Theme Panels

Theme Panel: Contentious Politics and the Internet Sat, September 3, 12:00 to 1:30pm The papers in this panel are united by a common interest in how the Internet, in particular access to social media and […]

Theme Panel: Policing in Comparative Perspective: Police Violence, Corruption and Democracy Thu, September 1, 10:00 to 11:30am Police forces are charged with fulfilling the state’s basic function: exercising the legitimate monopoly of violence within a […]

Theme Panel: Advancing Philanthropic Scholarship: The Implications of Transformation Sat, September 3, 2:00 to 3:30pm Public and private institutions rely on philanthropy to provide social goods that are not sufficiently funded through government appropriations or […]

Theme Panel: Affect, Polarization and Partisan Identity Sat, September 3, 8:00 to 9:30am The division of the American electorate along affective lines represents a significant shift in the role of partisanship as an identity. Although […]

Theme Panel: Judicial Networks Fri, September 2, 10:00 to 11:30am One of the recent great transformations brought about by globalization is the so called “rule of law revival” (Carothers 1998). Suddenly in democracies around the […]

Theme Panel: New Perspectives on ‘Sons of the Soil’ Conflict Fri, September 2, 2:00 to 3:30pm Migration has always been a feature of social and political life throughout the world. In some cases, the arrival […]

Theme Panel: Global Governance: Stagnation or Transformation? Thu, September 1, 8:00 to 9:30am Evaluations of global governance have diverged over the past decade. On the one hand, the traditional collaborative vehicles of multilateral, intergovernmental and […]