European Political Science Association

Registration is open for non-presenters.
First draft programme is available here.

EPSA 2025 – MADRID 26 – 28 June 2025

The 15^th annual conference of the European Political Science Association will take place from June 26 – 28 June in Madrid, Spain at the University Carlos III of Madrid | Puerta de Toledo, Ronda de Toledo, 1, Centro, 28005 Madrid, Spain. We invite paper submissions that represent the state of the art in political science and that focus on any substantive area of politics. Conference presentations are organized by topic into broad tracks. As always, we expect tenured participants to contribute to the success of the conference by serving as chairs or discussants. Proposals for pre-organized panels are also welcome.

Programme for EPSA XV 2025 

We are delighted to announce that we have a fantastic line up of presentations and events for the 15th annual conference of the European Political Science Association that will take place from 26 – 28 June.

Thank you to the all participants – we are very appreciative and we are looking forward to an engaging and informative few days in Madrid! The local team, Amuitz Garmendia Madariaga & Simon Chauchard (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Nelson Ruiz (University of Essex), have done a fantastic job of organizing all of the details. We are very much indebted to them and our sponsors: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Texas A & M and Timberlake Consulting.

The preliminary draft programme for EPSA XV 2025, can be viewed here. Please note that this programme is preliminary and subject to change. We have tried to avoid time clashes between presenting and chair /discussant responsibilities, however, please let us know if any time clashes remain.

Registration is now open for non-presenting participants. Please note that only registered participants will be allowed to enter the building for security reasons.

We would like to remind participants that with the release of the draft programme, conference fee refunds are unfortunately no longer possible.

While we appreciate that participants have other commitments, unfortunately with so many panels and participants to combine, we cannot accommodate individual scheduling requests.

You can search the programme for papers in the different tracks using the relevant acronyms below. We would like to also take this opportunity to thank the track chairs for their efforts in creating the programme. We are very grateful for all the time and effort they have put in.

Programme Committee 2025

Chairs for EPSA 2025 are Raymond Duch (University of Oxford), Amuitz Garmendia Madariaga (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Simon Chauchard (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), and Nelson Ruiz (University of Essex).

Track Chairs

• CPHI – Comparative Politics of High-income countries – Aina Gallego
• CPLM – Comparative Politics of Low and Middle Income Countries – Miguel Rueda
• EUPOL – European Politics – Adriana Bunea
• FPT – Formal Political Theory – Tara Slough
• INTREL – International Relations – Anna Getmansky
• PATPOL – Politics – Oda Nedregård
• VOTBEH – and voting behavior – TBC
• GENPOL – Gender and Politics – Silvia Claveria
• POLECO – Political Economy – TBC
• POLMET – Political Methodology – Tom Robinson
• POLSYS – Political Representation and electoral systems – Julia Payson
• PUBOPI – Public opinion – Lauren Young
• POLCOM – Political Communication – Constantine Broussalis
• PUBPOL – Public Policy and Administration – Gloria Gennaro
• MIGPOL – Migration Politics – Ilona Lahdelma
• CVS – Conflict, violence and Security – Niloufer Siddiqui
• EXPRES – Experimental Research – Kristin Michelitch
• LEGPOL – Legislative Politics – David Fortunato
• JUDPOL – Judicial Politics – Juan-Antonio Mayoral

Conference Manager: Matthew Shaikh

We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you in-person in Madrid.

Childcare and Nursing

The venue will have a Nursing Suite onsite and EPSA participants will have access to a childcare centre near the Puerta de Toledo campus. The centre, Cuatropecas, is located directly next to the campus. The expected cost is 150 euros per child for the three days (26th–28th). This includes:

• Regular daycare service from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (meals included) on the 26th and 27th.
• Regular daycare service from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, the 28th (meals will not be provided that day).

Other information

Note that for this year’s conference we assume that all senior participants agree to either chair a panel or serve as discussant.

Laptops and projectors will be available at the conference venue. Paper-givers are expected to send their papers to the panel chair, the discussant, and the panelists by 13th June 2025. In addition, if the presenter of the paper needs to be changed for any reason then it is the responsibility of the accepted presenter to inform us and provide the replacements name and e-mail address.

EPSA will publish a conference program with the list of panels by mid April. As always, changes to the programme may occur until late May.

Future conference dates

EPSA 2026: Belfast, 18-20 June 2026
EPSA 2027: Vienna, 7-9 July 2027

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