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60th Political Studies Association Annual Conference
Sixty Years of Political Studies: Achievements and Futures
29 March - 1 April 2010
Edinburgh UK

About the Conference

The PSA is one of the world’s longest established political studies associations. Its 60th anniversary in 2010 was an opportunity to reflect on the achievements of political studies over the last 60 years, in the UK and internationally, on the issues and ideas that were at the cutting edge of political analysis, and on the new directions we needed to pursue in the future.

The 2010 PSA Annual Conference was an unique opportunity for debate about the state of the discipline. Over 1,000 delegates engaged in:

  • reporting their research from across all aspects of political analysis
  • building deeper links with politics scholars in other associations, like BISA, UACES and the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought
  • developing stronger links with political scientists internationally, working with associations like ECPR, APSA and IPSA
  • exploring the opportunities and problems of engaging politics scholarship with political practice
  • debating how we best teach politics in universities and schools

Conference Programme
A copy of the PDF version of the conference programme may be downloaded here.

Archive of Proceedings
The on-line archive of conference papers is available here.

CONTACTS

 
Conference Academic Convenor
Professor Charlie Jeffery
PSA Conference Organiser (Newcastle) Sue Forster

Conference Web Site

PSA Web Master
Press and Media contact

Marjorie Ellis Thompson
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