This page provides an introduction to the PSA's specialist groups and is a landing area for resources for those who organise the groups (known as...
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Specialist Groups
Founded in 1974, holding its first conference in January 1975 at the University of Keele, The American Politics Group is the major professional...
The principal aim of the Anarchist Studies Specialist Group is to coordinate and promote the investigation of anarchism as...
The PSA specialist group on Autocracies and Regime Change brings together scholars studying the domestic politics and...
Political economy has taken on a renewed importance within British political science since the 2008...
The British Idealism Specialist Group was established in response to the exponential proliferation of interest in the...
EPOP brings together people interested in the study of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. It has more than 250...
The Environmental Politics membership includes many scholars researching or teaching in the area of environmental...
The Ethnopolitics Specialist Group is a multidisciplinary, international network of academics and practitioners with an...
This group is interested in the study of 'governance', defined here by the way in which processes of policymaking,...
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The German Politics Specialist Group...
The Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) of the UK’s Political Studies Assocation (PSA) was founded in 2004. Within a...
The group takes a broad view of interpretation as encompassing all those interested in exploring beliefs, languages,...
The Irish Politics Group (IPG) aims to further research and teaching in UK higher education institutions on all aspects...
Since its foundation in 2001, the Italian Politics Specialist group has offered a wide range of panels at every annual...
The Labour Movements specialist group exists to promote research into all aspects of the politics of labour, broadly...
The Latin American Politics Specialist Group aims to bring together a network of political scientists...
The PSA Left Radicalism Group was set up in 2012 under the name Communsim Group to promote the study of communist...
The Local Politics and Governance specialist group fosters interdisciplinary and critical research into the conduct of...
The Marxism Specialist Group was founded to promote the study of Marxism and encourage discussion of the possible...
The Media and Politics Group (MPG) aims to act as a forum for discussion between a wide variety of academics with...
The PSA Modern Liberty Specialist Group is an international, non-profitmaking network of leading experts on modern...
This group focuses on the study of parliament and our members include single country specialists as well as those with...
The group aims to bring together academics with a research interest in the broad areas of participatory and...
The newly established Political and Social Movements Specialist Group exists to promote research and scholarship of...
Leadership is a staple of the other social sciences but it has been relatively neglected in the political mainstream...
The PMG aims to effectively promote and support, by what ever means appropriate, the study of political marketing by...
Political Psychology is a multi-disciplinary group established to provide a forum for collaboration, discussion and...
The Political Thought Specialist Group of the PSA aims to promote the study of political theory, political philosophy...
The PSA Politics & History specialist group was set up in 2016. Its aim is to promote a better...
The aim of the Politics and Religion Specialist Group is to promote interdisciplinary research into all aspects of...
The Politics of South Asia group aims to promote the study of politics in and of South Asia. It provides a forum for...
This group exists to promote the study of populist discourses, movements and parties at a local, national, European and...
The Public Administration and Public Policy Specialist Group formed in 1995, with ...
This group, established in 2010, fosters critical research and encourages debates around rhetoric, speech and...
The PSA Social Policy and Politics Specialist Group promotes the study of social policy with reference to political science...
The Sport and Politics Specialist Group explores how the development and significance of an increasingly...
The Technology, Internet, and Policy Specialist Group (TIP) is a group of academics, practitioners, campaigners,...
The aim of the Territorial Politics Specialist Group is to focus on a key aspect of contemporary state change, namely...
The Turkish Politics Specialist Group brings together scholars, researchers and academics interested in studying or...
The Women and Politics Specialist Group provides a focus for PSA members – both women and men - whose research is...
The PSA Young People’s Politics specialist group addresses various questions within contemporary and historical...