APSA- Political Organizations &amp; Parties Section

One week to #APSA2026 in Boston! The POP section can't wait to celebrate our members and award winners in person. Join our joint reception with the Representation & Electoral Systems section: Sept 4, 7:30pm, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Salon 1 (sponsored by both sections & Univ. of Houston).

And, big congrats to our Virginia Gray Award winners for student conference travel: Lucas Herzog (USP), Danissa Contreras Guzmán (UT Austin), Almila Basak (Syracuse), Lucas Couto (Aarhus), and Chengyu Fu (Harvard). See you in Boston! #APSA2026

Best APSA Paper Award goes to Jacob Hacker, Fiona Kniaz, Amelia Malpas, Paul Pierson & Sam Zacher for "A Party Pulled Left? Organized Groups and Party Factions in the Contemporary Democratic Coalition." #APSA2026

Congrats to our Emerging Scholar Award winner: @valentimvicente.bsky.social Vicente Valentim (IE University), honored for his work on party systems and the rise of far-right politics.

The Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award goes to Scott Mainwaring (Notre Dame), honored for his foundational work on party systems, democratization & Latin American politics, and for mentoring generations of scholars. Congratulations! #APSA2026

Congratulations to Aili Mari Tripp (UW-Madison), winner of the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for "Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders" (Oxford University Press, 2025). #APSA2026

Congrats to the Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award winners of the POP section: Christina Schneider (UC San Diego) & Robert Thomson (Hong Kong University), for "Globalization and promissory representation," American Journal of Political Science, 2024. #APSA2026

Call for Nomination: Emerging Scholar Award for a scholar who has not yet received tenure & whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise. Deadline: Feb 27 Email nominations to: @davidryanmiller.com @lilymasonphd.bsky.social @fernandorosenblatt.bsky.social

📣 Call for Nominations: Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award ⏳ Deadline: February 27 📧 Email nominations to: @jmcrosson.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @garlicksauce.bsky.social @shamiragelbman.bsky.social @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social

Call for Nominations: Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for an outstanding book on political organizations and parties (published in the past 2 years) ⏳ Deadline: February 27 📧 Email nominations to: @rgboatright3.bsky.social Alexander Hertel-Fernandez @emilievh.bsky.social

📣 Call for Nominations: Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award, recognizing a scholar whose lifetime work has made an outstanding contribution ⏳ Deadline: February 27, 2026 📧 Email nominations to: Sarah Anzia sanzia@berkeley.edu Boris Heersink bheersink@fordham.edu Didi Kuo jdkuo@stanford.edu

17 Sept 2025

Don't forget! If you want your APSA paper from a POP panel considered for the 2026 Best APSA Paper Award, you must upload your 20205 APSA papers to the APSA system by September 28. Any papers that are not in the system won't be considered for the award.

14 Sept 2025

We close the conference with a panel on partisanship and party development. Don't miss it! 🗓️ Sunday, 10am 🎤 Partisanship & Party Development 📍 Marriott Ambleside I @smotus.bsky.social @robertdurbin.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

14 Sept 2025

The penultimate panel of APSA's POP section is at 8am on Sunday where we will have a deep dive into European parties. 🗓️ Sunday at 8am 🎤 European Parties 📍 Convention Center East 8 (V) @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

We will close the day with an exciting panel on Party Coalitions in Comparative Perspective. @jacobgunderson.bsky.social @mikecowburn.bsky.social @krausewe.bsky.social @allansikk.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

Do you want to know more about how parties use social media/internet? The Political Parties' Online Communication Strategies in Election Campaigns panel is at 12pm today, @rdassonneville.bsky.social @zeynsom.bsky.social @christinagahn.bsky.social @jaeheejung.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

The Populism and Far-Right panel is at 10am today! @apsa.bsky.social #APSA15

We will kick off Saturday morning with the Party Adaptation panel. If you're interested in comparative parties and behavior, don't miss this. @allansikk.bsky.social @sonagolder.bsky.social @krausewe.bsky.social @christinagahn.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

Congrats to our award winners!

📣 APSA-POP Section Business Meeting 🗓️ Fri, Sept 12 • ⏰ 12:00 PM (Vancouver, PT) 📍 Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC), Floor: West Level 2, West 201 WE HAVE FOOD!!

📣 APSA-POP Section Business Meeting 🗓️ Fri, Sept 12 • ⏰ 12:00 PM (Vancouver, PT) 📍 Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC), Floor: West Level 2, West 201 We will have some food/drinks too! All members welcome—bring a colleague! 🤝 Agenda includes reports, updates, and awards 🏆 #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social

The "Lobbying and Advocacy" panel is at 4pm today. Don't miss the exciting five presentations on lobbying and policy advocacy. @davidryanmiller.com @timlapira.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

At 2pm today, we will discuss the 2024 election and the parties. Don't miss the "Parties and 2024 Election" panel. @profhansnoel.bsky.social @maeganac.bsky.social @juliaazari.bsky.social @smotus.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

Are you an interest groups scholar? You can't miss the 10am session, "The Past, Present, and Future of Interest Group Politics." @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

Rise and shine, Vancouver! We will kick off the conference on Friday at 8am with a panel on parties, primaries, and representation. @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

📣 APSA-POP Section Business Meeting 🗓️ Fri, Sept 12 • ⏰ 12:00 PM (Vancouver, PT) 📍 Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC), Floor: West Level 2, West 201 All members welcome—bring a colleague! 🤝 Agenda includes reports, updates, and awards 🏆 #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social

We will end the first day of the conference with our 4pm panel on state and sub-national parties. #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social

At 2pm on Thursday, there are two panels-- one on state building and state-capture )cosponsored with the Politics and History division, and one on campaign finance: (1) Cars, Faith, and Parties: The Politics of State-Building and State-Capture (cosponsored) (2) Campaign Finance

At 12pm on Thursday, our program has two panels on American political parties: (1) Insurgent Candidates and Developing Parties (2) Money and Power in American Political Institutions (cosponsored) @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

10am on Thursday there are two interesting panels if you are interested in political parties' research: (1) Party Position and Change (2) How Do Mainstream Parties Respond to the Far Right? (co-sponsored)

Are you already in Vancouver? Do not miss the 8am panels on Thursday morning: (1) Interest Group Influence (2) Understanding Populist Parties in Europe (co-sponsored) (3) Party Elites, Electoral Competition and Moneyed Interests in American Politics (co-sponsored) @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25

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📣 APSA-POP Section Business Meeting 🗓️ Fri, Sept 12 • ⏰ 12:00 PM (Vancouver, PT) 📍 Vancouver, BC (room info TBA) All members welcome—bring a colleague! 🤝 Agenda includes reports, updates, and awards 🏆 #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social

Thank you to all the award committee members for their dedication and hard work to identify the best of the best! You rock!

🌟👏 Honoring a lifetime of contributions: Richard S. Katz (Johns Hopkins) is the recipient of the Eldersveld Career Achievement Award. 🙌 Thank you for your decades of scholarship, leadership, and impact. Come and celebrate with him at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm) #APSA25

🎖️📖 Cheers to Tanushree Goyal (Princeton) and Cameron Sells! Their article “Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil” (APSR, 2024) has won the 2025 Jack Walker Best Article Award. 🌟 A huge contribution to the field! #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social

🏆 Applause for @gfoysutherland.bsky.social! His paper “Adapting to Asymmetry: Campaign Strategy and Message Control in an Era of Super PACs” wins the 2025 Best APSA Paper Award. 🔥 Innovative and timely work! Come and celebrate with him at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm) #APSA25

🌟🎉 Celebrating @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social (WashU)—recipient of the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award! Her research is already shaping the field in big ways. Come and celebrate with her at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm) #APSA25 @apsa.bsky.social #EmergingScholar

🏆 Big congratulations to @mathiaspoertner.bsky.social (LSE)! Winner of the 2025 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award for Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America 👏👏👏 Come and celebrate with him at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm) #APSA25

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Please nominate yourself/others for the Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award! 🏆

APSA- Political Organizations & Parties Section@apsa-pop.bsky.social

Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award: Best article published in the last two calendar years Boris Heersink (chair), bheersink@fordham.edu Jesse Crosson, jcrosson@purdue.edu Mattias Dilling, dillingm@tcd.ie Maraam Dwidar, maraam.dwidar@georgetown.edu Jae-Hee Jung, jjung26@central.uh.edu

AWARD NOMINATIONS DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 28!! Please nominate yourself or others, and a very short nomination email would suffice. Here are the awards with February 28 deadlines for nominations and their committees:

Emerging Scholar Award: Given to a scholar early in their career who has not yet received tenure and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise. Sarah Anzia (chair), sanzia@berkeley.edu David Miller, dmiller@american.edu Zeynep Somer-Topcu, zsomer@utexas.edu

Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award: Recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field. Julia Azari (chair), julia.azari@marquette.edu Robin Kolodny, robin.kolodny@temple.edu Richard Johnston, richard.johnston@ubc.ca

Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award: Recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution on political organizations and parties. Noam Lupu (chair), noam.lupu@vanderbilt.edu Hans Noel, hcn4@georgetown.edu Sarah Wiliarty, swiliarty@wesleyan.edu