Virtual General Conference
24 – 28 August 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s event was held virtually.
Our Section (S56) Presidents, Elections, Parties, and Parliamentary-Executive Relations endorsed panels on the following topics:
• Presidential Informal Politics: becoming influential despite the Constitution
Panel Chair: Selena Grimaldi
Co-Chair: Mara Morini
Discussant: Gianluca Passarelli
• Presidential paths to the leadership and party-legislature relationships
Panel Chair: Svenja Krauss
Discussant: Philipp Köker
• Presidents’ relationships with voters, parliaments and executives: Insights from presidentialism, semi-presidentialism and parliamentarism
Panel Chair: Philipp Köker
Panel Discussant: Patrícia Calca
University of Wrocław hosted the 13th ECPR General Conference, 4-7 September 2019.
Section sponsored by the Standing Group on Presidential Politics:
ʿPresidentialism, Semipresidentialism, Parliamentarism and Democracy – Reconsidered?ʾ
Section Chair: Anna Fruhstorfer
Section Co-Chair: Gianluca Passarelli
Universität Hamburg hosted the 12th ECPR General Conference, 22-25 August 2018.
Section sponsored by the Standing Group on Presidential Politics:
‘Presidential and Semi-Presidential Regimes‘.
Section Chair: Thomas Sedelius
Section Co-Chair: Tapio Raunio
University of Oslo hosted the 11th ECPR General Conference, 6-9 September 2017.
Section sponsored by the Standing Group on Presidential Politics:
“Presidents’ Role in Policy-making and Government Performance“.
Section Chair: Gianluca Passarelli
Section Co-Chair: Thomas Sedelius
The Academic Programme can be found here
Charles University in Prague hosted the 10th ECPR General Conference, 7-10 September 2016.
Section sponsored by the Standing Group on Presidential Politics:
“Presidential Politics. Power and Constraints in Comparative Perspective“.
Section Chair: Jean Blondel (European University Institute)
Section Co-Chair: Gianluca Passarelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
The Academic Programme can be found here.
Sapienza University of Rome hosted the conference “The Presidentialization and the Personalization of Parties”, on 4th of November 2015. This event was organized under the auspices of the ECPR Standing Group “Presidential Politics”.
The programme can be found here.
