:Why doesn't APSA meet in a national party convention city the week before the convention? Two reasons:1. APSA schedules its annual conferences long before the parties schedule their conventions. See:2. During the week before the party convention, staffers and other convention people take up a fair number of hotel rooms. In most cities, there would not be enough space left over for APSA, which draws about 7,000 attendees.
Fine. That explains, but doesn't really excuse, from an institutional point of view, the idea that, in politics, theory and practice could not be more alienated from each other.
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