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On September 2, more than 6,000 political scientists will converge on Atlanta for the American Political Science Association's annual meeting. Thousands of papers will be presented. We asked a few of the nation's top political scientists which of them are likely to be most interesting.

Michael J. Sandel

Michael J. Sandel is Professor of Government at Harvard University and the author of Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.

"The Third Way and Beyond: Rethinking Progressive Ideology at the Century's End"

STUART WHITE KARIN FIERKE "Freud, Moses and Secularism"

WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY

"The Endgame?: Emerging Features of a Final Settlement"

YOSSI BEILIN

"The Sexual and Racial Contracts at the End of the 20th Century"

CAROLE PATEMAN

"Why Ethnicity Trumps Economics in Political Mobilization"

ASHUTOSH VARSHNEY

"The Religious and Secular in American Political Culture"

JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN

"Why Can't They Be Like We Were?: Generations, Life Cycle and Political Participation"

HENRY E. BRADY KAY LEHMAN SCHLOZMAN SIDNEY VERBA JENNIFER ERKULWATER "The Politics and Morality of Official Apologies"

JACOB T. LEVY

"Foreignness, Democracy and the Law"

BONNIE HONIG

"A Prejudice for Work"

J. RUSSELL MUIRHEAD

James M. Glaser

James M. Glaser is the Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Tuffs University and the author of Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South.

"Scandal Immunity as a Function of Candidate Personality Traits and Gender"

TEREZA CAPELOS

LEONIE HUDDY

"The Religious and the Secular in American Political Culture"

JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN

"The Logic of Globalization and the Logic of Human Rights: Compatible or Conflicting"

RICHARD FALK

"Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Politics,"

CLAUDINE GAY

"How Interest Groups Use the Initiative Process to Get Legislative Attention"

ELIZABETH GERBER

"Measuring Gay Population Density and the Incidence of Anti-Gay Hate Crime"

DONALD P. GREEN DARA STROLOVITCH JANELLE WONG ROBERT W. BAILEY "Transnational Causes of Genocide in the Post-Cold War Era, Or How the West Inadvertently Exacerbates Ethnic Conflict"

ALAN J. KUPERMAN

"The Rise, Decline, and Shallowness of Militant Nationalism in Europe"

JOHN MUELLER

"Fifty Years of National Election Studies: A Case Study in the House of `Big Social Science'"

VIRGINIA SAPIRO

Linda Fowler

Linda Fowler, author of Candidates, Congress, and the American Democracy, is director of the Nelson A...