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From: Elena B. Labkovskaya <lena@len.usr.pu.ru>
Dear Colleagues:
First I would like to thank you for your great job you are doing by providing
us (your subscribers) with important and helpful information.
I also would like to share with all the subscribers the following
information concerning to St.Petersburg International Conference on
"Parliaments as Agents and Objects of Change". My colleagues and me
need your assistance in that.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Elena B. Labkovskaya, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Civil Society and
International Cooperation,
Fontanka 56-20,
St.Petersburg, 191002,
Russia,
Tel. +7-(812)-112-5368,
Fax. +7-(812)-327-4614.
E-mail. lena@len.usr.pu.ru
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Call For Papers and Participants
St. Petersburg International Conference
on "Parliaments as Agents and Objects of Change"
June 28 - July 1, 1999
Sponsored by:
The research Commitee of Legislative Specialists,
The International Political Science Association (U.S.A.);
The Center for Civil Society and International Cooperation (Russia);
St.Petersburg State University, Department of Political Psychology (Russia)
With the support of:
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany)
The Center for New Democracy and Social Change (U.S.A. - Kyrgyzstan);
The Academy on Civil Society (U.S.A.);
The St.Petersburg Association for Scientists and Scholars (Russia);
An international scholarly conference on "Parliaments as Objects and
Subjects of Change" will bring a number of leading international and
Russian scholars together in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 28 - July 1,
1999 to consider the roles of parliaments as catalysts of change in a
regime as well as institutions themselves profoundly influenced, and
sometimes transformed, by social and political change in a nation.
This inquiry is of central importance in countries such as Russia which
are going through far-reaching political and economic transitions and
facing unresolved problems in defining the roles of a legislative branch
of power in rapidly changing conditions.
The central focus of the St. Petersburg International Conference will be on
the reciprocal relationship between legislatures, both as changing
institutions and as agents of regime change. Other broadly related topics
and inquiries concerning contemporary parliamentary politics, however, will also
be examined and are suitable for conference inquiry, including internal
parliamentary political issues, psychological determinants of legislative
actions, individual members' behavior, the psychology of parliamentary
leadership, individual and collective members' perceptions of regime change,
and the influence of change on members' behavior and activity. Although many
papers may deal with these topics in the context of Russian and regional
experience, it is expected that most of the papers of the St. Petersburg
International Conference will examine in cross-national perspective aspects
of legislatures as agents and objects of change.
St. Petersburg, built as Russia's window on the West, can also serve as the
West's window on Russia. The St. Petersburg International Conference will
provide the opportunity for international and Russian scholars to engage in
fruitful scholarly exchange and inquiry. Sessions of the International
Conference will be held at St. Petersburg State University as well,
possibility, in meeting rooms of the City Council and the St. Petersburg
Executive (Mayor), especially for receptions and other special conference
functions.
St. Petersburg is considered to be one of the most stable cities in Russia,
yet the St. Petersburg International Conference will provide a fascinating
and historic opportunity to examine a city and nation undergoing fundamental
economic and political change.
Potential participants interested in the St. Petersburg International
Conference are invited to indicate their interest by means of
correspondence (E-mail, Fax, or air mail) to either of the international
conference organizers: Professor
Elena Labkovskaya, Director,
Center for Civil Society and International Cooperation
Fontanka 56-20,
St. Petersburg 191002,
Russia
Tel. +7-812-112-5368
Fax +7-812-251-1052
E-mail: lena@len.usr.pu.ru
OR
Professor Lawrence D. Longley
Department of Government
Lawrence University
Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912, U.S.A.
Tel. +1-920-832-6673
Fax. +1-920-832-6962
E-mail: PowerLDL@aol.com
The deadline is May 10, 1999
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