Volume 21, Number 2 July 1998 
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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"
  • African American Women in Congress: Forming and Transforming History
  • Competing Principals: Committees, Parties, and the Organization of Congress
  • Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy
  • Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections
  • Lessons and Legacies: Farewell Addresses from the Senate
  • Networks of Champions: Leadership, Access, and Advocacy in the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Passages to Power: Legislative Recruitment in Advanced Democracies
  • Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches
  • Revolving Gridlock: Politics and Policy from Carter to Clinton
  • Vital Statistics on Congress 1997-1998


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