LSS Newsletter, July 2005

Volume 28, Number 2, July 2005

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.

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.

Current Section Officers

Chairperson
Diana Evans
Department of Political Science
Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: (860) 297-2546
Email:Diana.evans@trincoll.edu

Secretary/Treasurer
Professor Frances E. Lee
Department of Political Science
10900 Euclid Avenue
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106-7109
Phone: (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
Phone: (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
Phone: (614) 292-9642
Email: jboxstef+@osu.edu

Member-At-Large, 2003-2005
Gary Cox
Department of Political Science
University of California - San Diego
LaJolla, CA 92093-0521
Phone: (619) 534-1428
Email:gcox@ucsd.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
Phone: (203) 432-5237
Email: david.mayhew@yale.edu

LSS Program Chair, 2004-2005
Eric Schickler
Department of Government
Harvard University
1875 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 384-9071
Email: eschickler@latte.harvard.edu

From the Chair

Diana Evans
Trinity College

At last year’s business meeting, LSS members voted to link section membership with a subscription to Legislative Studies Quarterly with an increase in annual dues from $10 to $30. We promised to assess the impact of this change on our membership as of midyear, and I am happy to report that our membership has actually increased slightly between July 1, 2004 and June 28, 2005, from 612 to 618. It appears that, thus far, the change is being well-received by our members.

As my tenure as chair of the Legislative Studies Section winds down, I would like to thank some people without whose talents and conscientious work my job would have been very much more difficult. First, Frances Lee, the outgoing Secretary-Treasurer, has done an absolutely superb job in her four years in that position. Additionally, I am sure that all LSS members share my view that Sean Q. Kelly has done an outstanding job in his first two years as editor of “Extensions of Remarks." Thanks also to Newsletter editor Ron Peters and the fine staff of the Carl Albert Center. I also appreciate the excellent work of the program chairs for 2004, Sarah Binder and Forrest Maltzman, and 2005, Eric Schickler; the council, Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Gary Cox, and Larry Evans; the nominating committee, Larry Dodd (chair), Jon Bond, and Linda Fowler; and, last but not least, the members of the five award committees for 2004 and 2005. All have been extraordinarily generous with their time and energies, and it has been my great pleasure to work with them.

I would like to invite those who plan to attend the APSA meeting in Washington to the annual LSS meeting on Friday, September 2 at 6 p.m.in the Wilson A room of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel for the presentation of awards and the election of new section officers. I hope to see you there!

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