The file contains: the minutes of the meeting (Chairman Helga Nowotny), list of participants, brief for the Chairman, the agenda and schedule.
Working documents enclosed for the meeting include: proposals, background briefs, outlines, and programs for a workshop series; reconstitution proposal: a third 5-Year mandate for SCSS; report on the Political Science Research in Europe conference, recommendations arising from the Conference, and paper included: "The problems posed by comparative analysis in the Western European Context" by Jean Blondel; report on the planning for summer school; Lecture «Histoire de France et Mémoire Nationale : la problématique des lieux» by Pierre Nora; progress reports on new activities.

Topics discussed include: progress report on new activities: workshop series on the transformation of control mechanisms, coordination Committee for the Workshops series on the Nature and Administration of Justice, conference on Political science research in Europe, workshop on the World economy and the spatial organisation of power; scientific networks; social sciences in Spain; additional activities (comparative law, second language acquisition by adults immigrants, migration); postgraduate education in the social sciences in Europe; SCH, Working Group on toxicology; US social sciences research council.

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