APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter

Volume 21, Number 1 January 1998

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.

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

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, 1997-1998
Professor C. Lawrence Evans
Department of Government
College of William and Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
(757) 221-3030

Member-At-Large, 1997-1999
Professor Gary Jacobson
Department of Political Science
University of California - San Diego
LaJolla, CA 93093
(619) 534-3548

Member-At-Large, 1997-1999
Professor Elaine K. Swift
Department of Government
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA 99004
(509) 359-2457

Member-At-Large, 1997-1999
Professor Keith Hamm
Department of Political Science
Rice University
6100 Main Street MS24
Houston, TX 77005-1892
(713) 527-8101

Preceding LSS Chair
Professor Bruce Oppenheimer
Department of Political Science
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
(615) 322-6232

Jump to "Book Notes"

Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns 1952-1996
Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority
Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington
The Contemporary Congress
The Decline of Representatiave Democracy: Process, Participation, and Power in State Legislatures
God at the Grass Roots, 1996: The Christian Right in the 1996 Elections
A History of the United States Senate Republican Policy Committee, 1947-1997
The Interest Group Connection: Electioneering, Lobbying, and Policymaking in Washington
Learning to Govern: An Institutional View of the 104th Congress
Making and Breaking Governments: Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies
Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress
Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics
Reconciliation and Revival: James R. Mann and the House Republicans in the Wilson Era
Rites of Passage: Congress Makes Laws

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