Political Science Matters

Is there a ‘Latin American’ approach to migration governance? How much do national policies converge/differ across the region today? Latin America has developed new mechanisms of migration governance since the turn of the century. For some, these represented a distinctive approach as, in contrast to trends in the Global North, the region put an emphasis on migrant rights, relatively open border co...

Speaker – Andrew Geddes, European University Institute What factors shape European and EU responses to potential Afghan displacement and refugee movement towards the EU? In this presentation, it will be argued that these responses form part of a repertoire of migration governance that is grounded in how European and EU governance systems as organisational processes make sense of international migr...

Speaker – Melissa Siegel, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT The relationship between corruption and migration has received very little scholarly attention until now. This talk will cover at least 10 ways in which migration and corruption can be interlinked. These linkages can be neutral, positive or negative. Migration can affect corruption but corruption can also affect migra...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on European Union, our speakers investigate the multilevel politics of the European Minimum Wage. Their article shows that the emergence of pro-minimum wage coalitions in key-member states and the increase of party-competition dynamics at the EU level was crucial to overcoming the manifold lines of conflict that had long braked EU initiatives on minimum wag...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on European Union, our speakers focus on the party-voter dyad and analyze patterns of EU issue voting in the European elections. They make use of a combination of data from CHES and EES, showing that voters are mobilized on the EU, with EU party positions operating as a driving factor of the voting preferences of the electorate, with a differentiated impact...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series from the Standing Group on the European Union, Mai’a K. Davis Cross (Northeastern University) presents her book manuscript with the working title, 'International Cooperation in the Ultrasocial World'. She is joined by discussant Ana Juncos (University of Bristol). Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series from the Standing Group on the European Union, Amie Kreppel (University of Florida) and Michael Webb (University of Florida) discuss how political actors are expected to behave amid a growing lack of transparency in the EU’s legislative process. They are joined by discussant Joseph Dunne who is the Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washi...

The EU’s attitude towards Afghan refugees: an analytical framework to account for EU immigration and policy 0:00:12 Welcome: Jonathan Zeitlin 0:04:25 Presentation: Virginie Guiraudon 0:35:10 Commentary: Florian Trauner 0:43:00 Discussion 0:56:17 Audience Q&A 1:34:11 Closing This seminar proposes an analytical framework to account for the enduring features of EU immigration and asylum policy, i...

Polarisation or accommodation? Explaining the discourse-vote choice gap in the European Parliament 0:00:12 Welcome – Nathalie Brack 0:02:02 Presentation – Natasha Wunsch 0:11:53 Presentation – Marie-Eve Bélanger 0:27:40 Commentary – Maurits Meijers 0:37:23 Discussion and Q&A 1:22:22 Closing The strengthening of Eurosceptic voices in its ranks has put pressure on the European Parliament (EP), i...

In this seminar, our speakers examine how far and under what conditions experimentalist governance (XG), defined as a recursive process of provisional goal setting and revision, based on comparative review of implementation in different local contexts, may be an effective and legitimate means of responding to diversity among EU member states, in comparison both to conventional uniform regulation (...

Seminar Series on the European Union This seminar presents a paper that analyses, based on survey and survey experiment data in Ukraine, how citizens’ assessments of improvements of public services and processes, affect support for government and trust in institutions in Ukraine’s transitional setting. Speakers Antoaneta Dimitrova, Leiden University Honorata Mazepus, Leiden University Discussant K...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on the European Union, our speakers discuss issues surrounding the discursive and strategic coalitions in the European Parliament. Speakers Nathalie Brack, Université Libre de Bruxelles Ramona Coman, Université Libre de Bruxelles Discussant Fabio Wolkenstein, Universität Wien More on the Seminar Series: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on the European Union, Gilles Pittoors addresses the role of political parties as organisational foundations for EU democracy. Speaker Gilles Pittoors, University of Groningen Discussant Ben Crum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series in the European Union, our speaker considers why some states may oppose enforcing article 7 whilst others are more inclined towards enforcing it. Speaker Gisela Hernández, Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP-CSIC) Discussant Daniel Naurin, University of Oslo Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...

Inspired by Harbour House, our HQ in the UK, which provides both a literal and metaphorical ‘home’ for the ECPR community, we developed The House Series, launching this December to round off our 50th Anniversary celebrations. Our first lecture focused on the resurgence of nationalism, delivered virtually by David Miller, winner of the ECPR’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. There is a widely held...

Inspired by Harbour House, our HQ in the UK, which provides both a literal and metaphorical ‘home’ for the ECPR community, we developed The House Series, which launched in December 2020, rounding off our 50th Anniversary celebrations. In the second instalment of the series, the 2020 recipient of our Rising Star Award, Veronica Anghel, considers threats to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. D...

In the third instalment of our House series, speakers David Paternotte and Mieke Verloo expose risks to political science in Europe and call for the urgent development of a strategic response. More on our House Lecture series: https://ecpr.eu/TheHouseLectures

Organised by Charles University as part of our 2021 Joint Sessions of Workshops, this lecture assembles scholars whose work transcends the East-West divide to discuss the extent to which both the East and the West are artificial constructs and shortcuts attempting to simplify the complex reality of contemporary democracy and how to move beyond this outdated paradigm – bridging the East-West divide...

In this special, Methods Edition of our House Series, our panel provide reflections on questions around replicability and reproducibility and offer practical suggestions on how to produce replicable findings in quantitative and qualitative settings. Speakers Uri Simonsohn ESADE Business School and Co-founder at datacolada Vera Troeger University of Hamburg and Editor at the Journal of Politics Seb...

Watch Robbie Shilliam (John Hopkins University) deliver the Stein Rokkan Lecture from the University of Edinburgh. Titled 'The Academic Legacies of British Empire: Social Anthropology and International Relations', his talk addresses the contemporary moral panic over 'wokeness', its supposed infiltration into academic spaces and its purported degeneration of the ethos of higher educ...

Delivered as part of our House Series in collaboration with our blogsite, The Loop, this roundtable takes stock of the Loop's popular 🌊 Illiberalism essay series and brings the discussion forward with a group of international experts. 0:00:12 Introduction by Luca Manucci, University of Lisbon 0:06:12 Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University 0:18:34 Yuko Sato, University of Gothenburg 0:...

In this talk delivered as part of the ECPR House Series, editors of the forthcoming Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics (The University of Michigan Press, 2023) draw from the book's findings to consider the scope of symbolic objects in contentious politics as an area of study and explore key theories about how symbolic objects tend to present across cases. 0:00:15 Introduction by David Sw...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on European Union, our speaker Stefania Panebianco presents her research which seeks to critically analyse EU cooperation on mobility with MENA countries within the framework of democracy promotion. Speaker Stefania Panebianco, University of Catania Discussant Michelle Pace, Roskilde University Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speakers address the communication and dissemination strategies of academic researchers and revolve around the questions on how to develop a strategy that serves both academic and non-academic users; publishing in a policy-oriented journal and developing alternative ways to reach out to policymakers. Speaker Jan Rath, Univers...

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speakers discuss receiving countries' migration governance in terms of their policy reactions, focusing on displaced people and the migrant-refugee binary classification. Speakers Leiza Brumat, EURAC Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico Victoria Finn, European University Institute Find out more about this seminar: http...