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Volume 25, Number 1, January 2002 Current Section OfficersFrom the ChairFrom the Editor |
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Attribution, where appropriate, appears at the end of the salient articles, tables, and graphs. Several articles are reprinted with the permission of Roll Call, State Legislatures, and Governing, for which they retain all rights for reprint. Special thanks to these publications for their cooperation, advice, and kindness. |
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Professor David R. Mayhew Department of Political Science Yale University 124 Prospect St. P.O. Box 208301 New Haven, CT 06520-8301 (203) 432-5237 Email: david.mayhew@yale.edu Secretary/Treasurer
Editor,
LSS
Newsletter
Editor,
"Extension of Remarks"
LSS
Program Chair, 2001-2002
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Member-At-Large,
2001-2003
Professor Alison Alter Department of Political Science University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 229-2649 Email: alison_alter@post.harvard.edu Email: aalter@uwm.edu Member-At-Large,
2001-2003
Member-At-Large,
2001-2003
Preceding
LSS Chair
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Yale University Bruce Oppenheimer and John Hibbing came after me last summer to serve as LSS chair for two years. I thought that was a considerable honor and I accepted and said I would do my best. John was excellent at transition help. He walked me through the various things I would need to do and said good luck. I am grateful to the folks at the APSA and the Carl Albert Center for the information they have given me. Indeed, I found that the bulk of tasks connected with the LSS are performed by the APSA, the Carl Albert Center, the LSS secretary/treasurer, and the LSS program chairman. That leaves the LSS chair to run a decent annual meeting (I hope to meet John Hibbing’s standard) and to appoint members of committees. So far, I have appointed the new members of the prize committees. The LSS has four such committees now, with the recent addition of the Jewell/Loewenberg prize. That meant I needed to appoint twelve members, three per committee. I asked twelve people and they all accepted! The LSS has plenty of social capital. I tried to balance the selections in various ways, for example to be sure to include specialists in non-US legislatures, although there is at least one imbalance I hope to remedy next time. Let me know if you see others. Here are the new committee members. Fenno prize for best book: Charles M. Cameron (chair), Roger H. Davidson, Elaine K. Swift. CQ prize for best 2001 APSA paper: C. Lawrence Evans (chair), John M. Carey, Patricia A. Hurley. Carl Albert prize for best dissertation: John B. Gilmour (chair), Diana Evans, Thomas F. Remington. Jewell-Loewenberg prize for best LSQ article: Ben Bishin (chair), David Samuels, Sarah M. Morehouse. Many thanks to particularly the committee chairs for taking on these tasks.
Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma This marks the second electronic issue of the LSS Newsletter. I would like to take this occasion to remind section members that our list serve and bulletin board are available for your use. We have about three dozen members signed up for the list serve but so far very little traffic. I hope that more members will subscribe so that the list can build a constituency that will encourage its further use. In this issue we offer an opportunity for members to provide input on the question of the creation of a working papers section of our web site. As you may know, some of the other sections have created working papers sites to the apparent satisfaction of their members. In order to address these issues, we offer a a brief survey and the opportunity for members to comment. Please click here to view a brief discussion of the working papers web site and to respond to our survey. We welcome feedback on any other aspect of the newsletter, so please email me at rpeters@ou.edu if you have questions, comments, or concerns.
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