Welcome to the Institute of Political Science

The Institute of Political Science (IPW-HSG) is a research unit within the broader political science community of the University of St. Gallen. The goal of the Institute is to promote academic research by managing funded projects, establishing research centres, organising seminars and conferences, running continuing education courses, and publishing journals and working paper series.

The founding director of the Institute was Alois Riklin, who chaired it from 1986 until 2001. Since 2005/06 the Institute is directed by James W. Davis (managing director) and Daniele Caramani.

The Institute brings together a large number of political scientists at the University St. Gallen. For more information about political science in St. Gallen and its teaching programmes please refer to the webpages of the International Affairs course degrees.

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The Centre for Security Economics and Technology (CSET) is an integral part of the Institute of Political Science.

CSET homepage...

Several members of the Institute contribute to the multi-disciplinary activities of the research cluster on "Global Democratic Governance".

Global Democratic Governance...

The Institute organised the Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association in 2009, and has been chosen to host the ECPR Joint Sessions in 2011.

Annual Congress of the SPSA...

ECPR Joint Sessions 2011...

Since 2007 the Swiss Political Science Review (SPSR) is published by the Institute of Political Science. From 2010 the Political Data Yearbook will be co-edited by the Institute of Political Science.

SPSR homepage...

Political Data Yearbook homepage...