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12Oct 2023

RC03 Publications 2023

New articles!

Aurel Lazăr & Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă (2022) Assessing a decade of Romania-Turkey strategic partnership in an era of ambivalence and ‘De-Europeanisation’, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 22:1, 165-185, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2021.2024989

Miruna Butnaru Troncotă & Dragoș Ioniță (2022) EU’s ‘Eastern discontents’ – when ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ politicisation collide – the case of Romania in the future of Europe debate, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2076067

16Jul 2023

2023 IPSA World Congress of Political Science: List of Panels in the Session RC03 European Unification

Join us for the Panels included on our Session RC03 European Unification at the 2023 IPSA World Congress of Political Science (session chaired by Daniela Vintila, Sophie Meunier, and Angeliki Konstantinidou)

  • RC03.V04 Citizenship, Migration and Access to Rights in the EU

Chair: Dr. Daniela Vintila

17-07-2023 09:00 UTC-3 (1 hour 45 minutes) A

  • RC03.05 EU actorness in a Multiplex World: Assessing EU Engagement toward Neighborhood and Overseas Regions

Chair: Mr. Dealan Riga

18-07-2023 09:00 UTC-3 (1 hour 45 minutes) A

SJ1 Aula Magna Cardenal Pironio

  • RC03.01 Forecasting European Defense: How the EU Designs Its Response to the Unrest in Its Neighborhood

Chair: Prof. Daniela Irrera

18-07-2023 17:30 UTC-3 (1 hour 45 minutes) E

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  • RC03.02 Legal or Political? A Problem of Non-compliance with the CJEU Rulings in the European Union Member States

Chair: Prof. Renata Mienkowska Norkiene

19-07-2023 09:00 UTC-3 (1 hour 45 minutes) A

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12Jul 2023

Elections IPSA RC03 Board- Call for applications

Dear colleagues,

Our IPSA Research Committee RC03 European Unification is renewing its Board. We are therefore calling for self-nominations to fill the six seats that will become available.

Board members are elected for four years. Ideally, they should represent different countries and approaches in our research field. Board members are expected to be actively involved in all RC03 activities, including the organization of panels for the IPSA World Congress during the duration of the mandate.

Should you be interested to stand as candidate for our IPSA RC03 Board, please send us a short (300 words max) biographical statement and rationale for joining the Board (including also your institutional affiliation and contact details). Please send your statement via email to Daniela Vintila (Daniela.Vintila@uliege.be) and Angeliki Konstantinidou (angeliki.konstantinidou@sciencespo.fr) by Wednesday, 26th of July 2023, at 17:00 CEST.  

The RC03 Board election for the vacant seats will be held online and the results will be communicated before August 11.

22Nov 2022

CfP 2023 IPSA World Congress- Panel: Legal or political? A problem of non-compliance with the CJEU rulings in the European Union Member States

Call for Papers for the Panel “Legal or political? A problem of non-compliance with the CJEU rulings in the European Union Member States” organised by Renata Mienkowska Norkiene at the 2023 IPSA World Congress of Political Science

Deadline for submitting paper proposals: 18th of January 2023

https://wc2023.ipsa.org/wc/panel/legal-or-political-problem-non-compliance-cjeu-rulings-european-union-member-states   

Panel abstract: Studies of the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) have so far focused mainly on the legal analysis of judgments or legal problems related to the question of non-compliance. Meanwhile, in expert and public debates on the condition of the EU and the challenges it has been facing, the role of the CJEU goes beyond the issues of interpreting EU law and the question of non-compliance goes far beyond the legal aspects. The panel has a few purposes: 1) To analyze the impact of CJEU judgments on national constitutional courts, 2) To analyze political significance of the CJEU judgements for the MS from the point of view of polity, policy and politics, 3) To analyze the the dialogue over the CJEU rulings and non-compliance between the EU institutions and the Member States. The panel will contribute to the debate on the political significance of the CJEU jurisprudence for the EU institutions, Member States, and EU citizens, it will also contribute to the analysis of the political reasons and the consequences of non-compliance. The presentation will answer questions about political significance of the CJEU judgements, where approach towards the question of “the political” will be based upon its notion elaborated by Carl Shmitt and modified by Chantal Mouffe.

22Nov 2022

CfP 2023 IPSA World Congress- Panel: Forecasting European Defense: How the EU Designs Its Response to the Unrest in Its Neighborhood

Call for Papers for the Panel “Forecasting European Defense: How the EU Designs Its Response to the Unrest in Its Neighborhood” organised by Annie Niessen and Cindy Regnier at the 2023 IPSA World Congress of Political Science

Deadline for submitting paper proposals: 18th of January 2023

https://wc2023.ipsa.org/wc/panel/forecasting-european-defense-how-eu-designs-its-response-unrest-its-neighborhood  

Panel abstract: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the migration crisis, and the continued tensions in the Western Balkans have increasingly threatened security on European soil. These security crises have put a lot of pressure on the European Union to formulate compelling and efficient responses—be it in the military, political or economic areas—to build an appropriate defense approach. To formulate such responses, the EU needs models and strategies to both anticipate and legitimize its actions outside of its borders. In this regard, simulations, models, wargames, narratives, and imaginaries are all means of producing knowledge within and about EU defense.

This panel aims to address how the EU designs its various military, political, and economic responses to the unrest in its neighborhood with a defensive objective, how these responses contribute to forecasting a European defense, how simulations and wargames can enhance the anticipation of EU defense policies abroad, and how narratives and imaginaries are mobilized in the legitimation of these policies. With the aim of building bridges between critical and policy-oriented academics, we welcome both analyses of current and prospective defense policies, as well as meta-analyses of what it means to anticipate in times of defense/security crises.

21Nov 2022

CfP 2023 IPSA World Congress- Panel: EU Geopolitical Actorness in a Multiplex Order

Call for Papers for the Panel “EU Geopolitical Actorness in a Multiplex Order” organised by Dealan Riga at the 2023 IPSA World Congress of Political Science

Deadline for submitting paper proposals: 18th of January 2023

https://wc2023.ipsa.org/wc/panel/eu-geopolitical-actorness-multiplex-order?fbclid=IwAR27Use3INb08spktx_1dGQX6QVMYkojiUEB78anZUqkSl3YXO9qb9GJ3yU

Panel abstract: In 2019, Ursula Von der Leyen mentioned her intention to lead a geopolitical commission. Since then, the concept of geopoliticization has received increased scholarly attention in research on the new features of European Union (EU) policy-making. However, particular analytical elements such as the one of strategic autonomy still escape the scope of current conceptual toolboxes. This panel aims to examine the shift of EU’s actorness from a normative focus to a strategic one. In exploring the geopolitical reasoning within the EU framework, the panel seeks to contribute to ongoing debates aiming to revisit the concept of actorness in light of new regional and global challenges.
Further research is much needed in this area, especially since the multipolarity framework did not manage to enable scholarly work beyond transatlantic ties. The West remains the dominant unit of analysis when it comes to EU strategic positioning, while the conceptual framework focusing on geostrategy remains ill-equipped to consider supranational networks as units for analysis. Moreover, new geopolitical turmoil such as the war in Ukraine urge further reflection on EU’s strategic capabilities in terms of geopolitical actorness. Yet, as global challenges are increasingly complexifying, researchers have to acknowledge growing fragmentation of global affairs when conceptualising and measuring actorness or its effectiveness.
This panel welcomes contributions considering EU strategies within complex world issues to draft key features of geopolitical actorness. Paper proposals can address different themes that could include (without being restricted to) topics such as: EU’s engagement to systemic rivalries; EU foreign policy in rising geostrategic regions (Western Balkans; Eastern Europe; Indo-Pacific, etc.); EU’s attempts to tackle power diffusion; EU capabilities to foster democratic governance; limits of EU strategic toolbox in the wake of complex challenges, recent developments regarding EU actorness in global politics and governance. The panel welcomes both conceptual and empirical contributions providing either specific case studies or comparative analysis to examine the extent to which EU’s geopolitical actorness is designed to tackle complex world challenges.

 

20Nov 2022

New Publication: Open Access Book- Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics

New OA book: “Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics: Populism, Disinformation and the Public Sphere”

Editors: Maximilian Conrad, Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, Asimina Michailidou, Charlotte Galpin, Niko Pyrhönen

About this book: This open access book is the product of three years of academic research that has been carried out in the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network on “Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the Delegitimation of European Integration” since 2019. Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of the network’s members, the book explores the impact of the phenomenon of post-truth politics on European integration and the European Union. It places particular emphasis on how post-truth politics has played out in the public sphere and asks what impact the phenomenon has had on public deliberation, but reflects also on its implications for democracy in a wider sense. This book is primarily written for audiences with an interest in politics and policy making, including academics, policy makers and civil-society actors. Thanks to its accessible style, the book should however also be an asset to wider audiences.

Click here to download the book in PDF

 

23Oct 2022

Call for monograph proposals - Contemporary European Studies series - Routledge/UACES

The Contemporary European Studies (CES) series invites early career and experienced academics to submit expressions of interest in the publishing of monographs and edited volumes to its new editorial team.

CES is an internationally-renowned outlet for the publication of first-rate research in European Union Studies. We welcome expressions of interest in all areas of EU research, and would particularly encourage scholars working on feminist perspectives, post-colonial and decolonising approaches, non-European perspectives on the EU, critical security studies, practice theory, and critical international political economy, alongside works on EU institutions, external relations, integration theories, and EU policies, to get in touch.

The editors will consider and provide feedback on all expressions of interest. For further information, please have a look at the submission process and at the proposal guidelines.

21Sep 2022

Call for Proposals RC03 European Unification Session- 2023 IPSA World Congress of Political Science

IPSA Research Committee RC03 European Unification is inviting you to submit proposals for our Session at the 2023 IPSA World Congress of Political Science. This international event will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 15-19 July 2023. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to share your work with peers, to learn from other scholars and to meet political scientists worldwide. 

Proposals for panels and papers for the RC03 Session can focus on any aspect related to the process of European integration and EU politics. This can include, for instance, topics such as: theories of integration; public policy in the EU; multilevel governance and EU decision-making; the evolution and functioning of EU institutions; democracy, legitimacy and accountability in the EU; electoral politics in the EU; the EU as a global actor; economic and fiscal governance in the EU; rule of law; values and rights in the EU, etc.

The call for proposals is from 20 September 2022 to 18 January 2023. Please visit the World Congress’ website for important details and submission guidelines. You may submit your panel proposals here (please select the Session RC03 European Unification). Deadline for OPEN panels: 1 November 2022. Deadline for CLOSED panels: 18 January 2023. Please note that the Call for Papers will open on 15 November 2022. 

02Feb 2022

Vacancy: 3 positions Associate Researcher- Department of Political Science and European Studies, SNSPA, Romania

The Department of Political Science and European Studies at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA, Bucharest, Romania) invites applications for 3 positions of Associate Researchers to work within the interdisciplinary ERC Consolidator Project Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes (CORPACCOUNT), led by Dr. Raluca Grosescu.

Period: 3-year fixed contract starting on 15 June 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter

Salary: 1850 Euro Net / month (health insurance, pension, and taxes included).

Calendar: The deadline for submission is 15 March 2022, 5pm CET time. Shortlisted candidates will be noticed by 3 April 2022 and invited for interview to be held on 8 April 2022.

For further details: https://snspa.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Anunt-Web-EN-CORPACCOUNT-Recrutement-3-positions-of-Associate-Researchers.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0O2udh6jYYkD7KsuNSF-ZLHLaISwoJnUnhwMb86nIuXbLlMcvDF4dMs8M

18Aug 2021

Board Members - RC03 - European Unification

We are pleased to announce the results of the RC03 Executive Board elections that took place during the 26th World Congress of Political Science.

  • Chair: Daniela Vintila (University of Liège, Belgium)
  • Vice-chair: Sophie Meunier (Princeton University, US)
  • Secretary: Angeliki Konstantinidou (Sciences Po Paris, France)

Executive Board members for the period 2021-2023 (alphabetical order):

  • Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
  • Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham, UK)
  • Simona Guerra (University of Surrey, UK)
  • Aleksandra Sojka (University Carlos III Madrid, Spain)
  • Adam Szymański (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  • Hans-Jörg Trenz (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
  • Tamara Tubakovic (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Francesco Violi (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
  • Benjamin Zyla (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Congratulations to the new chair, secretary and our newly elected Board members! We applaud all candidates who took the initiative to run for office. We also take this opportunity to express our immense gratitude to Prof Hans-Jörg Trenz, for his exceptional leadership and dedication as RC03 chair during the mandate 2018-2021.

13Jul 2021

Elections results: new IPSA RC03 Executive Board

We are pleased to announce the results of the RC03 Executive Board elections that took place during the 26th World Congress of Political Science.

  • Chair: Daniela Vintila (University of Liège, Belgium)
  • Vice-chair: Sophie Meunier (Princeton University, US)
  • Secretary: Angeliki Konstantinidou (Sciences Po Paris, France)

Executive Board members for the period 2021-2023 (alphabetical order):

  • Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania)
  • Charlotte Galpin (University of Birmingham, UK)
  • Simona Guerra (University of Surrey, UK)
  • Aleksandra Sojka (University Carlos III Madrid, Spain)
  • Adam Szymański (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  • Hans-Jörg Trenz (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
  • Tamara Tubakovic (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Francesco Violi (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
  • Benjamin Zyla (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Congratulations to the new chair, secretary and our newly elected Board members! We applaud all candidates who took the initiative to run for office. We also take this opportunity to express our immense gratitude to Prof Hans-Jörg Trenz, for his exceptional leadership and dedication as RC03 chair during the mandate 2018-2021.

12Jul 2021

2021 IPSA World Congress of Political Science: List of Panels in the Session RC03 European Unification

Join us for the Panels included on our Session RC03 European Unification at the 2021 IPSA World Congress of Political Science

(session chaired by Hans-Joerg Trenz, Sophie Meunier, and Daniela Vintila)

10-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “Citizenship and Democracy in Post-Brexit Europe”, chaired by John Erik Fossum

10-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “Fighting the EU: Exploring Opposition Strategies of the Radical Right in Europe”, chaired by Ben Wellings

10-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “The Europeanization of Public Debate between Normalization and Polarization”, chaired by Giuliano Bobba

10-07-2021, 13:30 UTC: Panel “EU Impact on State of Democracy in the EU Enlargement and ENP Countries”, chaired by Vadym Zheltovskyy

10-07-2021, 13:30 UTC: Panel “Legitimacy and Governance Implications of the Increased Politicisation and Polarisation of the European Public Sphere”, chaired by Elena García-Guitián

11-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “National Parliaments and Transnational Democracy in Europe”, chaired by Sima Rakutiene

11-07-2021, 13:30 UTC: Panel “Citizenship and Mobility in the EU: Policies and Practices”, chaired by Daniela Vintila and Angeliki Konstantinidou

12-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “Nationalist Discourses in Europe beyond Euro-Skepticism and Isolationism”, chaired by Nicole Olszewska

12-07-2021, 13:30 UTC: Panel “Democracy Decline in EU Member States and EU Neighbours: Is the EU Helpless?”, chaired by Adam Szymanski

13-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “Identity(ies)-Building in the EU: Discourse, Actors and Dynamics”, chaired by Annie Niessen

13-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “New Directions in the Study of EU Elites”, chaired by Patrick Dumont

13-07-2021, 13:30 UTC: Panel: “Conditions and Compliance in European Integration”, chaired by Sophie Meunier

14-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “Contesting Europe? The Salience and Framing of European Integration in Partisan Politics”, chaired by John Erik Fossum

15-07-2021, 10:00 UTC: Panel “Mobility and Social Protection in the European Union: Welfare States Under Pressure?”, chaired by Angeliki Konstantinidou and Daniela Vintila

12Jul 2021

IPSA RC03 Business Meeting

Dear members of IPSA RC03 European Unification,

We would like to invite you to our RC03 Business Meeting that will take place on July 12 (15:30 UTC), as part of the activities programmed for the 2021 IPSA World Congress of Political Science. The meeting will be held online, via this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85331138122?pwd=RndySGlPbk4vS3lRRzN0anVIRHUwQT09 Please note that you can attend the meeting regardless if you registered for the 2021 Congress or not.

The main point of the agenda will be the renewal of our RC03 Board, but we will also like to take this opportunity to receive your feedback regarding our RC, your ideas on our future events and any questions or comments that you may have about our committee.

We look forward to seeing you again during our next Business Meeting,

Hans-Jörg Trenz, Sophie Meunier, and Daniela Vintila

12Oct 2020

IPSA RC03 European Unification- New Call for Proposals for the 2021 IPSA World Congress Lisbon

Dear members of IPSA Research Committee RC03 European Unification,

We wanted to inform you that, following the Lisbon World Congress postponement to 2021, an additional Call for Proposals has been released for the 26th  IPSA World Congress of Political Science (10-14 July 2021). We would like to invite you to submit new paper and panel proposals for our Session RC03 European Unification. We are interested in new proposals focusing on any topic related to EU politics and the process of European integration. Contributions aiming to address the policy responses of the EU and its Member States to the COVID-19 pandemic are also encouraged. We hope this new Call will give a chance to those who missed the previous submission deadline to participate in the 2021 Congress, while also allowing for new topics to be discussed in the panels submitted to our RC03 Session.

The deadline for submitting new paper and panel proposals is October 20. More details regarding the new Call are available here: https://wc2021.ipsa.org/wc/news/additional-call-proposals-now-open.

15Oct 2019

CfP Panel "POPULISM, ANTI-POPULISM, AND THE EU"- IPSA World Congress Lisbon 2020

Panel title: “POPULISM, ANTI-POPULISM, AND THE EU”

Chair: Carlo Ruzza
Discussants: Hans-Joerg Trenz

Populism scholarship is fast gaining momentum in social and political sciences. However, less attention has been paid to the relationship between populist politics, EU institutions, and EU Civil Society.
While populism has been analysed from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, the scholarship has particularly focused on national and cross national cases, rather than on its European dimension. This panel aims to discuss how populist forces are impacting and reshaping EU institutions, civil society, and the representations and public debate that surround the European Union. We welcome papers that focus on different dimensions of this topic, such as:
• The impact of populism on European institutions, in terms of discourses, practices, and policy making;
• The relationships and interactions between populism and European organised civil society;
• How political forces at EU level are re-organizing themselves to face the challenge of populism;
• How populism is reshaping the public debate about the European Union, and what strategies non-populist and anti-populist forces apply to react to populism;
• How the rise of populist forces has shaped citizens’ perception of the EU and its institutions.
• Innovative theoretical perspectives on populism and its relationship with the EU.
• How to disentangle the relationship between populist and nationalist politics, within the EU insittutions and across Europe more broadly.

The panel aims at representing a forum of debate over the dynamics and consequences of populism for the EU, and how political forces and civil society should face this challenge. Papers that assess the relationship between populism and the EU from different theoretical and methodological perspectives are particularly welcome.
Submit all paper proposals to paolo.cossarini@unitn.it by Friday, October 18 2019

02Oct 2019

CfP Panel "Mobility and Social Protection in the European Union: Welfare States under Pressure?"- IPSA World Congress Lisbon 2020

Panel “Mobility and Social Protection in the European Union: Welfare States under Pressure?”

Chair: Angeliki Konstantinidou (SciencesPo Paris)

In a context of increasing mobility, high levels of unemployment and rapidly growing poverty rates, the access of migrants to welfare has become a key area of concern across the EU. The recent financial crisis has had serious implications on the number of migrants in need of social protection. According to Eurostat data, half of non-EU citizens aged 20-64 years old residing in EU28 in 2017 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, compared to 28% among mobile EU citizens and 22% for non-mobile Europeans, respectively. Severe material deprivation was twice as high for third-country nationals when compared to EU citizens and being in work does not necessarily provide a safety net against poverty. At the same time, several EU countries have undertaken reforms aiming to limit migrants’ access to social benefits, whereas the argument of migrants as “abusers” of domestic welfare systems has often gained salience in political discourses. Yet, the EU social security coordination system limits the margin of manoeuvre of national governments in freely regulating mobile EU citizens’ access to welfare, thus offering them an extra layer of protection when compared to third-country nationals. This panel examines the design and outcomes of policies through which the EU and its Member States aim to regulate migrants’ access to welfare. In doing so, we pay attention not only to the type of social protection policies and programs targeting mobile individuals, but also how these regulations affect migrants’ life cycles. 

Deadline for abstracts: Thursday 3rd October, please send to Angeliki.Konstantinidou@sciencespo.fr.

02Oct 2019

CfP Panel "Citizenship and mobility in the EU: policies and practices"- IPSA World Congress Lisbon 2020

Panel “Citizenship and mobility in the EU: policies and practices”

Panel chair: Daniela Vintila (Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies, University of Liege)

Abstract: In a context of widening inequalities and rising populism, increasing mobility to and from EU countries clearly represents a major challenge for defining the boundaries of citizenship in the EU. The integration of migrants and their offspring across Europe has increasingly gained salience in societal and political debates. At the same time, the EU citizenship status continues to be portrayed as a powerful institutional and legal tool that marks the reconfiguration of the traditional paradigm of belonging in an increasingly diverse European Union. This panel seeks to contribute to ongoing debates regarding the design, outcomes and outputs of citizenship and mobility policies within the EU. To do so, we focus on three important angles. Firstly, we examine the legal implications of the EU citizenship status for the integration of mobile EU citizens across European host countries and, more broadly, for the politics of inclusion and exclusion within the EU. Secondly, we focus on mobile Europeans’ rights by looking not only at how these rights are defined and contested across the EU, but also at how EU citizens exercise these rights while residing in another EU Member State or in non-EU countries. Thirdly, the panel also discusses new top-down and bottom up participatory initiatives aiming to strengthen mobile Europeans’ identification with the EU by reshaping the meaning and significance of the EU citizenship.

Deadline for abstracts: Thursday 3rd October, please send to Daniela.Vintila@uliege.be

02Oct 2019

CfP Panel "Comparative Study of the Habitus, Style and Significance of Political and Administrative Elites in the EU"- IPSA World Congress Lisbon 2020

The EU is a joint venture of almost thirty member states run by administrators in the bureaucracies of the Union and the member states, as well as politicians in the European Commission and Parliament with those in national governments and parliaments. As members of the Euro elite they all resemble each other but there are also huge differences that matter when the future of the Union and often even the globe is negotiated between them. Therefore, it is reasonable for scholars to ask questions such as the following:
• How do politicians and administrators differ with regard to their habitus and typical approach when they go about the daily business of doing their work?
• How do administrators or politicians differ from each other depending on whether they are involved in the administration of the Union or one of the member states?
• How do the administrative and political cultures and styles differ depending on the actors’ country of origin?
• How does the politician’s or administrator’s country of origin affect her relative position among colleagues from other member states?
• How does gender affect relative positionings?
• Are there differences with regard to social class in the background of politicians and administrators, and do these differences vary according to nation?
• How do different educational institutions contribute to the differences?
• What is the role of political parties?
• What are the other important networks and are there national differences in access to the networks and/or their relevance for the smooth advancement of professional tasks?
• What kind of relations the Euro elite has to other elites and is there national or other kind of variation in these relations?
• What is the relation of the Euro elite to the media and the outside society in general?

Papers dealing with these or similar questions in the context of one or more member states of the EU are called for to set up a debate covering as many member states as possible. Methods of study may be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed. Anything goes as long as the paper has a contribution to make.

02Oct 2019

CfP Panel "Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties on the Powers of National Parliaments"- IPSA World Congress Lisbon 2020

Call for Papers Panel: "Representative Democracy in Danger? The Impact of Populist Parties on the Powers of National Parliaments"- IPSA World Congress, Lisbon 2020
Panel convenor: Dr. Aleksandra Maatsch (Chair of Social Sciences and Economy, Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wrocław)
Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski (Chair of Political Theory and Research on Democracy, University of Leipzig)
Panel co-chair: Dr. Aleksandra Maatsch (Chair of Social Sciences and Economy, Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wrocław)

Over recent years no other phenomenon has received greater academic attention than populism. While the meaning of the term continues to generate deep controversies among scholars, there is a broad consensus on populism constituting one of the most serious challenges to contemporary politics. It may therefore seem surprising that one important aspect of the problem has so far escaped academic attention: comparative studies analysing whether (and if yes, how) populist parties influence the powers of national parliaments. This workshop therefore addresses the following questions: How does the presence of populist parties in national parliaments influence core parliamentary competences, namely law-making, scrutiny and representation? To what extent does the presence of populists in national parliaments erode representative democracy?
Why is this research question worth looking at? Firstly, for a democracy to thrive, national parliaments cannot be constrained in their capacity to control and to hold governments accountable and to debate and vote on legislative projects while also representing the variety of interests in the deliberative and law-making process. Secondly, we have no systematic knowledge regarding the impact of populist actors on national parliaments in Europe or elsewhere. In particular, we do not know which aspects of national parliamentary competences have been predominantly affected by the presence of populist parties in the national parliaments of specific states.
The aim is therefore to examine the de facto practices of national parliamentary legislative, scrutiny and representative functions under the impact of populist parties (our dependent variable). We are interested in examining the impact of populist parties as (a) the parliamentary opposition; (b) junior coalition partners in governments and (c) the major force in a government. We welcome papers focusing on European and non-European states, country case-studies and comparative papers employing either qualitative or quantitative
methods. Regarding the topics of the papers, we welcome contributions focusing on any of the core aspects of national parliamentary powers (i.e. law-making and/or scrutiny).
The panel is open to researchers working in different subfields of political science and legal studies. As output from the workshop, the organiser is aiming for a special issue in an international peer-reviewed journal.

Deadline for abstracts: Monday 7th October, please send to maatsch@wbz.uni.wroc.pl

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