CNPS Business Meeting

3 September 2009

Toronto, Canada

I. Call to Order

a. Approval of agenda

b. Approval of Minutes

II. Chair’s Report:

a. Many Thanks to Christine Kelly

b. Many Thanks to awards chairs

i. Please attend plenary address for awards ceremony

III. Publications Executive Committee; met today

a. Journal eds: Mark Mattern and Nancy Love—Please see accompanying written report: “Editors Report”

i. Many Thanks to Joe Peschek

ii. Submissions up this year; from 50 to 68

iii. Special issue ed. by Manfred Steger

iv. Special issue next year: “Art after Empire”

v. Please submit to the journal; looking for more manuscript reviewers

b. Book Series ed. report: Sheila Collins

i. Routlege was no longer interested; queried several publisher; been working with Pluto Press; one accepted, two in pipeline; no contract yet

ii. We would like more book proposals—very helpful in approaching publishers

iii. Theme: Beyond Hegemony

IV. Treasure’s Report: Meredith Weiss—see attached report.

V. Membership Report: Chris Malone

a. Roughly 530

b. Discussion of targeting new membership: e-mail lists; target graduate students; announcements at our panels; Green politics group—overlap possible; same with Politics of Sexuality group

VI. Public Relations and Conferences Report: Clyde Barrow

a. Conference outside of APSA; unanimously passed last year at CNPS Business Meeting

b. Late Feb. 2011; Friday-Sunday in Puerto Rico; interested hotel; still several things to work out: size, structure, people from other disciplines and outside of U.S.—means to recruit membership beyond APSA; costs under discussion; perhaps CNPS subsidy so more people [and/or grad students] could go

c. A conference beyond apsa to excite our membership about our scholarship

d. Question: Mark Mattern—affordable? Barrow: not necessarily more expensive; Forman: perhaps PR hard to get to for many in Latin America; questions to Clyde; need for volunteers to work on conference planning.

VII. Program Chair: Jocelyn Boryczka; see attaché report/Powerpoint slides

VIII. Elections:

a. Nominations received ; others . . .

IX. Old Business:

a. From last year, meeting asked to revisit Mission Statement

b. Suggested Mission Statement [get from Jen]

c. Discussion

d. New Mission Statement passed:

The Caucus for a New Political Science was founded in 1967 to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world. The Caucus is organized around the position that a commitment to social justice, a sustainable democratic society, and human rights is central to the study of politics. Members of the Caucus are progressive scholars, activists, and practitioners.