Participation and Mobilization

Dear colleagues, In little over a month we will convene in Hamburg to try and “Connect Social Movement Studies and Political Participation Research”. You find the program here: Section program “Connecting Social Movement Studies and Political Participation Research”, subject to possible last minute changes. Panel chairs will inform presenters and discussants about the logistics of their panel. We would also like to invite you to our section dinner. The dinner will be on Friday the 24th at 8:15pm, and will be self-funded. The dinner will…

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Dear all,   This email is for those of you who go the ECPR General Conference in Hamburg, and concerns 1) a joint dinner, and 2) the standing group’s business meeting, to which everyone is warmly invited.   Firstly, we would like to invite you to our Standing Group dinner, which will dovetail with the section dinner of our section on “Connecting Social Movement Research and Political Participation Research”. The dinner will be on Friday the 24th at 8:15pm, and will be self-funded. The dinner will be at…

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Dear all, In the past years, our SG organised a mentoring session for early career scholars at ECPR General Conferences, and recently at the ESA/ECPR/COSMOS midterm conference as well. At this year’s General Conference in Hamburg, there will be a similar session again, and early career scholars are encouraged to participate. The session has been experienced as very useful by participants in past editions. The session will be organized this time by the SG on Political Parties, but young scholars…

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Dear Standing Group members, Following the outcome of the SG members’ online survey (early 2017, Report on survey) as well as the discussions we have had at the SG business meetings at the ECPR General Conferences (2016 and 2017), we are now introducing the opportunity to help fund some activities of the Standing Group. Currently, the Standing Group does not have any budget to support its activities. We thus chose to introduce voluntary donations that will provide the SG with…

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