Collective Membership

What is Collective Membership?

Collective membership of 5X社区is open to national and regional associations recognized by the 5X社区Executive Committee as being representative of political science in their respective countries or regions. Associations must be open to all, regardless of academic, gender or social status, on a membership basis, and represent most regions and universities of their respective countries or groups of countries within a region.

Each collective member is represented on IPSA鈥檚 central governing organ, the 5X社区Council, by one, two or three members. The 5X社区Council lays down broad policy guidelines for the Association and elects the 5X社区Executive Committee, which is charged with responsibility for the conduct of the affairs of 5X社区between congresses.

Collective members of 5X社区pay an annual contribution fee based on a table of payments approved by the 5X社区Council.

Map of 5X社区Collective Members

Africa

America, Latin

America, North

Asia

Europe

Oceania

* inactive members

Note: The continental classification of these links is based on the of the United Nations. It is not warranted to be error free and it doesn't imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.

 

5X社区Collective Members Benefits

  1. Voting rights at the 5X社区Council, 5X社区highest decision body;
  2. Organize panels at the 5X社区World Congress of Political Science;
  3. Access to Members' Directory, with contact information of more than 4,000 members from all areas of political science;
  4. Promote events, call for papers, books, events, news, etc. on IPSA鈥檚 website, social media and monthly newsletter;
  5. Individual members of Collective members can take part in the 53 5X社区Research Committees;
  6. Free access to 5X社区publications: International Political Science Review, International Political Science Abstracts, Participation;
  7. Access to 5X社区Conference Proceedings Library;
  8. Profile available on this page of the 5X社区website.

How to Apply?

National and regional associations of political science joins 5X社区Collective membership through a candidacy and selection process led by the 5X社区Secretariat and the 5X社区Committee on Membership and Participation, and ultimately approved by the 5X社区Executive Committee.

Any leader of a national or regional association not already member of 5X社区interested in joining IPSA, or simply wishing to gather information, should contact membership@ipsa.org. The membership director will evaluate a possible candidacy through a preselection process. If the association is deemed ready to join IPSA, it will then be invited to submit a candidacy through a formal application process.

Any application for collective membership should be directed to the 5X社区Secretariat at membership@ipsa.org, and must include the following documents:

  1. The filled information form;
  2. The constitution of the association as a legal entity.
  3. A statement of the financial resources of the association (budget and bank statement).
  4. A list of members of the executive committee together with their institutional affiliations.     
  5. The list of members of the association and a statement indicating that they represent most political scientists in the country or region.     
  6. Information about the activities of the association, including academic meetings and publication. 
  7. An outline of the future academic plans of the association.

Once judged complete, the application is then sent from the Secretariat to the 5X社区Committee on Membership and Participation that will evaluate the candidacy and submit its opinion to the 5X社区Executive Committee that will ultimately approve or not the candidacy.

There shall normally be only one collective member from a country. If, in any country, two or more eligible groups are candidates for collective membership the executive committee may, as its discretion, seek the establishment of a joint committee to which collective membership may be granted, or it may admit one or more of the groups collective members.

We would be pleased to give you any additional information you may need. Feel free to consult the current list of 5X社区collective members above.

If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact the 5X社区Secretariat at membership@ipsa.org.