We especially encourage submissions that speak to one or more of the following themes:
✨ Infrastructure as distributional politics
✨ Built environment as political structure
✨ Contestation, displacement, and claim-making
✨ Implementation, maintenance, and urban governance
Apply by May 15! 💫
The short course will feature paper presentations, lightning talks, and book presentations, with a happy hour to follow.
We welcome papers across a range of methods (surveys, field/survey experiments, interviews, ethnography, participant observation) on a variety of themes: ⤵️
📣 CFP APSA pre-conference short course
Comparative urban politics: “Politics of Infrastructure and the Built Environment.”
⏰ Sep. 2nd, 2026 from 9:00am–4:00pm
📍Offsite on MIT’s campus
If you are interested in participating, please apply by May 15, 2026. #APSA2026
Just a little PSA: Make sure to confirm your participation for #APSA2026 in the submission portal by Thursday, March 26. We are already looking forward to seeing many of you in Boston!
📣 If you have any news or announcements you would like to share with the Urban and Local Politics community, we would love to include it in our March '26 newsletter! DM on here or email apsaurban@gmail.com by Feb 21.
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📣 If you have any news or announcements you would like to share with the Urban and Local Politics community, we would love to include it in our March '26 newsletter! DM on here or email apsaurban@gmail.com by Feb 21.
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📣 We are accepting nominations for the Urban Affairs Review - Best Paper in Urban or Regional Politics Award! 🏆
Papers must have been presented at APSA 2025.
Deadline is October 31st.
Please follow this link to learn more about the award and how to submit! connect.apsanet.org/s13/best-pap...
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📢 Urban & Local Politics scholars: Do you have news to share? We’re collecting updates for the upcoming newsletter!
Send us your announcements (new pubs, jobs, events, awards & more) for the November newsletter via DM or via apsaurban@gmail.com by October 17.
If you have any Qs, please reach out!
Congratulations to all our 2025 award recipients!
We loved connecting with you at #APSA2025
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We also want to recognize two honorable mentions for the Best Paper Award: 🏆
Joshua Ferrer for the paper "To Elect or Appoint? Evidence from Local Election Administration.”
Mirya Holman, Rebecca Johnson, and Tyler Simko, Princeton University for their paper "Measuring Conflict in Local Politics.”
📝 And finally, the Award for Best Paper presented at APSA 2024, awarded by the Urban Affairs Review, goes to
Elisa Maria Wirsching for her paper “Barriers to Representation: Selection Processes and Political Diversity in US Urban Bureaucracy.”
🎓 Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award
Winner: Antonia Gordon (Michigan State), “The Urban School Ecosystem.”
Honorable Mention: Jeremiah Cha (Harvard), “Racial Representation in American Local Politics.”
🏆 The Best Dissertation Award goes to Elisa Maria Wirsching (now at LSE), for her 2024 dissertation “Essays on the Politics of Local Bureaucracy.”
🌟 The Susan Clarke Young Scholar Award goes to
Tanushree Goyal (Princeton University) and Stephanie Ternullo (Harvard University), celebrating their contributions as emerging scholars!
🌟 The Clarence Stone Scholar Award goes to
Michael Hankinson (George Washington University) for his contributions to the field!
📖 Dennis Judd Best Book Award
Winner: Veronica Herrera, "Slow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation and Policy Change in Latin American Cities" (Oxford)
Honorable Mentions:
• S. Ternullo, How the Heartland Went Red (Princeton)
• E. Farris & M. Holman, The Power of the Badge (Chicago)
🎉 That’s a wrap on #APSA2025
A huge thank you to everyone who helped organize, presented, attended panels, joined our business meeting, and shared their work in Urban & Local Politics.
🏆 On Friday, we honored this year’s award winners - check them out below👇
Safe travels & see you next year! ✈️
🌞 Good morning & happy last day of #APSA2025!
We’re closing things out with our Sustainability, Inclusion, and Urban Governance panel:
🕙 10:00 AM
📍 Vancouver Convention Centre (VCC), West Level 2, Room West 215
Hope you’ve had a great APSA — thanks for hanging out with us this week!
Calling all graduate students! Come mingle, grab a bite, and network at the #APSA2025 Graduate Student Happy Hour, located at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, Ballroom II, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
☀️ Hope you’re enjoying Day 3 at #APSA2025!
Our final Urban & Local Politics panel for today kicks off at 🕒 3:00 PM in the Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 8.
💡 Share the exciting work you see — and don’t be shy about promoting your own panel or paper! Tag us so we can amplify 📢
Plenty of exciting presentations on urban & local politics all day long — check our pinned post for panel locations
(Spoiler: We’ll be in the Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 7 + 8 all day 😉)
Then we have three great panels lined up:
🕙 10:00 AM - Inequality and Immigration
🕛 12:00 PM - Non-State Actors and Urban Governance
🕑 2:00 PM - Police, Politics, and Power
🌟 Welcome back to Day 3 of #APSA2025!
We’re starting the morning off with another exciting Author Meets Critics event:
📖 Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City by Timothy Weaver
Starting soon: 8:00AM in Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 7
The Urban and Local Politics Section meeting will start at 6:30 in VCC East Meeting Level, East 20
At 7:30 we head to the reception- a joint event with the Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations section.
The reception takes place in Crystal Pavilion C in the Pan Pacific. Join us!
👋 Taking a lunch break? Swing by the Urban & Local Politics Poster Session — East Exhibit Level, Hall A.
Great research + good conversations starting soon!
🕡 Happening 12:00 – 12:30
#APSA2025
💡 Share the exciting work you see — and don’t be shy about promoting your own panel or paper! Tag us so we can amplify 📢
📌 Poster Session — don’t miss it!
📍 East Exhibit Level, East Exhibit Hall A today at 12:00
📌 Section Business Meeting — join us as we present this year’s Section Awards 🏆
📍VCC East Meeting Level, East 20
📌 Reception 🎉
📍Crystal Pavilion C in the Pan Pacific
🌟 Day 2 of #APSA2025 is here!
We loved seeing so much great work on urban & local politics on day 1— and we’re be back today with more panels, posters, and events. Stay tuned, and check our pinned post for the daily schedule!
Lots happening for the Urban & Local Politics Section today: ⤵️