September 3-6, 2026 | Boston, MA

The Study of Intraparty Frictions: Conceptual Reflections on Preference Heterogeneity, Disagreement, and Conflict By Nicole Bolleyer, LMU Munich and Ann-Kristin Kölln, University of Gothenburg Every complex organization is sometimes marked by preference heterogeneity, disagreement, and conflict. Within political parties, such frictions are traditionally viewed negatively, while recent research has started to perceive them more positively. How might such contradictory evaluations be explained?

The APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession is sponsoring reimbursement travel grants to support scholars who attended the 2025 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. The grants are…

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When Serving the Public Interest Generates Private Gains: Private Actor Governance and Two-Sided Digital Markets By Guillaume Beaumier, l'École Nationale d'Administration Publique and Abraham Newman, Georgetown University From speech to privacy, broad public interests are increasingly governed online by policy decisions taken by private companies. We examine when and how firms make such decisions. In contrast to the shadow of hierarchy and functionalist explanations of private authority, we build an analytical framework based on business power and the economics literature concerned with two-sided markets.

Race, Voice, and Authority in Discussion Groups By Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, Stanford University, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University and Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University Few studies examine how often people of color voice their views or shape the discussion in civic or political decision-making groups. Existing studies do not link participants’ private preferences to what they say and lack data on racial inequalities in individuals’ public speech.

The APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession is sponsoring reimbursement travel grants to support scholars who attended the 2025 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. The grants are intended to support conference participation opportunities for those at institutions with limited access to resources. Application Deadline: November 28, 2025 | Apply here About the Grant Travel grants will support individuals who traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for the Annual Meeting.

Michael Thomas, Stanford University APSA Member since 2023 PhD Candidate at Stanford University How did you learn about APSA? When did you become a member of APSA, and what prompted you to join? I learned about APSA through faculty and older graduate students in my department. While still a first-year PhD student in political theory, fellow students shared how important the annual conference was for meeting scholars and encountering field-shaping research.

One of the many important roles of the American Political Science Association (APSA) is recognizing excellence in the political science profession.  APSA makes awards for the best dissertations,…

Proportional Non-Voter Sortition: Legislative Inclusion for Non-Voting Citizens By Marcus Carlsen Häggrot, Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Political Research and Chiara Destri, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale Democratic electoral systems characteristically take a Count-and-Report Approach to enfranchised citizens’ failure to turn out in political elections: The number of non-votes is counted and publicly reported, but non-votes are given no effect in the allocation of political offices.

APSA is now accepting applications for the 2026 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. The RBSI is an intensive five-week program designed to introduce undergraduate juniors to the world of doctoral study in…

The Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership by Contingent Faculty recognizes scholars who have made significant contributions to the field of political science without the support of tenure-track employment. This award is sponsored by APSA’s Committee on the Status of Contingent Faculty in the Profession. In this inaugural year of the award, the committee is pleased to recognize three outstanding awardees. 

The Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award is for best paper at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Policy over Protest: Experimental Evidence on the Drivers of Support for Movement Parties By Dan Mercea and Felipe G. Santos, University of London Across the world, political parties are incorporating social movement strategies and frames. In this study, we pivot from the dominant focus on party characteristics to analyze drivers of support for movement parties in six European countries. We report results from a choice-based conjoint survey experiment showing that contrary to previous research, movement party voters favor neither candidates who are institutional outsiders nor those who actively participate in protests.

Read the latest issue of Political Science Today featuring an overview of the 121st American Political Science Association's (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Vancouver, CA. Get the latest association updates, member news and updates, and other highlights from across the discipline here. 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Vancouver 2025 Political scientists gathered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from September 10-14, 2025, for the…

Find the submission options for the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting below. Please submit all proposals using the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting Submission System. The deadline to submit a proposal is Wednesday,…

Oppose Autocracy without Support for Democracy: A Study of Non-Democratic Critics in China By Haemin Jee, United States Military Academy, West Point and Tongtong Zhang, American University Opponents of authoritarian regimes are often assumed to desire democracy in place of the current regime. In this paper, we show that authoritarian dissidents hold divergent attitudes towards democracy and identify a key bloc within the regime opposition: “non-democratic critics” (NDCs) or those who are dissatisfied with the current regime but resist adopting democracy.

Applications for the 2026-2027 APSA-sponsored fellowship are now open! Click below to apply. Call for Applications: Journalism Fellow Application;

Liberal Democracy Reexamined: Leo Strauss on Alexis de Tocqueville By Raúl Rodríguez, Michigan State University This article explores Leo Strauss’s thoughts on Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1954 “Natural Right” course transcript. One of the significant features of this transcript is that it contains an original interpretation and tentative critique of Tocqueville’s political philosophy. Although Strauss considered Tocqueville to be an indispensable observer of modern liberal democracy, he saw significant limits to Tocqueville’s thought.

Prof. Beth Simmons was named APSA’s president for the 2026-27 term.

Left Governmental Power and the Reduction of Inequalities in Western Europe (1871–2020) By Vincenzo Emanuele and Federico Trastulli, LUISS Guido Carli Despite considerable attention in the literature, existing studies analyzing the effect of left governmental power on inequalities suffer from three main limitations: a privileged focus on economic forms of inequality at the expense of political and social ones, inaccurate measurements of left governmental power, and the analyses’ narrow time spans.