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• 07 oct 2015

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Contested Hybrid Democracy: Endorsing or Revisiting the Liberal Model in non-Western Countries

  IPSA Istanbul 2016

  Democracy has become a worldwide reference in terms of political organization and governance. While the universal character claimed by such a model has largely been theorized from a Western point of view, the variety of uses and appropriations from non-Western countries, including emerging States, remains unexamined. Disappointed with the results brought by the transition paradigm, the hybrid regimes literature tends to assess the unequal reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries. Nevertheless, the hybrid regimes analytical frame does not exhaust the question of the inner workings of these regimes, since its scientific referential remains based on Western theories and focuses on the uncompleted democratization processes and dynamics. This panel aims at switching the analytical frame towards the reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries through an assessment of uses and reappropriations of this model by political and social actors. Non-Western countries represent an interesting reflection ground for testing appropriation-reject dialectics regarding the Western democratic model. While this model directly inspires some of these countries (India, South Africa or Turkey), it has been rejected by other countries (China and Russia). Are there emerging models of democracy or counter-democracy models in non-Western countries ? We shall address these questions related to the unequal reception of the democratic model in non-Western countries.

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• 30 nov 2013

  Jinan

  Call for papers - History

  Customs, norms and the law of the death penalty, 1700-1940

  Comparative approaches to capital punishment

  Les paradigmes de la recherche en histoire ont été marqués, depuis un certain temps déjà, par l’exigence de réflexivité, de comparaison et de croisement des sociétés et des cultures. Le XXII^e congrès du comité international des sciences historiques (CISH) nous paraît constituer une opportunité particulièrement bien choisie pour réfléchir à la peine capitale et aux rituels de son exécution entre le XVIII^e et la première moitié du XX^e siècle, moment charnière à plus d’un titre pour le droit occidental et oriental.

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