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2010 Annual Meeting Registration Open Now Proposal Notification Slated for This Week The 106th Annual Meeting & Exhibition will be held September 2-5, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Program chairs Andrea Campbell, MIT, and Lisa Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, have developed a timely theme “The Politics of Hard Times: Citizens, Nations, and the International System under Economic Stress.” Note to those who submitted proposals: notifications are slated to go out during the week of 3/8/2010. Registration open now » Hotel and travel information » More on the 2010 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition »

2010 Teaching and Learning Conference February 5-7, 2010 | Philadelphia, PA The APSA Teaching and Learning Conference was held in Philadelphia, PA, on February 5-7, 2010. Featured: Online Program Opening session: Senator Bob Graham, "Salvaging Citizenship: A Partnership for Pols and Scholars?"[more] Pi Sigma Alpha Keynote Address: Rogers Smith, "Teaching as Redemption"[more] Plenary roundtable: facilitated by APSA President Henry Brady, "Teaching Political Science During Hard Times"[more] Remote Participation: With support from COTELCO and Professor Derrick Cogburn, we offered remote live access to the keynote, opening, and plenary sessions. These sessions were recorded and are available for download. [more]

Task Force Report on Interdisciplinarity Available The summary report of the APSA Task Force on Interdisciplinarity, entitled "Interdisciplinarity: Its Role in a Discipline-Based Academy" is now available. The report focuses on procedural aspects of interdisciplinary practices currently in use, including incentives, organizational structures, and techniques to educate students and scholars to work effectively in interdisciplinary approaches.

Task Force on U.S. Standing in the World Report Available The task force report, U.S. Standing in the World: Causes, Consequences, and the Future, is now available. In the report, the task force concisely presents what political scientists know about the causes and consequences of U.S. standing in world politics. Short Report (.pdf) Long Report (.pdf)

Elinor Ostrom Wins 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences named political scientist Elinor Ostrom (Indiana University) winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." According to the Academy, "Elinor Ostrom has challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized. . ." Dr. Ostrom shares the prize with co-winner Dr. Oliver Williamson (UC-Berkeley). Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences since it was founded in 1968. Dr. Ostrom served as president of the American Political Science Association in 1996-97. More on the Nobel Prize: http://nobelprize.org. You can view Dr. Ostrom’s Nobel lecture, Beyond markets and states: polycentric governance of complex economic systems, at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2009/ostrom-lecture.html.

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