27Sep 2024
Call for Proposals for the IPSA World Congress in Seoul 2025
21:32 - By RCLS
The International Political Science Association World Congress (WC) is being held in Seoul, South Korea between 12th and 16th July, 2025. The Research Committee of Legislative Specialists (RCLS/ RC08) is organizing a section of the WC on “Legislatures in a Polarized World”. The overall theme of the Congress will be “Resisting Autocratization in Polarized Societies”.
Legislatures around the world have been challenged by external and internal developments. Some legislatures are strong and independent institutions, others are “rubber stamps” to executives, and some are struggling to institutionalize. The modern world presents multiple challenges to legislatures. These challenges include the erosion of public trust in democratic institutions, including legislatures, decline in parliamentary influence in some countries, democratic backsliding, populism, and the challenges posed by digitalization, artificial intelligence, and social media influences. Political systems and legislatures within them also face multiple transboundary crises, such as migration, finance, energy security, ongoing geopolitical tensions, and military conflicts. Yet, some legislatures showed incredible resilience in the presence of the most difficult challenges, while others did not.
We would like to invite panel and/or paper proposals on a large range of traditionally discussed issues in legislative studies, including but not limited to parliamentary organization, leadership, parties, committees, legislative behavior, legislative-executive relations, second chambers, gender issues, parliamentary engagement, and outreach.
We are particularly interested in panels that explore novel developments related to legislatures, such as responses to the rise of populism, changing roles of legislatures in the presence of military conflict and natural disasters, democratic erosion, and other challenges that legislatures face.
We are also interested in papers related to legislative strengthening, legislative institutionalization, and analysis of successes and failures of legislatures to become/ remain independent and strong policy-making institutions.
Finally, the call for proposals is not limited to the topics that you see above. We are open to proposals on other topics as well and are interested in additional topics that you are interested in presenting at the conference.
Deadline to submit your proposal: November 5, 2024
Where to submit:
To submit your proposal for a paper and/ or panel, please do the following:
- Click here.
- Click on My Congress (you will see it in the top right corner of your screen)
- When you log in there, click on either “Submit a paper” or “Submit a Panel”
- Enter information, e.g. your name, etc.
- Very Important – when, for example, you are submitting a panel proposal, you will see options named “Track”. Make sure you click on RC08 Legislative Specialists (you will see other options before that), but RC08 stands for the Research Committee 08. So, if you want your proposal for a panel to be considered within our section, then please click on RC08/
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers:
If I have a question, whom do I ask: For any questions, please contact Dr. Petra Guasti petra.guasti@fsv.cuni.cz , Program Chair.
Do I need to pay to submit a proposal: No conference registration is required to submit a proposal; simply set up an IPSA account (also free of charge).
What if my proposal is accepted, but I cannot travel because of funding: Everybody understands that the ability to travel depends on funding, and to secure funding, many need an acceptance letter. Therefore, submit your proposal, and we will go from there. Everybody will understand if travel is not possible for any reason.
When will you hear about the decision: Acceptance notifications will be sent via email by January 22 2025.
May I share this call for proposals with my professional network: Please share this call with the professional network that you think may want to participate.
Where can I find all the deadlines: You can see all deadlines for WC here.