News and Notes
| Date | 01 December 1977 |
| Published date | 01 December 1977 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9248.1977.tb00471.x |
| Subject Matter | News and Note |
NEWS
AND
NOTES
POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL
CONFERENCE, 1978
The 1978 Conference will take place at Lanchester Polytechnic from Monday March 20th
to
Wednesday March 2bd. The academic convenor is Ian Budge and the Conference Secretary
Roy May.
The format of the Conference has been changed somewhat. Each session
will
last betbeen
24 and
3+
hours, with breaks
for
coffee and tea, and three papers on closely related subjects
will be considered at the same time. Usually five sessions will be tinietabled
for
the same period
and the following groups of topics comprise the provisional programme (the name of
the
convenor is in brackets):
’The Politics
of
Devolution’ (M. Steed, Manchester University)
‘Utopianism and Utopian Thought‘
(K.
Taylor. Lanchester Polytechnic)
‘Politics
of
the Third World: Latin America’ (C. Anglade, Essex University)
‘Politics
in
the Common Market’
fG.
Smith, L.S.E.)
‘American Politics’
f
David Morgan, Liverpool University)
‘Politics
of
the Third World: Africa’ (Ian Henderson
&
Roy
May, Lanchester Polytechnic)
‘Local Politics’ (M. Goldsmith, Salford University)
‘Utilitarianism and Rational Choice’
(J.
Gray, Oxford University)
‘International Relations’
(J.
Spence, Leicester University)
‘Communist Politics’ (A. Pravda, Reading University)
‘Political Science as a Profession and Discipline’
(I.
Crewe, Essev University)
‘Political Careers’
f
D.
Kavanagh, Manchester University)
‘Comparative Government’ (R. McKinley, Lancaster University)
‘Women in Politics’
(J.
Evans, Q.M.C
,
London)
‘Politics of Public Finance’
(R.
Klein, C.S.S.P., London)
‘Political Parties and Election Strategies’ (D. Butler, Oxford University)
‘Philosophy
of
Political Explanation’ (K. Macdonald, Oxford University)
‘Politics in the Third World: Southern Asia’
(D.
Forrester, Sussex University)
‘Union Politics in the U.S.A. and Europe’
fG.
Wil\on, Essex University)
It
is hoped also to hold one or two plenary sessions, including ’Research Initiatives in
British Politics and Public Administration’, with representatives
of
the S.S.R.C. in attendance,
to
show a film
or
to have
a
keynote speech, and
to
provide time
for
meetings
of
the specialist
groups. Suggestions for innovations should be sent
to
Ian Budge
as
soon as possible.
An experiment with a different niethod of providing conference papers is being undertaken
in 1978. Authors are asked
to
provide an abstract
of
their paper of about 100-200 words long
by
1
December 1977. These
will
be included in the conference details scnt
to
members in
January. Four copies
of
the complete paper are
to
be sent to Ian Budge by
I
February; panel
convenors are expected
to
send copies to those they knoll. are intcre\ted, and others are asked
to
write for ones they wish to read before the conference to the relevant convenor. Extra
copies of the paper will be available at the conference itself. Any paper giver who inisscs one
of
the deadlines will normally be assumed
to
he
in
default and thc paper removed
from
the
programme.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE COMI’AKATIVE STUDY
OF CIVILIZATIONS
The Seventh Annual Meeting
of
the International Society for the Comparative Study
of
Civilizations (US.) will be held at the University
of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
on
13
-16
April,
1978. Papers are invited particularly, but
not
exclusively,
on
the thcmes of:
Pioneers and Outstanding Contributors, Western and Non-Western.
to
the Comparative Study
of
Civilizations
Theoretical and Methodological Alternatives
in
the Comparative Study
of
Civilization5
To continue reading
Request your trial