APSA offers 53 Organized Sections for our members to join, and 44 have waived dues for student members. Organized Sections provide you with the opportunity to connect with members who share your interest in a particular sub-field.

• Section 1. Federalism Intergovernmental Relations
• Section 2: Law and Courts
• Section 5: Political Organizations and Parties
• Section 8. Representation and Electoral Systems
• Section 9. Presidents and Executive Politics
• Section 11. Religion and Politics
• Section 13: Urban and Local Politics
• Section 15. Science, Technology and Environmental Politics
• Section 17. Foundations Of Political Theory
• Section 16: Women, Gender and Politics Research
• Section 18. Information Technology and Politics
• Section 21. European Politics and Society
• Section 23. Political Communication
• Section 24. Politics and History
• Section 25. Political Economy
• Section 29. Political Science Education
• Section 30. Politics, Literature, and Film
• Section 32. Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior
• Section 33. Race, Ethnicity and Politics
• Section 34. International History and Politics
• Section 35. Democracy And Autocracy (formerly “Comparative Democratization”)
• Section 36. Human Rights
• Section 37. Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
• Section 38. Sexuality and Politics
• Section 39. Health Politics and Policy
• Section 40. Canadian Politics
• Section 41. Political Networks
• Section 42o. Experimental Research Online Only
• Section 45: Class and Inequality 
• Section 46. Ideas, Knowledge and Politics
• Section 47: American Political Thoight Online Only
• Section 48. International Collaboration
• Section 49. Middle East and North Africa Politics
• Section 50: Civic Engagement
• Section 51: Education Politics and Policy
• Section 52: Formal Theory
• Section 53: International Relations Theory
• Section 54: American Political Economy
• Section 55: South Asian Politics

Several APSA Organized Sections have sponsored journals, or added journal subscriptions to their membership benefits. These section journal opportunities provide access to scholarship across a number of fields and include leading journals like Political Behavior, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Publius, and Political Analysis.

View a complete list of Organized Section Journals 

In an effort to bring attention to exceptional scholarship, many organized sections have established awards. Currently there are more than 100 such awards honoring dissertations, papers, articles, books and career achievement. The section awards below are available for student nominations.

• Section 2. Law and Courts – Best Graduate Student Paper Award
• Section 7. Conflict Processes – Best Paper Award
• Section 9. Presidents and Executive Politics – Founder’s Best Graduate Student Paper Award
• Section 10. Political Methodology – Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier & John A. Garcia ICPSR Scholarships
• Section 11. Religion and Politics – Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award
• Section 13. Urban and Local Politics – Bryan Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award
• Section 15. Science, Technology & Environmental Politics – STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award 
• Section 18. Information Technology and Politics – Best Student Paper
• Section 21. European Politics and Society – Peter Mair Memorial Award
• Section 23. Political Communication – Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award
• Section 28. Political Psychology – Distinguished Junior Scholars Award
• Section 31. Foreign Policy – Best Graduate Student Paper Award
• Section 31. Foreign Policy – The Foreign Policy Section Graduate Student Travel Grant
• Section 32. Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior – John Sullivan Award
• Section 32. Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior – Graduate Student Travel Awards
• Section 35. Comparative Democratization – Best Field Work Award
• Section 41. Political Networks – John Sprague Award
• Section 46. Ideas, Knowledge and Politics – Graduate Student Paper Award

View a complete list of Organized Section Awards by type

Each organized section has an online community located on APSA Connect.  This community promotes discussion between section members, allows documents to be shared, as well as section wide announcements to easily be made.  Section members are able to receive daily notifications when a new message has been posted to their section forums.