Volume
9 No. .3 June,
2001
Caucus for a New Political Science
Newsletter of the New Political Science Section of
APSA
IN THIS ISSUE
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FROM THE
EDITOR........................................................................page
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NPS
NEWS..........................................................................................page
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES/CALLS
FOR PAPERS................page 11
RECENT
PUBLICATIONS..............................................................page
20
NEW POLITICAL
SCIENCE...........................................................page 24
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CHAIR SECRETARY-TREASURER/NEWSLETTER EDITOR Laura Katz Olson Carl Swidorski
Lehigh
University The College of Saint Rose
Bethlehem,
PA 18015-1380 Albany, NY 12203
LKO1@Lehigh.edu swidorsc@mail.strose.edu
APSA PROGRAM
COORDINATOR 2001
Michael Forman
University of
Washington-Tacoma
Tacoma, Washington
98402-3100
Forman@u.washington.edu
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FROM THE
EDITOR
Our summer edition of the newsletter
features the preliminary program of NPS panels at the 2001 Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association in San Francisco August 29th –
September 2nd. Many thanks to Michael
Forman of the University of Washington, Tacoma our 2001 Program Coordinator,
for putting together this program.
Everyone is invited to attend our
annual business meeting which will be held on Friday, August 31st at 5:30 pm
and our journal reception, this year co-sponsored by the Ecological and Transformational
Politics Section, which follows at 6:30.
Remember that our annual plenary
session on Saturday, September 1st at 8:00pm features Norman Solomon of the
Institute for Public Accuracy speaking on “Media Bias: Political Myths and
Realities!
Finally, if you do not subscribe to our
journal, New Political Science, please consider doing so. The revenues we
receive from Taylor and Francis for operating expenses associated with the
journal are partially contingent on subscriptions. A few extra subscription, which push us over their baseline
number, means a difference of a couple thousand dollars. The price for members, $28, is a bargain.
Thanks
Individuals are encouraged to send
information about upcoming conferences and events, book announcements, calls
for papers, professional journal information, and activism to:
Carl Swidorski
History/Political
Science Department
The College of
St. Rose
Albany, NY
12203
Tel. (518)
458-5325
Fax (518)
458-5446, e-mail: swidorsc@mail.strose.edu
Please
send all information in either hard copy, via E-mail, or WordPerfect or ASCII
diskette format. The deadline for the next newsletter is October 15, 2001.
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NPS News
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CHARLES A.
McCOY DISTINGUISHED CAREER AWARD
At its 2000 annual business meeting,
the New Political Science section decided to establish a third section award in
addition to the Harrington and Bay awards.
It would be for a career of distinguished scholarship and service to the
Caucus and its goals. The Caucus chair
was authorized to appoint a committee to make the selection on an annual
basis. The award is named after Charles
A. McCoy, one of the founding members of the Caucus. This year’s selection committee, consisting of Carl Boggs,
National University, Los Angles (Chair), Victor Wallis, Berklee College of
Music, and R. Claire Snyder, George Mason University, have selected Bertell
Ollman of New York University as the recipient of the award. Congratulations
Bertell!
NPS LISTSERV
Michael Forman has set up a list for
the dissemination of Caucus discussions, particularly in regard to the journal,
and other Caucus business. The list is
unmoderated but people do have to sign up.
To sign up for the list send e-mail
to: listproc@u.washington.edu. Leave the subject line blank. In the body write: Subscribe
newpolsci<your name>. Do NOT
use<> but do write your first name and your last name. What will happen is that Listproc will send
you an e-mail asking if you really mean to subscribe to this list. You need to reply making sure that the
“cookie” number in the Listproc message appears within the first couple of
lines of your message. At this point,
Michael will receive a message from Listproc telling him that you want to sign
up and asking for his approval.
If
you have further questions or want more info, go to:
http://www.washington.edu/computing/listproc/
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NEW POLITICAL
SCIENCE PANELS AT APSA
Plenary
Session – Saturday, September 1, 8:00 pm
Business Meeting – Friday, August 31, 5:30
pm
Reception
(Co-sponsored by Ecological and Transformational Politics) – Friday, August 31, 6:30 pm
Division 42:
New Political Science Panels and Poster sessions
42-1: Human Rights, Civil
Society, and Democratic Justice Thurs.
8:45 a.m.
Panel
Chair: Kling, Joseph
Participants: Rachel A. May (University of Washington,
Tacoma)
Human Rights NGO’s and the Role of Civil Society in
Guatemala’s Process of Democratization
Ariel C. Armony (Colby College)
The “Serpent’s Egg”: Civil Society’s Dark Side
Natalie Oman (University of British Columbia)
Tribunals, Truth Commissions, and Recognition
Neve Gordon, (Ben-Gurion University)
Gramsci and Human Rights
Thomas W. Smith (University of South Florida)
Constructing a Human Rights Regime in Turkey
Discussants: Leo Panitch (York University)
John
Ehrenberg (Long Island University, Brooklyn)
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42-2: (Re) Thinking
Democracy, (Re) Organizing Communities Co-sponsored with Political Thought and Philosophy Thurs.
1:30 p.m.
Panel
Chair: William Corlett (Bates
College)
Participants: Christine Di Stefano (University of
Washington) and Nancy C. M.
Hartsock (University of Washington)
Thinking What We Are Doing:
‘Woman’ and ‘Democracy’ Revisited
Joseph
Schwartz (Temple University)
Is
There A Future for Democratic Egalitarian Politics?
William
Corlett (Bates College)
Property
Rights and Property Wrongs: Retrieving Perfectionism in
Low-income Neighborhoods
Discussants: Lisa Disch (University of Minnesota)
Susan
Craig (Illinois State University)
42-3: The Repression of Worker’s Rights in the
United States: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives Fri. 3:30 p.m.
Panel
Chair: Diane E.Schmidt
California State University
– Chico
Participants: Carl Swidorski (The College of St.
Rose)
Freedom
of Expression and Association and the Labor Movement: From
the
Wagner Act to the Human Rights Watch Report
David
Cingranelli (Binghamton University)
Explaining
the Gap Between International Labor Standards and US Labor
Policies
Robert
Justin Goldstein (Oakland University)
Political
Repression of the American Labor Movement During Its
Formative
Years: A Comparative Perspective
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Richard
Fording (University of Kentucky)
The
Relationship between State Welfare Policies and State Labor Markets
Michael
Zweig (SUNY, Stony Brook)
The
Working Class Majority
Discussants: Frances Fox Piven (CUNY – Graduate
Center)
Michael
Goldfield (Wayne State University)
42-4: Roundtable on
Assessing Chalmers Johnson’s Blowback:
The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Sat.
3:30 p.m.
Chair: David
N. Gibbs (University of Arizona)
Participants: Chalmers Johnson (University of
California, San Diego)
Irene
Gendzier (Boston University)
Bruce
Cumings (University of Chicago)
Mine Doyran (SUNY – Albany)
Manfred Steger (Illinois
State University)
42-5;
Roundtable on G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America? 4th Edition (Co-sponsored
with Ecological and Transformational Politics) Sat.
3:30 p.m.
Chair: Joseph
Peschek (Hamline University)
Participants: Edward S. Greenberg (University of
Colorado)
Philip
Klinkner (Hamilton University)
John
Berg (Suffolk University)
G.
William Domhoff (University of California, Santa Cruz)
William F. Grover (St.
Michael’s College)
Stephen
Samuel Smith (Winthrop University)
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42-6: From Local to Global:
Prospects for Tele-democracy (Co-sponsored with Ecological and Transformational
Politics) Sun.
8:45 a.m.
Panel
Chair: John Rensenbrink (Bowdin
College)
Participants: Christa Daryl Slaton (Auburn
University)
The
Political Theory of Teledemocracy
Theodore
L. Becker (Auburn University)
Is there and Antidote to Mass Political Alienation?
Citizen Power vs. Building Community
John
C. Rensenbrink (Bowdoin College)
A Planetary Government for the Planet’s Ills: United
Representative
Government, Direct Democracy, and the Federal Principle
Discussant: Bertell Ollman (New York University)
42-7: Coalition or
Competition: Ethnic and Racial Relations in the United States
(Co-Sponsored with Race,
Ethnicity, and Politics,) Sat.
5:45 a.m.
Panel
Chair: Ian Haney Lopez
Participants: Cathy J.Cohen (Yale University)
African
American and Immigration: An Empirical Examination
Taeku
Lee (Harvard University)
Latinos and Asians in the
United States: A New Politics of Race?
Victoria
Hattam (New School for Social Research)
Theorizing
Ethnicity: Analyzing Coalition Politics
Jennifer
L. Hochschild (Harvard University)
The
Politics of Identity versus the Politics of Coalitions
Discussant: Hamideh Seghi
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42-8: New Political Science
Plenary Session Sat. 8:00p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Norman Solomon (Institute for Public
Accuracy): “Media Bias: Political Myths and Realities”
POSTER SESIONS
Comparative
William Aviles (U. Cal.
Riverside): Globalization, the
Transnational Elite and Paramilitarism in Colombia
Terrie R. Groth
(Universidade de Brasilia) Offering
Choices as a New Political Science: Democracy, Justice, and the State
Lois Harder (University of
Alberta): Tax Expenditures: The Social Policy
of
Globalization
Katherine Smits (Miami
University): Saying Sorry: Apology,
Reconciliation and
Democratic Community-Building in Australia
IR,
Marc Belanger (Saint Mary’s
College) Transnational
Movements and Institution Building: The
Worker Right Consortium and the Anti-Sweatshop Movement
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American,
James Sawyer (Seattle
University): After the Battle for Seattle: Hope Rising for the Common
Good?
Josiah
Bartlett Lambert The
Decline in U.S. Strike Rates and the
(St.
Bonaventure University): Erosion
of the Right to Strike
Eric Boehme (Rutgers
University): A Critical Theory
of Violence and Coercion: State and Civil Society in Twenty-First Century
America
Political theory
Amentahru
Wahlrab Evolutionary
Nonviolence: From Nationalist (Illinois State University): Power to Cosmopolitan Culture
Call for
Papers 2002 Annual Meeting New Political Science
The New Political Science Division
is committed to help make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a
better world and to promote a critical and activist approach to the discipline
of political science. Thus, we
encourage the submission of scholarship that stresses, for example, human
rights, labor rights, social rights, justice for women and minorities in the
United States and around the world. We
especially encourage proposals along these lines that are compatible with the
overall theme of the conference, Political Science and Public Life: Knowledge,
Politics, and Policy.
In the spirit of this theme, and the draft program
statement that elaborates it, we encourage submissions that seek “to enter into
a dialogue with wider publics” ..., “to discuss the political implications of
our research,” and that ... “pay attention to the questions and ideas about
politics that (these) publics raise.
Submissions might focus, for example, on a variety
of past or current social and /or protest movements. Alternatively, submissions might focus on one of the traditional
focii of political investagation, e.g., the state. Or, finally, submissions might reflect, in a constructively
critical manner, on the activity in which we are all engaged, i.e., thinking
about politics.
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Individual paper proposals, panel
proposals, poster sessions, and suggestions for roundtables are all
welcome. Submissions may come from any
field (or subfield), and they may draw upon a wide variety of critical and
engaged perspectives including critical theory, feminism, environmentalism,
Marxism, political economy, etc.
Contributions form junior colleagues, graduate students and others submitting
to New Political Science for the first time are especially encouraged.
Elite
Interviewing Short Course
Beth Leech of the Political Organizations and
Parties Section has sent the following announcement.
Interview data have provided the
backbone of many of the most important works in political science, but few
graduate programs provide any formal training about how to conduct interviews,
especially with elite subjects. For
those who would like to learn more, the Political Organizations and Parties
section is organizing a short course on elite interviewing that is open to any
member of APSA.
The short course will feature an
afternoon of advice and pointers from some of the most experienced interviewers
in the discipline, and is open to any member of APSA.
Topics
covered will include confidentiality, how to gain access, how to write up
interview notes, how to code open-ended responses systematically, and
discussions of standard issues of research design (e.g. sampling frames,
validity, replicability) as they apply to interview data.
Our panelists come from several
different subfields within political science.
they have interviewed members of Congress, members of parliaments, civil
servants, White House Staff, party leaders, interest group leaders, and
political activists. They have experience
in both standardized interviewing as well as more open-ended, exploratory
interviews, and several of them also specialize in survey methodology.
Panelists for the course include: Joel D. Aberbach,
Jeffrey M. Berry, David Farrell, Ken M. Goldstein, John H. Kessel, Beth L.
Leech, H.W. Perry, Bert A. Rockman, and Laura Woliver. The course will run
1-5p.m. on Wednesday, August 29th.
There
is no charge for the course, but participants must pre-register. Registration forms will appear in the summer
issue of PS.
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DANIEL SINGER
PRIZE
The
Daniel Singer Prize Foundation invites submissions to the 2001 Daniel Singer
Prize competition. The $2,500 annual
prize is a tribute to the outstanding writer, lecturer, and thinker, who died
in December 2000. His last book Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours?
offered insights into the next stage of the struggle for special justice and
human rights, a struggle which shaped and indeed defined Daniel’s life. The prize will be awarded for an original
essay of not more than 5000 words, which advances his ideas and ideals. Essays may be submitted in any language, but
if other than English, it would be helpful to append an English
translation. Essays will be judged by a
panel of experts appointed by the Foundation.
The winning essay will be announced in the month of December 2001, and
the winner will be invited to deliver a public lecture based on the essay.
Submissions
should be made no later than July 31, 20001 to:
The
Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 334, Sherman Connecticut 06784 USA
All inquiries should be sent
to this address
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES/
CALLS FOR PAPERS
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I
would like to encourage all Caucus members to come to Copenhagen this August –
right before the APSA – for the annual conference of IPSA Research Committee
49, “Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy” (SCD). SCD is the IPSA equivalent of
the Caucus, although not as well developed, and I would love to see more Caucus
members take part. The deadline to
submit paper proposals is July 15; the call for papers is below.
I
hope to see you in Copenhagen!
-John
Berg
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8th Annual
Conference of the International Political Science Association
(IPSA)’s
Research Committee #49:
The Political Economy
of Democracy: Citizenship in an Age of Globalization –
Transforming
Communities and Identities.
Institute of
Political Science, University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen,
Denmark, August 23-25, 2001
SECOND
CALL FOR PAPERS
Citizenship
has been the academic talk of the town for at least a decade. To conceptualize different normative and
functional versions of citizenship, to dispute its proper theoretical ancestry,
and/or to reformulate more traditional theoretical and empirical concerns
inside the wide framework of this new old term – all this has long
formed
important part of the repertoires of journals, departments, and conferences
inside the field of political theory – as well as those of political science,
social policy, and historical sociology.
The
main theme of this conference is the future of citizenship in a global (ized)
society: conceptual and functional prospects of a contested ideal. The conference proposes to look at
citizenship as a contested ideal and a functional reality rooted in specific
historical societies. And it aims to
ask questions about the future of citizenship in the face of a series of
challenges to its underlying
assumptions and structural properties, posed by processes of
globalization and European integration.
Citizenship may well crystallize the promise and inevitable shape of
things to come in a liberal century of further, Habermasian ‘rectifying
revolutions’. But equally evident, it suggests the sheer diversity of possible
liberal futures. The conference stresses
that the conceptual and functional diversity of national citizenship models
make for different agony points in the face of the future. These may be compared and contrasted. But it also proposes to keep in mind two
anchors of broader normative reference, and to query their possible
reformulation under new circumstances.
One is the ideal of a universalistic, enabling citizenship of equal
social
status and effective autonomy in a common ‘material culture’ – the old promise
of
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T.H.
Marshall. Another is some version of a
republican or participatory citizenship, enabling individuals to be masters of
their own collective destinies, securing, defending, or delineating their
rights and liberties in the process, and identifying themselves in terms of the
past and future tasks and accomplishments of political projects rather than in
terms of pre- or extra political essences.
We
invite a variety of papers – on contemporary or historical developments, of a
theoretical or empirical kind, using case-oriented or comparative approaches –
to answer parts of the following kinds of questions in order to contribute to
the recapturing of the complex meaning of the citizen as ‘homo politicus’: What
are the function and purpose of being a citizen of a nation-state? Is the idea of cosmopolitan citizenship
necessary and/or possible, and is both a) desirable and b) practicable? How is
the idea of citizenship bound up with the modern idea of ‘republic’? What are the relations between the concept
of citizenship and different dimensions of the concept of democracy? How can democratic citizenship be based on
other communities/identities than nation or ethnicity? Is it possible to define and defend
citizenship more substantially or fully than merely in formal terms? Can this be otherwise under conditions of
globalization? Should citizenship be
primarily a political concept or a social one?
Does the political/societal category of citizenship differ in the
different economic systems of capitalism and socialism? Does vital citizenship require moral
consensus? How are the rights of
citizens and the rights of man (or the human) related? Does one require or presuppose the existence
of the other? How does citizenship
enable or bar the exercise of justice and human solidarity?
All
these questions touch in one way or another upon the question of the nature of
citizenship as being either a constraining or enabling factor of political
action. In essence, the question of
citizenship is inseparably linked to the question of political alternatives and
choices. Arguably, this also presupposes and requires a critique of the
deconstruction and reconstruction of citizenship that is part of the process of
globalization.
Deadline
for submitting an abstract for a paper is the 15th of July 2001.
Deadline
for papers is the 15th of August 2001.
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Paper proposals or questions
of any kind can be directed to the organizers:
Uffer
Jakobsen Koula Mellos
Vladimir
Suchan kmellos@uottawa.ca
UJ@ifs.ku.dk University of Ottawa
vsuchan@smcvt.edu
University
of Copenhagen
St.
Michael’s College
Thomas
Berg Per Mouritsen
Marlene Wind pm@ifs.ku.dk
tbe@ifs.ku.dk
mwi@ifs.ku.dk
8th
annual Conference of IPSA RC #49
University
of Copenhagen
Department
of Political Science
Rosenborggade
15
DK-1130
Copenhagen, Denmark
Telefax: +45
35 32 33 99
Telephone: +45
35 32 33 83
For
practical information on travel and lodging, venue and academic programme,
availability of conference papers etc., please go to the conference homepage:
http://www.polsci.ku.dk/ citizenship/welcome.htm
How Class
Works
Call for
Papers
A Conference
at SUNY Stony Brook
June 5-9, 2002
The
group for the Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class
Works Conference, to be held at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook, June 5-9, 2002. Proposals for
papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until November 15, 2001
according to the guidelines below. For
more information, visit our website at <www.workingclass.suny.edu>.
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Purpose and orientation. The conference seeks to explore ways in which an explicit
recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which we live, and
ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding of class as a
social relationship. Presentations
should take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed
theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social
realities. All presentations should be
accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.
While the focus of the conference is in the social sciences,
presentations from other disciplines are welcome as they bear upon conference
themes. Presentations are also welcome
from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in a way
that contributes to the theme of the conference. For non-academic presenters, papers will be welcome but are not
required.
Conference Themes. The conference welcomes proposals for presentations
that advance our understanding any of the following themes:
The mosaic of class, race,
and gender. To explore how class shapes racial, gender,
and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender, and ethnic experiences
within various classes shape the meaning of class.
Class, power and social
structure. To explore the social content of working,
middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects of power; to explore
ways in which class structures of power interact, at the workplace and in the
broader society.
Class and community. To explore ways in which
class operates outside the workplace in the communities where people of various
classes live.
Class in a global economy. to explore how class identity and class dynamics are influenced
by globalization, including experience of cross-border organizing, capitalist
class dynamics, international labor standards.
Middle class? Working class? What’s the difference and why does it matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society and
contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority; to explore
the relationship between the middle class and the working class.
Class and public policy. To explore how class affects public policy, with special attention
to health care, the criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other
economic policy, housing, and education.
Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful for teaching about
class, at K-12 levels, in college and university courses, and in labor studies
and adult education courses.
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Proposals
for presentations must include the following information: a) title; b) which of
seven conference themes will be addressed; c) a maximum 250 word summary of the
main points, methodology, and slice of experience that will be summed up; d)
relevant personal information indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and
what training or experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e)
presenter’s name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A person may present in at most two
conference sessions. To allow time for
discussion, sessions will be limited to four fifteen-minute principal
presentations. Sessions will not
include official discussants.
Proposals
for sessions are welcome. A single
session proposal must include proposal information for all presentations
expected to be part of it, as detailed above, with some indication of
willingness to participate from each proposed session member.
Submit
proposals as hard copy by mail to the:
How
Class Works Conference,
Group
for the Study of Working Class Life
Department
of Economics
SUNY,
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384.
Timetable