A discussion of the 1988 conference of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) along with a report on the meaning of the IPSA for the Dutch National Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO) are presented in this document. Part 1 includes: general information on the aims, structure, and activities of the IPSA; a description of the 14th World Congress with its special themes and concerns; and a section on the mutual interests of SLO and IPSA. Six selected papers presented at the World Congress comprise part 2: "Trends of the Current West German Educational Policy" (Heike Ackermann); "Curriculum Development in Political Education, Particularly the International Dimension" (Hans Hooghoff); "Modernity and Tradition: Dilemmas of Political Education in Developing Countries" (Suna Kili); "The De-Legitimation of Political Education in Britain: A Working Paper" (Lynton Robins); "The Spiral of De-Legitimation of Power in Poland" (Teresa Sasinska-Klas); and "The Concepts of Politics: The Schizophrenia between Political Education and Political Reality in Hungary" (Mate Szabo). Twelve selected abstracts of additional conference papers are presented in the third and last part of the volume. (DB)