History
Since its beginning, national political science associations have constituted its core. Its founder members included American, Canadian, French and Indian political science associations. By 1960, 24 more national associations had joined up. Since then, collective membership has been expanding at a steady pace. Today, 52 national associations are collective members of IPSA. Each collective member is represented on IPSA’s central governing organ, the Council. The Council lays down broad policy guidelines for the association and elects the Executive Committee, which is responsible for the conduct of IPSA’s affairs between congresses.
Individual and associate membership was introduced in the early 1950s. Starting with 52 members in 1952, IPSA’s individual membership now stands at more than 3 600 members. The Association has worked hard to increase the involvement of women, who now make up more than a third of the membership. Associate membership is open to institutions engaged in research or teaching in the area of political science and is hovering at around 120 institutions worldwide.
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