Canadian and European Political Science in Conversation

Canadian and European Political Science in Conversation Political scientists studying Canada and political scientists studying Europe are pursuing many of the same research questions, but often without adequate attention to the lessons that each group could learn from the other. This section aims to bring scholars considering similar questions in the Canadian and European contexts into conversation with one another. There is commonality of research interest across a wide variety of sub-fields in terms of questions that are being addressed by political scientists in both Canada and Europe. Among many others, these include questions relating to multi-level governance, federalism, political party organization, gender and politics, elections and voting behavior, political institutions, political leadership and public policy. The objective of this section is to convene panels that will foster conversation between Canadianists and Europeanists working on related questions in a variety of subfields of the discipline. We welcome panel proposals with a focus on topics that are of contemporary research interest in both Canada and Europe. Ideally, panels will include both theoretically and empirically informed research. Panels that consider these issues from a theoretical perspective relevant to both Canada and Europe are especially welcome. Similarly, empirical work that includes both Canadian and European cases is welcome. Individual papers within panels might investigate the Canadian or the European case (or ideally both), but, in any event, should be presented in a manner that allows them to speak to the academic literature in both places. Panels should result in a better understanding of the both the contemporary, common challenges of politics and governance in Canada and Europe and the state of the discipline on both sides of the Atlantic in terms of understanding and explaining these phenomena. This section is organized with the support of the Canadian Political Science Association.