Call For Papers

The organizers of the 2026 annual conference invite individual papers and panel papers that discuss drivers and challenges of social policies, including but not restricted to the global and international dimensions of social policy.  

The annual conference will bring together an active and lively community of scholars from different fields of social policy studies, ranging from PhD students and early-career researchers to established scholars. Beyond the broad theme outlined above, we also invite RC19 members to present their recent work, even if they are not closely connected to that theme. 

Abstracts from non-RC19 members are most welcome, but all presenters must be members of RC19 by the time of the conference. To become a member, please contact our treasurer, Hildegard Theobald at hildegard.theobald@uni-vechta.de.  

The conference will follow "Korpi's rules", which have made RC19 meetings famous for their intellectual liveliness and seriousness. Walter Korpi, past president of RC19, instituted the following workshop-style meeting format to foster lively discussions during the conference: Full papers are circulated (and read) in advance by all participants of the respective panel. 

At the conference, a discussant designated by the conference organizers briefly presents the paper and comments on it (12 minutes). 

The author(s) of the paper has/have a limited time to react to the discussant's presentation (3 minutes) so as to leave room for a general discussion (15 minutes).