PS: Political Science and Politics is now available in the JSTOR Archive of scholarly journals as part of JSTOR's Arts & Sciences II Collection. This multi-disciplinary collection contains titles and disciplines that complement those in the Arts & Sciences I Collection.

The APSA Council has approved a motion by President-elect Theda Skocpol to establish a nine-member Task Force on Graduate Education in Political Science.

The Task Force has been asked to study the issue of graduate education and to prepare a formal report for the August 2003 Council meeting in Philadelphia.

Linda Lopez has joined APSA as a staff political scientist and program director. Lopez leaves Chapman University inCalifornia where she served on the political scence faculty as an assistant professor. Lopez is an active scholar, teacher, and academic administrator. Her scholarly interests include attention to the interface of racial and ethnic politics and public policy making, especially related to law and public policy. She has most recently been director of the Legal Studies Program at Chapman, and is currently a member of APSA's Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession. Lopez received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1999.

The international policy strategist Ralph Bunche once said, “If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.” Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey, the award-sweeping documentary that restores his extraordinary legacy, heeds its hero's advice and showcases two-thirds of the twentieth century through Bunche's life's arc (1903–71).

Perspectives on Politics is a general journal of political science that seeks to provide political insight on important problems, as it emerges from rigorous, broad-based research and integrative thought. The editors anticipate authors and readers primarily comprising political scientists, but also including journalists, policy analysts, public officials and their staff, and other social scientists. The articles aim to clarify for such an audience the political significance of accumulated research regarding a particular area of the world, an important policy problem, a deep normative conflict, or a significant institution or process; they may also demonstrate the insights that accrue from viewing politics from a distinctive viewpoint, method, or type of evidence.

As the APSA Congressional Fellowship Program enters its fiftieth year, it welcomes the 2002-2003 class of fellows, who will join more than 1900 alumni since 1953 in gaining a “hands-on” understanding of Congress. While the fellowship was first founded so that political scientists and journalists could transmit their legislative experiences to the classroom and to the public, it has since expanded to share the benefits of such study to other professional fields. These are represented by the Federal Executive and Foreign Affairs fellows, Robert Wood Johnson health policy fellows, Native American Hatfield fellows, Carl Albert fellows, American Sociological Association fellows, and by the international scholars sponsored by the Senior Fulbright Scholars program, the Asia Foundation, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Now half a century old, the Congressional Fellowship Program continues to benefit from the generosity of Congressional Quarterly, Inc., the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and MCI.

Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, is pleased to announce these award winners for the 2001-2002 academic year. Winners of the Best Undergraduate Class Papers, Best Undergraduate Honors Theses, and Best Graduate Student Papers will be announced at a later date.

The 2003 meetings mark the centenary of APSA. The century in which Political Science developed as an academic discipline witnessed major transformations in technology, warfare, the economy, and national and international forms of governance. The spread of democracy and the elaboration and defense of individual rights were at the forefront of political changes at the national and international levels. The 2003 theme considers the causes and the significance of these transformations, and it assesses the diverse ways that American political science has approached the study of democracy and justice over its hundred-year history. Among the topics we consider are: What conditions promote democratic reform? How has the understanding and practice of democracy changed over the course of the century? How do we define justice in the modern world? How are democracy and justice related? How do considerations of democracy and justice influence the process of democratic transition? In what ways are the concepts of democracy and justice meaningful at the international level? We especially welcome papers and panels that examine these questions through comparisons over time and across countries or that explore critical periods in the intellectual understandings and practice of democracy and justice.

The 2003 World Congress of the International Political Science Association will be held in Durban, South Africa, in June/July 2003. The overall theme for the congress is “Democracy, Tolerance, Justice: Challenges for Political Change.” The Congress promises to be one of the most intellectually stimulating and exciting meetings IPSA has ever hosted. The meeting is also historic since IPSA has never held a World Congress in Africa.

Midwest Political Science Association

Annual Meeting

Friday, April 26, 2002

Chicago, Illinois

Present: Michael Brintnall, Richard Brody, Bruce J. Bueno de Mesquita, Nancy Burns, Susan Clarke, David Collier, Lawrence Dodd, John Garcia, Robert Holmes, Robert Kaufman, L. Sandy Maisel, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Kirstie McClure, Kristen Monroe, Desiree Pedescleaux, Doris Marie Provine, Robert Putnam (president), Ronald Schmidt, Sr., James Scott, Mary Segers, Phil Shively, Lee Sigelman, Kathryn Sikkink, Theda Skocpol (president-elect), Katherine Tate, Margaret Weir.

Guests: Susan Carroll, Jennifer Hochschild, Gary Jacobson.

Not attending: John Jackson.

Staff: Jeff Biggs, Sue Davis, Mary DeYoung, Polly Karpowicz, Sheilah Mann.