7. Politics and History

James Mahoney, Northwestern University, james-mahoney@northwestern.edu
Adam Sheingate, Johns Hopkins University, adam.sheingate@jhu.edu

The Politics and History section invites proposals that analyze the historical, developmental, and temporal aspects of politics. We especially encourage proposals that engage in comparative research, and we welcome submissions that explore North-South comparisons and developing countries, as well as proposals that focus on the United States or other advanced industrial countries. Submissions from a diverse range of methods and approaches, including comparative-historical analysis and historical institutionalism, are strongly encouraged. Special consideration will also be given to papers that address the conference theme by exploring the ways in which categorical boundaries and inequalities between groups are historically constructed, maintained, and possibly transformed over time.