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APSACp American Political Science Association Organized Section: Comparative Politics

Summer 1990 Vol. 1, No. 1

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR: OUR FIRST YEAR AND PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT

ExEcm Just about a year ago a number have revolved around panel COMMmE of you were gracious enough to selections for the 1990 annual sign a petition requesting that meeting in San Francisco and the APSA form an Organized getting our administrative Peter Lange Section in Comparative Politics. structure in order. Thanks to President A year later this initiative has John Freeman of the University become a major success and of Minnesota, the Program appears even more propitious Coordinator, an exceptionally than it did originally. I write to good set of panels was Russell Da&on you as introduction to our first, assembled. Secretruy/Tteamcrer informal newsletter to let you Florida State University/ know about our progress and Beginning in early fall, John University of Caiifomi4 plans and to solicit your input for collected proposals for panels Iwine the Section’s next phase of and papers. The Section’s call development. for papers stressed the effort to have panels which spanned areas, Ronald Rogowski The Section has taken off with subdisciplinary fields and University of Calrfomia, a bang! As of May, 1990 we methodological boundaries. We Los Angeles have eight hundred forty one also hoped to provide greater members. This is unprecedented opportunities for papers which growth for organized sections. It were rooted in the study of a Nina Haipem is a sign of the strong interest particular country or area and . among APSA members in had broader comparative greater recognition for signilicance. The goal was to comparative politics. At the end help lessen the fragmentation of John Freeman of this newletter you will be the comparative fields and to 1990 APSA Coordinator given the opportunity to provide prompt discussion of approaches University of Minnesota the Executive Committee with in the field and their merits and suggestions about the kinds of limitations. These are goals activities you would like the which are likely to be relatively Richard Bates Section to undertake and the permanent features of our 1991 APSA Coordinator ways you would like it to spend progr=, allowing us to Duke University your dues. We expect to differentiate our product implement these over the course somewhat from that of the more Conte!nts: of the coming year, after narrowly focused program discussion at the Annual committee sections. 1 Letter from the Chair Business Meeting which will take place at the San Franc&Q A listing of the panels John put 3 Call for Papers: Meetings of APSA at 530 D t together is included with this 1991 APSA on Fridav. August 31. Pleg newsletter. I think you will see attend if you can. And, please be that he has done an excellent 4 1990 APSA Program sure to renew vour section job of meeting both the goals set membershin when renewing vour for the program and the larger 8 Bylaws APSA membershin. purposes of the Section which were set out in the founding 9 Membership Survey During the past year the documents. principle activities of the Section 2 APSA Organized Section:

For 1991, Robert Bates of Duke the business meeting last year. ovemiew of the field. Obviously University has been asked by the The officers chosen then are we cannot do all of these Executive Committee to act as listed at the front of this activities nor do they exhaust the Program Coordinator and has newsletter. We are about to possibilities. On behalf of the accepted. The call for papers name a Nominating Committee l%ecutive Committee, therefore, which Bob has prepared is for the second phase in the I want to u pe vou to make included with this newsletter. I creation of an Executive 011s. i order to facilitate hope that you will start planning Committee. The officers to be m doinp so. we have attached proposals for panels and papers selected this year include a Vice 3 brief auestionnaire which we to send to Bob in the fall. In President/President Elect who would ask vou to return to me. doing so, you should be mindful will serve for one year and then of the fact that the overlap of become President; and two At- In closing, let me say subject matters of different large Executive Committee something about the broader program sections causes some members who will serve two year signi&ance I envision for the confusion. Those interested in terms. As stipulated in the By- Section. World events in recent program participation are, laws, I would herebv like tQ years, and the last year most therefore, encouraged to make solicit nominations for thw dramatically, have underlined the multiple submissions. Please be positions from the membership, potential of scholarship which is sure, however, to inform the Please send nominations for any rooted in knowledge of particular panel organizers of where else of these positions directly to me countries and areas but which is you are submitting your pro@ and I will pass them on to the analytically broad and Nominating Committee once comparative. Developments in It was our belief from the formed. Europe - the transformations in outset that one of the most Eastern Europe and the progress important services which the Due to the enthusiastic toward EEC integration - are OrganizedSectioncould provide response ofAPSA members, the only the most immediate signs for the members and the Organized Section has been able of the erosion of traditional profession was to raise the to accumulate a reserve fund national and area studies visibility of comparative politics which we can now begin to apply boundaries as appropriate limits within the annual program. The to Section activities. Russell on the selection of units of regular inclusion of a substantial Dalton has established the analysis for the study of many number of panels from our appropriate accounts, and we are issues. Section - which is based in part ready now to undertake a set of on the number of members - initiatives. In this regard,. x These events have also assures greater representation would welcome swt~ons from reaffirmed the value of research for comparative politics in the the members about what kin& which explores comparative program of (he APSA Annual gf sDecific activities thev would themes across not only countries Meeting than has been the case like to see the Organized Section in the same area but across areas in the past. We have, therefore, Sponsor, Among the things we well. Issues like made a very good start at have talked about are: a formal timocratization, the political accomplishing this goal. We newsletter which would appear sources of and obstacles to would welcome any comments twice a year and which would changes in economic regimes, the you may have as you look over include not only news of the domesticpoliticsofintemational the program for this year and Organized Section but possibly economic openness, or the next year’s call for papers. also short book notes and/or impact of media on processes short articles on our field; prizes of political change have taken on The other major task which we for articles appearing in journals, renewed significance and the had to undertake in order to papers delivered in our panels, scope of comparative cases has launch the Section was to get our or books appearing in the field; been markedly broadened. administrative and budgetary special activities at the APSA Changes in the world are matters in order. As you may Annual Meeting, perhaps impinging on a number of the recall, the By-laws passed at the focusing on the teaching of traditional research proclivities A~ual Business Meeting in 889 comparative politics; partial which have characterized, and provided for a two-step selection sponsorship of a conference fragmented, comparative politics of an Executive Committee. The intended to produce a volume as a sub-discipline. first phase was accomplished at which would provide a critical Comparative Politics 3

At the same time, it is clear that confrontation, of different 2. Attend the Business we run considerable risks in theoretical and methodological Meeting in San Francisco if you conducting cross-national and approaches to such themes and can: Friday, August 31 at 5:30 cross-area research on these and to comparative study more P.M.; similar themes if we are generally. These approaches insufficiently sensitive to might well bridge different 3. Send me any particular histories, cultures and disciplines as well as coming nominations you have for Vice institutional legacies. In fact, entirely from our own and would President/President-Elect and there are clear signs that both include both quantitative and two members of the Executive culture and institutions are qualitative and small-n and large- Committee; returning to prominence in n analyses. Some of the recent comparative analysis, albeit work on comparative 4. Send back the embedded in theoretical methodology has sought once questionnaire regarding the next frameworks somewhat different again to raise questions about phase of Section activities; than in the past. We certainly do the relative merits of these not want to repeat false starts different approaches and of 5. Start thinking about and steps in trying to develop context-specific knowledge as papers or panels you would like cross-national and cross-area contrasted to abstract to propose for the 1992 meetings frameworks and generalizations. generalization of relationships in light of the “Call” prepared But we also want to avoid the between variables. These are by Robert Bates. cumulation of national or area debates with which our work as specih findings which do not an Organized Section should be Thanks. lend themselves to crosxiational engaged Finally, it would Peter Lange and cross-area cumulative incorporate not only a focus on increases in more general research and contributions at the understanding frontiers of knowledge but also consider how we might best train CALL FOR PAPERS: These observations are, of our graduate students to conduct course, entirely personal. They such research and how to COMPARATIVE POLlTICS are nonetheless intended to incorporate the fruits of this SECTION: APSA 1991, provide the background for a research into our undergraduate WASHINGTON, D.C. research, teaching and training teaching agenda which I would hope the While affirming the diversity Organized Section in This is an ambitious agenda typical in the field of comparative Comparative Politics would and certainly one about which politics, proposals for panels in promote through its activities. there can be disagreement. the following areas would be The special characteristics of our Nonetheless, I would hope that especially welcomed: section are that its themes and it is broad enough to are not area-, or accommodate the interests of the Panels that focus on a single ZZionally-, or method- large membership of the problem area from a variety of ologically-defined and that we Organized Section while also methodological perspectives or hope to combine self-conscious providing definition to our in a variety of geographical attention to theory and method efforts. In order for us to areas. Examples might include with comparative substance. succeed as a Section, however, panels on the politics of religion we will continue to want and or ethnicity, or the politics of In this contex& the agenda I need the full support of the economic policy reform. foresee would include attention members. In that spirit, and as to themes which address the a closing let me remind you of Panels that explore the explanation of political processes the things we have asked of you boundaries between comparative and behaviors which are relevant in this letter: politics and other sub-fields in to a broad range of cases in the discipline: security studies different areas of the world and 1. Continue to support the and international political which have significant political Section with your dues when you economy, for example. and normative content. It would pay your annual APSA also seek to promote the open membership; Panels that explore the relevance comparison, and sometimes even of methodologies and approaches 4 APSA Organized Section: that have been developed for the section executive committee for PANELS SPONSORED study of advanced industrial desiderata to employ in SOLELY BY COMPARATIVE MtiOllS to the study of construe the sectior~ Among POLITICS SECI’ION developing societies. the criteria suggested by the Consociationalism, political committee were (ii no particular business cycles, pluralism, order): representation by PANEL: The Political Culture rational choice theory -- how women and minority scholars Approach: Theory and Practice useful are these when applied to and by faculty from smaller the developing areas? schools--especially liberal arts CHAIR: John D. Martz, Penn colleges, coverage of work on a State University A panel that re-assesses the wide range of geographical areas, signilicance of earlier approaches incorporation of a variety of to comparative politics. In methodologies, inclusion of non- PAPERS: “Weber, Political retrospect, how well do American politicai scientists, Culture, and Guatemalan modernization theory, emphasis on papers and panels Politics” dependency theory, or the study which were expressly Marc Belanger, University of of political culture stand up? comparative, and treatment of Massachusetts at Amherst Were they perhaps abandoned important intellectual too soon? developments like the renewed “Political Culture and Global interest in the study of political Democratization” A panel that focuses on the culture and social movements. Ronald Inglehart, University of contribution of area studies to Michigan political science. At the same time, I consulted with other section heads about “Political Culture and Please send your paper and the possibilities for co-sponsoring Democratization: Some panel proposals to: panels and, in that way, creating Evidence from Latin America” panels and panel slots which Mitchell A. Se&son, University Robert H. Bates might not exist if I worked solely of Pittsburgh Political Science with the collection of proposals Duke University I had received. (The Association “Comparing Rival Theories of Durham, NC 27706 counts a co-sponsored panel as Risk Perception” one-half a panel.) These Aaron Wildavsky, University of consultations proved quite California, Berkeley fruitful in producing some high Karl Dake, University of VI90 APSA PANELS: quality panels as welI as helping California, Berkeley ORGANIZING THE WORLD resolve the logistical !&iculties created by the fact DISC: David J. Myers, For the 1990 annual meetings that some individuals had made Pennsylvania State University of the APSA, our section was multiple submissions without allocated 12.5 panels to informing the section organizers. encompass the comparative politics .field. . By the week of In the en4 several outstanding PANEI. Green Parties in Thdqyg, I had received and panels were created out of the Western Europe: Between solicited roughly an equivalent proposals I received. And, most Protest and Power number of proposals, that is, of these panels fulfill the there were already enough selection desiderata. The listing CHAIR: E. Gene Frankland, proposals to fill our alloted of section panels and co- Ball State University number of panels. During the sponsored panels follows. last week before the submission deadline, another 8 panel John Freeman PAPERS: “Ideology and proposals and about SO paper University of Minnesota Entrenchment: Swedish Green proposals arrived. Most of these Party Strategy 19884991 proposals were quite interesting Anthony Affigne, Brown and worthwhile, forcing us to University make some very difticult choices. To this end, I consulted the .

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7he Politics of One Generation? “New Politics in Old Parties: PAPERS: “Class Exploitation, The German Green Party and Environmental Issues in Four Economic Development, and its Limits to Growth West European Party Systems” Violent Rebellion: A Cross- Thomas Poguntke, University of Robert Rohrschneider, National Analysis of Marx’s Mannheim University of Kentucky Theor)r Terry Boswell, Emory University The Recruitment of Green Party DISC: ti C. Flanagq Florida William Dixon, University of Members: The British Case” State University Arizona Wolfgang Ruedig, University of Strathclyde “The Rebel’s Dilemma: Wii Mark Franklin, University of Rational People Rebel?” Strathclyde/University of PANEL: Government Mark Lichbach, University of Houston Accountability and Performance Illinois at Chicago Mario Diani, University of in Democracies Strathclyde DISC: Edward Mueller, University of Arizona “The Future and Success of CHAIR: Geoffrey Garrett, Bruce Moon, Lehigh University Green Parties in Western Stanford University Europe: A Framework for Analysis” PAPERS: “Electoral Cycles, the Ferdinand Mueller-Rommel, Organization of the Economy PANEL: Democracy in the University of Lueneburg and Economic Performance” Third World: Lessons From the Michael Alvarez, Duke Caribbean DISC: Donald Schoonmaker, University Wake Forest University Geoffrey Garrett, Stanford CHAIR: Carlene J. Edie, University University of Massachusetts at Peter Lange, Duke University Amherst PANEL: Responding to New Chailenges? Established Parties “Democracy and Party Programs: PAPERS: “The Decline of and Contemporary Issues in Variations in the Program-Party Democracy and the Struggle for Industrialized Democracies Linkage” its Rebirth in Guyana: Lessons Richard I. Hofferbert, SUNY for the Caribbean” CHAIR: Robert Rohrschneider, Binghamton Festus Brotherson, Jr. University of Kentucky Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Free Baldwin-Wallace College University of Berlin PAPERS: “Social Democracy “Democratic Processes and and Liberal Corporatism: The “Holding Governments Middle Class Domination in the Contrasting Careers of Austrian Accountable: How Constitutional Carribean” and Swedish Social Democraw Arrangements and Party Systems Percy C. Hintzen, University of Herbert Kitschelt, Duke Affect Clarity of Responsibility California, Berkeley University for Policy in Contemporary Democracies” “The Basis of Regime Support: “New Social Movements and G. Bingham Powell, Jr. A Study of Political Attitudes Established Political Part& The University of Rochester and Behavior in Grenada, Reaction to New Political 1951-Present.” Demands in West Germany and DISC: Michael Laver, University Pedro Noguera, University of Britain College of Gallway California., Berkeley Thomas Koelble, Miami University “Economic Crises and Political Change: The Cases of Costa “Political Gridlock and Political Rica and Jamaica” Responsiveness: Japanese Politics PANEL: Theories of Revolution Bruce Wilson, Washington at a Crossroad University-St. Louis Terry MacDougall, Boston CHAIR: William Dixon, University University of Arizona 6 APSA Organized Section:

DISC: Professor Jacqueline PAPERS: “Europeans and the “External Models’ Influence on Braveboy-Wagner, CUNY European Community: The China’s Political Reform” Professor Susan Jones, Dynamics of Public Support for John Quansheng Zhao, University of California, Santa European Integration” East-West Center CNZ Russell J. Dalton, University of California, Irvine DISC: Daniel Kelliher, Richard Eichenberg, Tufts University of Minnesota University PANEL: Regime Change in Theoretical and Historical “Does Liverpool Matter? Or, Perspective Local Economic Conditions and CO-SPONSORED PANELS How Voters Perceive the State CHAIR: Timothy Luke, of the Economy” PANEL: Formal and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Michael Lewis-Beck, University Methodological Advances in State University of Iowa Comparative Politics Glenn E. Mitchell, II University PAPERS: “From 1789 to 1989: of Iowa CHAIR: James Alt, Harvard Overthrowing or Restructuring University the ‘Modern Prince’ in “A Changing Political Agenda? Bureaucratic Centralist Regimes” The Structure of Mass Political PAPERS: “Methodology in Timothy Luke, Virginia Attitudes in Britain, 19744987” Comparative Politics” Polytechnic Institute and State Donley T. Studlar, Oklahoma James Alt and Gary King, University State University Harvard University Ian McAllister, University of “The Relocation of Authority in New South Wales “Political-Economic Cycles” A Shrinking World: From Albert0 F. Alesina, Harvard Tiananmen Square in Beijing to DISC: Robert Jackman, University the Soccer Stadium in Soweto University of California, Davis Nouriel Roubii via Wenceslas Square in Prague Matthew Burbank, University of and Parliament Square in North Carolina “The Information-Economizing Budapest” Organization of Parliaments” James Rosenau, University of Ronald Rogowski, University of Southern California California, Los Angeles PANEL: Chinese Political “Societal Scale, Authority Reform in Comparative DISC: TBA Patterns and Regime Stabiliv Perspective John D. Rolxrtson, Texas A&M PANEL: Women’s Participation University CHAIR: Daniel Kelliher, in Democratic Transition: Robert Harmel, Texas A&M University of Minnesota Eastern Europe and Latin University America

DISC: Julie Erfani, Arizona PAPERS: “The Chinese view of CO-CHAIRS: Jane Jaquette, State University Soviet and Polish Reforms” Occidental College and Scott Corey, University of Kevin O’Brien, The Ohio State Sharon Wolchik, George California, Berkeley University Washington University

“Allocating Scarce Resources in PAPERS: “The Gender Politics China and Taiwan” of the Brazilian Transition: Tsung Chi, Michigan State Comparative Perspectives” PANEL: Advances in University Sonia Alvarez, Merrill College Cross-national Research on Pubiic Opinion and Voting “Manipulation of Symbols in the “Political Change and Women’s Behavior 1989 Chinese Student Issues in Contemporary Eastern Demonstrations” Europe” CHAIR: Michael Lewis-Beck, Richard L. Wilson, University of Renata Siemienska, University University of Iowa Tennessee-Chattanooga of Warsaw 8 APSA Organized Section:

“Citizen Protest and Military BYLAWS Policy: The INP in Crisis in Western Europe, 1979-1989 The list organkationalmeeting section were also voted in at the Diarmuid Maguire, Swarthmore of the Comparative Politics meeting. Any section member College Section was held at the 1989 can obtain a copy of the bylaws APSAmeetingsinAtknta,which from Peter Lange, the section “Protest, Resistance, Revolution: followed a roundtable on president. Is There a Common Logic of comparative politics organized Collective Action?" by the section. Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University At this business meeting a draft of the bylaws was discussed DISC: Tom Rochon, Claremont by the membership, and after Graduate School several ammendments the bylaws were approved as the organizational basis of the section. The officers of the Activities Questionnaire w Which of the following activities would you like to see the Organized Section in Comparative Politics undertake? Please indicate your degree of interest by using a 1 (low) to 5 (high) scale, marking in the designated space. At the bottom, please indicate any other initiatives in which you might be interested. Thanks.

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short book notes

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conference announcements

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best article in a major journal

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best book in the field

long-term distinctive contributions to the field Partial Conference Sponsorship

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