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| 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. |
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Professor John Hibbing Department of Political Science P.O. Box 880328 University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588-0328 (402) 472-3220 jhibbing@unlserve.unl.edu Secretary/Treasurer
Editor, LSS Newsletter
Editor, "Extension of Remarks"
LSS Program Chair, 2000-2001
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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 binder@gwu.edu Member-At-Large, 1999-2001
Member-At-Large, 1999-2001
Preceding LSS Chair
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University of Nebraska As outgoing LSS Chair, I will take this opportunity to make only a couple of comments. Most obviously, I thank everyone who has assisted LSS during my two-year term. A partial list would include all who have been willing to serve as committee members, the Carl Albert Center and their fine Newsletter staff, "Extensions of Remarks" Editor Bird Loomis, and the other officers of the section. On behalf of all LSS members, I extend a special thanks to Wendy Schiller whom we could not convince to serve yet another term as Secretary-Treasurer. Her efforts over the years to make sure the section was more or less in the black are much appreciated. Just after the last LSS Newsletter went to press, we received the welcome news that the Dirksen Center has agreed to provide financial support for the section's newest award: the Jewell-Loewenberg Prize for the best article appearing in the previous year's Legislative Studies Quarterly. I very much want to thank the Dirksen Center and its director, Frank Mackaman, for such a generous act. I invite each of you to do the same should you see or communicate with Frank. At this writing, committees are hard at work, selecting
award recipients as well as a slate of new officers, and the results of
their deliberations will be announced at the LSS business meeting at the
upcoming APSA in San Francisco (5:30 Friday). I hope to see as many
of you there as possible.
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Ronald M. Peters, Jr. Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma With this issue of the Legislative Studies Section Newsletter, we take a great leap forward into cyber space. Henceforth, or at least for so long as it suits the pleasure of the membership, the LSS Newsletter will be distributed exclusively online. A one-page announcement flyer will be sent to LSS members through U.S. mail, directing them to the web site and informing them about the contents of the current issue of the newsletter. The move to electronic delivery of LSS Newsletter is being undertaken in conjunction with improvements to the web site that have the goal of creating a virtual community of legislative scholars. In addition to the familiar features of the newsletter, such as the teaching and research section, legislative news, book reviews, section news, and "Extensions of Remarks," members will now encounter new opportunities on the web site. These include two new bulletin boards: one for LSS business and matters of general interest; the other attached to "Extensions of Remarks." These bulletin boards will enable the membership to carry on a dialogue about issues of importance and about the substantive focus of the articles appearing in 'Extensions of Remarks." The LSS list server is another new electronic feature. This has been established as an open and voluntary list server. Any member may send messages to everyone on the list server. Members wanting to subscribe to the list server must sign on in order to receive messages. The list server and its contents will not be edited. We hope that these new interactive features will serve the needs of the LSS community and that many of our members will take advantage of the opportunities to carry on professional dialogue with their colleagues. One additional interactive feature is being discussed but has not yet been established. This would be a working papers section to which LSS members could post electronic copies of their conference papers or other work in progress. While we are exploring the logistics, we would welcome your comments regarding the usefulness of such a feature. And so, as we say goodbye to the print version of the LSS Newsletter, we welcome the members to a new and, we think, exciting world: LSS Online! |