Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a call for proposals for an upcoming ECPR Joint Sessions workshop co-organised by Theresa Gessler (Uni Zurich) and myself on the topic “Domestic Responses to Democratic Backsliding: Citizens, Civil Society, Parties.” The workshop invites contributions that tackle the involvement of various domestic actors in contexts of democratic backsliding, including evaluations of the relative success or failure of such responses. The workshop targets a wide range of scholars working in the areas of Comparative Politics, European Politics and International Relations. We welcome applications from PhD candidates and early-career researchers as well as established scholars in the field. To facilitate an exchange between inside and outside perspectives, we particularly encourage scholars from Central and Eastern Europe to submit their proposals. If possible, the workshop will be held in-person in Edinburgh, from 19-22 April 2022 (and otherwise virtually during the same period). The deadline for submissions is *2 February 2022* via the ECPR website. Further information can be found here: https://ecpr.eu/MyEcpr/Forms/PaperProposalForm.aspx?EventID=163 Best wishes, Natasha & Theresa Natasha Wunsch Assistant Professor of Political Science/European Integration Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée UMR8239 27 rue Saint-Guillaume 75337 Paris cedex 07 France T. +33 (0)1 49 54 38 51 natasha.wunsch@sciencespo.fr <prenom.nom@sciencespo.fr> www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-europeennes/fr *Recent publications:* Chiru, Mihail and Natasha Wunsch (2021): Democratic backsliding as a catalyst for polity-based contestation? Populist radical right cooperation in the European Parliament <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2021.1984546>, *Journal of European Public Policy*. Bélanger, Marie-Eve & Natasha Wunsch (2021). From cohesion to contagion? Populist radical right contestation of EU enlargement <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/10.1111/jcms.13280>, *Journal of Common Market Studies*. Richter, Solveig and Natasha Wunsch (2020): Money, Power, Glory: Linkages between EU conditionality and state capture in the Western Balkans <https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2019.1578815>, *Journal of European Public Policy*. 27(1): 41-62.