Call for Papers and Panels
XVIII Congress of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration
The XVIII Congress of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration — AECPA will take place at the University of Granada from 9 to 11 September 2026.
As part of this congress, AECPA has created Thematic Area XI — Politics and Government in Portugal, with the aim of promoting the organisation of panels focused on the Portuguese case, including comparative approaches.
The call for papers and panels for this thematic area is now open. The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2026.
Submission of fully constituted closed panels
Interested participants may submit proposals for fully constituted closed panels by completing the form available for download here.
Submission of individual papers
It is also possible to submit abstract proposals for the panels listed below.
To do so, applicants must download and complete the form available here.
Proposals must be submitted by email to the following addresses. It is mandatory to send the proposal to both:
info@apcp.pt
info@aecpa.es
Submission deadline
Proposals must be submitted by 31 May 2026.
List of panels accepting abstract proposals
To consult the full description of each panel, please click on the corresponding title.
GT 11.1 Open Panel — Executive Governance, Elites and Institutional Change in Portugal in Comparative Perspective
https://aecpa.es/es-es/painel-aberto--executive-governance-elites-and-institutional-change/congress-workgroups/801/
GT 11.2 Open Panel — Legacies of the Democratic Transition in Portugal and Spain: Institutions, Memory and Political Change
https://aecpa.es/es-es/painel-aberto--legados-da-transicao-democratica-em-portugal-e-espanha/congress-workgroups/802/
GT 11.3 Open Panel — Power, Migration and Borders in the Iberian Peninsula: Policies and Practices of Control in Portugal and Spain
https://aecpa.es/es-es/painel-aberto--poder-migracao-e-fronteiras-na-peninsula-iberica-pol/congress-workgroups/803/
GT 11.4 Open Panel — Quality of Democracy, Integrity and Democratic Innovations in Portugal in Comparative Perspective
https://aecpa.es/es-es/painel-aberto--qualidade-da-democracia-integridade-e-inovacoes-democ/congress-workgroups/804/
GT 11.5 Open Panel — 40 Years of European Integration: Portugal, Spain and the Processes of Europeanisation
https://aecpa.es/es-es/painel-aberto--40-anos-de-integracao-europeia-portugal-espanha-e-os/congress-workgroups/805/
GT 11.6 Open Panel — The Reconfiguration of the Right in Portugal: Parties, Ideologies and the Transformation of the Political Space
https://aecpa.es/es-es/painel-aberto--a-reconfiguracao-da-direita-em-portugal-partidos-ide/congress-workgroups/806/
GT 11.7 Open Panel — Territorial Governance, Decentralisation and State Reform in Portugal
https://aecpa.es/es-es/painel-aberto--governacao-territorial-descentralizacao-e-reforma-do/congress-workgroups/807/
Additional information
The coordinators of this thematic area are:
Patrícia Silva — University of Aveiro
José Manuel Rivera Otero — University of Santiago de Compostela
An agreement has been established between AECPA and APCP, under which APCP members will benefit from the same congress registration conditions as AECPA members.
Calendar of Thematic Area XI — Politics and Government in Portugal
27 March to 19 April 2026: submission of proposals for open panels to be subsequently opened for abstract submissions by all interested participants
21 April 2026: publication of the selected open panels
21 April to 31 May 2026: submission of abstracts to open panels
27 March to 31 May 2026: submission of closed panels
8 June 2026: publication of panel composition
8 to 19 June 2026: congress registration
22 June 2026: publication of the online programme
2 September 2026: paper submission
9 to 11 September 2026: AECPA Congress, Granada