BSBI APSA 2026

2nd Annual Bringing the Sector Back In (BSBI) APSA Mini-Conference

at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 3-6 

BSBI APSA 2026 Organizing Team and Contact:

Roselyn Hsueh (Temple University; [email protected]); Allison Evans (University of Nevada, Reno); Ishana Ratan (University of Mississippi); John Yasuda (John Hopkins University)

Programming-at-a-Glance

Full Agenda here.

Panel 1 Sectors and Spaces: Political Economy of “Green” Transitions below the State (Paper Panel)

Thursday, September 3, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Marriott, Vermont

Panel 2 Taking a Sectoral Lens to Understand China’s Global Economic Ambitions & Impacts (Paper Panel)

Thursday, September 3, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Sheraton, Commonwealth

Panel 3 Markets and the Authoritarian State: Sectors in China’s Industrial Revolution (Paper Panel)

Friday, September 4, 8:00 to 9:30am, Republic Ballroom A

Panel 4 Green Transition and State-Business Relations in Cross-Sectoral Perspective (Paper Panel)

Saturday, September 5, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Marriott, Exeter

BSBI Network Dinner: Saturday, September 5, 6:00 to 7:30pm

Panel 5 Roundtable on Bringing the Sector Back In and The New Political Economy

Sunday, September 6, 10:00 to 11:30am, Marriott, Boylston

The 2nd Annual BSBI APSA Mini-conference’s five panels bring together American and international scholars diverse in gender, race/ethnicity, college/university affiliation, rank (from senior professors to graduate students), and the issue areas, countries, and sectors that we study.