Feb 10, 2014 2 min read

WAYNESBURG – Sándor Mécs, a senior communication major at Waynesburg University, will travel to the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., to present a paper at the 28th annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research April 3-5.

The Pittsburgh native will present his paper titled, “Burnham’s Managerial Revolution: The Unexamined Reality of Contemporary Class Conflict.”

“Sándor Mécs’ powerful paper engages the insights of political theorist James Burnham’s 1941 classic ‘The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World,’ about the global emergence of the bureaucratic state and updates Burnham’s model for the 21st century,” said Dr. Lawrence M. Stratton, assistant professor of ethics and constitutional law and director of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership.

“Mr. Mecs’s creative research reintroduces Burnham’s analysis – a former Marxist who later helped William F. Buckley, Jr. launch the conservative journal National Review in the late 1950s – to contemporary public discourse.”

Mécs worked closely alongside Stratton to prepare his paper.

Through this annual conference, NCUR creates a unique environment for the celebration and promotion of undergraduate student achievement, provides models of exemplary research and scholarship and helps to improve the state of undergraduate education.

The National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, established in 1987, is dedicated to promoting undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity in all fields of study by sponsoring an annual conference for students.