Upcoming Conferences of the American Political Science Association
APSA 2024 Annual Meeting
“Democracy: Retrenchment, Renovation, & Reimagination”
Philadelphia, PA
September 5-8, 2024
General Conference Information
APSA Political Communication Division Call for the 2023 Conference:
Division Chair(s): Babak Bahador, George Washington University
Political communication is at the heart of democracy. It can help enhance democracy through greater deliberation, representation, and accountability, creating more open and transparent societies. Well-functioning democracies bring many benefits to citizens and can increase equality, rights, and security, amongst other advantages. However, political communication can also contribute to democratic backsliding when autocratic forces work with surrogate media organizations and use manipulative communication tactics to promote outrage narratives, disinformation and hate in order to consolidate power. This year’s conference theme is titled “Democracy: Retrenchment, Renovation, & Reimagination” and aims to examine the perils and promises of the democratic project. While the new changing media and communication environment of recent decades is often blamed for democratic retrenchment, it also provides opportunities for renovation and the reimagination of democracy. Due to their focus, political communication scholars can play a leading role in explaining both the status quo and possibilities for democratic renewal and change. Given the APSA’s goals of increasing diversity, equity, inclusion and access throughout the profession, the Political Communication section especially welcomes diverse theoretical and methodological approaches and interdisciplinary work from scholars with a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. We invite papers, panels, and roundtable submissions that are theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous. Proposals should not exceed one single-spaced page in length and should clearly state research questions, theoretical structure, methodological approach, and overall implications for the field of political communication.
APSA Political Communication Section Pre-Conference
[Coming soon]