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COCTA PROGRAMS

AT MONTREAL/ISA CONGRESS (JULY 1998) AND
APSA CONFERENCE (SEPT. 1998)

The ISA Congress -- COCTA Sessions

• Monday, July 27
• 9:00 - 12:00 Special Session: Lowi/Calise, "Hyperpolitics Project"
• 14:00 Ohly (11) SS(I);
• 16:30 Ohly (12) SS(II) and
• 20-22:30 Special Session: Van Meter, "New Technologies"
• Tuesday, July 28
• 14:00 Teune (2) Globalization;
• 16:30 Dreier (8) Theory
• 16:30 Chase-Dunn and Bornscheier (Ad Hoc) "Future of Globalization: I"
• Wednesday, July 29
• 9:00 Malkia (5) Rhetorics;
• 14:00 Schmidt (3) Constructivism
• 16:30 Riggs (7) Projects;
• Thursday, July 30
• 9:00-12:00 Special Session: Oyen (CROP)
• 14:00 RC35 business (1);
• 16:30 Malkia (4) Language
• 16:30 Chase-Dunn and Bornscheier (Ad Hoc) "Future of Globalization: II"
• Friday, July 31
• 14:00 Dreier (9) Action;
• 16:30 Dreier (10) Simulation

1. A Panel Sponsored by IPSA/COCTA, on Thursday, 3 September:

CONCEPTS, COMPARISON, AND JARGON

Chair: George Graham, Vanderbilt University

Papers:

Causality and Concept Transformation in Comparative Politics
David Woodruff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Concept of a "Concept"
Robert Adcock, UC Berkeley

Why Don't Political Scientists Coin More New Terms?
Fred Schaffer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Putting Concepts to Work: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research
David Collier, UC Berkeley

Discussants.:

Michael Freeden, Oxford University
John Gerring, Boston University

2. A Special Session on Friday, September 4:

Co-sponsored by APSA Committees on Undergraduate Education, Computers, and Political Economy, and the International Political Science Association.

Chair:Fred W. Riggs, University of Hawaii

Paper: Hyperpolitics: Using Hypertext for Developing and Teaching Key Concepts in Political Science
Theodore J. Lowi, Cornell University, President of the International Political Science Association.
Mauro Calise, University of Naples

Discussants:
George J. Graham, Jr., Vanderbilt University
John Gerring , University of Texas, Dallas
Bernard Grofman, UCI