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Margarita Estévez-Abe, Syracuse University, estevezabe@gmail.com
Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin at Madison, yherrera@wisc.edu  

Socio-economic transformations and flows of people across national borders have drastically changed the demographic structures of many countries. Age structures, family types and religious/ethnic compositions of countries are rapidly changing. What are the causes and consequences of these demographic changes? How have social identities, political parties and interest groups, political attitudes and notions of citizenship changed?

Does the rising economic and political power of a new group of countries challenge the existing theories about economic and political development? Is it the case that state and market mechanisms are being combined in new ways, changing the political and institutional prerequisites for economic development? Has the third wave of democratization given way to a permanent wave of hybrid regimes that combine liberal and illiberal elements, such as imperfect but competitive elections, islands of rule of law, and significant but limited political and civil liberties? Do these new regimes render the traditional categories of democracy or dictatorship irrelevant?

We encourage creative uses of existing and new datasets, including new types of data, as well as innovative and mixed methodological approaches (e.g. the use of experiments, network, and spatial analysis as well as formal, quantitative and qualitative methods). New kinds of collaboration across subfields and disciplines (e.g. work on the boundaries of comparative and IR or comparative and American politics, cross-regional work, political psychology, and political geography) are also welcome. Finally, we encourage panels from the full range topics, areas, and methodological approaches that comprise comparative politics today.