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Call for Papers

We are excited to invite you to particpate in the conference "Democracy Under Pressure: Conditions of the Authoritarian Turn Yesterday and Today" and welcome your submissions.

Full Call for Papers

In this document you can find the full Call for Papers including the conference themes and submission guidelines:

FULL Call for Papers (PDF)

Practical Information

We welcome the submission of individual abstracts as well as proposals for complete panels from scholars in law, socioeconomics, political economy, constitutional theory, political science, economic sociology, history and related research fields — at all career stages, and from all regions, including the Global South.

Individual abstracts should have up to 400 words. Panel proposals should consist of a short description of the overall idea and theme of the panel (up to 400 words) as well as the abstracts of each submission that is part of the panel (up to 200 words each).

Please submit your abstract/panel proposal as one PDF file via the forms below. Contributions will be selected based on a double-blind peer review.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts and panel proposals is 15 October 2026. Confirmation of acceptance will be shared by 30 November 2026. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference in order to confirm your participation. The relevant details and deadline for doing so will be included in the acceptance email.

This conference is free of charge. Please note that we cannot provide funding for participants.

Submissions

There are two types of submissions:

Individual Submission

Use this to submit a paper you would like to present in a panel we put together.

Submission of a Fully-Formed Panel

Use this if you are organizing a fully-formed panel composed of multiple paper presentations around a unified theme.