Dissertation Workshops

2025 Dissertation Workshop on Fieldwork Approaches in Comparative Politics: MENA region | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Fieldwork Approaches in Comparative Politics: MENA Region (Virtual) | Apply Here Join us for a virtual dissertation workshop held in October 2025 (exact dates and times will be determined once participants are selected). Co-Leaders: Ozlem […]

Awards

Max Gallien Receives the 2025 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for “Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins”

The APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award is presented annually to honor a book in any field of political science that exemplifies qualities of broad ambition, high originality, and intellectual daring, showing promise of having a substantive impact […]

American Political Science Review

Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization

Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization By Alexandra Oprea, University at Buffalo, Lucy Martin, University of North, Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geoffrey H. Brennan, Australian National University Should turning out to vote […]

American Political Science Review

Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China

Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China By Hanzhang Liu, Pitzer College. Why does an authoritarian regime adopt meritocracy in its political selection? I argue that meritocracy can be used to co-opt […]

Dissertation Workshops

2025 Dissertation Workshop on Comparative & Multi-Method Approaches within Political Economy Research | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Comparative and Multi-Method Approaches within Political Economy Research | Apply Here Join us for an in-person dissertation workshop held during the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Co-Leaders: Javier […]