call for papers - ipsa - são paulo 2011

[São Paulo, 1990.
Cristiano Mascaro.
Pirelli/MASP]

the IPSA-ECPR joint conference Whatever Happened to North-South?, hosted by the Brazilian Political Science Association at the U. of Sao Paulo. The conference will be held from February 16 to 19, 2011. The Call for Papers will open on Monday, June 28 and close on Friday, August 6, 2010.

Ruling elite and the functioning of political institutions

Our panel section will discuss papers on the relationship between the attributes of ruling elite and the functioning of political institutions. Our panel aims at gathering works on social profiles of different types of elites as well as their recruitment mechanisms. We welcome analyses that focus on multiple aspects affecting elite behavior (f.i. social, economic, ideological, institutional, and contextual variables), either at strictly decision-making processes or in the field of elite-institutions relationship. The studies submitted to this panel may be produced on account of diverse research methods; accordingly, they may be case studies or historical analysis. Preferentially, we encourage approaches that propitiate comparisons between elites in international ambit.

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Conference Theme:
Political Regimes, Democratic Consolidation and the Quality of Democracy
Section:
Democracy and Inequality
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