Vol. 2, Nr. 1

E-Newsletter edited by the European Political Science Network, Paris

June 2004

ISSN 1762-3340

CONTENTS:

FEATURES
- Federiga Bindi, Palma D’Ambrosio, Nadia Desai: Student Mobility in the New Europe: Still Some Obstacles?

TEACHING AND TRAINING: Political Theory and Political Philosophy
- Dieter Fuchs: Introduction
- Ursula Häfliger Musgrove and Simon Hug: Institutional Approaches in Political Science: Some Straight Talk
- Michael Saward: At the Edge of Political Theory: Political Community and Deliberative Democracy
- Gary S. Schaal: Social Capital and Trust: A brief conceptual discussion

MOBILITY AND JOB MARKET: Political Science Outside the Academy
- Michael Goldsmith: Introductory remarks
- John Dreijmanis: Is Graduate Employment a Right?
- Balázs Kiss: Pundits, Politicians or Political Consultants?

NETHESIS
Towards a European Doctoral Program
- Ronald Holzhacker: Constructing European-wide Research Networks for Ph.D. Students in Political Science: A Dutch Example and Prospects for epsNet
- Józef Niznik: What should be common in a European doctoral programme and why do we need such a programme?
Doctoral Program and PhD Attitudes Over Europe
- Gábor Tóka: The Doctoral Program of the Department of Political Science at the Central European University
- Kjetil Duvold: Networking or Splendid Isolation? Comparing Attitudes among Doctoral Students in Tartu, Riga and Vilnius

REVIEW
- André-Paul Frognier: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) : A new approach in comparative analysis. A website, an international co-operation and several PhD theses

WINDOW
- Bohdan Szklarski: Building “mental bridges” to reality – new political science programs

Editorial Team Kiosk Plus:
André-Paul Frognier (managing editor)
Irina Kolotouchkina (editor)