The next IPSA World Congress of Political Science will be held in Istanbul (Turkey) from July 23 to July 28, 2016. The theme of the 2016 edition is 'Politics in a World of Inequality' (link). CPS will be present with the following 13 panels:

  • Class voting in a Post-Piketty World
  • Contested Hybrid Democracy: Endorsing or Revisiting the Liberal Model in non-Western Countries?
  • Displacement, Social Movements and Contested Meaning of Land and 'Home': The South Asian Experiences
  • Inequalities in Coalition Governments
  • Land Inequality, Violence, and the State
  • Non-elective Procedures in Divided Societies
  • Political Parties in 'Post-Communist' Europe: Old 'Specifities', new 'Normalities'?
  • Political Sophistication as a Resource of Unequal Political Participation in Democracies
  • Presidential Re-election in Latin America
  • State Responses to Digital Dissent in an Unequal World in the Twenty-first Century
  • Studyng Asylum Adjudication from Below: North American and European Perspectives
  • The Performance of Prime Ministers in Comparative Perspective
  • 'Riots' and Mobilizations against Violent Police Deviances: An International Comparative Perspective

The CPS encourages paper submissions for one of these open panels. The deadline to submit a paper is October 7, 2015. You may find instructions at this link.

The call for open panels is now closed, but the call for closed panels is open until October 7, 2015.
Please, do not hesitate to propose a panel under the auspices of RC06. You may find instructions at this link.