09:00 - 17:00
Room: Floor 1, Main Entrance Reception Area
Registration / Help Desk
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Cristina Chueca Del Cerro
Cristina Chueca Del Cerro - The Echoes from Social Media Platforms: An Agent-Based Model of Echo Chambers’ Emergence
Yi-Ting Chen - Structure, Strategy, and Attention: A Dual-Model Analysis of Inter-Organizational Policy Networks in Taiwan’S Traffic Safety Policy Arena
Filippo Bignami - Platform Urbanisation as a Political Process: Reconfiguration of Citizenship Through Hybrid Spatial Typologies
Daniil Chernov - Interactional Text Analysis of Focus Groups: A Computational Approach to Meaning-Making in Post-Conflict Communities
Thomas Plümper - Do Political Scientists Stick to Their Pre-Registration Plans?
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Michael Bernhard
Michael Bernhard - Whose Solidarity? The Ambiguous Legacy of Contentious Politics in Postcommunist Europe
Lenka Bustikova - Uncivil Society and Polarization in Eastern Europe
David Siroky - State Legitimacy Crises and Public Support for Militias in Stable Democracies
Adam Fagan - Green Activism Under Illiberalism: Coal Transition as Crisis and Adaptation in Poland
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Meeting Room 2.1
Chair/s:
Leszek - Nowak
Laron Williams - Clarity of Alternatives: How Perceived Party Policy Differences Shape Economic Voting
Leszek Nowak - Between tradition and adaptation – the sources and nature of division in contemporary Polish political thought
Kamil Sowa - Spatial Proximity and Strategic Alignment Within Europe’s Left-Wing Party Families
Benjamin Rohr - Patronage and the Emergence of the First American Party System
09:20 - 11:00
Room: Meeting Room 2.2
Chair/s:
Martin Karl Lundstedt
Nicholas Charron, Monika Bauhr - The Co-Opted City: Why Some Capital Regions Have Better Quality of Government than Others
Yae-jin Sung - [PIDSK] when Minutes Matter: Structural Time Lags and Democratic Survival in Presidential Crises
Martin Lundstedt - How Constrained Are Governments? Towards a Coherent Theory of Formal Constraints on Government Policy Making
Wen-Chin Lu - Fragile Minorities? Examining the Survival of Minority Governments in Semi-Presidential Regimes
11:00 - 11:20
Break
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Meeting Room 2.1
Chair/s:
Mary Stegmaier
Burcu Kolcak - Multi-Racial Democracy Under Pressure: Evidence from a Three-Wave Panel before and after the 2024 U.S. Election
Arjun Vishwanath - Accountability for Crime in US Elections
André Schmale - Measuring ideological orientations, communication styles and issue dynamics in German state elections 2026
Mary Stegmaier - The Iron Law of Congressional Midterm Loss: The 2026 Challenge
Nathan McCoslin - Wartime Elections and Crisis Bargaining
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Meeting Room 2.2
Chair/s:
Wonbin Cho
Joonseok Yang - Partisan Biases and Public Support for the Judiciary: an Experimental Study from South Korea
Kuyoun Chung - Experimenting Retrenchment: How Types of U.S. Pullback Shape South Korean Security Preferences
Myungsei Kang - Empirical Analysis of Fandom Politics in South Korea: Origins and Consequences.
Yae-jin Sung - When Minutes Matter: Structural Time Lags and Democratic Survival in Presidential Crises
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Sergi Urzay-Gómez
Paulina Lenik - Grants Without Gratitude? EU Structural Funds and the Populist Paradox in Poland
Matteo Broso - The Rise of Provident States
Catalin Constantin Balan - Political Determinants of Budget Process: A Fuzzy-Set QCA of Fiscal Consolidations in CEECs
Sergi Urzay-Gómez - The Price of Europe: Identity, Perceived EU Transfers, and the Demand for Integration
11:20 - 13:00
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Valery Dzutsati
Valery Dzutsati - Post-Imperial Nostalgia and Geopolitical Revanchism: Explaining Military Support for Empire Restoration in Russia
Gary Uzonyi - Distracted External Support and Urban Contestation During Civil War
Judith Ihl, Ravneet Singh, Helena Hede Skagerlind, Angela Heucher - The Effectiveness of Core and Earmarked Funding in Multilateral Development Cooperation: A Systematic Review
Monika Szynol - V4 ODA Donors and Addressing the Root Causes of Migration
Ruixing Cao - Urban Concentration Rebel Sponsorship
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:10
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Marli Fernandes
Semra Sevi, Can Mekik, André Blais - What Do Voters Want out of Elections?
Wen-Chin Lu - Countering the populist surge: intra-executive competition as a way to alleviate euroscepticism
Mert Kartal - Anti-Corruption Backlash: How Failed Anti-Corruption Efforts Fuel Right-Wing Populism in the EU
Ferdinando Lombardi Vallauri - Contesting the Green Deal: An Investigation of the Populist Narratives of Discontent Towards EU Climate Policies in Italy.
Marli Fernandes - Populism Contagion: Strategic Policy Responses to Populist Opponents
13:30 - 15:10
Room: Meeting Room 2.1
Chair/s:
Natalia Stręk
Javier Osorio - Introducing TTAMRE: Reporting standards for the use of LLMs in Political Science
Piotr Walewicz - Telling the story of the European Green Deal: Narratives of Central European MEPs
Natalia Stręk - Hybrid Populism in Contemporary Poland: Strategic Adaptations in Presidential (2020–2025) and Parliamentary (2019–2023) Elections
Petra Radic - Neither Free Nor Controlled: The Volatile Logic of Hybrid Media - Evidence from Protest Coverage in Serbia
13:30 - 15:10
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Patrick Walkowiak
Discussant - Filippo Bignami 

Ersi Cha - Authoritarian Opportunity Structures and the Politics of Inequality: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Labor Contention in China
Liana Eustacia Reyes - Post-Conflict Constitution Making: Causes and Consequences for Peace
Dolunay Bulut - Constitutional Politics of Memory and Resentment: Tale of Two Autocracies
Jie Chen - Algorithmic Resistance of the “Platform Precariat” in China: Levels, Forms and Causes
Patrick Walkowiak - News for Sale? Ownership Changes in European News Outlets and Their Impact on Political Coverage (2010-2024)
13:30 - 15:10
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Ruslan Guseinov
Ruslan Guseinov - From Dictatorship to Democracy? The Democratic Dividend of Revolutionary Mass Uprisings
Müge Artar - Misinformation Susceptibility and Political Behavior: Crisis, Claims, and Sharing Intentions in Turkey
Vytautas Kuokštis - NATO Ally Presence and Public Preferences for Defense Spending: Experimental Evidence from Lithuania
Semra Sevi, Can Mekik - AI Undermines Political Conviction More Than It Reinforces It
15:10 - 15:40
Break
15:40 - 17:20
Room: Meeting Room 2.2
Chair/s:
Yuki Yanai
Discussant - Marli Fernandes

Enrijeta Shino, Joseph A. Coll
 - Partisan Bias in Mass Opinion of Electoral Malfeasance: Rates, Victims, Perpetrators, and Policy Solutions
Johan Zaaiman - Perceptions of Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa and political behaviour: A Longitudinal Study
Yuki Yanai - Timing Matters: A Panel Study of the 2024 Japanese General Election
Achille Suty - Electoral Reconfiguration and Political Crisis: An Analysis of French Electoral Tripolarization
Jiunn-Cherng Teng - Revisiting Political Apathy: Updating Classical Theories with Evidence from Young Voters in Taiwan
15:40 - 17:20
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Connor Dye
Selin Kepenek - Negotiating Belonging: Claims to Political Rights and Transnational Participation Among Turkish Migrants in Berlin and Toronto
Snehashree Mukherjee - Exposure to AI-Driven Indirect Terrorism and Support for Cyber Governance
Connor Dye, Kevin Galambos - Constrained Campaigns: How Alliances Reduce Party Attention to Defense Issues
15:40 - 17:20
Room: Meeting Room 1.1
Chair/s:
Sima Rakutiene
Arash Pourebrahimi - Topics and Contestation in EU Legislative Decision-making: Evidence from EuroVoc Classifications
Steven Denney - Fairness or Threat? Understanding Sources of Immigration Backlash in Democracies
Luis Bartiloti Matos - Re-bordering Schengen? The Politicization of Migration and the Erosion of Europe's Internal Open Borders
Sima Rakutiene - Forming and representing small states’ national interests in the EU Council: the case of Lithuania
Marco Nicolich - Risk Delegation and Democratic Accountability in EU Migration Governance
15:40 - 17:20
Room: Meeting Room 2.1
Chair/s:
Ringailė Kuokštytė
Ringailė Kuokštytė - NATO Membership and Defense Spending: A Causal Analysis
Jeanne Pinay - Colonial Wars and Modern Nationalism: Evidence from Fascist Italy's Campaigns in East Africa
Daniil Chernov - In Search of the True Self: A Behavioral Allocation Game for Measuring Empowerment
Nolan McCarty - The Political Corporation
Amy Basu - Bread or Circuses? The Conundrum of Non-Contingent Clientelism and the Informal Economy
15:40 - 17:20
Room: Meeting Room 2.2
Chair/s:
Benjamin Rohr
Vera Yuen - Subdued Rallying, Heightened Accountability: Government Support in a Constrained Election
Zihao Shen - Subsidizing the Future: Local Implementation and Rent-Seeking in China's Green Industrial Policy
Mengting Lyu - Strategic Regionalism Under Rivalry: ASEAN’s Institutional Agency in the U.S.–China Competition
19:00 - 22:00
Room: Venue for Refreshments - Panorama Hall / Floor 1
Formal Dinner / Reception - all participants welcome, food and drinks provided