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Lecture by John Trent (University of Ottawa)
Issues and Trends in Political Science: Perspectives from the World of Political Science Book Series  

Section I

1. Epistemological Foundations and Methodology 

Current Issues and Accomplishments in (portions of) Political Methodology
Nathaniel Beck
Department of Politics, NYU, New York

Challenges of Broadly Comparative Field-Based Field-Research
Amy R. Poteete
Concordia University

Constructing political science methodology: From segmented polarization to enlightened pluralism
Benoît Rihoux
UCLouvain, Belgium

2. Political Theory 

Political Theory – Conversations between “Ought to” and “Is”
Takashi Inoguchi
University of Tokyo and Chuo University

Civic Nation Building: Legitimacy, Solidarity and Diversity
Andrea Baumeister
University of Stirling

3. Political Sociology 

Elite Theory in Political Sociology
John Higley
University of Texas at Austin

4. Governance and Public Policies

Governance Through the Political System: Making and Implementing Policy
B. Guy Peters
Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Public policy, administration and governance: the challenge to the conceptual tools of political science
H.K. Colebatch
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and University of New South Wales

Participation and the Environment: a Critical State of the Art
Stéphane La Branche
IEP Grenoble

5. Comparative Politics

Comparative Politics in Africa
David Sebudubudu
University of Botswana

The Contribution of the Concept of "Multilevel Governance" to Studies of Federalism and Public Policies
Sonja Walti
American University

6. International Relations

International Relations as « Normal » Political Science
Fulvio Attinà
University of Catania

Ethno-nationalism and international norms
Adrian Guelke
Queen's University of Belfast

Is Trans-disciplinary Dialogue Possible? Translating International Relations and International Law to Each Other                                  
Noemi Gal-Or, Ph.D., LL.B.
Director, Institute for Transborder Studies & Prof., Department of Political Science

Section II

1. Asia and the Pacific/Africa 

The State of the Discipline: Australasian Political Science
Marian Sawer
Australian National University

Teaching of Political Science in East Africa: A Narrative
Walter Oyugi
University of Nairobi

The Study of Political Science in Korea
Chung-Hee Lee
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Kee Seok Kim

The State of Political Science in Taiwan (1994--2008)
Yujen Chou
Luke Yuan-Che Hsiao

The State of Political Science in Japan
Masaki Taniguchi

Political Science in Singapore
Lai To Lee
Bilveer Singh

The State of the Discipline – Philippines
Rolando S. Fernando II, Ronald D. Holmes, Maria Ela L. Atienza, et al.
Philippine Political Science Association

2. Latin America/North America

Political Science in Argentina
Arturo Fernández
SAAP

Political Science in Canada
Richard Johnston
University of Pennsylvania

International Relations Studies in Brazil: Epistemological and Institutional Characteristics
Leticia Pinheiro

Political Science in the United States: Notes on the Discipline
Michael Brintnall
American Political Science Association
Tony Affigne
Providence College
Dianne Pinderhughes
University of Notre Dame

3. Europe (I) 

The state of the discipline in a small, open country: Belgium
Benoît RIHOUX
UCLouvain

Political Science in Czech Republic - State of Discipline
Jan Holzer
Pavel Pšeja

Political Science in Finalnd - A discipline in troubled waters
Erkki Berndtson
University of Helsinki

French political science at a turning point
(see also presentation slides and table )
Yves Déloye
Nonna Mayer
AFSP

The Current State of Political Science in Germany
Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer

Greek Political Science at a Crossroads: Problems and Challenges
Seraphim Seferiades
University of Cambridge, Panteion University

Political Science in Italy. The achievements and challenges of a small, but significantly proactive, discipline
Giliberto Capano
University of Bologna at Forlì
Luca Verzichelli
University of Siena

Capacities: Political Science in Europe
Hans-Dieter Klingemann

4. Europe (II)

Political Science in Lithuania: A Discipline Already?
Dovile Jakniūnaite
Inga Vinogradnaite
Vilnius University; Lithuanian Political Science Association

Putting Luxembourg on the Political Science Map?
Patrick Dumont
Philippe Poirier

New Public Management in Educational Reform in Norway. Comparative analysis of how differences in approach to New Public Management between Centre - Conservative versus current Red - Green government policies in educational reform might challenge the Nordic model of education.
Trond Solhaug
Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU

Political Science as an Academic Discipline in Poland: Past & Present
Teresa Sasinska-Klas
Polish Association of Political Science

Political Science in Russia: Institutionalization of the Discipline and Development of the  Professional Community
Mikhail Ilyin
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University)
Olga Malinova
Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Political Science in Turkey 
Ilter Turan
Istanbul Bilgi University

Political studies in the UK: a 21st century health check
Lisa Harrison
Lawrence Sáez
Political Studies Association of the UK

Section III 

1. International Politics, Globalization and Democracy 

Political Atlas of the World: Understanding the Non-Linear Dynamics of the World Polities
Yuri A. Polunin
Mikhail G. Mironyuk
Ivan N. Timofeev
Moscow State Institute of International Relations / Russian Political Science
Association

Imperialism, Domination, Culture: the Relevance of Critical Geopolitics
Simon Dalby
Carleton University

Religion in International Politics
David Wessels
Sophia University

Comparing the Local in the Open Global System
Henry Teune
University of Pennsylvania

Materializing the Metaphors of Global Capitalism and Democratic Resistance
Terrell Carver
University of Bristol, UK

2. Political Sociology and Political Socialisation

The Resilience of Class and Religion in Established Democracies
Piero Ignazi
University of Bologna

Biopolitics in the 21st Century: Key Research Directions
Steven A. Peterson
Penn State Harrisburg
Albert Somit
Southern Illinois University

State Fantasies and Intimate Relationships: Family Forms and Functions In Canada and the United States
Lois Harder
University of Alberta

3. Electoral Politics and Political Financing 

Electronic Democracy in comparative perspective
Norbert Kersting
Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Public Policy and the Study of Political Finance: A review of past developments, current problems and opportunities for the future
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky
Brunel University, UK

4. Levels of Governance and Public Policies

The Concept of Multi-level Governance in Studies of Federalism
Michael Stein
University of Toronto
Lisa Turkewitsch
University of Toronto

The Role of Parliamentary Party Groups in German Europeanised Policymaking – Awaking from the Big Sleep?
Sabine Kropp
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Local Governance and Party Systems Change: A Cross-National Perspective
Everhard Holtmann
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) 

Capacity Building in Parliaments and Legislatures: Institutionalization, Professionalization and Evolutionary Institutionalism
Ronald D. Hedlund
Northeastern University
Werner J. Patzelt
Technical University of Dresden
David M. Olson
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Paradox of Welfare State and Dilemmas of Research in the Context of Developing Societies
(see also presentation slides )
Sharda Jain

Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care Services of Less Developed Countries
James Warner Björkman
Institute of Social Studies & Leiden University, The Netherlands

Do Private Market Models for Health Care Work; What is the Evidence?
(see also presentation slides )
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau
University of Texas

5. Civil-Military Relations, Terrorism, and the Protection of Human Rights 

Soldiers and Politics: Discourse and Institutions in the Democratic Transitions of Brazil and Spain
Kathryn L. Wood
San José State University
Kai Michael Kenkel
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Managing the Terrorist Challenge to Democracy
Preston King

Terrorism and human rights: Chechen conflict
Alexander Sungurov 

The State of Studies on Islamist Extremism in Southeast Asia – Focus on Indonesia
Bilveer Singh
National University of Singapore