INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
RESEARCH COMMITTEE # 12 NEWSLETTER
January, 1997 Number 1
Web Site
Research Committee # 12 has just created a home page on the
World Wide Web. The address is:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/steven_peterson_6
Feel free to visit the home page and send any comments to Steve
Peterson (just click on the appropriate link on the home page to
send messages).
If you have any suggestions about the page or information
that you would like to provide, please send to Steve Peterson
(address below). Information that we would like to add to our
Web site:
1. If you have published any books recently, please inform
us, so that we can list them on the "Members' Books"
page of our web site;
2. If you have your own home page on the World Wide Web,
please let us know your URL; we would be happy to
create a hyperlink from the web site to your own home
page;
3. If you know any web sites that we ought to include in
our "Other Sites" page, please send the URL to us and
we will add a hyperlink to relevant sites.
Finally, if you know of some web site that might be interested in
creating a hyperlink to the IPSA Research Committee # 12 home
page, please pass our web address on to them and ask that they
create such a link.
Officers of Research Committee # 12:
Chair Dr. Albert Somit
Vice-Chair and
Secretary: Dr. Steven A. Peterson
Board Members:
V. S. E. Falger (The Netherlands)
Jean Laponce (Canada)
Tatu Vanhanen (Finland)
Jerzy Wiatr (Poland)
John Wahlke (United States)
Odelia Funke (United States)
Heiner Flohr (Germany)
Seoul Meeting
Following is the planned program for the IPSA Research
Committee # 12 segment of the IPSA program:
Panel # 1. Biobehavioral Approaches to Politics.
Convenor: Albert Somit
Chair: Alexander Oleskin
Papers: Meredith Watts, "Stress, Puberty, and
Masculine Identity"
Allan Mazur, "Testosterone and Dominance in
Men"
Discussant: Alexander Oleskin
Panel # 2. Biopolicy.
Convenor: Steven A. Peterson
Chair: Donna Kemp
Papers: Susanne Giesecke, "National Innovation
Systems: A U.S.-German Comparative Analysis
of Biotech Development in the
Pharmaceutical Industry"
Vidu Soni, "An International Comparison of
Regulations of Biologics Industry"
Rashmi Shrivastava, "Minority Representation
of a Political Majority Group: Women in the
Indian Democratic Process"
Subhash C. Gupta, "HIV, the Law, and Civil
Liberties"
Discussant: Donna Kemp
Membership in IPSA
If you are renewing your membership in the International
Political Science Association, please consider marking the
section on the form identifying yourself as a member of IPSA
Research Committee # 12. If you have already renewed and not
identified yourself as being involved with Research Committee #
12, we would appreciate it if you considered writing to IPSA and,
after the fact, asking to be listed as a member of RC # 12
(address: IPSA Secretariat, Department of Politics, University
College Dublin, Bielfield, Dublin 4, Ireland). If enough of
those of you who are members of IPSA do this, we will receive
funding from IPSA to help defray the costs of producing and
distributing this newsletter. If you have not yet become a
member but plan to do so, please consider marking the spot on the
form identifying yourself as a member of RC # 12 (a membership
form is attached to this newsletter). Our thanks to those who
have officially designated themselves as members:
Albert Somit Gary Johnson
Hiram Caton Steven Peterson
Robert Dorn Dov Ronen
Harold Guetzkow Paul De Forest
Tatu Vanhanen Justin Greenwood
Newsletter News
If you have any items that you think might be of interest to
others who are members of Research Committee # 12, please send
that information to this newsletter's editor--
Dr. Steven A. Peterson
Division of Social Sciences
Saxon Drive
Alfred University
Alfred, NY 14802
USA
Internet: fpeterson@bigvax.alfred.edu
Fax: 607-871-2114
Internet Distribution List
If you are on Research Committee # 12's e-mail distribution
list, you receive occasional notices on matters related to the
Research Committee. If you have an e-mail address and are not on
our distribution list, please send your e-mail address to Steve
Peterson (preferably by e-mail). We will then be happy to add
you to this service.
Seoul--Again
Registration information: The Winter, 1996 issue of
Participation (the IPSA newsletter) contains basic information
about registering for the 1997 meeting. If you do not receive
Participation, please let Steve Peterson know and he can forward
the information to you.
Fees: 1 year members of IPSA will pay $125 (US) to
register--before March 1, 1997. After March 1, the amount would
be $145. 3 year members pay $105 to register before March 1--and
$125 after March 1. Non-members will be charged $180 before
March 1 and $200 after that date. All program participants are
expected to pre-register early.
If any members face the need for financial assistance, here
is the procedure suggested by IPSA:
1. Apply for travel assistance from your university,
your political science association, foundations, or
government agencies;
2. Apply to your national commission for UNESCO to obtain
funding from the "participation grants" that are held
aside for those attending international conferences;
3. If all else fails, apply to IPSA for assistance.
Priority will be given to those from third world
countries or countries with currency conversion
problems. Deadline for application is February 1, 1997
(form is enclosed with this newsletter).