APSA Conferences
SCHEDULE FOR APSA VANCOUVER 2025
FRENCH POLITCS GROUP AND ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE PARTNER GROUP
Locations To be Determined
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH
6:30 -7:30 FPG-AFSP Business Meeting
8:00- ? FPG-AFSP Dinner
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH
8:00-9:30
Author Meets Critics Roundtable: The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies
CO SPONSORS: Health Politics and Health Policy; American Political Economy. Europea Politics and Society; Labor Politics; Politic and History; Class and Inequality
The Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2025) by Isabel Perera, explores why affluent democracies respond differentially to the needs of people with mental illnesses. Through careful comparison rooted in extensive empirical research in four countries—the United States, France, Norway, and Sweden—Perera reveals how the welfare workforce shapes the supply of social services. By developing a novel theory of “supply side” policy feedback, Perera illuminates critical dynamics of post-industrial politics and policy. This panel will bring together experts from all over the world to engage in critical conversation about an important new book.
CHAIR: Elisa Chelle (University of Paris- Nanterre)
PARTICIPANTS:
Isabel Perera (Cornell University)
Daniel Beland (McGill University)
Andrea Campbell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alan Jacobs (University of British Columbia)
Kimberly Morgan (George Washington University)
Ellen Immergut (European University Institute)
Isabelle Engeli (Exeter University)
10:00-11:30
The Politics of Francophone Africa: A Research Dialog
CO SPONSORS: Comparative Politics, African Politics, Democracy and Autocracy
The goal of this panel is twofold: first, to promote a systematic dialogue about the legacy of French/Belgian colonialism and contemporary francophone African politics and second to disseminate that dialog in a special issue of French Politics a journal that has more or less ignored post colonial issues. As such, papers focus on a wide range of levels of analysis single countries, regions, local level politics multi-level politics transnational politics etc and units of analysis — such as political behavior, social movements, institutions, public policy intersectionality. gender and international affairs — within the francophone African context.
CHAIR: Jacob Lewis (Washington State University)
PAPERS
Educational Reform and the Politics of Laïcité in Sahelian Africa
Leonardo A. Villalón, University of Florida
*Civil Rights and The Rassemblement Démocratique Africain in the 4th Republic
Lyn J. V. Kouadio (University of Oxford)
*Movement Politics, Populism, and Newly Emerging Franco-African Relations
Sebastian Elischer (University of Florida, Gainesville)
Are Women Still a Force for Democracy in Francophone West Africa?
William Miles and Martha Johnson (Northeastern University)
DISCUSSANT
Justine Davis (University of Michigan)