Exploring and enhancing trust in politics
Trust in politics and political institutions is waning among citizens in liberal democracies. However, trust in government and governance serves as the cornerstone for the legitimacy and functioning of a political system, thereby constituting a fundamental prerequisite of democracy. There has been a mounting concern across the subfields of political science about the conditions under which trust emerges, the practices and institutions that consolidate trust and protect it against various transient and structural challenges, as well as the ways in which trust nourishes and enables governance and government. Such concerns have emerged in the analysis of domestic politics in liberal democracies and beyond in the study of International Relations and European integration – the topic cuts across debates in social science methodology and, of course, takes center stage in the field of political theory. This annual congress of the Swiss Political Science Association proposes the topic of trust in politics as its guiding theme.
Day 1: 9th of January 2025
11:00: Open registrations
11:15 to 12:45: SVPW board meeting
11:15- 12:15: Young Scholars Forum «riting Blog Articles»
12:15 - 12:45: Coffee Break
13:00-14:30: Panel 1
14:45-16:15: Panel 2
16:15-16:45: Coffee break
16:45-17:45: SVPW General Assembly
18:00-19:15: Keynote Marc Warren-Uni. British Columbia
19:30: Apéro-Dinatoire
Day 2: Friday 10th of Jan. 2025
9:00-10:30: Panel III
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-12:30: Panel IV
12:30- 13:45: Lunch break
12:30 - 13:45: DeFacto Board meeting
12:30 – 13:45: Round table: Political communication – an interdisciplinary research field
14:00 - 15:30: Panel V
15:30: End of the 2025 SVPW annual congress
Registration & eShop
Deadline for registrations is on December 10th 2024.