Poli sci scholars focus of seminar series

Jacob Wasilewski of Jagiellonian University in Poland and Mark Fey of the University"s Wallis Institute and Princeton University gave talks earlier in October. The series continues October 31 as University of Minnesota professor Steven Smith reads from his paper Theories of Institutional Development and the Russian Parliament.

The series resumes November 14 with a seminar by Hamilton professor Philip Klinker. The title of his lecture is The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of America"s Commitment to Racial Equality. November 21 features a discussion on The Political Economy of Low Inflation. Speaker Jonathan Kirshner is a political science professor at Cornell University.

Visiting Cornell professor Grazyna Skapska will continue the series December 5 with a presentation on Constitutions in New Democracies: Between "Civil Society" and Europe. Skapska is from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Cesar Martinelli of the Wallis Institute will read from his paper Policy Reversals: A Democratic Nixon and a Republican Clinton in a presentation co-sponsored by the Wallis Institute. The fall 1997 series will conclude on December 19 as University professor John Mueller presents a talk on The Rise of the Politically Incorrect One-Handed Economist.

All seminars are free and open to the entire University community. For more information, call x5-4291.