APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter

Volume 23, Number 1 January 2000

Legislative Studies Section Newsletter is published at the Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, under the authority of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. The LSS and APSA are non-profit educational associations. The Newsletter is mailed at bulk, non-profit mailing rates from Norman, Oklahoma, twice yearly: in January and in July.

Editor:	Ronald M. Peters, Jr.
Editor, "Extension of Remarks":	Burdett A. Loomis University of Kansas
Co-Editors:	Gary W. Copeland Cindy Simon Rosenthal
Managing Editor:	LaDonna Sullivan
Editorial Assistant:	Laurie McReynolds
Web Master:	Robert Kelly Jr.

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.

1999-2001 Officers

Chairperson:
Professor John Hibbing
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 880328
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0328
(402) 472-3220

Secretary/Treasurer:
Professor Wendy J. Schiller
Department of Political Science
Brown University
Box 1844
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-1569

Editor, LSS Newsletter
Professor Ronald M. Peters Jr.
Carl Albert Center
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
(405) 325-6372

Editor, "Extension of Remarks"
Professor Burdett A. Loomis
Department of Political Science
504 Blake Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-2157
(913) 864-3523

LSS Program Chair, 1999-2000
Professor Patricia Freeman
Department of Political Science
1001 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0410
(423) 974-2845

Member-At-Large, 1999-2001
Professor Sarah Binder
Department of Political Science
George Washington University
2201 G Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-2167

Member-At-Large, 1999-2001
Professor Joseph Cooper
Department of Government
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles, Room 331
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-8070

Member-At-Large, 1999-2001
Professor Rick Wilson
Department of Political Science
6100 Main St., MS-24
Rice University Houston, TX 77005
(713) 348-3352

Preceding LSS Chair
Professor Wayne L. Francis
Department of Political Science
University of Florida
Gainesville, Fl 32611
(352) 375-0633

Jump to "Book Notes"

The Electoral College Primer 2000
Honor in the House: Speaker Tom Foley
Horses in Midstream: U.S. Midterm Elections and Their Consequences, 1894-1998
Losing Our Democratic Spirit: Congressional Deliberation and the Dictatorship of Propaganda
Party Discipline and Parlimentary Government
Politics, Parties, and Parliaments: Political Change in Norway
The Populist Paradox: Interest Group Influence and the Promise of Direct Legislation
Representation: Theory and Practice in Britain
Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary
World A Two-Way Street: The Institutional Dynamics of the Modern Administrative State

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