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ASSOCIATION NEWS
Amid sunny skies and cool temperatures in San Francisco, 5,857 political scientists gathered for the ninety-seventh APSA Annual Meeting held August 29 to September 2 at the Hilton San Francisco, Hotel Nikko and Renaissance Parc Fifty-Five hotels (and were lodged at eight additional hotels within walking distance). With members of the press, exhibitors and guests, the total attendance was 6,282, exceeding any previous West Coast meetings by more than 700 total attendees.
The 2001 program, organized by 49 division chairs who reviewed proposals for 46 divisions, was led by Program Co-chairs Edward Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania, and Richard Sisson, Ohio State University. The Co-chairs organized 10 panels within their selected theme, "Political Knowledge and the Public Interest," which included discussion of one paper presented in each panel. Twenty-- one other panels were designated as theme panels and organized by the program committee.
The two highest attendance figures among program panels scheduled during daily timeslots were recorded for Panel 3-13, "What Is Political Theory" (263 attendees), and Panel 1-6: "Roundtable on Rereading Rawls: A Theory of Justice after Thirty Years" (129 attendees). The Claremont Institute-sponsored panel, "Roundtable on Saul Bellow's Ravelstein" attracted the largest audience among Related Group panels, with 86 attendees.
Nearly 400 poster presenters attracted crowds during each of the five sessions held Thursday through Saturday, organized by themes and spanning Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Methodology, American Politics, and Teaching and Learning in Political Science. Eleven Ralph Bunche Institute students presented research in the poster sessions and joined research support institutions, including the U.S. Department of...