1. Political Science

• Nature and functioning of the Bahá'í electoral process, without nominations or campaigning.
• Use of an electoral college in a Bahá'í setting (i.e. our Convention delegates) contrasted to its ineffectiveness in other settings (e.g. U.S. Presidential elections).
• The operation of Bahá'í safeguards against schism.
• The Bahá'í concepts of Church-State relationships.
• Comparison between the Bahá'í concepts of social administration and the traditional Aristotlean forms.
• Utopianism and the Bahá'í approach to world order.
• Mechanisms in Bahá'í systems for protecting the rights of non-Bahá'í minorities.

• Operation of the Bahá'í social pattern - decentralization, balance of powers, restrictions on nationalism, etc.
• Analysis of Bahá'í consultation as a method of group decision-making.
• The balance between individual freedom and social control in Bahá'í social order.
• Bahá'í guidelines for enhancing the quality of life in a computerized society.
• Implications of equality of the sexes on the structure of the family and decision-making, division of labour, etc.
• A comparative study of the effect of the Bahá'í Faith on village society - comparison between a Bahá'í village and an otherwise-similar non-Bahá'í village.
• Balance between uniformity and diversity in Bahá'í practice - a comparison over different cultures.

• Bahá'í approach to fostering creativity within the confines of an organised religion.
• A theory of motivation developed from the Bahá'í teachings.
• Elements of a theory of personality incorporating the spiritual aspect of human nature.
• Relationship between Bahá'í concepts and the present-day theories of counselling.
• Psychological barriers to the expression of the equality of men and women.
• Sources of male insecurity in present-day society and their resolution in the Bahá'í teachings.
• Psychosomatic medicine and the Bahá'í concept of the spiritual component of healing.
• Approaches to the training and discipline of children from a Bahá'í perspective.

• Unique features of the Bahá'í approach to social and economic development.
• Concept of taxation in the Bahá'í social order - balance between local and national revenue sources.
• A Bahá'í approach to a welfare system.
• A theory of remuneration derived from the Bahá'í social and economic principles.
• The role of voluntary contributions in the development of altruism and of culture from a Bahá'í perspective.
• A Bahá'í approach to the resolution of labour disputes.

• Factors to be considered in the derivation of a universal auxiliary language.
• Techniques of language translation using computers.
• Common features of international languages having dialectic forms, e.g. Quechua, Melanesian Pidgin, Swahili.

• Correlation between themes of nineteenth century romanticism and the Bahá'í teachings.
• The role of the poet as a harbinger of social change.
• The transformation from static to dynamic world-models in English literature.
• Evolution of Shoghi Effendi's literary style, and its influence from Gibbon, Carlyle and others.

• A theory of epistemology from a Bahá'í perspective.
• A Bahá'í concept of the role of beauty in religion.
• A phenomenological study of the process of revelation.
• A Bahá'í approach to the relationship between religion and science.
• Ethical and moral issues in genetic engineering - a Bahá'í approach.
• Implications for religion of the possibility of life on other planets.
• Thermodynamic entropy concepts from a Bahá'í perspective.
• Relationship between the Bahá'í teachings and quantum-mechanical uncertainty.
• The concept of time in the special theory of relativity in the light of the Bahá'í teachings.
• The existence, definition and properties of an ether from a Bahá'í perspective.
• Fundamental limits on artificial intelligence using computers, from a Bahá'í perspective.
• Implications of Bahá'í cosmological concepts of the origin and evolution of the universe.

• A Bahá'í theory of the rehabilitation of criminals.
• A Bahá'í perspective on the use of law and sanctions in social control.
• The philosophical basis of law and morality from a Bahá'í perspective.
• The judicial process in the Bahá'í social order.

• Bahá'í perspectives on events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:
• The collapse of the Caliphate.
• The overthrow of European monarchies.
• The evolutionary development of the principle of collective security.
• The steps taken toward international government.
• The concern for human rights.