1	REPORT ON THE 2008 APSA PROGRAM OF THE NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE SECTION Delivered to the Annual Business Meeting of the New Political Science Section by Clyde W. Barrow, Program Chair, August 28, 2008
2	2008 NPS CALL FOR PAPERS Globalization is often understood as the inexorable result of impersonal technological and market forces that operate beyond the control of existing governments, institutions, and organizations. The New Political Science section is calling for individual papers and panel proposals that question this thesis by analyzing how various forms of inequality are reproduced and extended through intersecting networks of domestic governmental policies and programs, international treaties, and the decisions of transnational or supranational organizations. Papers or panels that explore how different forms of oppression, domination, and exploitation are created, reproduced, or extended through the inequalities generated by the existing policies of globalization are particularly welcome. To the extent that existing globalization is an unfinished policy, or merely one policy option among others, it is still subject to political intervention and, therefore, paper and panel proposals should also exemplify the intellectual practice of new political science as an academic movement committed to advancing progressive political development. The section is interested in papers or panel proposals that not only critically challenge the dominant ideological categories of the political science discipline, but that challenge the politics legitimated by those ideological categories.
3	PANEL ALLOCATION Awarded 8 panels by APSA for 2008 Awarded 1 Theme Panel Awarded 1 Panel as Compensation Increased from 10 to 14 w/co-sponsorships: Women & Politics (2) Normative Political Theory (2) Political Communication (1) Labor Project (1) Politics & History (1) Race, Ethnicity, & Politics (1)
4	PROPOSALS SUBMITTED & ACCEPTED
5	SELECTION CRITERIA Conference Theme – potential for extra panel award 2. Critical or Non-Mainstream Issues & Concepts: -- Anarchism Theory & Practice -- Animal Rights & Politics -- Globalization & Alternative Globalizations -- Disabilities Policy -- Primitive Accumulation -- Methods of New Political Science
6	SELECTION CRITERIA Opportunities for Co-Sponsorship – potential for extra panels: -- Political Theory & Methods -- Race -- Gender -- Labor -- Globalization 2. Balance Between Full Panels & Individual Papers: -- Constructed 2 panels from individual paper submissions -- added flee floating papers to panels w/less than full group -- added discussants or chairs as necessary & available
7	NPS PARTICIPANTS
8	HOW TO INCREASE CHANCES FOR SELECTION 1. Take the Conference Theme Seriously – Structure titles, abstracts, and panels around conference theme Submit Complete or Partial Panel Proposals – Submitting individual papers is hit or miss; acceptance depends on whether other similar papers submitted and not necessarily on quality of proposal. Submit to more than one section/division if possible – Most divisions look for opportunities to co-sponsor. 4. Cancellations – Reduce your chances for future selection. Cancellations and no-shows will be tracked, because they deny opportunities to others.