Political Science Matters

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speakers Julia and Martin discuss key ethical dilemmas of migration policy and how can they be best analyzed, illustrating their approach with regard to two issues that pose hard ethical dilemmas: Search and Rescue at Sea and Temporary Labour Migration Programmes. Speakers Julia Mourão Permoser, University of Innsbruck Martin...

This instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity Focuses on the politicisation and framing of immigrants in the media and political arena of two countries, Czechia and Slovakia, in the period surrounding the so-called ‛refugee crisis’ in Europe. Speaker Jan Kovář, Institute of International Relations Prague Find out more about this seminar: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDet...

Held in conjunction with the 2023 ECPR Winter School, this House Series debate takes stock of the contribution that political science can make to tackling the climate crisis. The event brings together quantitative and qualitative methods specialists to discuss the various ways of studying political phenomena related to climate change politics and policy, and the implications these different method...

Our event celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award joint winner Jean Blondel, and reflecting on the development of political science during his career. Full news story on our website . Recorded at Harbour House in August 2022. Speakers, in order of appearance: David Farrell Jean Blondel Maurizio Cotta Ian Budge Ivor Crewe Dominique Blondel Jean-Louis Thiébault David Styan See also our parallel...

Our event celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award joint winner Beate Kohler, and reflecting on the development of political science during her career. Full news story on our website . Recorded at Harbour House in September 2022. Speakers, in order of appearance: David Farrell Beate Kohler Diana Panke Helen Wallace Florian Koch See also our parallel podcast celebrating the career of Jean Blonde...

In this roundtable, leading scholars of the EU engage in a reflexive and prospective dialogue on EU policy developments since the start of the pandemic. We ask them whether the handling of the pandemic challenges existing scholarly understandings of the EU, the heuristics of their own work and could thus influence the research agendas of EU studies.

In our first-ever hybrid lecture, live streamed from Luiss University, Vivien Schmidt presents a Paper that, using discursive institutionalist analysis, theorises and investigates the varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive networks in Europe – with illustrative examples from EU and national level. This lecture was sponsored by the Journal of European Integration .

This lecture assembles scholars 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. Speakers: Lenka Bustikova (Arizona State University), Ondrej Cisar (Charles University), Fernando Casal Bertoa (Universit...

After half a century of nearly constant expansion and institutionalisation, political science and political scientists are at risk in many countries. Researchers’ freedoms of inquiry and expression are increasingly contested and power rulers show a growing interest in controlling research processes and outputs. This Lecture explores the threats to democracy and academic freedom, exposing the ...

There is a widely held view that liberal democracies have experienced an upsurge in nationalism in recent years, and that this is best explained as a form of backlash against social and cultural change. In this lecture, our speaker David Miller challenges the underlying Enlightenment narrative used to support this explanation, which foresees the progressive disappearance of nationalism as a politi...

Are standards of democracy declining among the European Union's Eastern member states? According to most policy analysts, academics and public commentators, there is a major risk of reversion to authoritarianism in some of these countries. However, the status of liberal democracy in post-communist countries is more fragmented and muddled than it would first appear. During this talk, we will addres...