The Political Methodology Section would like to again offer APSA 
Working Groups for the 2008 Annual Meeting.  These are a relatively new 
feature of the meetings and

"...are a small group of meeting attendees interested in a common topic 
who agree to attend panels and plenaries aligned with the topic [and] 
meet daily for discussion of the events. The idea is to stimulate a 
working group conference experience amidst APSA panels." [APSA 2007 
Program]

Political methodology has sponsored several of these at the past couple 
of meetings, with good response.

To offer the APSA Working Groups, we need interested leaders/volunteer 
coordinators (and, of course, a topic).  As a volunteer coordinator, you 
would be expected to facilitate discussion but not lecture on it, and in 
my experience, these tend to be pretty much self-organizing once the venue 
is provided to bring people together. Working Groups give coordinators the 
opportunity to create a forum to talk about important topics within the 
field of political methodology, and allows all participants to get 
involved in the Annual Meeting and encourages networking.

Please contact me if you are interested in serving as a leader/volunteer 
coordinatior for the Political Methodology Section's efforts in this area 
for the 2008 Annual Meeting.

Thanks.

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Philip A. Schrodt             Dept of Political Science
University of Kansas          Blake Hall, Room 523
1541 Lilac Lane               Lawrence, KS   66045    USA
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Home page:                    http://people.ku.edu/~schrodt
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New Kind of Social Science:   http://www.nkss.org/
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