IPSA 2025 in Seoul

Over 3500 participants attended the annual congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, among them parts of the Institute’s faculty. Lars Lott presented a paper on the connection between autocratization and its effects on universalism and the provision of social policies and public goods at the panel entitled “Autocratization and Sustainability,” sponsored by the journals Democratization and Climate Action. Marco Bünte presented a paper on “Southeast Asia’s Low Quality Democracies: In Search of Democratic Resilience” at the panel “Democratic Regression in East Asia: Retrogression, Resilience, Revival” sponsored by the journal Democratization. The panel marked the start of the work of a German-Korean research group funded by the DFG and the Korean Research Foundation. Thomas Demmelhuber served as discussant in a panel organized by PRIF Frankfurt on “Regime Competition in a Fragmented World,” he also chaired a panel on “Transnational Authoritarianism: Causes, Consequences, and Responses” and presented a paper on “Politics of Sentimentality in Personalist Autocracies” in the panel “Politics in Personalist Autocracies,” based on findings from the DFG Research Training Group “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics.”