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Workshop: “New Frontiers and Innovations in Interest Group Research”, Dubrovnik, 25-27 June 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: “New Frontiers and Innovations in Interest Group Research”   Endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Interest Groups   Location: the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia Date: 25-27 June 2024 Deadline for abstract submissions: 19 February 2024, to be send to the coordinators.   Workshop Coordinators: Joost Berkhout (d.j.berkhout@uva.nl) and Darren Halpin Workshop: “New Frontiers and Innovations in Interest Group Research”, Dubrovnik, 25-27 June 2024

On 19th of January at 15h: Online Roundtable about the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs

New directions in lobbying strategies? Perspectives from the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs January 19, 2023: Time: 15-16 (Central European Time) Recording available here Chairs: Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz (Aarhus University), Alberto Bitonti (Università della Svizzera italiana) Speakers: Adam W. Chalmers (King’s College London), Wiebke Marie Junk (University of Copenhagen), Giliberto Capano On 19th of January at 15h: Online Roundtable about the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs

Winners of the awards for best paper presented at the ECPR General Conference 2022

The panel chairs and discussants in our standing group’s section of the 2022 ECPR General Conference put forward nominations for the best junior and senior papers. This was followed by an evaluation and discussion among three jury members. We are very grateful to Ellis Aizenberg; Adrià Albareda and Rafael Pablo Labanino for putting time and Winners of the awards for best paper presented at the ECPR General Conference 2022

12th Summer School of the Standing Group on Interest Groups

Interest groups and lobbying in a comparative perspective 23 June – 1 July 2022, University of Turin & Online: See full details on the Summer School website The Summer School on Interest Groups is organised annually by our Standing Group on Interest Groups. It brings together leading scholars in the fields of interest group politics and civil society 12th Summer School of the Standing Group on Interest Groups

ECPR General Conference Innsbruck 22 – 26 August 2022: Section on Interest Groups

The call for the next ECPR General Conference at the University of Innsbruck is open till 16 February. The ECPR Standing Group on Interest Groups endorses the section entitled “Towards a New Generation of Interest Group Studies? New Modes of Interest Representation and Research”. This section is open to panel and paper proposals. Below you ECPR General Conference Innsbruck 22 – 26 August 2022: Section on Interest Groups

NEW: Syllabi section

We have added a section with syllabi of courses on interest group politics and adjacent themes. Please share your course syllabus by emailing it to one of the Steering Committee Members (d.j.berkhout at uva.nl)