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11Jul

RC13 Business Meeting - Wednesday 14th July 2021 @15h30

Dear members of RC13,

The IPSA World Virtual Congress 2021 has just started - at which our Research Committee is running 10 panels.

We would like to invite you to also attend RC13's business meeting, which will take place on Wednesday, 14th July at 15.30 UTC (https://live.wc2021.ipsa.org/agenda/session/584487). The link to the meeting is as follows:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85257929683?pwd=THZ6S2NhNjZzcVBLcldFUEMyQmZnUT09

 

The agenda of our meeting will be:

1) Election of the new Chair of the Research Committe (of 4 years) - Prof. Bartłomiej Zdaniuk from the University of Warsaw. He seeks to resign from his post due to his commitements as an Ambassador.

2) Re-election of the Research Committee Secretary, Ms Melba Nyabereka from Monash University, for two more years.

3) Election of two new members to the Research Committee board (required according to IPSA regulations).

 

Please think about possible candidates to put forward during the meeting and consider joining our Research Committee board yourself! 

We look forward to this meeting.

Best regards,

RC13 Board.

03Jul

World Congress 2020 - Open Panel Submission

Dear Members of RC13,

We would like to remind and encourage you to submit the open panel proposals for the upcoming IPSA World Congress which will take place next summer in Lisbon. The deadline is 10 July 2019.

You can find more details here: https://wc2020.ipsa.org/wc/submit-panel

The link to submit your panel proposal: https://wc2020.ipsa.org/wc/gateway?destination=/my-congress/submit/panel

Some general suggestions for possible topics are listed below, however, this is the open list therefore please feel free to propose other topics for the panels:

1. Democratisation and judicial activism.

2. Democratic vs autocratic development.

3. National identity, immigration and the democratic ideal.

4. The role of new nationalism in shaping democratic regimes.

5. The dilemma of legitimacy vs effectiveness in democratic regimes.

6. Democratisation and popular but unconstitutional changes of governments.

7. Democratisation, secularism and religion.

8. Iliberal democracy in Europe and beyond - different understandings and possible models.

9. The process of democratic decline/de-democratisation - the different faces worldwide and reasons for its development.

10. Contemporary elections - still democratic? The question of fainess and competitiveness of elections.

11. The phenomenon of state capture - the impact of clientelism and patronage networks on the state of democracy worldwide.

12. The weakening role of parliaments as democratic institutions.

 

We hope to see many contributions from our members and look forward to seeing you in Lisbon next summer!

Best regards!

The RC13 Team