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This workshop, sponsored by the University of East Africa and the Institute of Social Research at Makerere University College, with additional financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation, was subdivided into two brief conferences. The underlying idea was that the more traditional disciplinary concerns of the political scientists of East Africa should form the basis for the first day, after which the workshop would broaden into an interdisciplinary experiment, with additional participants.

Presents a model of discipline-dominated policy research within political science. Given its tradition of inquiry, methods and norms, a constricted focus for policy research follows. (PFB)

THE CHURCH IS HAVING DIFFICULTY PROVIDING A MORAL CODE APPLYING TO WAR AND PEACE, BECAUSE OF THE AMBIVALENCE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ON THE ISSUE, THE ATTITUDES OF THE CHURCH TOWARDS WAR HAVE VARIED CONSIDERABLY OVER HISTORY, AND SOCIOLOGICALLY THERE IS NOT SINGLE "THE CHURCH," BUT A GREAT NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS. YET IT HAS NOW DAWNED ON THE CHURCHES THAT THEY LIVE IN A NUCLEAR AGE. THE CHURCHES OF POORER COUNTRIES HAVE BROUGHT POVERTY TO ATTENTION. TRANSNATIONAL AND BILATERAL CONTRACTS OF ALL SORTS HAVE ALSO FACILITATED THE CHURCHES' DISCUSSIONS ON THESE ISSUES.

Comparative method in political science is currently going through a critical time, particularly after the failure of developmentalism, and of the classical paradigm of comparative government. This crisis stems from questioning universalism, mono-determinism and the compartmentalism between political science and history. New paradigms are conceived in order to overcome this. (Abstract amended)

The governance of research ethics in Canada, including its research ethics boards (REBs),
which correspond to the institutional review boards in the U.S., often is portrayed as an
exemplary model of cross-disciplinary cooperation and consultation that is altruistically
striving to protect research subjects from abuses in biomedical, social sciences, and
humanities research. While there is indeed a great deal of altruism and good intention among
those involved in this governance, power and interests also play a role that is of
particular concern for political scientists. Governance arrangements have been driven by
biomedical research, which is vastly better funded than social sciences and humanities (SSH)
research. These arrangements have been imposed on the SSH research community with little
sensitivity to the distinctive problems of SSH research, despite concerns about such
problems that political scientists and other SSH researchers have expressed for a decade. A
recent proposal initiated by major research funders to dramatically strengthen research
ethics governance has generated even more alarm.

LASSWELLT:h e first of our discussants is of the discipline that the rest of the social scientists examine with mixed feelings of respect and envy, namely, economics. Prof. Jan Tinbergen. TINBERGEIN p: ropose not only to give a very brief summary of my paper but to add a few remarks that are inspired by the discussions in these two and a half days. In my paper I trace how, during the last century and a half, both the aims and the means of social economic policies have changed. A number of social objectives have been added to the aims, especially care for the weak and income distribution generally, but other social objectives as well.

The democratisation movement which has been transforming the Central and Eastern European countries had important repercussions on the role and status of the social sciences in these societies. Describes the changes in this respect. (Abstract amended)

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This section lists upcoming book publications across the broad field
of political science. This list is fully reader-generated. If your
first-edition book is scheduled for publication in the three months
before publication of the next issue of PS, enter
the details of publication in the box found at PS's
web site: www.apsanet.org/section_223.cfm. We hope that
spreading word of upcoming work will help keep our members even more
attune to new scholarship within the discipline.

What are the social sciences? What unifies them? This essay collection seeks to answer these and other important questions as it considers how the field has developed over the years, from post-World War II to the present day throughout the world. Edited by Cyril Lemieux, Laurent Berger, Marielle Macé, Gildas Salmon, and Cécile Vidal, A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books brings together a diverse range of researchers in the social sciences to present short essays on 101 books – both renowned and lesser known – that have shaped the field, from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) to Michel Aglietta's Money: 5000 Years of Debt and Power (2016). While there have been surveys and intellectual histories of particular disciplines within the social sciences (history, anthropology, sociology), until now there has been no intellectual history of the social sciences as a unified whole. Far from presenting a fixed and frozen canon, A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books offers instead a moving, multiform landscape with no settled questions, only an ongoing series of new perspectives and challenges to previously established grounding.