Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2011

Founded in 1948, the Western Political Science Association

is an association of more than 1000 political scientists. The WPSA

is headquartered at California State University at Sacramento.
The purpose
of the Association is to promote the study and teaching of
government
and politics, to foster research and to facilitate the
discussion of public
affairs. The official region of the WPSA includes both the
western states
of the United States and the western provinces of Canada:
Alaska, Arizona,
California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, Oregon,
Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Alberta, British Columbia, and
Saskatchewan.
WPSA members reside primarily in the western region, but
approximately
one-third of our members come from outside the region. The WPSA

conducts an annual conference
at sites which rotate throughout the region. Approximately 700
to 900
political scientists participate in these meetings which feature
150 to
175 panels and other special sessions on politics. The journal
of the
WPSA is the Political
Research Quarterly , owned and published by the
University of Utah.