IPSA at the 2026 APSA Annual Meeting in Boston

The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) 122nd Annual Meeting will take place in Boston, US, from 3-6 September 2026, under the theme Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild. IPSA will once again be represented by a strong delegation, including President Yuko Kasuya; IPSA Past Presidents Dianne Pinderhughes and Marianne Kneuer; IPSA Executive Committee (EC) members Elisa Chelle, Berk Esen, Min Hee Go, John Ishiyama, André Lecours, and Kennet McElwain; IPSA Summer Schools Coordinator Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar; former IPSA Vice-President Rodney Hero; and IPSA Executive Director Kim Fontaine-Skronski. The IPSA delegation will participate in various academic sessions and hold official meetings during the conference.

APSA Awards Reception 2026

IPSA Executive Director Kim Fontaine-Skronski will attend the APSA Awards Reception on 2 September 2026, where she will present the 2026 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award to Ning Leng (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Georgetown University) for her debut book titled Politicizing Business: How Firms are Made to Serve the Party-State in China, published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. 

IPSA Roundtable - Rebuilding Democracy in a Shifting International Order: Regional Perspectives on Erosion and Resilience
5 September 2026, 8:00 to 9:30

Chaired by Berk Esen (IPSA EC member), the IPSA Roundtable, Rebuilding Democracy in a Shifting International Order: Regional Perspectives on Erosion and Resilience, will be held on 5 September 2026. As democracies worldwide face increasing polarization, institutional erosion and declining public trust, the question of how to understand, defend and rebuild democratic systems has become central to political science. The IPSA roundtable will gather scholars from around the world to analyze assaults on democratic governance and sources of democratic resilience through a comparative lens. The session will feature Yuko Kasuya (IPSA President), Marianne Kneuer (IPSA Past President), and John Ishiyama (EC Member). 

Panels Organized by IPSA Research Committees

IPSA will also present three panels through its Research Committees. 

What Is the Future of Political Power?
3 September 2026, 10:00 to 11:30
Organized by RC36 - Political Power

Parties beyond the Dataset: Informality, Fluidity and Invisible Organizations in African Politics
5 September 2026, 10:00 to 11:30
Organized by RC06 - Political Sociology

Eventing Data: Large Language Models and Political Event Extraction
5 September 2026, 14:00 to 15:30
Organized by RC01 - Concepts and Methods

IPSA Booth

If you are attending #APSA2026, we invite you to visit the IPSA booth (#503) to learn more about the 2027 IPSA World Congress of Political Science, which will take place in Rome in July 2027, as well as IPSA’s other activities and publications. Visitors will also benefit from a 25% discount on IPSA membership and receive promotional items.