News and Notes

• Published date: 01 December 1956
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295600900428
• Date: 01 December 1956
• Subject Matter: Articles

NEWS AND NOTES
The llth annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association
will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Friday and Sat-
urday, February 22 and 23, 1957. John Vieg of Pomona College is Chair-
man of the Program Committee and Dean McHenry of the University of
California, Los Angeles, is Chairman on Local Arrangements. The pre-
liminary program follows.
Friday: 8:00 a.m., breakfast conference on the use of ICP case studies
in public administration; 9:00 a.m., registration; 9:45 to 11:45 a.m., round-
tables on political theory, metropolitan areas, and international relations;
12:15 p.m., luncheon; 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., roundtables on the 1956 campaign,
state government, and Communism; 4:15 p.m., meetings of the Executive
Council and Association committees; 6:30 p.m., dinner and Presidential
Address by Russell H. Fitzgibbon; presentation of WPSA Awards; soiree.
Saturday: 8:00 a.m., breakfast and discussion of proposed SSRC project
for comparative study of western politics; 9:45 to 11:45 a.m., roundtables
on politics and natural resources policy, comparative government, and
public law; 12:15 p.m., luncheon, President Russell H. Fitzgibbon presiding;
business meeting, with committee reports and action thereon; 2:00 to 4:00
p.m., projected trip for interested members.
The Executive Council of the Western Political Science Association
has announced &dquo;The Annual Award of the Western Political Science
Association,&dquo; to be granted for distinguished research on some aspect of
political science in western states. Studies dealing with public policies, law,
politics, public administration, or other topics, domestic or international,
of particular significance for the Western region of the United States will
be eligible for consideration. The award may be made for either a pub-
lished or unpublished study. Preference will be given to a manuscript
completed within three years prior to the date of the award. There are
no restrictions with respect to the qualifications or residence of the author.
Nominations for the current year were due in the hands of Professor Ernest
Engelbert, Department of Political Science, University of California at Los
Angeles, not later than November 20.
It is with regret that the Publications Committee of the Institute of
Government of the University of Utah is forced to announce an increase
of one dollar in annual subscription rates for the Western Political Quar,
terly. This action has been made necessary by the increase in the cost of
printing from 1948 to 1956, a rise of almost fifty per cent. The increase was
approved at the business meeting of the Western Political Science Associa-
tion in the annual convention held at Logan, Utah, March 30, 1956.
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