THE QUEST FOR LEGITIMACY: ACTORS, AUDIENCES AND ASPIRATIONS

Conference Program Cochairs, Amaney Jamal, Princeton University, and Susan Hyde, University of California, Berkeley, selected this year’s theme panels, which focus on tackling questions of legitimacy. The theme pertains to both the determinants of legitimacy and the consequences of legitimacy (or a lack thereof). It also includes those who are viewed as legitimate or potentially legitimate actors and those audiences who may have the power to confer or revoke legitimacy. The 2017 theme panels include:

• • The Authority Trap: Strategic Choices of International NGOs

• • Authors Meet Critics: Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World

• • Black Lives Matter: Racial Politics and Social Justice in the Age of Obama and the New Trump Era

• • Causes and Consequences of Legitimacy in Areas of Limited Statehood

• • Classical Reflections on Democracy and Legitimacy

• • Democracy, Distrust, and Digital Publics

• • Democratic Legitimacy and Violence against Women: Policymaking in the Global South

• • Divided Societies: Comparative Historical Perspectives on Legitimacy

• • The Emergence of Donald Trump: Did Political Science See this Coming?

• • Europe’s Perfect Storm

• • Experiments in State Capacity and Popular Legitimacy

• • The First 222 Days (But Who’s Counting?): Sex, Gender, Race, Class

• • The Gendered Consequences of Armed Conflict

• • Global Populisms

• • How Political Scientists Can Create Effective Public Engagement

• • Identity Politics and the 2016 US Presidential Election

• • Information and Legitimacy: Results from the first EGAP Metaketa

• • Legitimate Authority in Conflict-Ridden States

• • The “Legitimate Authority of the People” in American Political Thought

• • Legitimate People, Legitimate Territory? Critical Perspectives on Sovereigntism

• • Legitimizing Post-Conflict States: Empirical and Theoretical Microfoundations

• • Measuring Legitimacy

• • Migration and Border Politics in Africa

• • Muslim American Identity and Political Behavior

• • Muslims in the American Imagination

• • Perspectives on Trumpism

• • Political Competition, Religious Authority, and Orthodoxy in Muslim World

• • The Political Effects of Forced Migration on States

• • Populism, Immigration, Race, and LGBT Rights in the United States and Europe

• • Quest for Legitimacy: Understanding Threat, Fear, and Political Exclusion

• • Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Legitimacy: 8 Months in Trumplandia

• • Reconstructing Legitimacy: Approaches to Post-Conflict Reconciliation

• • Revitalizing Legitimacy: Integrating Concepts, Measurement, and Analysis

• • Role of Legitimacy in Counterinsurgency

• • Threatening the Legitimacy of the US Supreme Court Nomination Process

• • Where to with the Liberal Order?

Find full theme panel details online at web.apsanet.org/apsa2017/theme-panels/.

ANNUAL MEETING WEBSITE

The APSA Annual Meeting homepage can be found at http://web.apsanet.org/apsa2017/. Find panel dates, times, and more information in the online, interactive program before arriving in San Francisco. Locations will be added in August. The conference mobile app will launch in August, providing personal scheduling, event type sorting, division sorting, cross-event type keyword search functionality, interactive maps and exhibit hall floorplans, and colleague connections with in-app messaging.

Registration is now open on the website. June 12 was the deadline for program participants to register, and July 6 is the last day for early bird discounted rates. Current APSA members receive lower registration rates, so we encourage nonmembers to consider joining to take advantage of reduced registration fees and other valuable services the association offers.

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While you are registering, you can also reserve your hotel room. August 8 is the deadline to book hotel rooms in the discounted blocks.

FEATURED PLENARY SESSIONS AND CAPSTONE EVENTS

Join your colleagues for dynamic presentations and discussions on timely news-worthy topics. On Thursday, August 31, join us at 6:15 p.m. for the Presidential Address by APSA President David Lake, University of California, San Diego. This will be immediately followed by the Opening Reception. All APSA attendees are invited to attend the reception, featuring complimentary hors d’oeuvres and networking. It’s a great kick off to the conference!

FEATURED PAPER PANELS: 30 MINUTE PRESENTATIONS

Make plans on Friday at noon to attend a Featured Paper Panel session. The conference program chairs selected a group of 28 panels that feature three 30-minute paper presentations on it, allowing authors and audiences to delve into the topic and have ample time for discussion. You can see a full list of these panels online, as well as other new presentation format panels: web.apsanet.org/apsa2017/special-presentation-formats/.

SHORT COURSES

Each year, on the Wednesday prior to the start of the Annual Meeting, APSA hosts half- and full-day short courses that provide opportunities for meeting attendees to enhance knowledge and reinvigorate teaching or research skills. Short courses are only open to registered Annual Meeting attendees and preregistration is required. View details on the Annual Meeting website’s short course page: http://web.apsanet.org/apsa2017/short-courses/.

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