Welcome
Welcome to the French Politics/ Association Française de Science Politique Partner Association of APSA.
We are a highly active group that works with APSA to promote the study of French Politics, francophone countries, as well as France, and French Political Science through international collaboration. Developing on the one hand from the over 40-year-old APSA-related group of French Politics and, on the other, a new form of partnership group created by APSA in 2018, the former FPG has joined forces with the AFSP. Each year, we host two panels at the APSA meeting and one panel or roundtable at the AFSP Congress held every other year.
The next AFSP Congrès will be in Lyon from June 30th through July 2nd. For information about participating, go to the AFSP site in January. Next year’s APSA will take place in Boston from September 3rd to September 6th.
FRENCH POLITICS is the official journal of the association and serves as a platform to promote our scholarly international collaborations, often through the panels we organize at APSA and AFSP. We also work with our counterpart in the Political Studies Association of the UK. Please see the News page for the most recent work of the PSA group.
We take great pride in having an open organization that welcomes a full diversity of scholars who work on France and francophone political issues across the multiple epistemological and methodological approaches embraced by the discipline of political science across the globe. So please let us know how you would like to participate. We now have a listserv with Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/g/frenchpoliticsgroup. You can join our group to receive emails, post updates, and discuss. To join, you need to have a Google account. We are also happy to post any news you have on the website, or you can add it to our Google group.
Isabel Perera (Cornell University) and Amy G. Mazur (Washington State University) co convene the group with Elisa Chelle (Université de Nanterre) who is the liaison from AFSP.
We also organize three awards: the Stanley Hoffman Award for the best-published article on French politics every other year, the Frank Lee Wilson Best APSA Paper Award every other year, and the Georges Lavau Best Dissertation Award every five years.
We hope this website provides some excellent resources on our organization AND on the study of French Politics. For example, see the database on French articles that came out of our collaboration and our published bibliography of all articles on elections published in French Politics from 2003 to 2023. In 2027, we plan on doing a short course on teaching French Politics
Questions, feedback, new ideas? Please contact us at mazur@wsu.edu or isabel.m.perera@cornell.edu.