Participation Rules

Participation Rules STEP ONE: Read and Understand Participation Rules

When submitting panel and individual paper proposals, keep in mind these five participation rules developed by the APSA Council.

Rule #1: Participation Limitation
Participation in the Annual Meeting is limited to two (2) appearances on sessions organized by the APSA Program Committee, Organized Sections, and Related Groups. An appearance may take the form of sole author of a paper, co-author of a paper, roundtable presenter, discussant, or chair. A person may appear on the program only once as the sole author of a paper unless one of his/her single-authored papers is on a panel organized by Division 9: Teaching and Learning in Political Science or Division 10: Undergraduate Education.

Appearances in workshops, poster sessions, evening sessions, and theme panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the Annual Meeting program chair(s) do not count against the participation limit.

If a person is appearing during a panel session as a paper giver, roundtable presenter, or discussant, serving as chair of the same session does not count as an additional appearance.

Rule #2: Preregistration
The APSA Council requires all program participants to preregister by April 23, 2010. Participants who do not preregister by April 23 will not be listed in the Preliminary Program. Participants added to the program after April 23 should preregister within 10 days of their notification.

Rule #3: Exempt Participants
Prospective participants may request of a division chair or panel organizer an exemption from the preregistration requirement if they are:

Not a political scientist;
Appearing on only one panel; and
Not an exempt participant in 2009.

An exempt participant receives a badge for admission to all Annual Meeting activities but will not receive an Annual Meeting Program or the reduced hotel rate.

Rule #4: Paper Delivery
As a paper presenter, you have two important obligations:

Ensure that the Panel Chair and Discussants, receive your paper in time to review it prior to the meeting; and
Submit your paper to PROceedings, APSA's online collection of Annual Meeting papers.

Rule #5: Panel Schedule
Panels are scheduled in fourteen (14) time slots beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday and concluding at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday. Participants are expected to be available for any of the fourteen time slots.

If your schedule is limited by a teaching or travel constraint, inform the division chair or panel organizer upon your acceptance as a participant.

Please note that we will make every effort to accommodate scheduling requests; however, there is no guarantee that requests will be honored.