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Annual Conference

APSA Bystander Intervention Training at the Annual Meeting

APSA Bystander Intervention Training at the Annual Meeting APSA will provide Bystander Intervention Training at the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting. The training will include strategies and examples for how meeting attendees can help ensure that […]

Annual Conference

Theme Panel: Power, Persuasion, and Disruption in Activist Politics

Power, Persuasion, and Disruption in Activist Politics This panel assembles scholars from diverse theoretical perspectives to consider the complex registers of activist politics in times of democratic crisis. Dominant approaches in liberal and democratic theory […]

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Theme Panel: Erosion of Democracy

Erosion of Democracy: Populism and Its Causes The electoral success of populists in the advanced industrial democracies has brought new attention to a topic that was previously studied mostly in the developing world, especially Latin […]

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Theme Panel: Democracy and Its Discontents

Democracy and Its Discontents: The Failing Politics of Climate Adaptation Modern democracies face few, if any, more urgent and serious challenges than climate change. How can and should democracies properly respond? Most work focuses on […]

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Theme Panel: Race, Class, and the Space for Local Democracy

Race, Class, and the Space for Local Democracy: New Views, New Voices This Roundtable responds to the 2018 conference theme “Democracy and Its Discontents” and its contention that “these are challenging times for democracy.” This […]

Annual Conference

Theme Panel: The Liberal Order Under Stress

The Liberal Order Under Stress The liberal model of organizing politics and society is under stress, both internationally and domestically. Rising powers dispute the liberal international order for being dominated by and biased towards the […]