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ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization

European Consortium of Political Research's Group on Participation and Mobilization

Dramatic changes are now occurring in the field of citizen involvement in politics. Participation is evolving and diversifying not only in terms of the most common forms, but also in terms of the type of actors involved, their reason and targets of actions. Developments in political science show that individuals and groups are increasingly engaging in political activity outside the nation-state and outside the traditional realm of politics (the three branches of government).

Established in 2004, the ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization provides a forum for different schools of participation research to meet, compare approaches, and develop new research strategies.

We build an active network of researchers who present their research at the ECPR Joint Sessions, General Conferences and other ECPR events. We are also offering our members a forum for exchanges on teaching political participation, including the construction of a “syllabus bank” on courses on citizenship involvement in politics and society and access on-line to papers presented at the ECPR Joint Session workshops and General Conference sessions that have been sponsored by the Standing Group.

Standing Group Conveners

• Michele Micheletti, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Alice Mattoni, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Steering Committee

• Ariadne Vromen, University of Sydney, Australia
• Kingsley Purdam, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• Francesca Forno, University of Urbino, Italy
• Necla Acik-Toplak, University of Manchester, UK
• Sabine Saurugger, Sciences Po, Grenoble, France

Webmaster

Susanna Lindberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
(e-mail your updates for the website to susanna.lindberg@statsvet.su.se)

News

New wiki-website on participation

Participedia consists of user-generated articles about participatory governance throughout the world. Read more »

Montaione research prize

The prize is awarded to young researchers for a paper focusing on the empirical study of participatory processes. Read more »

Merger with social movement researchers

The Standing Group has merged with scholars from the social movement field and changed its name to the Standing Group on Participation and Moblization.

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