The 2025 Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association

Join the Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA) for its 2025 Annual Congress, which will be held in beautiful Geneva (Switzerland) from 9-10 January 2025. Participants will review the latest in political science scholarship, while exploring the 2025 conference theme Exploring and Enhancing Trust in Politics. Public trust in politics and political institutions has waned in liberal democracies. However, trust in government and governance is a cornerstone of legitimacy for any functioning political system and a fundamental prerequisite of democracy. There has been mounting concern across the subfields of political science about the conditions under which trust emerges, the practices and institutions that consolidate trust and protect it against various transient and structural challenges, and the ways in which trust nourishes and enables governance and government.

These concerns have emerged in the analysis of domestic politics in liberal democracies and beyond in the study of international relations and European integration. The topic cuts across debates in social science methodology and, of course, takes center stage in the field of political theory.

This event runs from 9-10 January 2025, at the University of Geneva and will feature a plenary session with Prof. Mark E. Warren (University of British Columbia) as well as numerous parallel sessions on the various subdisciplines of political science. For complete details, visit svpw-assp.ch.