🏆 Nominations open for EPSS Best Book Award 2027 📚 The 2027 EPSS Best Book Award recognizes an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of political science. Through this award, the Society seeks to highlight scholarship that advances the discipline and fosters dialogue across its sections

EPSS Best Book Award 2027 Award Nomination Form

EPPS Best Book Award The EPSS Best Book Award recognizes an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of political science. Through this award, the Society seeks to highlight scholarship that ad...

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🏆 🏆 🏆 Nominations open for EPSS Best Conference Paper Award 🏆 🏆 🏆 The EPSS Best Conference Paper recognizes an outstanding paper that was presented at the EPSS conference in the previous year. Nomination deadline: 31 August 2026. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Submission Link: lnkd.in/eqgE_pc8

If you want more details on the #EPSS2026 conference, you can find it in the Belfast 2026 conference report: epssnet.org/belfast-repo...

Belfast 2026 report - EPSS

Conference co-chairs report Programme archive (pdf)

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Overall, we had 1460 registered conference participants from 305 universities/institutions and 43 countries. Panels were well attended, with an average of 26 people per panel (median = 20).

Three weeks ago, the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference took place in Belfast. The enthusiasm, active participation and support from the community made this conference a huge success.

What a wonderful few days in Belfast for #EPSS2026 and what a fantastic community! Thank you to everyone who joined the conference with such enthusiasm A special thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social @kenbenoit.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social & the rest of the EPSS Council for making it all possible

And now, on to @epssnet.bsky.social Copenhagen 24-26 June 2027! #EPSS2027 is going to be amazing Many thanks to the University of Copenhagen, and to @sarahagemann.bsky.social @fghjorth.bsky.social & Kasper Møller Hansen for making next year’s conference happen I hope to see you all there!

Thank you to #Belfast and the great @epssnet.bsky.social team for a fantastic #EPSS2026 conference. We’re very excited to host #EPSS2027 and look forward to welcome the #EPSS community in Copenhagen 24-26 June 2027! @ucph.bsky.social

Come join us at the Ulster Museum to wrap up #EPSS2026 and mingle with drinks at the museum. 17:00-19:30 www.ulstermuseum.org

Discover Together

The Ulster Museum tells a unique human story, and houses a vast array of art, historical artefacts and specimens from the natural world.

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EPSS 2026: That's a wrap! 🎊 Thanks to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers, & participants for making this conference such a success. Safe travels, and see you at EPSS 2027 in Copenhagen!

Come join us at the Ulster Museum to wrap up #EPSS2026 and mingle with drinks at the museum. 17:00-19:30 www.ulstermuseum.org

Discover Together

The Ulster Museum tells a unique human story, and houses a vast array of art, historical artefacts and specimens from the natural world.

ulstermuseum.org

Main indicator for me that this has been an excellent conference: seeing both the panels and receptions FULL of attendees 📊 😎🍷 #EPSS2026

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers for your amazing efforts to make this conference a success. 2/2

The first ever #EPSS 2026 football games were a great success! Thanks to @charlottekuberka.bsky.social and @vheddesheimer.bsky.social for organizing.

Congratulations on what sounds like a fab first conference -- the first of many more to come.

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers for your amazing efforts to make this conference a success. 2/2

A heartfelt thank you to our amazing outgoing #EPSS president @sarahobolt.bsky.social, who was not only instrumental to creating EPSS, but also sheparded it so successfully through its first year. And equally huge thanks to incoming EPSS president @simonhix.bsky.social for his fabulous leadership!

The American mind couldn’t comprehend!!!

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And now the #EPSS2026 afterparty at Lavery‘s

We invite you all to EPSS Mingle With Drinks at the Ulster Museum today at 17-19.30. No registration of tickets needed. It's a great way to celebrate the successful first EPSS conference together! 1/2

Beginning soon - 🤝☕EPSS First Gen Social Gathering: Bring your own coffee, and meet other First Gen academics 10:50-12:30 | Bar 2 (ICC), with Ana Carolina Garriga and @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

Soon - ⚡Lightning Round: Reactions to Extreme Weather Events and Environmental Impacts virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 09:00-10:40 | Meeting Room 1b (ICC), with @tonirodon.bsky.social and @lukrudolph.bsky.social

And now the #EPSS2026 afterparty at Lavery‘s

#EPPS2006 reception

🌉 Todays exiting evening programme: 🏰 19:00-21:30, Belfast City Hall: EPSS Reception (ticketed) 🍸20:00-Late, Lavery's Bar: EPSS Reception (ticketed) We are looking forward to seeing you! 👋

About to begin - ⚡Lightning Round: Party Positions, Information, and Vote Choice virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 17:10-18:50 | Hall 2B (ICC), with Annika Fredén, Thomas Gschwend and @semrasevi.bsky.social

Soon - 📒Agenda-Setting Panel: Responding to Non-Cooperation in International Relations virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 17:10-18:50 | Hall 1A (ICC), with @lisadellmuth.bsky.social, @fgenovese.bsky.social , Bernhard Reinsberg, @smetanamichal.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social

Soon - ⚡Lightning Round: (Candidate) Choice Experiments virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 15:20-17:00 | Hall 2B (ICC), with Marie Heldgaard Seestedt, Milan Svolik and Natasha Wunsch

📒 Agenda-Setting Panel: Voter Responses to Government Formation in Multiparty Systems virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 15:20-17:00 | Hall 1A (ICC), with Alejandro Ecker and @carolinaplescia.bsky.social

Next up - ⚡Lightning Round: Populism, Far Right and Polarization on the Environment virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 15:20-17:00 | Meeting Room 2a (ICC), with @zachdickson.bsky.social and Lena Maria Schaffer

Soon - 🔁 Roundtable: Conflict in Europe in an Age of Geopolitics virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 15:20-17:00 | Bar 2 (ICC), with Brian Burgoon, @catherinedevries.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social , @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Gary Marks, and @jrovny.bsky.social

About to begin-💡 EPSS Showcase: Using AI in Political Science Research virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 15:20-17:00 | Lagan (ICC), with @kenbenoit.bsky.social, @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social, @jbgruber.bsky.social, Allison Wun-hui Koh, Simon Luck and Leonce Röth

Beginning soon - 📒 Agenda-Setting Panel: State of Climate Research and Training virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 13:30-15:10 | Meeting Room 2a (ICC), with @patrickbayer.bsky.social , @dianebolet.bsky.social , @fgenovese.bsky.social and @antvalentim.bsky.social