Participation

Abstract

Individual paper proposals are invited from senior scholars, recent Ph.D.s and advanced graduate students. Panels composed of individual papers are organized by the Program Division chairs and will be arranged around common themes. Do not submit a proposal for an individual paper if you are included in a full panel proposal. Division 23. Comparative Politics of Developing Countries. the role of states in promoting and/or hindering economic development; politics of identity, including politics of nationalism, race, religion, and gender; the role of social classes and of other forms of economic inequality in politics; problems of consolidating and of deepening democracy; and the impact of global political-economic forces on national politics. effort will be made to focus sessions on specific themes ripe for theoretical re-assessment and development. Paper proposals should an abstract. Proposals for roundtables and panels should include the name, institutional affiliation, and topic of each participant, as well as an abstract for the session as a whole.