Pennsylvania Political Science Association 70^th Annual Meeting March 27 –March 28, 2009 Elizabethtown College Elizabethtown, PA Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association.
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Hotel Information: Conference rate applies as long as rooms are available. Be sure to mention that you are reserving for the PPSA conference. Holiday Inn Express 147 Mertz Drive Elizabethtown, PA 17022 (717) 367-4000 or 800-335-4188 You can also reserve online at: www.hiexpress.com/elizabethtnpa. Be sure to enter PAP as the group code to get the conference rate. · Room rates: $104.00 + 11% tax = $116.54 per night per person · Rooms available: one king size bed or 2 queen size beds		About Elizabethtown College: · Directions to campus · Campus Map · Conference registration will be at Hoover Center. Panels will be at Hoover Center and Nicarry Hall. Parking: Parking lots are accessible from College Avenue. Friday: Park in the lot next to Leffler Chapel and Performance Center—proceed through the Academic Quad past the Masters Center to the Hoover Center for Business Saturday: Parking lot at Hoover Center will be reserved for PPSA and MAASA attendees.	More Information About the PPSA: To learn more about the PPSA, please visit our web sites: Commonwealth: A Journal of Political Science: The journal of the PPSA is now published jointly with the Legislative Office for Research Liaison (LORL) of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The official PPSA web site includes a history of the PPSA and general information about the organization as well as links to data sources and news coverage of Pennsylvania politics. Dr. Fran Moran of New Jersey City University is the webmaster and NJCU hosts the site.
Complete Preliminary Program: MS Word (3/20/09 update) PPSA Program Highlights 15 panels over two days, plus: Friday, March 27 · PPSA/MAASA Dinner and Keynote Speaker: Donald B. Kraybill Senior Fellow, Young Center for Anabaptist & Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College Culture Clash: Amish Conflicts with the State · The annual Pennsylvania politics plenary session Saturday, March 28 · New Tools for Teaching, Research, and Analysis: US, Comparative, Pennsylvania, and Metropolitan Databases G. Terry Madonna, Franklin and Marshall College Frank R. Baumgartner, Penn State University (Policy Agendas and Comparative Agendas projects) Joseph P. McLaughlin, Temple University (Pennsylvania Policy Database project) Joe Stern, Commonwealth Foundation (Pennsylvania legislative and roll call tracking) David Y. Miller, University of Pittsburgh (Innovation Clinic Database of innovations in U.S. metropolitan governance)

2009 Program Committee

70^th Annual Meeting

Pennsylvania Political Science Association

March 27 –March 28, 2009

Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown, PA

Site Coordinators:

E. Fletcher McClellan, Elizabethtown College

W. Wesley McDonald, Elizabethtown College

Program Chair:

Stanley P. Berard

Department of Political Science

Lock Haven University

Lock Haven, PA 17745

Phone (570) 484-2187 Fax: (570) 484-2830

Email: sberard@Lhup.edu

Section Chairs:

Political Theory: Donald Tannenbaum, Department of Political Science, Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Box 406, Gettysburg, PA 17325 (email: dtannenb@gettysburg.edu)

American Government and Public Policy: James Benze, Department of Political Science, Washington and Jefferson College, 60 South Lincoln, Washington, PA 15301 (email: jbenze@washjeff.edu)

Judicial Politics and Constitutional Law: Kyle Kreider, Department of Political Science, Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, PA 18766 (email: Kyle.Kreider@wilkes.edu)

State and Local Government: John Kennedy, Department of Political Science, West Chester University, Room 206 Ruby Jones Hall, West Chester, PA 19383 (email: JKennedy@wcupa.edu)

Gender, Sexual Orientation, Race, and Ethnicity: Jean Wahl Harris, Political Science Department, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510 (email: jean.harris@scranton.edu)

International Relations: Jeffrey B. Burnham, Department of Political Science, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA 17745 (email: jburnham@Lhup.edu)

Comparative Politics: Beth Admiraal, Department of Political Science, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 (email: bethadmiraal@kings.edu)

Undergraduate Student Research: Brooke Harlowe, Department of Political Science, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA 17745 (email: bharlowe@Lhup.edu)

Updated 3/17/09 by Stan Berard.