Online Seminar Series in Political Concepts

How to join

The event is open to anyone interested in the study of political concepts issues, completely FREE!

Registration is required but you'll only need to register once for the entire series. You’ll need a My ECPR account to register.

1. Register for the Seminar Series
2. All forthcoming seminars in the series will be automatically added to your Itinerary
3. Your itinerary is available through My Events in My ECPR
4. A link to join the session will appear in your itinerary 15-minutes before the start of the session

About the Standing Group

Political concepts have a key role in and for political science: they serve in describing, analysing, explaining, and understanding its research objects. Concepts first function as analytical categories. It is a key insight of conceptual history that political concepts are not stable, but they are themselves controversial and an object of politics. They change continuously, and such conceptual changes often relate to political processes themselves: Conceptual change often is a pivot for political and social changes. The new Standing Group will focus on the role of political concepts in political science in all possible respects, namely in their function both as analytical categories and as objects of political controversies. Such an approach is important for nearly all the sub-disciplines of political science. The Standing Group will therefore be open to political scientists from all sub-disciplines sharing a focal interest in the role of political concepts.