American Political Science Association Annual Convention

Posted by on August 5, 2005

American Political Science Association Annual Convention
The APSA will hold its annual convention from September 1-4 in Washington, D.C.

2005 Program Theme:
Theorists have posited that people who live in democracies are freer to express their preferences and that officeholders are more likely to respond to these preferences; that in democracy there is more room for meaningful debate and deliberation; and that under the proper conditions democratic decision-making will produce fair and just social outcomes. Researchers have demonstrated that people who live in democracies, on average, earn higher wages, are freer to form organizations, enjoy a broader range of public services, are less likely to go to war and to suffer from famines, and enjoy more responsive governments than do people who live under non-democratic regimes. Yet it is clearer today than it has been for decades that the struggle for democracy is ongoing: the struggle to defend its basic institutions from encroachment and decline in established democracies, and the struggle to achieve it at all in still-numerous countries and regions around the world.

The Program Committee encouraged panels and papers on a range of topics that shed light on key of questions related to Mobilizing Democracy as well as those specifically raised by each Division’s call for papers.

Read more at: http://www.apsanet.org/section_380.cfm