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2010 Call for Proposals Review the Call

The 2010 APSA Annual Meeting Call for Proposals is now closed. Submitters will be notified in of their acceptance status in March.


The Politics of Hard Times: Citizens, Nations, and the International System under Economic Stress

Program Chairs: Andrea Campbell, MIT, and Lisa Martin, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The 2010 APSA Annual Meeting Program Chairs Andrea Campbell and Lisa Martin ask political scientists to consider what political science has to offer during economically hard times:

Periodically the world economy experiences “hard times” such as the last quarter of the 19th century, the Great Depression,and the ups and downs of the 1970-1980s oil crises and inflations. It is commonly believed that during these periods, governments become much more interventionist; populism, fascism, or communism develop and prosper; democracies are prone to give way to authoritarianism; international conflict increases; the international economic system is reconfigured; and international institutions fail or are refashioned. What does political science have to say about these claims? Do governments become more interventionist? What kinds of
interventions do they consider...

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APSA ANNUAL MEETING DIVISION CALLS FOR PAPERS

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Division Calls for Proposals 

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2009

Notification: early March 2010

APSA RELATED GROUP CALLS FOR PAPERS

APSA related groups also sponsor panels and roundtables at the Annual Meeting. For the 2010 meeting, submissions to the related groups will follow the same submission timeline as the divisions and will use the same online submission system.

Related Groups Calls for Proposals

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2009

Notification: early March 2010