Call for Papers: Conference at Harvard on Networks in Political Science

The study of networks has exploded over the last decade, both in the
social and hard sciences. From sociology to biology, there has been a
paradigm shift from a focus on the units of the system to the
relationships among those units. Despite a tradition incorporating
network ideas dating back at least 70 years, political science has been
largely left out of this recent creative surge. This has begun to change,
as witnessed, for example, by an exponential increase in network-related
research presented at the major disciplinary conferences.

We therefore announce an open call for paper proposals for presentation
at a conference on "Networks in Political Science" (NIPS), aimed at _all_
of the subdisciplines of political science. NIPS is supported by the
National Science Foundation, and sponsored by the Program on Networked
Governance at Harvard University.

The conference will take place June 13-14. Preceding the conference will
be a series of workshops introducing existing substantive areas of
research, statistical methods (and software packages) for dealing with
the distinctive dependencies of network data, and network visualization.
There will be a $50 conference fee. Limited funding will be available to
defray the costs of attendance for doctoral students and recent (post
2005) PhDs. Funding may be available for graduate students not presenting
papers, but preference will be given to students using network analysis
in their dissertations.  Women and minorities are especially encouraged
to apply.

The deadline for submitting a paper proposal is March 1, 2008. Proposals
should include a title and a one-paragraph abstract. Graduate students
and recent Ph.D.'s applying for funding should also include their CV, a
letter of support from their advisor, and a brief statement about their
intended use of network analysis. Send them to
[log in to unmask] The final program will be available
at www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov.



Program Committee: Christopher Ansell (UCBerkeley), James Fowler (UCSD),
Michael Heaney (Florida), David Lazer (Harvard), Scott McClurg (Southern
Illinois), John Padgett (Chicago), John Scholz (Florida State), Sarah
Reckhow (UCBerkeley), Paul Thurner (Mannheim), and Michael Ward
(University of Washington).

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