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WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION WPSA President Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Program Chair Gary Seguar are planning the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association scheduled for March 28-30, 2013 at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, California. We hope you will participate in the program. Please note that the deadline for submission of participation forms is September 17, 2012. The forms to participate will be available in early July.
PGI: Politics, Groups and IdentitiesThe Western Political Science Association is pleased to announce the publication of a new journal Politics, Groups and Identities. This new journal will be - along with the Political Research Quarterly -- an official journal of the association. This is the first official journal launched by a major regional association in over fifty years.At the WPSA Executive Council meeting in September, the council appointed the first editorial team to lead in the development and publication of the journal. The team consists of Lisa García Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley; Rosalee Clawson, Purdue; Ange-Marie Hancock, USC; Kerry Haynie, Duke; James McCann, Purdue; Eric Waltenburg, Purdue; and Laurel Weldon, Purdue. Lead editorship for the journal will rotate among the four Purdue scholars, with Rosalee Clawson serving as the first editor. Purdue University is providing generous support for the editorial team in helping to get the journal off the ground. PGI is to be launched in January 2013 and will concern questions and issues of identity politics. Questions of minority rights and minority identities are increasingly prominent both in the academy and the wider world. PGI will offer a new platform for work that focuses on the politics of social identity and religious, gender, ethnic and racial minority groups to which scholars in a range of sub-fields can submit articles -- theory, American politics, comparative politics, and international relations. The new journal will be more than simply a new home for scholarship-it will also become an important vehicle for developing scholarship on the topic. It will encourage the search for overlapping themes and arguments and help to develop a comparative literature on these topics both across fields and, conceivably, across the social sciences.
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