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The 2019 Election Sciences, Reform, and Administration (ESRA) conference conference will take place at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA on July 11–12, 2019. We are proud to sponsor this event (the third annual ESRA conference), which aims to provide a forum for scholars in political science, public administration, and other fields who are working to develop rigorous approaches to the study of how laws and administrative procedures affect the quality of elections in the United States. In addition, it hopes to build scientific capacity by identifying major questions in the field, fostering collaboration, and facilitating a network of senior scholars, junior scholars, and election professionals that can work together to address these questions.

For more information on the conference, or to respond to the call for papers, see the 2019 ESRA website here.

Elections come under threat from a variety of fronts, be that foreign interference or cyber-attacks, violent conflicts stemming from electoral events, or targeted attacks against politicians in person or online. Examples of these scenarios are widespread, from elections being postponed in Haiti and Nigeria due to violence, to cases of foreign meddling in American elections and Baltic states. Security is a key challenge to electoral integrity and it is of vital interest to academics, policymakers, security forces, and electoral officials alike.

Securing Elections: Foreign Meddling, Fake News, and Political Violence, a 2019 pre-APSA workshop, will consider how elections can be protected from the variety of security threats that emerge during the electoral cycle. For more information on the event and ongoing Call for Papers, see the conference webpage here.