
  • Political Sociology and the War on Terror (organizer: Michael Blain)
  • Regionalism Old and New: Between Economy and Geopolitics (organizer: Mikhail A. Molchanov)
  • The Poli-tics/-tricks of Development and the Plight of Marginal Communities in 21st Century South Asia (organizers: Eswarappa Kasi and Julia Guenther)
  • The Political Consequences of Precarious Employment (organizer: Giedo Jansen)
  • The Regulation and Funding of Political Parties in Comparative Perspective (organizers: Piero Ignazi and Eugenio Pizzimenti)
  • The Right in the Southern Cone: Power Dynamics within Political Parties in Brazil, Chile and Argentina (organizer: Stéphanie Alenda) NOT OPEN FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
  • Transnational Social Movements and European Democratization (organizer: Paul Blokker and Ondrej Cisar)

 

List of joint sessions:
  • Economic Inequality, Distributive Preferences and Political Outcomes (with RC42 Social Psychology)
  • Elites, the Poor and the Welfare State in Unequal Democracies (with RC07 Futeres Research)
  • Expertise and Interests: For a Sociology of Think Tanks (with RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture)

 

Further details on sections and organizers' contacts can be found here.