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Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
- Thursday, September 11, 2025 PDT
- 8:00am PDT
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Democratic Backsliding and Opposition Resistance
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 10:00am PDT
10:00 to 10:30am PDT (10:00 to 10:30am PDT)
TBA
Poster Session: Democracy and Autocracy I
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Poster Session
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Logics and Legacies of Colonial Law
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 10:30am PDT
10:30 to 11:00am PDT (10:30 to 11:00am PDT)
TBA
Poster Session: Democracy and Autocracy II
In Event: Poster Session: Democracy and Autocracy II & Health Politics and Health PolicySub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Poster Session
- 12:00pm PDT
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Architectures of Control: Dialogues between Autocracy and Colonialism
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Conceptualizing and Resisting Democratic Backsliding
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Managing Elites in Autocracy
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Democracy and the Populist Critique: Are We Too Concerned about Stability?
Sub Unit: Theme Panel
Session Submission Type: Roundtable - Virtual Participation
- 2:00pm PDT
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Autocratic Appeal and Mobilization in Comparative Perspective
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
External Influence and Autocratic Expansion
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel - Virtual Participation
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Autocratisation in Mexico: Standing for “True Democracy” and Concentrating Power
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 4:00pm PDT
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Authoritarian Ideology
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Women in Politics: Experimental Research in the Developing World
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- Friday, September 12, 2025 PDT
- 8:00am PDT
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Contentious Events and Public Opinion
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Elections, Opposition, and Regime Change
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel - Virtual Participation
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Democratic Resistance, Resilience, Reconstruction and Protection
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
- 10:00am PDT
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Elite Politics in Dictatorships: Logic of Appointment, Promotion, and Purges
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Dynamic Models of Protest and State Response
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Strategies of Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 12:00pm PDT
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Legislator Behavior, Elite Competition and Policymaking in Authoritarian Regimes
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Elite Purges in Autocracy and Democracy
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Elite Coalitions and Autocratic Stability
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
- 2:00pm PDT
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Protest, Mobilization, and State Response
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel - Virtual Participation
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Continuing Challenges to Democratization and Re-Democratization
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Mass Support for Authoritarian Regimes
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 4:00pm PDT
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Unpacking Authoritarian Governance in China: Power, Law, and Crisis
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: "Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America" by Belén Fernández Milmanda
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Political Controls and Popular Protests in Mixed Regimes
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Public Opinion and the Defense of Democracy
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
Beyond Coup-Proofing
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel - Virtual Participation
- Saturday, September 13, 2025 PDT
- 8:00am PDT
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Authoritarian Control and Legal Repression
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel - Virtual Participation
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Framing Anti-Democratic Actions
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Standing for Peoplehood and Concentrating Power in Mexico and Canada
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 10:00am PDT
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Opposition (Dis)coordination: From Backsliding Democracies to Closed Autocracies
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Generational Politics and Democratic Attitudes
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
The Historical Political Economy of Authoritarian Rule
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
The Politics of Francophone Africa: A Research Dialog
Sub Unit: Partner Associations / French Politics Group
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 12:00pm PDT
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: When the Internet Meets Authoritarian Governance: China’s Digital Governance
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
12:00 to 1:30pm PDT (12:00 to 1:30pm PDT)
TBA
Subnational Perspectives on Democratic Erosion and Resilience
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 2:00pm PDT
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: Natalie Letsa's "The Autocratic Voter"
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: Lee and Paine's "Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship"
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
International Influences on Autocratization
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT)
TBA
Theories from the Throne: The Implications of Monarchy for Comparative Politics
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- 4:00pm PDT
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
International Causes and Consequences of Autocratization
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT)
TBA
The Question of South Korea’s Democratic Resilience
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
- Sunday, September 14, 2025 PDT
- 8:00am PDT
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Political Parties and Democratic Decline
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
TBA
Authoritarian Law and Constitutional Politics
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel - Virtual Participation
- 10:00am PDT
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Judicial Politics in Autocratizing Regimes
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Building a New Social Contract in China: Analyzing Common Prosperity Policies
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel - Virtual Participation
10:00 to 11:30am PDT (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
TBA
Author Meets Critics: "Domination and Mobilization" by Xiaobo Lü
Sub Unit: Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy
Session Submission Type: Author meet critics