PS Matters

Held in conjunction with the 2023 ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Sciences Po Toulouse and part of our House Series, this year's Stein Rokkan Lecture's speaker illustrates how Fariba Adelkhah's embodiment of scientific freedom, including her preservation of autonomy from political authorities and defense of independence from intellectual or scientific trends, can inspire a broader discussion on current trends challenging scientific freedom in authoritarian countries like Iran and democracies alike.

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on the European Union, our speakers talk about how the EU struggles with a lack of coordination in its asylum and migration policies, but the pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of public services for migrants, and they have used a comparative analysis of four European cities to reveal varying approaches to coordinative Europeanization based on a discourse of humanitarian civic duty.

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 wage coordination.

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.

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.

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 methods have on the knowledge created.

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 on the pro-European and the Eurosceptic parties.

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.

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.

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.

Our event celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award joint winner Jean Blondel, and reflecting on the development of political science during his career.

Our event celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award joint winner Beate Kohler, and reflecting on the development of political science during her career.