APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter

Volume 24, Number 1 January 2001

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 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
Professor Wendy J. Schiller
Department of Political Science
Brown University
Box 1844
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-1569
Wendy_Schiller@brown.edu

Editor, LSS Newsletter
Professor Ronald M. Peters Jr.
Carl Albert Center
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
(405) 325-6372
rpeters@ou.edu

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
b-loomis@ukans.edu

LSS Program Chair, 2000-2001
Professor William T. Bianco
Department of Political Science
Penn State University
Burrows 107
University Park, PA 16803
(814) 865-0700
wtb3@pspu.edu

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
Professor Joseph Cooper
Department of Government
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles, Room 331
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-8070
jcooper@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu

Member-At-Large, 1999-2001
Professor Rick Wilson
Department of Political Science
6100 Main St., MS-24
Rice University Houston, TX 77005
(713) 348-3352
rkw@rice.edu

Preceding LSS Chair
Professor Wayne L. Francis
Department of Political Science
University of Florida
Gainesville, Fl 32611
(352) 375-0633
wlf@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu

From the Chair

John R. Hibbing
University of Nebraska

     The years come and go and two-year terms do, too. Next December, this page will be filled with words from another Legislative Studies Section Chair. Probably the main duty of the Chair is to fill committee slots and I can only hope my successor is accorded the same cooperative spirit that you, the members of the Section, have me. The selection committee members in 1999-2000 did a wonderful job of choosing three deserving prize winners. And for 2000-01 another stellar group has agreed to serve. (For details on prize winners and this year's committees, please see Section News of this newsletter.) The supportive ethos of the community of legislative scholars has never been more apparent to me.
     In addition to our three existing awards - the Richard F. Fenno Prize for best book, CQ Prize for best APSA paper, and the Carl Albert Dissertation Award - the new Jewell-Loewenberg Prize will be given to the author of the best article appearing in the Legislative Studies Quarterly during the 2000 calendar year.
     Members will also notice that, as is the case every other year, a nominations committee has been constituted. This committee is charged with formulating a slate that will include nominations for the next Section Chair, for the next Secretary-Treasurer, and for three Executive Committee members. Section members are encouraged to provide suggestions to any of the members of this year's nominations committee.
     Finally, the Section is in the process of moving the Newsletter to an exclusively on-line publication. This is a change that will make things easier for the fine people at the Carl Albert Center who produce (and sometimes subsidize) the LSS Newsletter, and it was widely supported by those section members attending the last business meeting. But we realize that most section members are not at the business meetings and we are eager to obtain as much feedback as possible from all LSS members. Please contact me or, probably even better, Ron Peters, editor of the newsletter. We are sincerely interested in the sentiments of the members regarding this important change.

From the Editor

Ronald M. Peters, Jr.
Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma

The full contents of this newsletter can be accessed electronically on the World Wide Web at http://www.apsanet.org/~lss/. The LSS web page also includes basic citation information on recent journal articles dealing with legislatures and a list of papers in the area of legislative studies that have been presented at professional conferences in recent months.
Based on discussion at the annual business meeting, we expect that this issue of the LSS Newsletter is the last one that will be distributed in print form. Beginning with the Summer 2001 issue, we will mail to each member of LSS a printed copy of the table of contents with a reminder that the entire newsletter can be viewed on the LSS web page. We trust that this will meet the needs of the section, but we always welcome your comments and suggestions.

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