Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP)

About EPOP

EPOP is a specialist group of the Political Studies Association. It brings together people interested in the study of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. It has more than 250 members, including media commentators, leading opinion pollsters and national party officials as well as academics. If you would like to become a member of EPOP, you can register here.

PLease click here for more information about EPOP and how to join the mailing list.

Past conferences (from 2015)

Submitting your paper

The 2020 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) conference will be held at Queen Mary, University of London from 4-6 September 2020. The conference organisers invite proposals for paper presentations and panels to be submitted by Thursday 30 April 2020. Successful delegates will be informed by end of May.

We are interested in receiving proposals relating to the empirical study of any aspect of elections, public opinion and parties in the UK, other countries or comparatively. Our main interest is to feature high quality, rigorous research regardless of methodological approach.

Paper proposals should provide a title, abstract (up to 200 words), 5 keywords, the names and affiliations of all authors, and the email address of the corresponding author.

Panel proposals should include details (as above) of 3 or 4 papers on the same theme, together with the details and email address of the panel convenor. Panel proposals may also include suggestions for a chair, but these are not required.

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Registration EPOP 2020

Registration will take place via the Queen Mary shop, and registration rates will be posted soon.

Thursday 30 April – Deadline for paper and panel proposals
Sunday 31 May – Paper presenters notified.
Early June – Draft programme published. Registration opens.
Tuesday 30 June – Deadline for early bird conference registrations
Friday 7 August – Final deadline for all conference registrations

Contact us

Queries for the conference organisers can be directed to epop2020@qmul.ac.uk

Organisers EPOP 2020

EPOP 2020 is organised by:

Dr Javier Sajuria

Javier obtained his MSc and PhD from the Department of Political Science, University College London, with a thesis studying the role of online social capital on electoral behaviour. He also holds a law degree (J.D.) from PUC Chile. Currently, Javier is the Principal Investigator of Candidaturas Chile, co-Investigator of the ESRC SDAI funded project “Out of Touch and Out of Time?” and Editor in Chief of Politics.

Dr Ksenia Northmore-Ball

Ksenia has joined Queen Mary in 2018. Previously she held a British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham. She has received her MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford and her BA in Political Science and Russian from Boston College, MA USA.

Dr Stijn van Kessel

Dr Stijn van Kessel joined Queen Mary in September 2017. Previously, he was Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University (2012-2017). Between October 2013 and September 2015 he was based at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany, to carry out a postdoctoral research project funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He also held visiting research positions at the University of Leuven in Belgium (2016) and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Germany (2019), as well as visiting teaching positions in the Netherlands at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the VU University Amsterdam (2011-2012).