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President Buchanan welcomes the Imperial Japanese Envoys

Who today dares to oppose relevance and who would disagree with the statement that scientists must contribute to the reduction of human suffering and the resolution of social problems? -- From "The Challenge of Policy Sciences" in the founding issue of Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 1972


The Policy Studies Organization publishes twelve journals in cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell and Berkeley Electronic Press. The journals and their editorial offices are Policy and Internet (University of Oxford), Review of Policy Research (Ryerson University), Digest of Middle East Studies (University of Wisconsin), Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy (Pacific Disaster Center, University of Hawaii), Policy Studies Journal (University of Colorado, Denver), Politics & Policy (Universidad IberoAmericana, Mexico City), Latin American Policy (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City), Asian Politics & Policy (University of the Philippines), World Medical and Health Policy (George Mason University), Poverty & Public Policy (University of Missouri, Kansas City), Policy Studies Yearbook (University of Oklahoma) and Proceedings of the PSO (PSO Headquarters, Washington DC).

The PSO also publishes three book series on: Studies on Public Policy, Middle East Classics and Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development, in cooperation with Lexington books (Rowland & Littlefield), and hosts the  annual Dupont Summit on Science, Technology & Environmental Policy Issues, a December conference in Washington DC at the Carnegie Institution. Beginning in February 2011, the PSO will host the Middle East Dialogue at the Washington Club.

The Policy Studies Organization is cooperating with American Public University in a number of projects to involve the burgeoning online education community with learned and research societies.

There are more than 3600 universities and institutions in the PSO membership as well as individuals in more than 93 countries. From its headquarters in a historic house near Dupont Circle in Washington DC, once the home of the families of President James Garfield and the labor leader Samuel Gompers, the society organizes conferences, seminars, the publication of journals and books, and an increasing Internet presence. Continue...

The Policy Studies Organization helped establish in Washington and continues a cordial friendship with the Roosevelt Institution, a policy discussion and research society on more than 140 university campuses which involves students in learning about major public policy issues.

The Policy Studies Organization sponsors a limited number of interns in Washington DC, working with our officers in developing new and expanded programs. Please contact David Merchant for more information.






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A Directory of Policy Scholars
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Increased PSO Membership Benefits:
Join  or Renew Now!


In 2010, individual subscribers to PSO publications receive from Wiley-Blackwell six issues of Politics & Policy, six issues of Policy Studies Journal, including a special  double issue that is a yearbook of policy research and studies around the world, and four issues of Asian Politics & Policy. They already receive six issues a year of the Review of Policy Research. Additionally, they receive two issues of Latin American Policy and the Digest of Middle East Studies, our newest journals. They also have access to our four new journals with Berkeley Electronic Press: Policy and Internet, Poverty and Public Policy, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy and World Medical and Health Policy, which are quarterly. 

Your membership now permits online access to the journals through Wiley InterScience, which provides access to over three million articles and a service that includes back issues of all PSO journals. Your membership also offers substantial discounts for the PSO books published by Lexington Books, including the fourteen titles in our Studies on Public Policy, the growing list of our volumes in Middle East Classics, and our series on Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development. And more good things are coming, so the message is to join or renew now! This is made by simply going to the Wiley-Blackwell renewal page

Members of PSO have been able to use the offices in Washington as a base for their visits, and many PSO members have participated in PSO panels and receptions at meetings of the American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Members also have had the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping build the PSO endowments with APSA, SPSA and MPSA that bring students and scholars to the annual meetings of those organizations.




New Website in Cooperation with Berkeley Electronic Press: Policy Studies Commons

www.psocommons.org





PSO and Important Values


PSO is committed to social responsibility, believing that all organizations should contribute positively to the environment.Publications are printed on recycled paper by union labor, and products are purchased from concerns whose employment practices are progressive.We support diversity, encourage feedback from all those with whom we deal, and cooperate with Wiley-Blackwell, Berkeley Electronic Press and other partners to donate or provide publications at much reduced cost to developing countries. More than 600 institutions in 60 developing countries receive our publications free of charge.



Books for PSO Headquarters

Those of you who have visited since the Policy Studies Organization moved to Washington know that 1527 New Hampshire Avenue is a large place -- and if you have books, political memorabilia, or even antiques! their gift to the headquarters would be permanently acknowledged on the website and would be tax deductible. We have lots of empty shelves, so if you are crowded, let us help! A note to our executive director, David Merchant , will certainly elicit a prompt reply.



We Want to Publish You!


If you want to publish in the PSO journals or book series, take a look at the specific journals and our books so you have an idea of what the editors want and contact them directly.



                                    









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NEWS




Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment: Conference organized by the Oxford Internet Institute on behalf of the Policy and Internet journal
 
Call for Papers! Middle East Dialogue 2011: February 23-25 at the Washington Club, Washington DC
 
Politics & Policy Special Issue - August 2009: Elections, Parties and Voters in the New European Democracies. Twenty Years after the Fall of Communism
 
Joseph S. Nye: Scholars on the Sidelines: Academics are paying increasingly less attention to how their work relates to the policy world
 
Politics & Policy: Elite Opinion Leaders Greatly Vary in Their Foreign Policy Beliefs: Article Identifies Nine Different Foreign Policy Orientations
 
RISK, HAZARDS & CRISIS IN PUBLIC POLICY: a new journal with Berkeley Electronic Press
 
POVERTY & PUBLIC POLICY: a new journal with Berkeley Electronic Press
 
New journal in the family: The Digest of Middle East Studies, DOMES, has become a PSO journal, that in 2010 will be published by Wiley-Blackwell
 
New PSO book series on China!: Click for more information
 
Review of Policy Research Blog: Click for more information.
 
Parliamentary Debates: Sponsored by the PSO in partnership with Tulane University
 
New York State Political Science Association: Celebrates its 62nd Annual Conference and welcomes proposals. Click on the link for more information.
 
An Important New Journal: The Policy Studies Organization in cooperation with Renmin University in Beijing, China, announces an important new policy journal, titled Asian Politics & Policy.
 
Upcoming Conference, December 2008!: The New Administration Tackles Science and Technology. Priorities for the road ahead.
 
PSO Future Conferences: About our conferences
 
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