THE EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION
OF POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS
In November 2007 the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA) was founded in Berlin, Germany. It is currently a union of twenty-three national and international associations of political science in Europe.
ECPSA was established to promote the discipline’s interests and pursue its professional goals. It seeks to make political science more meaningful in public debate and policy-making.
Among other things, the union of national associations is a reaction to the increasing harmonisation of the European higher education landscape. ECPSA creates a framework for the cooperation and exchange in Europe related to all aspects of political science as an academic discipline and its professional organisation.
ECPSA has adopted a mission statement which can be found on this website.
In June 2008 the first elections of the executive committee were held in Valencia, Spain. The latest elections were held in October 2010 in Budapest, Hungary.
The EC consists of representatives of the French Political Science Association (Prof. Dr. Didier Georgakakis), the Hungarian Political Science Association (Prof. Dr. Andras Bozoki), the Norwegian Political Science Association (Prof. Dr. Oddbjørn Knutsen), the Slovenian Political Science Association (Dr. Cirila Toplak), the Spanish Political Science Association (Prof. Dr. Pablo Oñate) and the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (Prof. Dr. Neil Collins). Prof. Dr. Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer from the German Political Science Association was reelected as president of the ECPSA.
Further information can be obtained from Felix W. Wurm, secretary general of the German Political Science Association:
DVPW,
c/o. Universität Osnabrück,
FB 1 – Sozialwissenschaften,
D-49069 Osnabrück,
+49/541/969-6264,
dvpw(at)dvpw.de.
