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 France, and French Political Science through international collaboration.   Developing on 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 is in the summer of 2024 in Grenoble.

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 organized at APSA and AFSP.  We also work with our counterpart in the Political Studies Association of the UK.  Since the FPG’s founding, we have three different awards for best article, best APSA paper, and best dissertation.

The organization is currently co convened by Amy Mazur (Washington State University) and Vincent Pons (Harvard University) with the collaboration of Delphine Allès (ILCO) who is our partner at AFSP.   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 have discussions. 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.

We are happy to post any news you have on the website and we also have a google discussion group at https://groups.google.com/g/frenchpoliticsgroup.  To be able to post, you need to have a google account.

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.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions, feedback or ideas about the website or our various activities at mazur@wsu.edu or vpons@hbs.edu.