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The Committee on Concepts and Methods (C&M) is the Research Committee No. 1 of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). It is currently hosted at CIDE in Mexico City. The Committee promotes conceptual and methodological discussion in political science. It provides a forum of debate between methodological schools who otherwise tend to conduct their deliberations on separate tables.

 News & Highlights
Election of C&M Board 2009-2012
Final results.

Latest C&M Working Papers

Political Concepts

Jonathan Githens-Mazer, "Rethinking the Causal Concept of Islamic Radicalisation" (January 2010)

Political Methodology

Sanjay Ruparelia, "The Role of Judgment in Explanations of Politics" (May 2010)

CIDE C&M Award

At the IPSA World Congress in Santiago de Chile, Jennifer Gandhi was awarded the 2009 C&M and CIDE Award for Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Politics for her book "Political Institutions under Dictatorship" (CUP 2008).

The C&M Newsletter contains debates on conceptual and methodological issues in political research and provides information on current events, publications, and teaching. It is published twice a year (Spring and Autumn) at the University of Oldenburg.

C&M publishes two Working Paper Series. Political Concepts focuses on concept analysis and language usage in politics, Political Methodology on research design, theory building, and theory testing in the study of politics.

The tri-annual C&M Award on Conceptual Innovation in Democratic Studies rewards conceptual work of excellence in the comparative study of democracy and democratization.

Les Intraduisibles, the Dictionary of Untranslatable Terms in Politics, discusses political terms of difficult translation from and into English.

The C&M Bibliography on Political Concepts references literature on concept analysis in political science.





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