ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop "Towards a political science of health and healthcare"
Call for papers - Towards a political science of health and healthcare
ECPR Joint Sessions workshop, Charles University Prague 20-23 May 2025
We are delighted to invite applications for our upcoming workshop, titled Towards a political science of health and healthcare. It will take place within the framework of the ECPR Joint Sessions, a long-standing and excellent programme of workshops based around intense discussion, feedback and collaboration. The 2025 Joint Sessions will be hosted by Charles University, Prague, between 20 and 23 May.
Our workshop will bring together researchers working on the broader topics of health and healthcare within political science. Political science interest in health during the Covid and post-Covid period suggests that the field is ripe for a more explicit rethinking of its boundaries, past contributions and future research priorities. Participants will be asked to reflect on the contribution of political science to health and healthcare topics as well as on insights from health-related research to political science at large.
The core questions that the workshop will focus on are:
- What are the (potential) components / contributions of a political science of health and healthcare?
- What are the different meanings of ‘political’ in research on health and healthcare?
- What are the strengths and blindspots of the dominant approaches to health politics research?
- What methodological and/or theoretical challenges face health and healthcare politics research?
- How can we support the development of a political science of health and healthcare?
As such, we welcome papers on:
- Political science (broadly defined) approaches to issues of health or healthcare
- Political science methods, concepts and theories to study health or healthcare
- Different methodological traditions or innovations in researching the politics of health
- Existing literature contributing to a political science of health and healthcare
- Analysis of health or healthcare politics in the post-Covid era
- The politics of specific health or healthcare debates, institutions, technologies or trends
- Analysis of the politics of health in the context of digitalisation and big data
In the short term, the workshop aims to develop a special issue in the European Political Science Review, focused on the new research agenda on the politics of health. In the long term, it aims to bring together scholars of political science and others working on the politics of health. To this end, it lays the foundations for a new ECPR Research Network HEALTH-PPG (Health Policy, Politics and Governance), which would establish a permanent platform for a political science of health and healthcare.
Full details of the workshop can be found here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/15653
The deadline to apply is midnight on 21 November 2024.
Though we are happy to answer any questions, applications should be made via the ECPR website - please do not send abstracts directly to the co-directors. Details of the Joint Sessions (including funding opportunities) and how to apply can be found here: https://ecpr.eu/JointSessions
On behalf of workshop co-directors:
Tamara Popic (Queen Mary University of London)
Olga Löblová (University of Tübingen)
Eleanor Brooks (University of Edinburgh)
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Dr Tamara Popic
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Social and Public Policy
School of Politics and International Relations
Queen Mary University of London
W:www.tamarapopic.comhttp://www.tamarapopic.com/
T:@PopicTamarahttps://twitter.com/PopicTamara
Recent Publications
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BOOK Popic, T. 2023. Health Reforms in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: The Politics of Policy Learninghttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-15497-3. Palgrave Macmillan.
Moise, A. and Popic, T. 2024. Political Determinants of Health: Healthcare Privatization and Population Health in Europehttps://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/doi/10.1215/03616878-11257024/386663/Political-Determinants-of-Health-Healthcare. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Online first.
Popic, T. 2023. Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change,https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/abs/veto-points-revisited-the-role-of-party-system-institutionalization-in-welfare-state-change/79841E60A8CC0B5684E317C5B1BE004FGovernment & Opposition, 58(2), 338-359.
Popic, T. and Moise, A. 2022. Governments' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Eastern and Western Europe: The Role of Health, Political and Economic Factorshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2022.2122050, East European Politics, 38(4): 507-528.
Dear all,
this is a kind reminder that the deadline to apply for this ECPR Joint Session Workshop on Political Science of Health and Healthcare is this Thursday, Nov 21st. Consider applying to join us in Prague next spring!
All best,
Tamara
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Dr Tamara Popic
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Social and Public Policy
School of Politics and International Relations
Queen Mary University of London
W:www.tamarapopic.comhttp://www.tamarapopic.com/
T:@PopicTamarahttps://twitter.com/PopicTamara
Recent Publications
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BOOK Popic, T. 2023. Health Reforms in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: The Politics of Policy Learninghttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-15497-3. Palgrave Macmillan.
Moise, A. and Popic, T. 2024. Political Determinants of Health: Healthcare Privatization and Population Health in Europehttps://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/doi/10.1215/03616878-11257024/386663/Political-Determinants-of-Health-Healthcare. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Online first.
Popic, T. 2023. Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change,https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/abs/veto-points-revisited-the-role-of-party-system-institutionalization-in-welfare-state-change/79841E60A8CC0B5684E317C5B1BE004FGovernment & Opposition, 58(2), 338-359.
Popic, T. and Moise, A. 2022. Governments' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Eastern and Western Europe: The Role of Health, Political and Economic Factorshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2022.2122050, East European Politics, 38(4): 507-528.
From: Tamara Popic t.popic@qmul.ac.uk
Date: Monday, 28 October 2024 at 16:48
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Subject: ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop "Towards a political science of health and healthcare"
Call for papers - Towards a political science of health and healthcare
ECPR Joint Sessions workshop, Charles University Prague 20-23 May 2025
We are delighted to invite applications for our upcoming workshop, titled Towards a political science of health and healthcare. It will take place within the framework of the ECPR Joint Sessions, a long-standing and excellent programme of workshops based around intense discussion, feedback and collaboration. The 2025 Joint Sessions will be hosted by Charles University, Prague, between 20 and 23 May.
Our workshop will bring together researchers working on the broader topics of health and healthcare within political science. Political science interest in health during the Covid and post-Covid period suggests that the field is ripe for a more explicit rethinking of its boundaries, past contributions and future research priorities. Participants will be asked to reflect on the contribution of political science to health and healthcare topics as well as on insights from health-related research to political science at large.
The core questions that the workshop will focus on are:
- What are the (potential) components / contributions of a political science of health and healthcare?
- What are the different meanings of ‘political’ in research on health and healthcare?
- What are the strengths and blindspots of the dominant approaches to health politics research?
- What methodological and/or theoretical challenges face health and healthcare politics research?
- How can we support the development of a political science of health and healthcare?
As such, we welcome papers on:
- Political science (broadly defined) approaches to issues of health or healthcare
- Political science methods, concepts and theories to study health or healthcare
- Different methodological traditions or innovations in researching the politics of health
- Existing literature contributing to a political science of health and healthcare
- Analysis of health or healthcare politics in the post-Covid era
- The politics of specific health or healthcare debates, institutions, technologies or trends
- Analysis of the politics of health in the context of digitalisation and big data
In the short term, the workshop aims to develop a special issue in the European Political Science Review, focused on the new research agenda on the politics of health. In the long term, it aims to bring together scholars of political science and others working on the politics of health. To this end, it lays the foundations for a new ECPR Research Network HEALTH-PPG (Health Policy, Politics and Governance), which would establish a permanent platform for a political science of health and healthcare.
Full details of the workshop can be found here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/15653
The deadline to apply is midnight on 21 November 2024.
Though we are happy to answer any questions, applications should be made via the ECPR website - please do not send abstracts directly to the co-directors. Details of the Joint Sessions (including funding opportunities) and how to apply can be found here: https://ecpr.eu/JointSessions
On behalf of workshop co-directors:
Tamara Popic (Queen Mary University of London)
Olga Löblová (University of Tübingen)
Eleanor Brooks (University of Edinburgh)
--
Dr Tamara Popic
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Social and Public Policy
School of Politics and International Relations
Queen Mary University of London
W:www.tamarapopic.comhttp://www.tamarapopic.com/
T:@PopicTamarahttps://twitter.com/PopicTamara
Recent Publications
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BOOK Popic, T. 2023. Health Reforms in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: The Politics of Policy Learninghttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-15497-3. Palgrave Macmillan.
Moise, A. and Popic, T. 2024. Political Determinants of Health: Healthcare Privatization and Population Health in Europehttps://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/doi/10.1215/03616878-11257024/386663/Political-Determinants-of-Health-Healthcare. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Online first.
Popic, T. 2023. Veto Points Revisited: The Role of Party System Institutionalization in Welfare State Change,https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/abs/veto-points-revisited-the-role-of-party-system-institutionalization-in-welfare-state-change/79841E60A8CC0B5684E317C5B1BE004FGovernment & Opposition, 58(2), 338-359.
Popic, T. and Moise, A. 2022. Governments' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Eastern and Western Europe: The Role of Health, Political and Economic Factorshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2022.2122050, East European Politics, 38(4): 507-528.
