APSA Annual Meeting

The First 222 Days (But Who’s Counting?): Sex, Gender, Race, and Class Though we are sure that there will be many policy and voting behavior related panels concerning the new presidential administration, we aim to […]

Where to with the Liberal Order? Now where to in the Global Order? And what are the role and actions of the United States in the face of rising nationalism? The challenge by Trump, but […]

Black Lives Matter: Racial Politics and Social Justice in the Age of Obama and the New Trump Era Participants on this panel will explore the following questions: What does the Black Lives Matter Movement tell […]

Experiments in State Capacity and Popular Legitimacy Papers on this panel offer experimental examinations of the state’s capacity to foster legitimacy and of popular legitimacy for the rule of law. Participants: Adeline Lo. Princeton University […]

Classical Reflections on Democracy and Legitimacy Recent years have seen a growth in skepticism concerning the legitimacy of democratic institutions. As tensions emerge between liberal justifications of popular rule and the outcomes of democratic procedures, […]

The Emergence of Donald Trump: Did Political Science See this Coming? In the aftermath of November 8, 2016, the day on which Donald Trump was elected to become the 45th President of the United States, […]

Causes and Consequences of Legitimacy in Areas of Limited Statehood For decades, questions about the legitimacy and effectiveness of governance have been prominent in political science. Yet, we still know little about their mutual interplay, […]

Europe’s Perfect Storm Europe is facing an intertwined set of crises that threaten national liberal democracies and have shaken the project of European integration to its very core. Britain’s Brexit referendum outcome triggered a process […]