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ence in 1974 ("Doing Before Know-
ing: Concept Development in Polit-
ical Research"). Drawing very much
on the notions adumbrated by
Abraham Kaplan, Jones argues the
necessity for working out conceptual-
ization of a research problem at the
stage of the design of the study.
Classification can take on three dis-
tinct purposes—for general under-
standing, to order research expecta-
tions, and to sort out empirical
results. His argument runs as
follows:

The first is classification for general
understanding—ordering a universe of
discourse with a set of concepts so as
to state one's own best understanding
of that subject matter and be able to
communicate with others about it. We
do this whenever we write about a
subject, whether we intend to do
research about it or not. The second is
classification of research expecta-
tions—projecting what is to be found.
The concepts used here may be iden-
tical with or logically derived from the
preceding, and aid one in designing a
specific research project. The third is
classification of empirical findings—
ordering findings so as to add to,
modify, or reject the expectations. . . .

Jones's research corpus strongly
reflects this straightforward set of
intellectual practices, this process of
"doing before knowing."

Epilogue

I often think about my friend
Chuck Jones. Over the years, I have
gotten his books, received offprints
of his articles from him, and read
each publication as it came into
print. Still, I never before this read
the scholarly productivity of his
entire career in one swoop. My
admiration for my friend as a fellow
political scientist has grown with this
experience, though I always held his
research in very high esteem.

Still, in the end it is my personal
relationship with Chuck Jones that
counts the most. A friend is a prec-
ious gift. Not too many people are
blessed with a close and lifetime
friend. Henry Adams thought "one
friend in a lifetime is much; two are
many; three are hardly possible." He
perceptively added, "friendship needs
a certain parallelism of life, a com-
munity of thought, a rivalry of

aim." It may have been an accident
that Chuck Jones and I came to
experience parallel life experiences,
but this has reinforced our lifelong
friendship. " A friend," wrote Ralph
Waldo Emerson, "is a person with
whom I may be sincere. Before him,
I may think aloud. . . . " Chuck
Jones and I "think aloud" whenever
we meet. I am proud of my friend
that he has achieved eminence in our
discipline so substantial as to earn
him the presidency of the American
Political Science Association.

Washington Annual
Meeting Largest Ever

The 89th Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Associa-
tion set a new attendance record for
APSA meetings, drawing 5,635 par-
ticipants to the Washington Hilton.
The previous record for attendance
was the 1991 meeting, also in Wash-
ington, which drew 5,179 people.

Featured at the meeting was the
Presidential Address by Lucius J.
Barker, Stanford University, titled
"Limits of Political Strategy: A Sys-
temic View of the African-American
Experience." President Barker was
introduced by Jack Peltason, Presi-
dent of the University of California.
The James Madison Lecture was
given by Sidney Verba, APSA's
President-Elect; and the John Gaus

APSA President Lucius Barker and Univer-
sity of California President Jack Peltason.

President Barker and President-Elect Jones
with Health and Human Services Secretary
Donna Shalala.

Lecture was presented by Francis E.
Rourke, Johns Hopkins University.
Barker's address will appear in the
March 1994 issue of APSR and
Verba's and Rourke's are featured in
this issue of PS.

The meeting also included two
experimental activities—Poster Ses-
sions and Hyde Park Sessions. The
former were display presentations in
which key elements of papers were
posted, and presenters stood by to
discuss them individually with view-
ers; the latter were open assemblies
guided by a chairperson addressing
timely political topics. Attendance at
both formats was strong—the Hyde
Park sessions in particular were
attractive, drawing 24 participants to
the discussion on humanitarian inter-
vention in Bosnia and Somalia led by
Miles Kahler, University of Cali-
fornia, San Diego, and 52 to Gays in
the Military—What Is to be Done,
led by Theodore Lowi, Cornell Uni-
versity. APSA was also able to dis-
tribute a large block of tickets to
members, on a first-come-first-served
basis, to visit the newly opened
Holocaust Museum during the
meeting.

The meeting was co-organized by
Peter Gourevitch, University of Cali-
fornia, San Diego, and Paula
McClain, University of Virginia, and
a 42-member program committee,

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Sidney Verba delivers the James Madison
lecture.

who focused the meeting around the
theme: the politics of identity. The
meeting included 544 regular panels,
about the same as last year and sig-
nificantly more than the previous
year when meeting rooms in neigh-
boring hotels were unavailable to us.
Four hundred forty-three panels were
offered as part of the APSA pro-
gram, seven by APSA committees,
and 92 by related groups such as the
Claremont Institute and the Gay and
Lesbian Political Science Caucus.

Average panel attendance, 35 peo-
ple per panel, was significantly
higher than previous meetings, even
accounting for this year's high over-
all attendance. Last year's attendance
was 28 per panel, and the year
before was 31.

The most heavily attended panel
was a roundtable on Ideas and
Foreign Policy: The State of Study
chaired by Judith Goldstein of Stan-
ford University. The participants in
this panel, and all other panels with

at least 100 participants, are listed
separately here. The most heavily
attended panel at which papers were
presented was The Return of
Naturalism, chaired by Arlene
Saxonhouse, University of Michigan.

The list of heavily attended panels
is a striking reflection of the breadth
and diversity of interest in the pro-
fession—covering foreign policy,
international relations, democratic
citizenship, third parties in U.S. poli-
tics, rational choice, Allan Bloom,
and Hannah Arendt, among many

The APSA Book Exhibit—the largest such
exhibit in the world.

Members of the delegation from the Japanese
Political Science Association.

other subjects. The participation of
women in these leading panels also
stands out—women comprise 23 per-
cent of these panel participants and
organizers. By comparison, women
are 19 percent of all faculty, and 10
percent of faculty holding senior
rank.

Other notable activities at the
meeting were the honoring of faculty
who have received campus-wide
teaching awards at their home insti-
tutions. Nineteen panels at the meet-
ing were also identified as focusing
on teaching in political science. Pre-
meeting activities included workshops
for department chairs on good prac-
tice to advance professional ethics,
on assessment programs, and on
identifying and evaluating faculty
roles and responsibilities. Eleven
short courses for political scientists
were offered before the meeting by
APSA's Organized Sections. These
covered topics from Intellectual
Challenges to the Parties after 1992
to Teaching about Security in a
Changing World.

Five foreign scholars received
APSA travel grants to attend the

Officers and members of the Transforma-
tional Politics Section honor Jeff Fishel (far
left).

meeting, joined by 16 scholars travel-
ing on USIA funds and 34 graduate
students funded by APSA, the Asia
Foundation, and the Huang Hsing
Foundation. The Japanese Political
Science Association also held a joint
panel at the meeting. Several events
also featured graduate student par-
ticipation at the meeting, including
the Leading Scholars Series presenta-
tion offered by Richard F. Fenno,
Jr., and the well-attended annual
Graduate Student Reception.

Most Heavily Attended
Roundtables and Panels at the
1993 APSA Annual Meeting

Roundtable on Ideas and Foreign
Policy: The State of Study

Chair: Judith Goldstein, Stanford
University

Participants: Judith Goldstein, Stan-
ford University; Peter M. Haas, Uni-
versity of Massachusetts-Amherst;
Friedrich V. Kratochwil, University

Officers of the Gay and Lesbian Caucus,
Joan Tronto (L) and Robert Baily (R).

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of Pennsylvania; Richard N. Lebow,
University of Pittsburgh; Geoffrey
M. Garrett, Stanford University;
Kathryn A. Sikkink, University of
Minnesota. Discussants: Stephen D.
Krasner, Stanford University; Robert
O. Keohane, Harvard University

Identity and International Relations:
Civilizations in Conflict?

Chair: Fareed Zakaria, Foreign
Affairs

Participants: Samuel Huntington,
Harvard University; Stephen M.
Walt, University of Chicago; Michael
W. Doyle, Princeton University;
*ohn G. Ruggie, Columbia
University

Destructive Generation? Roundtable
on the Legacy of the 1960s and
Its Impact on Liberal Democratic
Citizenship

Chair: Stephen Macedo, Harvard
University

Participants: Harvey C. Mansfield,
Jr., Harvard University; Martha
Nussbaum, Brown University; Cass
R. Sunstein, University of Chicago;
Sheldon S. Wolin

In Memoriam: The Political Thought
of Judith N. Shklar

Participants: Michael Walzer, Prince-
ton University; Amy Gutmann,
Princeton University; Nancy L.
Rosenblum, Brown University; Seyla
Benhabib, New School for Social
Research; Patrick Riley, University
of Wisconsin-Madison; Bruce Acker-
man, Yale University

Roundtable on Third Parties
in American Politics:
Obstacles and Opportunities

Chair: Joel Rogers, University of
Wisconsin

Participants: Walter Dean Burnham,
University of Texas-Austin; Theo-
dore J. Lowi, Cornell University;
Ralph Nader, Esq., Center for Study
of Responsive Law; Steven J. Rosen-
stone, University of Michigan; Jerry
G. Watts, Trinity College; Linda
Faye Williams, University of
Maryland

The Causes and Consequences of
Divided and Unified Government:
A Roundtable

Chair: Charles O. Jones, University
of Wisconsin-Madison

Participants: Morris Fiorina, Har-
vard University; Gary C. Jacobson,
University of California-San Diego;
David R. Mayhew, Yale University

Roundtable on International
Relations Theory and Contemporary
International Relations

Chair: Miles Kahler, University of
California-San Diego

Participants: Judith Goldstein, Stan-
ford University; Joanne Gowa,
Princeton University; Robert Powell,
University of California-Berkeley;
Janice Gross Stein, University of
Toronto

The Return of Naturalism

Chair: Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Uni-
versity of Michigan

Papers: "From Method to Sub-
stance: Human Nature and Natural-
ism in Political Theory," Roger D.
Masters, Dartmouth College; "The
Impact of Scientific Realism on the
Human Sciences," Ian Shapiro and
Alexander Wendt, Yale University.
Discussants: Richard Rorty, Univer-
sity of Virginia; Richard Miller, Cor-
nell University

Cultural Differences and
Democratic Justice

Chair: Joseph H. Carens, University
of Toronto

Participants: Amy Gutmann, Prince-
ton University; Michael Walzer,
Princeton University; Will Kymlicka,
University of Western Ontario; Mary
Ellen Turpel, Dalhousie Law School;
Joseph H . Carens, University of
Toronto

Roundtable: Theda SkocpoVs
"Protecting Soldiers and Mothers"
(Winner of the 1993 Woodrow
Wilson Book Award)

Participants: Theda Skocpol, Har-
vard University; Russell L. Hanson,
Indiana University; Ira Katznelson,
New School for Social Research;
Sonia Michel, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign; Deborah Stone,
Brandeis University

What Is Philosophy:
Rationalism, Noesis, Mysticism?
The Strauss-Voegelin Debate—
Roundtable I

Chair: Barry Cooper, University of
Calgary

Participants: James L. Wiser, Loyola
University Chicago; Ernest L. Fortin,
Boston College; Daniel Mahoney,
Assumption College; Juergen Geb-
hardt, University of Erlangen-Nuern-
berg; John Von Keyking, University
of Calgary; Walter J. Thompson,
University of Notre Dame

In Memory of Allan Bloom: Politics
and the Great Literary Tradition

Chair: Thomas L. Pangle, University
of Toronto

Papers: "The Learned Theban:
Philosophy and Nature in 'King
Lear,' " Paul Cantor, The University
of Virginia; "Politics, Poetry and
Prophecy in 'Don Quixote,' " Henry
Higuera, St. John's College;
"Goethe," Werner J. Dannhauser,
Michigan State University

Rational Choice Models
and Empirical Evidence

Chair: Keith Krehbiel, Stanford
University

Papers: "Empirical Tests of Rational
Choice Theory: A Critical Assess-
ment," Donald Green and Ian
Shapiro, Yale University; " A
Dynamic Model of Loss, Retirement
and Tenure in the U.S. House of
Representatives," John B. Gilmour
and Paul Rothstein, Washington
University; " A New Paradox of Vote
Aggregation," Steven J. Brams, New
York University, D. Marc Kilgour,
Wilfrid Laurier University, William
S. Zwicker, Union College; "Envi-
ronmentally Induced Equilibria,"
Carol Mock, University of Illinois.
Discussants: Daniel Diermeier, Uni-
versity of Rochester; Keith Krehbiel,
Stanford University

A Roundtable on Congressional
Reform: The Members' Perspectives

Chair: Steven S. Smith, University of
Minnesota

Participants: David L. Boren, U.S.
Senate; Pete Domenici, U.S. Senate;
David Dreier, U.S. House of Repre-

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sentatives; Lee H. Hamilton, U.S.
House of Representatives

Roundtable on Bill Clinton:
First Appraisals of Foreign Policy
and the Foreign Policy Process

Chair: Bert A. Rockman, University
of Pittsburgh

Participants: Herbert Dittgen, Georg-
August Universitaet; Fred I. Green-
stein, Princeton University; Thomas
E. Mann, The Brookings Institution;
Pietro S. Nivola, The Brookings
Institution; Robert D. Putnam,
Harvard University

Feminist Perspectives on
Hannah Arendt

Chair: Kirstie M. McClure, Johns
Hopkins University

Papers: "Post-Colonial Orders:
From Africa to Little Rock," Anne
Norton, University of Texas-Austin;
"Language and the Body in Arendt
and Kristeva," Linda Zerilli, Rutgers
University; "The Pariah and Her
Shadow: On the Invisibility of
Women in Hannah Arendt's Political
Philosophy," Seyla Benhabib, New
School for Social Research. Dis-
cussants: Lisa Disch, University of
Minnesota; Bonnie Honig, Harvard
University

Association Distributes
Annual Awards

Dissertations submitted by the
University of California, Berkeley,
won two of eight dissertation awards
presented at the Awards Ceremony
at the Annual Meeting September 2.
James D. Fearon, now at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, was presented the
Helen Dwight Reid Award in the
field of international relations, law
and politics; Meta Mendel-Reyes,
currently at Swarthmore College, was
the recipient of the Leo Strauss
Award in the field of political
philosophy. Kenneth Waltz and
Hanna Pitkin were the respective
dissertation chairs.

Other dissertation winners were
Daniel M. Green, Indiana University,
the Gabriel A. Almond Award in the
field of comparative politics, Patrick
O'Meara of Indiana University dis-
sertation chair; Grant D. Reeher,

Theda Skocpol (R) receives the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation Award from Charles
Hamilton (L).

Syracuse University, the William
Anderson Award in the field of state
and local politics, federalism or inter-
governmental relations, David
Mayhew of Yale University disser-
tation chair; Andrew Koppelman,
Princeton University, the Edward S.
Corwin Award in the field of public
law, Bruce Ackerman of Yale Uni-
versity dissertation chair; Scott Sig-
mund Gartner, University of Mich-
igan, and Mark C. Rom, University
of Wisconsin-Madison, the Harold
D. Lasswell Award in the field of
policy studies, Robert Axelrod and
Kenneth N. Waltz dissertation chairs
respectively; David King, Harvard
University, the E. E. Schattschneider
Award in the field of American gov-
ernment and politics, Richard Hall
and John Kingdon of the University

Barbara Geddes awards John D. Huber the
Heinz Eulau Award.

of Michigan dissertation chairs;
James Anthony Falk, University of
Georgia, the Leonard D. White
Award in the field of public admin-
istration, Jerome S. Legge, Jr., Uni-
versity of Georgia dissertation chair.

John D. Huber, University of
Michigan, was the recipient of the
Heinz Eulau Award for the best arti-
cle published in The American Polit-
ical Science Review during 1991.
George Tsebelis, University of Cali-
fornia, Los Angeles, was presented
the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma
Alpha Award for the best paper pre-
sented at the 1992 Annual Meeting.

Book Award winners included
Rodney E. Hero, University of Colo-
rado, Boulder, who won the Ralph

Virginia Sapiro (L) receives the Victoria
Schuck Award from Roberta Sigel (R).

Rodney Hero, the 1993 Ralph Bunche Award
winner.

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