Podcast - Political Science Matters

Held in conjunction with the 2023 ECPR Winter School, this House Series debate takes stock of the contribution that political science can make to tackling the climate crisis. The event brings together quantitative and qualitative methods specialists to discuss the various ways of studying political phenomena related to climate change politics and policy, and the implications these different methods have on the knowledge created.

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on European Union, our speakers focus on the party-voter dyad and analyze patterns of EU issue voting in the European elections. They make use of a combination of data from CHES and EES, showing that voters are mobilized on the EU, with EU party positions operating as a driving factor of the voting preferences of the electorate, with a differentiated impact on the pro-European and the Eurosceptic parties.

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speakers discuss receiving countries' migration governance in terms of their policy reactions, focusing on displaced people and the migrant-refugee binary classification.

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity, our speakers Julia and Martin discuss key ethical dilemmas of migration policy and how can they be best analyzed, illustrating their approach with regard to two issues that pose hard ethical dilemmas: Search and Rescue at Sea and Temporary Labour Migration Programmes.

In this instalment of our Seminar Series on European Union, our speaker Stefania Panebianco presents her research which seeks to critically analyse EU cooperation on mobility with MENA countries within the framework of democracy promotion.

Our event celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award joint winner Jean Blondel, and reflecting on the development of political science during his career.

Our event celebrating 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award joint winner Beate Kohler, and reflecting on the development of political science during her career.

In this instalment of our Seminar Series in the European Union, our speaker considers why some states may oppose enforcing article 7 whilst others are more inclined towards enforcing it.

This instalment of our Seminar Series on Migration and Ethnicity Focuses on the politicisation and framing of immigrants in the media and political arena of two countries, Czechia and Slovakia, in the period surrounding the so-called ‛refugee crisis’ in Europe.