International Conference on Political Science Research ICPSR on June 17-18, 2025 in Riga, Latvia

Analytical Politics: Theoretical Models and Empirical Inference
Art as a Political Witness
Assessing the Effects of the Preferences and Trajectories of Political Elites
Bridging Research and Teaching: The Responsibilities of Political Science Scholars
Bridging Worlds: Political Parties and International Migration
Changing Patterns of Electoral Competition and Voting Behaviour
Citizens’ Resilience in Times of Crisis
Citizenship: New Trends and Developments
Comparative Territorial Politics and Policy
Contemporary Challenges to Political Representation
Contemporary Local Self-Governance and Democracy – Challenges and Responses
Contemporary Modes of Food Governance
Critical Policy Studies: Discourse, Argumentation and Interpretation
Theory: Mediation, Power and Contemporary Governance
Elites and Citizens: Leadership, Responsiveness, or Distance?
Energy Policy Dilemmas: National, European and Global Challenges
Environmental Politics
Europe of Knowledge
European Neighbourhood Policy
Executive Politics and Agenda Dynamics
Exploring European Diplomatic Practices in Times of Crisis and Transition
Forms of Political Violence
Gender in Times of Crisis
Globalisation and the New Governance of National Security?
Governance and Policy Instruments
Governing by Numbers or Democratising Measurement: Do Performance Indicators Stand Participation?
Governing Knowledge: Policy and the Politics of Knowledge Production and Use
Identity and Political Behaviour
Institutions in Tension: Economic Crisis, Democratic Crisis and Institutional Change
Interest Groups and Comparative Political Science: Empirical, Theoretical, Methodological and Normative Challenges
International Political Theory
Kant and Kantian Constructivism in Moral and Political Philosophy
Key Concepts in Political Science: Fields, Issues and Arenas of their Change
Latin American Politics
Law, Courts and Judicial Politics
Legislatures in a Changing World: Rules, Agendas, Representation and Aggregation
LGBT Activism: Strategies, Actions and Discourses in Comparative Perspective
New Approaches to Political Science and Public Policy
New Developments in Democratic Innovation Research
Political (Dis)Engagement: Inequality as a Challenge to Democracy
Political Communication
Political Economy
Political Networks
Political Psychology in Europe: Advances, Theoretical Debates and Empirical Applications
Political Radicalism in Times of Crisis
Political Theory: Issues and Challenges
Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene
Power, Politics, and Popular Culture
Religions in Conflict, Religions in Peace
Reshaping State and Society in Southern Europe
Rethinking Conditionality: Incentivising Integration Across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Rising Powers: Social Inequality and Political Instability?
Security Challenges and Security Institutions: Something Old, Something New, Neither NATO, Nor EU?
Swept by the Flow? The Challenge of New Data Sources
The Causes and Consequences of Party Strategies and Competition
The Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy
The Euro Crisis: New Socio-Political Divisions, Mobility and Mobilisation
The Functioning of Representative Democracy: Processes Linking Citizens and the State
The New Ethical Terrain in International Relations
The Political Economy of International Institutions
The Political Theory of Food and Drink Policies
The Politics of Welfare and Social Policy Reform
Understanding and Tackling the Roots of Insecurity: Terrorism, Transnational Organised Crime and Corruption
Varieties of Transitional Justice
Voting Advice Applications and Elections in Europe