RC05 - Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics

IPSA's 26th World Congress of Political Science in Lisbon (Portugal) July 24-28 2020 is coming closer.

The deadline for panel and papers is extended to October 24. 2019!!

Up till now we have 10 open panels, which cover most relevant topics. If you have not yet registered, use the chance to join one of these panels. In case we receive too many papers givers in a panel (max is 6) we will split the group and open another panel:

Preliminary list of open panels:

• Cities and Migration Chair: Dr. Carmen Navarro
• Decentralisation and Sub Municpal Units Chair: Dr. Filipe Teles
• Local Administration and Reform Chair: Dr. Pekka Kettunen
• Local Elections Chair: Prof. Chris Tapscott
• Local Government Reform in Globalized World Chair: Prof. Inderjeet Singh Sodhi
• Local Government, State Capacities and Public Policies in Federal States of the Global South Chair: Dr. Klaus Frey
• Local Participatory Democracy Chair: Dr. José Hernández-Bonivento
• Local Territorial Reform and Intercommunal Cooperation Chair: Prof. Robert Cameron
• Metropoles and Shrinking Cities Chair: Prof. Jefferey Sellers
• Smart Cities in Comparative Perspective: Challenges for Political Participation in Data-Driven Local Governments Chair: Prof. José Carlos Vaz

And closed panels:

• Interplay of decentralization and recentralization under new circumstances  Chair: Ivan Kopric