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Volume 25, Number 2, July 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 Celebration! The Legislation Studies Section is now 25 years old! In honor of that, the LSS will sponsor two events at the upcoming APSA convention in Boston, not just the usual one. Friday, 5:30 p.m.: The annual business meeting. Presentation of awards, of which we have four, is among the agenda items. Friday, 6:30 to 8:00: Reception to celebrate the 25th anniversary. Right after the business meeting. Munchies, cash bar, and schmoozing. Please drop in. Toasts and reflections regarding the LSS will be presented somewhere around 7:00.
Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma 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 the January 2002 issue of the newsletter, we offered members the opportunity to respond to a survey on the question of the creation of a working papers section for our web site. At the annual business meeting in Boston, we would like to discuss the results of that survey and other matters related to the section's web site. If you do not plan to attend the meeting, please either fill out the survey or send us an email message indicating your view on the value of a working papers section. The survey form and brief discussion can be accessed through the announcements page at http://www.apsanet.org/~lss/announce.html). We welcome feedback on any aspect of the newsletter, so please email me at rpeters@ou.edu if you have questions, comments, or concerns. Elsewhere in this edition of the LSS Newsletter we note with sorrow the passing of our friend Larry Longley. I suppose that all members of the LSS have been touched by Larry in one way or another. Before I met him personally, I had been on the receiving end of his massive renditions of the LSS Newsletter, at that time delivered in hard copy with much of it mimeographed. Many trees were sacrificed on the altar of our shared endeavor. Later, I had the privilege of participating in two events abroad that Larry had been instrumental in organizing in cooperation with Phil Norton, one in Berlin and the other in Wroxton, England. Larry, more than any other single person, has been responsible for the development of the LSS and the parallel development of legislative studies within the IPSA. And so, any time I work on this publication or contemplate participation in an international conference, I think of Larry. He was always full of enthusiasm, kindness, and dedication. I shall miss him.
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