The Comparative Politics track welcomes proposals for individual papers, open panels and closed panels on any topic in the field of comparative politics, including (but not limited to) political regime, political institutions, government formation, political violence, political discourse and media, judicial politics, and identity politics. Proposals may come from any methodological tradition (quantitative methods, qualitative methods, formal models, etc.) and cover any geographical area as well as any level of analysis (national, sub-national, group, individual, etc.). This track particularly welcomes proposals that address key questions regarding the congress theme "Resisting Autocratization in Polarized Societies.” To name a few examples, papers or panels may discuss the determinants of autocratization and/or democratization, policy tools and tactics used by a variety of political actors involved in the process of regime change (autocrats, opposition leaders, civil society actors, etc.), determinants of popular support for (or opposition to) autocrats, the impact of external actors on the regime outcome, and so on. Proposals by scholars from the Global South are particularly welcomed. This track also invites proposals for methodological papers and panels that seek to make general contributions to the political science literature.
- A Decay of the Elites’ Representativeness?
Chair: Prof. Luca Verzichelli - African Sense-making and Perspectives on the US Elections and Politics
Chair: Prof. Christopher Isike - Authoritarian Rule: State Capture or New Model of Governance in CEE?
Chair: Prof. Stefan Garsztecki - Biopolitique et syndrome néoautoritaire au Maghreb
Chair: Prof. Abdelhamid Benkhattab - Changing or Disappearing? The Left around the World Today.
Chair: Prof. Jean-Michel De Waele - In Search of a New Developmental State in the Global South: From Authoritarianism to Democratic Populism to the "Green State"
Chair: Dr. Daniel Ogbaharya - Incivility in Parliaments: Empirical and Normative Perspectives
Chair: Dr. Matteo Bonotti - Politics in Personalist Autocracies
Chair: Prof. Esther Song - Resisting Autocratization in Latin America: hopes, perils and cases
Chair: Dr. John Polga-Hecimovich - The Functions of Political Parties in the Era of Representation Crisis
Chair: Dr. Hirokazu Kikuchi - The Politics of Polarized Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chair: Prof. Bert Hoffmann - The Shackles of the Past? How Authoritarian Successor Parties Shape Political and Economic Dynamics in Nascent Democracies
Chair: Dr. Huang-Ting Yan - Unlocking Democracy: The Power of Information in Polarized Times
Chair: Prof. Mireille Manga
