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Legislative Studies Section Newsletter

Volume 31, Number 1, January 2008

 

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 uploaded to this web site twice yearly: in January and in July. 

Membership in LSS includes a subscription to Legislative Studies Quarterly.

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Editor:

 

Ronald M. Peters, Jr.

 

Editor, "Extension of Remarks":

Sean Q. Kelly
Niagara University 

 

Co-Editor: 

Cindy Simon Rosenthal

 

Managing Editor: 

 

LaDonna Sullivan

 

Editorial Assistant:

 

Laurie McReynolds

 

Web Master:

Robert Kelly, Jr.

 

 

 

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From the Chair

 

Lawrence C. Dodd

University of Florida

 

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to chair the LSS, providing me a chance to give back to an organization that has given me so much over the past three decades. It is a responsibility that has been made much easier by the great work that Steve Smith, John Wilkerson, the Council, and section committees did over the previous two years, by the willingness of Tracy Sulkin to serve as secretary-treasurer, by the efforts of Ron Peters, LaDonna Sullivan, and Robert Kelly in overseeing the LSS Newsletter and listserv, and by the time so many LSS members are devoting to section committees and activities. My heartfelt thanks to all of you.

 

And now it is time once again for our committees to go to work in guiding the LSS into the future – and for each of you to play a role in these processes.

 

Nominations are due to our book/article awards and dissertation award committees by March 1. The announcement section of the LSS website has up-to-date information on each of the awards: http://www.apsanet.org/~lss/announce.html.  Let me particularly note that nominations have been slow to arrive this year for the Rosenthal Prize for the Best Book/Article by a Junior Scholar that is Relevant to Legislative Practitioners. Do contact the committees with any nominations you wish to submit.

 

Our nominations committee of Diana Evans (Chair), Frances Lee and Eric Schickler must determine our nominee for program chair by April 1. Feel free to contact them with suggestions.

 

Over the next month the LSS Council will review the results of our recent poll of members and determine whether there is sufficient interest in the Extension of Remarks to continue its inclusion in the LSS Newsletter. You can see those results at http://www.apsanet.org/~lss/SurveyResults.pdf.  Feel free to contact officers or council members with your own recommendations about the EOR.

 

Finally, let me note that the LSS membership is holding strong at 607.