2025 Conference

Session 1: Ethnicity and Elections

Session 2: Political Parties in Authoritarian Regimes

Session 3: Party-Constituent Linkages

Session 4: Populism, Reform, and Democratization

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2024 Conference

Session 1: Ethnicity, Identity & Coalitions

Session 2: Opposition Parties & Campaign Strategies

Session 3: Citizen-Party Linkages

Session 4: Political Parties & Democratisation in Southern Africa

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2023 Conference

Session 1: Political Campaigns & Media

Session 2: Campaign Strategies

Session 3: Candidate Selection & Female Representation

Session 4: Ideology

Session 5: The State and Party Institutionalisation

Session 6: Voters’ Social Identities and Values

Session 7: Electoral Violence, Party Crisis and Voting in Nigeria

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2022 Conference

Session 1: Political culture & party support

Session 2: Political participation in South Africa

Session 3: Conflict legacies, crisis and political parties in Zimbabwe

Session 4: Opposition parties I

Session 5: Opposition parties II

Session 6: Party systems

Session 7: Candidate selection & female representation

Session 8: Party organisation & mobilisation

Session 9: Political institutions & female representation

Session 10: Party funding

Session 11: Party voter linkages

Session 12: Political parties & the military

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2021 Conference

Session 1: Intra-party politics I

Session 2: Intra-party politics II

Session 3: Campaign mobilisation I

Session 4: Campaign mobilisation II

Session 5: Voting

Session 6: Candidate selection

Session 7: Party building and decay I

Session 8: Party building and decay II

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