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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Decolonization Development Disarmament Economics and Finance Education Environment Governance Human Rights Humanitarian Affairs Indigenous Peoples International Law International Security Justice Least Developed Countries Migration Minority Rights New Global Institutions Peace and Security Religion Social Development Statistics Sustainable Development Taxation Policy Trade and Development United Nations Reform Women Women/gender Equality Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Information and communication technologies Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Men and boys Millennium Development Goals Policy advice Research Service provision The girl child Trafficking in women and girls Violence against women Women and HIV/AIDS Women and armed conflict Women and health Women and poverty Women and the economy Women and the environment Women and the media Women and the media Women in power and decision-making Public Administration: Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Governance and Public Administration Knowledge Systems and E-government Public Financial Management Public Service and Management Innovation Socio-Economic Governance and Management Social Development: Aging Conflict Cooperative Disabled persons Employment Indigenous issues Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Technical cooperation Youth Sustainable Development: Demographics Education Gender equality Health Peace and Development in Africa: Development in Africa Peace in Africa Conflict Resolution in Africa: Conflicts Resolution
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Belgium Lebanon Georgia Argentina France United States of America Kazakhstan Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Cameroon Ecuador India Bulgaria Slovakia Paraguay Czechia Finland Nigeria South Africa Norway Iceland Japan Nepal Spain Switzerland Republic of Korea Uruguay Israel Romania Austria Chile Lithuania Tunisia Canada Colombia Mexico Germany Greece Philippines Ukraine Angola Slovenia Sweden Türkiye United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Italy Croatia Russian Federation Brazil Australia Netherlands New Zealand Poland Portugal
Millennium Development Goals:	Achieve universal primary education Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	IPSA was founded in Paris in 1949 under the aegis of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The special mandate of IPSA, expressed in its Constitution, is to support the development of political science in all parts of the world, building academic networks linking East and West, North and South. Its aim is to create an inclusive and global political science community in which all can participate. It seeks to promote collaboration between scholars in emerging and established democracies and to support the academic freedoms needed for the social sciences to flourish. The activities and policies of IPSA reflect its global mission. It has been highly successful in the encouragement of national and regional political science associations and today there are over 59 such associations affiliated with IPSA. IPSA has maintained its links with the United Nations and has supported the development of other international and regional political science organizations. IPSA World Congresses of Political Science are now held every second year, moving between continents. The participation of scholars from less developed countries is supported through travel grants and the Global South Solidarity Fund. IPSA’s research committees offer opportunities for political scientists working in particular sub-fields of the discipline to associate with colleagues from around the world. Organizing events between World Congresses and playing a major role in these Congresses, the research committees encourage the world-wide pooling of skills and resources by working both together and in conjunction with specialist sub-groups of national associations. IPSA publications, including the lead journal International Political Science Review, the International Political Science Abstracts, Participation, and the IPSA Portal, also seek to meet the needs of political scientists in different parts of the world. As part of IPSA’s global mission to support and promote political science, it now conducts summer schools in research methods across the globe, for example, in South America and South Africa. IPSA strives to ensure balanced representation in terms of region, gender and stage of career in all its activities – for example, the creation of a new research committee must be supported by political scientists from at least seven different countries and two continents. Conference panels and roundtables are expected to display similar diversity, with representation from more than one continent and at least four countries. By linking scholars from North and South as well as East and West, IPSA seeks to strengthen the networks that underpin a global political science community. Such linkages put political science in a stronger position to contribute to the quality of public deliberation and decision-making as well as to the understanding of an increasingly interconnected political world. Ultimately, IPSA supports the role of political science in empowering men and women to participate more effectively in political life, whether within or beyond the states in which they live.
Year established:	1949
Year of registration:	1949
Organizational structure:	The IPSA Council elects, within its members, the voting members of the Executive Committee. The IPSA Council is composed of representatives of Collective Members (representing national political science associations, see Collective Membership) and of Individual Members. The Individual Members of the Council are proposed by the President and ratified by the Executive Committee. Their total number may not exceed 25% of the number of representatives of Collective Members, and are selected from the following categories: - Individual and Associate Members of the IPSA from countries or regions where there is no Collective Member; - Chairpersons and secretaries of IPSA Research Committees and Study Groups; - Boards of Editors of IPSA official publications. The Council meets every 2 years during the IPSA World Congress.
Number and type of members:	National Association of Political Science: 59 Individual: 4,165 Institutional: 74
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues

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