GL11 Political Economy

The track welcomes individual paper and panel proposals in any field of political economy, particularly those that engage with the Congress Theme of Rresisting Autocratization in Polarized Societies.” The populist surge around the globe has recently turned attention to the economic factors that fuel anti-liberal forces and drive autocratization in a wide array of countries. The field has moved beyond studies on economic growth and development to a new line of research that explicitly addresses the relationship between economic forces and regime type and those that examine the political economy of democratic erosion, social movements, and civil society. In addition, this track will consider submissions that address the central themes in political economy, including but not limited to globalization, regional integration, global trade and finance, international development, foreign aid, the developmental state, social policy, inequality and poverty, labor, and migration. We are open to submissions from any methodological and interdisciplinary approaches.