Secretary/Treasurer
Professor Frances E. Lee
Department of Political Science 
10900 Euclid Avenue
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106-7109
(216) 368-5265
Email: fel@po.cwru.edu

Editor, LSS Newsletter
Ronald M. Peters Jr.
Carl Albert Center 
University of Oklahoma 
Norman, OK 73019 
Phone: (405) 325-6372
Email: rpeters@ou.edu

Editor, "Extension of Remarks"
Sean Q. Kelly
Department of Political Science 
Timon Hall, Room 11 
Niagara University, NY 14109 
(716) 286-8092
Email: sqkelly@niagara.edu

Member-At-Large, 2003-2005
Janet Box-Steffensmeier 
Department of Political Science
Ohio State University
2140 Derby
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1373
(614) 292-9642
Email: jboxstef+@osu.edu

Member-At-Large, 2003-2005
C. Lawrence Evans
Department of Government 
College of William and Mary
P. O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Phone: (757) 221-3030
Email: clevan@wm.edu

Preceding LSS Chair
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

LSS Program Co-Chair, 2003-2004
Sarah Binder
Dept. of Political Science
George Washington University
2201 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-2167
Email: binder@gwu.edu
 
LSS Program Co-Chair, 2003-2004
Forrest Maltzman
Dept. of Political Science
George Washington University
2201 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-5821
Email: forrest@gwu.edu

As the new chair of the Legislative Studies Section, I would like to thank my predecessor, David Mayhew, for leaving the LSS in such good shape for my two-year term.  Frances Lee, the LSS secretary-treasurer, continues to give us good financial reports at our annual meetings; it is good news (especially for me) that she continues to serve in that position.  Nicol Rae did a wonderful job as program chair for the APSA convention in Philadelphia; he put together so many interesting panels that there were hard choices to make as to which one to attend in many of the time slots.  We also owe thanks to the 15 people who served on our five prize committees.

As you know by now if you proposed a paper for the 2004 convention, the program co-chairs for this year’s meeting are Sarah Binder and Forrest Maltzman; they are hard at work making decisions about the panels for the conference. 

My first job as section chair was to appoint a multitude of people (okay, it was 15, but it seemed like a multitude at the time) to serve on the prize committees for 2004.  Nearly everyone I asked graciously agreed to serve.  The committees are a good deal of work, and I am grateful for the willingness of these colleagues to take it on.  For descriptions of the prizes, the names of the members of the five prize committees, and the submission deadlines, go to http://www.apsanet.org/~lss/announce.html.  I look forward to working with those people and everyone in the LSS.