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Legislative Studies Section Newsletter

Volume 29, Number 2, July 2006

Current Section Officers

From the Chair

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 now 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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Current Section Officers

Chairperson
Steven S. Smith
Weidenbaum Center
300 Eliot Hall
 Washington University
Saint Louis, MO 63130-4899
Phone: (314) 935-5630
Email: smith@wustl.edu

Secretary/Treasurer
John D. Wilkerson
Political Science
Box 353530
111 Gowen Hall
 University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone:  (206) 543-8030
Email: jwilker@u.washington.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, 2005-2007
Charles Stewart
Political Science
E53-463
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-253-3127
Email:  cstewart@mit.edu

Member-At-Large, 2005-2007
Kim L. Fridkin
Department of Political Science
 Arizona State University
Box 873902
Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
Phone: (480) 965-4195
Email: fridkin@asu.edu

Member-At-Large, 2005-2006
Eric Schickler
Department of Government
Harvard University
Littauer Center, North Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138-3001
Phone: (617) 384-9071
Email: eschickler@latte.harvard.edu

Preceding LSS Chair
Diana Evans
Yale University
ISPS
P. O. Box 208209
New Haven, CT 06520-8209
Phone: (860) 297-2546
Email: Diana.evans@trincoll.edu

LSS Program Chair, 2005-2006
Wendy J. Schiller
Political Science and Public Policy
Box 1844
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Phone: 401-863-1569
Email: wendy_schiller@brown.edu
 
 

From the Chair

Steven S. Smith
Washington University, Saint Louis

One of the important functions of the Section is to recognize the superb scholarship produced in the field of legislative studies.  I know that there a record number of high-quality nominations.  I am not at liberty to announce the next set of winners here, but I want to thank our fifteen colleagues who comprise the awards committees:
  • Fenno Prize for the best book in legislative studies:  Diana Evans, Andrew Taylor, and William Bianco. 
  • CQ Press award for the best paper presented at the annual meeting: Tracy Sulkin, Nolan McCarty, and Bruce Oppenheimer.
  • Carl Albert doctoral dissertation award:  Gail McElroy, Robert Van Houweling, and Scott Adler.
  • The Jewell-Loewenberg Award for the best LSQ paper:  Forrest Maltzman, Scott Mainwaring, and Kathryn Pearson.
  • The Alan Rosenthal Prize for the best work by a junior scholar with value to legislative practitioners: Stephen Frantzich, Gary Moncrief, and David Canon.
Our Section has a partnership with Legislative Studies Quarterly that gives dues-paying members an inexpensive subscription to the journal.  At the time we entered into the arrangement, we were concerned that the required increase in membership dues to accommodate the subscription would lead to a drop in membership.  After more than a full year of registrations at the new price, we have experienced a drop from about 620 to 540, but the membership loss appears to have leveled off.  The new equilibrium puts a little strain on our budget for the Newsletter and scholarship awards. 

With the help of the APSA staff, I wrote former section members who did not renew their membership during the past year.  I received only a handful of responses, but they reported that the cost of the new dues led them to drop their membership.  We will continue to monitor this closely as we continue through our two-year trial period for the arrangement. 


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