From: owner-polcan-digest To: polcan-digest@sfu.ca Subject: polcan-digest V1 #182 Reply-To: polcan Errors-To: owner-polcan-digest Precedence: bulk polcan-digest Wednesday, 7 May 1997 Volume 01 : Number 182 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Susan McCorquodale Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 20:49:46 -0700 Subject: Re: MPs John Wilson wrote: > > I am delighted to concede that I overlooked the very clear provisions of > section 13 of the Canada Elections Act. I would suggest to my friends in > Saskatchewan, however, that whatever the Act may say it would be a very > foolish prime minister who ignored the recommendation of the Chief > Electoral Officer in such a case. Indeed, as is now known, the prime > minister has said that he will accept whatever Mr. Kingsley says. That > hardly sounds to me like the kind of illustration Gordon Barnhart ought > to have been looking for to answer the question of who is in charge after > dissolution. > > A much better example would be a matter of great controversy where the > government and the opposition disagreed. How about Kim Campbell's > decision to sign the Pearson Airport Agreements during the 1993 campaign? > There was a very clear case. In Australia such a decision would not, by a > very explicit convention, have been permitted. > > The probable truth is that the cabinet are, as Jim Mallory once put it, > "the Crown's ministers. . . . For them to lay down their responsibilities > . . . for two months . . . between . . . dissolution , , , and a general > election, would be for them flagrantly to dishonor their oaths as privy > councillors" - but they ought nonetheless to govern with some recognition > that caution is required. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > John Wilson Telephone: (519) 888-4567, x2108 > Department of Political Science Fax: (519) 746-5622 > University of Waterloo > Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 Home Telephone: (519) 725-1869 > Fax: (519) 725-9480 (call > E-mail: wilson@watarts.uwaterloo.ca ahead to 725-1869) John: I am reading my mail in a most unfamiliar place, Netscape instead of telnet to dear old MUN. I now think both you and Barnhard are right: he on the de jure reading of things; you on the de facto. No PM in these circumstances, ie. the flood not the signing of the toronto airport deal, would never never reject Mr. JPK's recommendations. As I listened to Lloyd Axworthy yesterday, he would be GLAD for JPK to take him/them off the hook. Now about this business of coming to be Learned. Let me know, would you like to be a chair of a public adm. section and thereby get your name on the programme. (and win my undying love) susan - -- Susan McCorquodale Susan McCorquodale ------------------------------ From: yjo@tky.threewebnet.or.jp (yukiko JO) Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 22:27:15 +0900 (JST) Subject: Information on International Pol.Sc.Congress in Seoul Dear list members: Does anyone know who I should contact to get information on International Political Science Congress to be held in late August in Seoul? If anyone knows, could you please email me. Thank you very much for your help. Yukiko Jo Email: yjo@tky.threewebnet.or.jp ------------------------------ From: Gordon Barnhart Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 09:00:35 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: MPs Thank you John for your concession. It is now my turn to concede a point to you. I agree that my example was not a strong one but it is current and it is an example of the cabinet acting during a period of dissolution. Your example of Pearson airport is a good one where the cabinet made a controversial decision during an election. I do not think though that you are suggesting that this action by the Campbell government was "usual"-- are you? Would you not agree that usually a government avoids controversial orders in council during the election period and would reserve their power for "urgent" matters? I agree with Susan that the government would be relieved if JPK recommended a delay in the election for all or part of Manitoba. The Liberals would welcome the delay for practical and political reasons. Gordon Barnhart. U of S. ------------------------------ From: A.Wiener@sussex.ac.uk (Antje Wiener) Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 16:18:32 BST Subject: Re: Information on International Pol.Sc.Congress in Seoul Yukiko Jo, Here is a contact address RE IPSA 97: Local Organizing Committee Yonsei University Seoul 120-749 Korea TEL +82-2-361-4499 FAX +82-2-393-0126 email: ipsa97@bubble.yonsei.ac.kr Best, Antje. On Sun, 4 May 1997 22:27:15 +0900 (JST) yukiko JO wrote: > From: yukiko JO > Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 22:27:15 +0900 (JST) > Subject: Information on International Pol.Sc.Congress in Seoul > To: polcan@sfu.ca > > Dear list members: > Does anyone know who I should contact to get information on International > Political Science Congress to be held in late August in Seoul? If anyone > knows, could you please email me. > Thank you very much for your help. > > Yukiko Jo > Email: yjo@tky.threewebnet.or.jp > - ------------------------------------------------------ Antje Wiener Sussex European Institute, A 62, University of Sussex UK-Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN TEL +44 (0)1273 606755 ext. 2322, FAX +44 (0)1273 678571 email: a.wiener@sussex.ac.uk, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/SEI/welcome.html ******************* Institute for Political Science, University of Hannover Schneiderberg 50, D-30167 Hannover, GERMANY TEl +49 (0)511 762-4683, FAX +49 (0)511 762-4199 ------------------------------ From: John Wilson Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 12:48:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: MPs Gordon, now that Kingsley has said no I invite you to look again at section 13 and tell me whether, in this event, it is open to the cabinet to order the withdrawal of the write anyway? If it is not, then who is in charge - the CEO or the cabinet? I pick the Campbell example for exactly the reason you suggest. It was a case of the government, after dissolution, making a decision in a matter that as I have argued at greater length elsewhere ought to have been left untouched. It is, in other words, very clear proof that cabinet can do as it thinks best after dissolution. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Wilson Telephone: (519) 888-4567, x2108 Department of Political Science Fax: (519) 746-5622 University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 Home Telephone: (519) 725-1869 Fax: (519) 725-9480 (call E-mail: wilson@watarts.uwaterloo.ca ahead to 725-1869) ------------------------------ From: Calvin Hanselmann Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 11:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Canada Elections Act and Manitoba Flood Fellow Subscribers: Although Prof. Wilson has invited Gordon Barnhart to reply, as I raised the issue of s. 13 first, I believe it proper for me to express an opinion. Section 13 is very clear on this matter. The Chief Electoral Officer must certify that it is impracticable to hold an election -- and he has chosen to do otherwise -- before Cabinet becomes involved. From the media reports I have heard this morning, I assume that J-PK has chosen to use s. 9 of the Act. In this regard, Prof. Wilson, your original reference is correct: the CEO is in charge. May I be so presumptuous as to offer my congratulations on picking this one? Regards, Calvin Hanselmann ------------------------------ From: "Thomas Bateman" Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 14:35:09 MST Subject: MPs Thanks to all of you for an interesting exchange on whether MPs can be MPs -- and be called MPs -- after dissolution of Parliament. Embedded in this last sentence is my interpretation of the outcome of the discussion.technically they are probably not MPs because Parliament as a functioning body does not exist. However, many of the accroutements of being an MP continue: salary, use of constituency offices, and the public status of being an elected representative of a constituency. So perhaps they are de jure not MPs but, de facto, they are. A typically Canadian circumstance, sounds like.... Tom Bateman ***************************** Thomas M.J.Bateman Political Studies Augustana University College 4901-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta T4V 2R3 Canada (403)679-1154 batemant@augustana.ab.ca ------------------------------ From: Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 12:06:43 +1200 Subject: self determination for b.c. greetings from down under i am a 45 year old masters student in international relations doing some research on the above topic. this has proved rather dificult, and i am looking for any pointers i can get to people or resources that would help to describe the topic can you possibly help kind regards clare radomske ------------------------------ From: John Ballard Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 08:23:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Australian conference list The Australian Humanities Review, an electronic journal, now has a list of forthcoming conferences in the humanities and social sciences, with links to information on each. It's at http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/goodo/home.html Dr J A Ballard Graduate School, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Tel 61 6 2495487 Fax 61 6 2494829 Graduate School web page http://online.anu.edu.au/academia/graduate/ ------------------------------ From: "Jim Brander" Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 14:05:16 PST8PDT Subject: UBC Election Stock Market I would like to alert as many people as possible to the 1997 UBC Election Stock Market. This is a market on which traders buy and sell shares of political parties, with payoffs being based on the parties' performance in the upcoming federal election. The market is now operating as a very slick web-based interface and is run by Tom Ross and Werner Antweiler. If you are at all curious, just point your web browser to http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/ubc-esm/ I would then suggest selecting the button "today's prices" to see what is going on. This is quite interesting even if you do not want to become a trader. If you are interested in becoming a trader, all the information you need is on the web page. The market has only just started up, so we are trying to get the word out as soon as possible. There will be coverage in the major newspapers, but not for a few days yet, so we are trying to use e-mail as much as possible. Sorry for the intrusion, but there is a good chance you will find the election stock market interesting if you take a look. Jim Brander ***************************************************** James A. Brander Faculty of Commerce University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2 Canada ph: (604) 822-8483 fax:(604) 822-8477 web page: http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/brander/brander.html ------------------------------ From: John Wilson Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 00:56:00 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: UBC Election Stock Market Only in British Columbia! - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Wilson Telephone: (519) 888-4567, x2108 Department of Political Science Fax: (519) 746-5622 University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 Home Telephone: (519) 725-1869 Fax: (519) 725-9480 (call E-mail: wilson@watarts.uwaterloo.ca ahead to 725-1869) On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jim Brander wrote: > I would like to alert as many people as possible to the 1997 UBC > Election Stock Market. This is a market on which traders buy and sell > shares of political parties, with payoffs being based on the parties' > performance in the upcoming federal election. The market is now > operating as a very slick web-based interface and is run by Tom Ross > and Werner Antweiler. > > If you are at all curious, just point your web browser to > > http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/ubc-esm/ > > I would then suggest selecting the button "today's prices" to see what > is going on. This is quite interesting even if you do not want to > become a trader. If you are interested in becoming a trader, all the > information you need is on the web page. > > The market has only just started up, so we are trying to get the word > out as soon as possible. There will be coverage in the major > newspapers, but not for a few days yet, so we are trying to use e-mail > as much as possible. > > Sorry for the intrusion, but there is a good chance you will find the > election stock market interesting if you take a look. > > Jim Brander > ***************************************************** > > > James A. Brander > Faculty of Commerce > University of British Columbia > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2 > Canada > > ph: (604) 822-8483 > fax:(604) 822-8477 > web page: http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/brander/brander.html > ------------------------------ From: Mike McCaffrey-Noviss Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 07:36:40 -0800 Subject: International web pages for your perusal ***CROSS-POSTED TO IPE, ISAFP INT-LAW and H-DIPLO*** Greetings: I would like to draw everyone's attention to the following resources. The first two are works in progress you may find useful. The third has been put up to encourage submissions and discussion. If anyone has any comments on the last site, we would appreciate it. While these are more of current than historical interest, you may find something of use in them. http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/foreign.html http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html These are large lists of links to foreign countries and IGOs. They are maintained on a regular basis. Updated versions are mounted about once a week. We concentrate on breadth rather than depth of coverage to keep them simple. If you wish to take them away to edit and use yourelves, please link to the following and read the introductory paragraph: http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/idtf/foreign.html http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/idtf/igo.html Work in progress: http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/4_world.html We have mounted a web page for independence, liberation and secessionist moevments around the world. The list is quite tentative and is intended to be more of a discussion p[aper than anything else. I'm hoping that a new branch of documents work will arise from this as it is an area where most of the information is by nature ephemeral and very little has been done to catalogue, preseerve and archive it. Regards, Mike McCaffrey-Noviss +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mike McCaffrey-Noviss International Documents Librarian Northwestern University Library 1935 Sheridan Road Evanston, Illinois 60208-2300 E-mail: mmccaff@nwu.edu Tel: (847) 491-2927 (Direct Line) (847) 491-3130 (Department) Fax: (847) 491-8306 "Long separated by cruel fate, the starcrossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36PM traveling west at 55 mph and the other from Topeka at 4:19PM traveling east at a speed of 35mph" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ From: Michael Howlett Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 07:38:27 -0800 Subject: Buenos Aires Herald WWW Site Buenos Aires Herald http://www.buenosairesherald.com For 120 years the Buenos Aires Herald has been reporting on Argentina's events. Now the weekly newspaper can be accessed online, in English. Provides latest headline, economy and sports news plus travel tips. __________________________________________________________ POLCAN - The Official Maillist of the Canadian Political Science Association Managed by: Michael Howlett and Laurent Dobuzinskis Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6 Phone (604) 291-3082 Fax (604) 291-4786 howlett@sfu.ca dobuzins@sfu.ca Visit the CPSA WWW Homepage at URL:http://www.sfu.ca/igs/CPSA.html __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: Michael Howlett Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 07:39:21 -0800 Subject: More Canadian Election WWW Sites Sites covering Canada's upcoming Election (6/2/97) http://nbnews.com/canelect.htm James has compiled a fabulous page of sites covering June 2nd's Canadian Election. Each is accompanied by a brief description of what type of information is available, how often updates are made, etc... If you have a site covering the election which was not included on the list, please let James know by Emailing him at . We will keep this page online until June 3, 1997. __________________________________________________________ POLCAN - The Official Maillist of the Canadian Political Science Association Managed by: Michael Howlett and Laurent Dobuzinskis Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6 Phone (604) 291-3082 Fax (604) 291-4786 howlett@sfu.ca dobuzins@sfu.ca Visit the CPSA WWW Homepage at URL:http://www.sfu.ca/igs/CPSA.html __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: "WYN GRANT" Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 18:06:56 +0100 (BST) Subject: Governing during an election Without wishing to intrude on a perhaps over long discussion in Canada about who governs in an election, a footnote from Britain may be of interest. Strictly speaking, the government remains in office while an election takes place. However, the expectation is that ministers will vacate their offices (although this does not seem to apply to ministers with residences such as the prime minister) during the election and any urgent matters will be sent to them via red box. (Ministers can purchase their red boxes as a souvenir and a number of Conservative ministers chose to do so well in advance of the election date). Civil servants have had a reasonably quiet time during the election: I was quite surprised when I wanted to see a civil servant during the election and he offered to come from London to Warwick. Perhaps most significantly, EU meetings have either not been attended at all (e.g., the recent Council of Agriculture Ministers in Luxembourg) or UK officials have substituted for ministers. The Cabinet Secretary gave a detailed briefing on the arrangements for the transfer of power at prime ministerial level a few days before the election. There is a gap of about half an hour when there is no prime minister, so one of the priorities when the new PM arrives at Number 10 is to take him to the Cabinet room and instruct him on the arrangements for launching UK nuclear forces! MPs, of course, cease to be MPs once Parliament is dissolved, although my vague recollection is that they go on being paid for three months or so as a form of severance pay. **************************************************************** Phone: (0)1203- 523720 Fax: (0)1203- 524221 Mobile: 0973- 680599 Home page: http://members.tripod.com/~WynGrant/index.html CAP page: http://members.tripod.com~WynGrant/WynGrantCAPpage.html New page on football: http://members.tripod.com/~WynGrant/WGFootballPage.html Giving you the fictions that are more interesting than the facts! ------------------------------ From: Susan.Fraser@anu.edu.au (Sue Fraser) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 08:20:58 -0800 Subject: electronic citation guides TITLE Electronic styles: a handbook for citing electronic information. AUTHOR Li, Xia, 1964- AUTHOR Crane, Nancy. second edition 1996 also http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/ deals mainly with MLA and APA conventions http://jcweb.gmu.edu/library/iguides/cite.htm gives useful list of various web sites dealing with electronic citation Sue Sue Fraser Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia. ------------------------------ From: Michael Howlett Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 08:27:26 -0800 Subject: New Sage Series on Families *UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES* Sage Book Series in Family Studies Series Academic Editors: Bert N. Adams, University of Wisconsin Nijole V. Benokraitis, University of Baltimore David M. Klein, University of Notre Dame We are most pleased to announce the addition of Niki Benokraitis to our team of academic editors. A well-known book author and editor in her own right, Niki brings a fresh perspective to our series. Please feel free to contact any of us listed at the bottom of this announcement if you would like further information about the series. Your prospecti, manuscripts, and preliminary project ideas are welcome for our review at any time. Details about current series volumes and prospectus-writing guidelines are available at Sage's Website (http://www.sagepub.com). Our book series examines a wide range of subjects relevant to studying families. Topics include (but are not limited to) theory and conceptual design, research methods on the family, racial/ethnic families, mate selection, marriage, family power dynamics, parenthood, divorce and remarriage, custody issues, aging families, families and the law, and family violence. The series is aimed primarily at scholars working in family studies, sociology, psychology, social work, ethnic studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and related fields as they focus on the family. Volumes will also be useful for graduate and undergraduate courses in sociology of the family, family relations, family and consumer sciences, social work and the family, family psychology, family history, cultural perspectives on the family, and others. Books appearing in UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES are either single- or multiple-authored volumes or concisely edited books of original chapters on focused topics within the broad interdisciplinary field of marriage and family. The books are reports of significant research, innovations in methodology, treatises on family theory, syntheses of current knowledge in a family subfield, or advanced textbooks. Each volume meets the highest academic standards and makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of marriages and families. The National Council on Family Relations cosponsors with Sage a book award for students and new professionals. Award-winning manuscripts are published as part of the UNDERSTANDING FAMILIES series. For further information, please contact one of the following: Bert N. Adams, Academic Co-editor Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 phone: 608-262-0304 email: adams@ssc.wisc.edu fax: 608-265-5389 Nijole V. Benokraitis, Academic Co-editor Department of Sociology University of Baltimore 1420 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 phone: 410-837-5294 email: nbenokraitis@ubmail.ubalt.edu fax: 410-837-6051 David M. Klein, Academic Co-editor Department of Sociology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 phone: 219-631-7616 email: david.m.klein.1@nd.edu fax: 219-631-8209 Margaret N. Zusky, Senior Sage Editor 31 St. James Avenue, Suite 510 Boston, MA 02116 phone; 617-753-7505 email: mzusky@aol.com fax: 617-753-7510 __________________________________________________________ POLCAN - The Official Maillist of the Canadian Political Science Association Managed by: Michael Howlett and Laurent Dobuzinskis Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6 Phone (604) 291-3082 Fax (604) 291-4786 howlett@sfu.ca dobuzins@sfu.ca Visit the CPSA WWW Homepage at URL:http://www.sfu.ca/igs/CPSA.html __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: Michael Howlett Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 08:28:09 -0800 Subject: Sociological Spectrum - Call for Papers Call for Papers Sociological Spectrum, the official journal of the Mid-South Sociological Association, invites the submission of manuscripts for consideration for publication in a special issue, "Women and Power: Arenas of Change." As the title suggests, this issue is dedicated to an examination of changing dimensions of power for women in the merging of the personal and the social across varying personal and institutional arenas. Empirical and/or theoretical papers with diverse themes such as the sociology of emotion, leadership, politics and the economy, and arguments based in diverse theoretical orientations are encouraged, but those papers using a feminist and/or Marxian perspective/methodology are especially welcomed. Deadline for submission is July 15, 1997. Original and three copies of the manuscripts should be submitted to the special issue editor at the following address: Jackie Eller Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Box 126 Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 (615) 898-2125 e-mail: jaeller@frank.mtsu.edu With the manuscript please include a $10.00 fee payable to the Mid-South Sociological Association. Receipt of manuscript will be acknowledged only if an e-mail address or self- addressed, stamped postcard is enclosed. All manuscripts must be typed double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11" paper with 1" to 1 1/2" margins all around. References should be listed on separate pages following the text, typed double-spaced, and should refer only to material cited in the manuscript. They should be listed alphabetically and otherwise follow the current American Sociological Review style. Title page should contain the names and institutional affiliations of all authors, and the complete mailing address of the author to whom all correspondence should be sent. Abstract should be typed on a separate page and should not exceed 250 words. For more information please see the journal's information for author's page or contact one of the current editors: Harold J. Corzine, Chair, Dept of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-1360, hcorzine@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu OR Thomas C. Calhoun, Dept. of Sociology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0324, tcalhoun@unlinfo.unl.edu __________________________________________________________ POLCAN - The Official Maillist of the Canadian Political Science Association Managed by: Michael Howlett and Laurent Dobuzinskis Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6 Phone (604) 291-3082 Fax (604) 291-4786 howlett@sfu.ca dobuzins@sfu.ca Visit the CPSA WWW Homepage at URL:http://www.sfu.ca/igs/CPSA.html __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of polcan-digest V1 #182 ****************************