REDIRECT’s panel activities at ECPR

📚 REDIRECT at ECPR 2025 – Thematic Section & Panels on Representation | Thessaloniki, Greece | August 26–29, 2025 🇬🇷

At the ECPR General Conference 2025, hosted by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, REDIRECT members played a central role in shaping debates on the future of representative democracy.

📌 Thematic Section Organised:

S57: Transformations, Continuities and Disfigurements of Representative Democracy

👉 Featuring 9 panels coordinated by REDIRECT researchers.

📌 Panels Chaired by REDIRECT Members:

• Changing Attitudes Toward Democratic Representation

• Populist Performances of Political Representation

• Political Parties: Necessary Evil or Quintessential to Representation?

• Representative Claim-Making: Innovations and Limitations

These contributions highlight REDIRECT’s commitment to advancing comparative research on representation, populism, and the transformations of democratic practice.

📍 Location: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

📅 Dates: August 26–29, 2025

🤝 Partners: University of Oslo (UiO), University of Siena (UNISI), Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB)

👤 Convenors: John Erik Fossum, Eline Severs, Luca Verzichelli

#Representation #Populism #PopulistParties