Attendees of the PolMeth 2019 summer meeting

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The Society for Political Methodology is the world's premier academic organization for quantitative political science, addressing the needs of a global membership base united in developing and establishing empirical tools for the study of politics.

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Recent & upcoming meetings

PolMeth 44 · Summer 2027

The 44th Summer Meeting

The Society's flagship annual meeting. Host institution and dates to be announced.

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July 15–18, 2026 · East Lansing, MI

PolMeth 43

The 43rd annual summer meeting, hosted by Michigan State University.

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Our members share an interest in research methodology and design, in data collection and measurement, in statistics, and in theoretical and empirical modeling in Political Science. The Society supports this work through its annual meetings, its journal, its awards, and programs that broaden who does methodological research.

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Political Analysis

The Society's flagship journal publishes cutting-edge work on methods for the study of politics. Members receive full online access from Volume 1 (1989) to the present.

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