SECTION 1: FEDERALISM & INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Formed: 1983 / Dues: $25

The purpose of this section is to plan, develop, and implement professional activities for Association members with interests in federalism, intergovernmental relations, and state and local government.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~federalism/

Chair: Barry G. Rabe, University of Michigan, brabe@umich.edu

Secretary/Treasurer: Michael W. Hail, Morehead State University

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Robert Vipond, University of Toronto

Editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism: Carol S. Weissert

Council: Carolyn Jordan Bourdeaux, Georgia State University; Alberta M. Sbragia, University of Pittsburgh; Douglas Brown, St. Francis Xavier University; Kiki Caruson, University of South Florida; Scott W. Allard, University of Chicago; Debora Van Nijnatten, Wilfrid Laurier University; John J. Dinan, Wake Forest University; , Wake Forest University; Jeremy Hall, University of Texas at Dallas; , University of Texas at Dallas; and Carolyn Johns, Ryerson University

SECTION 2: LAW AND COURTS

Formed: 1983 / Dues: $10

The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research in the areas of law and the judicial process.

Web site: http://www.law.nyu.edu/lawcourts

SECTION 3: LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

Formed: 1983 / Dues: $30

The purpose of this section is to provide members with an interest in legislative processes, behavior, and representation opportunities to meet and exchange ideas.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~lss

Chair: Sarah Binder, George Washington University

Secretary/Treasurer: Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego

Legislative Studies Quarterly: Brian F. Crisp, Washington University in St. Louis; David T. Canon, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Peverill Squire, University of Iowa

Newsletter: Ronald M. Peters, Jr., University of Oklahoma, http://www.apsanet.org/~lss/Newsletter/Newsletter.html

Executive Council: Scott Adler, University of Colorado; Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Patrick Sellers, Davidson College

Nominations Committee: Wendy Schiller, Brown University; Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University; and Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University

SECTION 4: PUBLIC POLICY

Formed: 1983 / Dues: $15

The organized section on public policy is committed to producing rigorous empirical and theoretical knowledge of the processes and products of governing and the application of that knowledge to critical policy issues.

Web site: http://www.apsapolicysection.org

Chair: Sheldon Kamieniecki, University of California, Santa Cruz

Chair-elect: Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles

Secretary/ Treasurer: David M. Hedge, University of Florida

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles

The Policy Studies Journal: Peter deLeon, University of Colorado, Denver; Chris Weible, University of Colorado Denver, http://psj.ipso.org/index.htm

Council: Ann Lin, University of Michigan; Ann Bowman, University of South Carolina; David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Chris Foreman, University of Maryland; Joe Soss, University of Minnesota; Peter May, University of Washington; Mara Sidney, Rutgers University; David Meyer, University of California, Irvine; Scott Allard, University of Chicago; Doug Imig, University of Memphis; Sarah Pralle, Syracuse University; and Carolyn Tuohy, University of Toronto

SECTION 5: POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTIES

Formed: 1983 / Dues: $29

Political Organizations and Parties works to further scholarship on American political parties, comparative political parties, and interest groups. They do this in a number of different ways. Through their meetings, workshops, newsletter, and Web site, they provide a means of interaction and communication for like-minded scholars. At the workshop at the annual meeting they work to train scholars in the use of various methods or databases, or to promote new research in a particular area. They also organize the panels in their subfields for the annual meeting.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~pop

President: Paul S. Herrnson, University of Maryland, College Park

Secretary/Treasurer: Holly Brasher, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Annual Meeting Program Co-Chairs: Richard Herrera, Arizona State University, and Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University

Webmaster: Amy Alexander, University of California, Irvine

VOX POP Newsletter: John C. Green, University of Akron, green@uakron.edu, http://www3.uakron.edu/bliss/voxpop/index.htm

Executive Council: Frederick J. Boehmke, University of Iowa; Paul N. Goren, University of Minnesota; Marc J. Hetherington, Vanderbilt University; Barbara Sinclair, University of California, Los Angeles; Christopher Anderson, Cornell University; Marie Hojnacki, Pennsylvania State University; Ron John Hrebenar, University of Utah; Christia Woldbrecht, University of Pittsburgh

SECTION 6: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Formed: 1983 / Dues: $8

The purpose of this section is to provide an arena in which individuals interested in public administration may exchange ideas, enhance their professional development, and act to ensure that activities of the APSA encompass their interests.

Web site: http://h-net.msu.edu/~pubadmin

Chair: Charles W. Gossett, California State University, Sacramento

Chair-elect: Sally Coleman Selden, Lynchburg College

Treasurer: Gene A. Brewer, University of Georgia

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Sharon H. Mastracci, University of Illinois, Chicago

Newsletter: Melvin J. Dubnick, University of New Hampshire, http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~pubadmin/#sectnews

Council: Frances Berry, Florida State University; Sergio Fernandez, Indiana University; Lael Keiser, University of Missouri; Michael Pagano, University of Illinois; Jim Douglas, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Vicky Wilkins, University of Georgia; Jared Llorens, University of Kansas; Alisa Hicklin, University of Oklahoma; Janet Hutchinson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Sam Workman, University of Texas, Austin; Richard Kearney, North Carolina State University

SECTION 7: CONFLICT PROCESSES

Formed: 1984 / Dues: $8

The purpose of this section is to be a forum for the study of any and all forms of political conflict both within and between nation-states.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~conflict

SECTION 8: REPRESENTATION AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

Formed: 1984 / Dues: $5

The purpose of this section is to promote teaching and research in the areas of representation and electoral systems, and to encourage communication among persons interested in these fields within the association and with related disciplines.

Chair: Shaun Bowler, University of California, Riverside

Secretary/Treasurer: Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Orit Kedar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Newsletter Editor: Joseph F. Zimmerman, SUNY, Albany

Council: R. Kenneth Carty, University of British Columbia; Sarah Birch, University of Essex; Kathleen Bawn, University of California, Los Angeles; Iain McLean, Oxford University; Matt Golder, Florida State University; Jack Vowles, University of Exeter; Erik Herron, University of Kansas

SECTION 9: PRESIDENCY RESEARCH

Formed: 1985 / Dues: $10

The purpose of this section is to further research on the presidency and other political executives.

Web site: http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/renka/prg

President: Jeffrey E. Cohen, Fordham University

Vice President/President Elect: Mary E. Stuckey, Georgia State University

Secretary/Treasurer: M. Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa Barbara

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Richard S. Conley, University of Florida

Past President: Charles E. Walcott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

PRG Report: David A. Crockett, Trinity University

Board of Directors: Randall Adkins, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Meena Bose, Hofstra University; Lara Brown, Villanova University; Lilly Goren, Carroll College ; Christopher Kelley, Miami University, Ohio; David Lewis, Vanderbilt University; Janet Martin, Bowdoin University; Ken Mayer, University of Wisconsin; Kevin McMahon, Trinity College; Jeffrey Peake, Bowling Green State University; Steven Schier, Carleton College; Wayne Steger, DePaul University; Justin Vaughn, Cleveland State University; Jose Villalobos, Texas A&M University; Shirley Anne Warshaw, Gettysburg College; David Yalof, Connecticut University

SECTION 10: POLITICAL METHODOLOGY

Formed: 1986 / Dues: $29

The purpose of this section is to provide members with an interest in methodology, including research design, measurement, and statistics, opportunities to meet and exchange ideas. Their Web site is the gateway to the Electronic Paper Archive. From here you can view abstracts of conference and Working Papers online and download papers for local printing. This is also the gateway to The Political Methodologist, their newsletter, and Political Analysis, the official journal of the section.

Web site: http://polmeth.wustl.edu

Chair: Jeff Gill, Washington University

Vice President: Robert Franzese, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Treasurer: Suzanna Linn DeBoef, Pennsylvania State University

Webmaster: Andrew Martin, Washington University

Member at Large: Bradford S. Jones, University of California, Davis

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jay Goodliffe, Brigham Young University

The Political Methodologist: Paul M. Kellstedt, Texas A&M University; Guy D. Whitten, Texas A&M University; David A. M. Peterson, Texas A&M University; http://polmeth.wustl.edu/thepolmeth.php

Political Analysis: Christopher Zorn, Pennsylvania State University; http://pan.oxfordjournals.org

Executive Council: Robert Franzese, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Jeff Gill, Washington University, St. Louis; Suzanna Linn DeBoef, Pennsylvania State University; Bradford Jones, University of California, Davis

SECTION 11: RELIGION AND POLITICS

Formed: 1986 / Dues: $24

The purpose of this section is to encourage the study of religions and politics by political scientists including issues of church and state, law, morality, political behavior, social justice, and the contributions of faith to political understanding.

Web site: http://www.denison.edu/~djupe/relpol/index.html

Chair: Kimberly H. Conger, Iowa State University

Secretary/Treasurer: John R. Pottenger, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Andrew R. Murphy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Webmaster: Ricardo M. Barrera

Politics and Religion: Ted G. Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Sabrina Petra Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Executve Committee: Ahmet Kuru, Columbia University; Katherine Knutson, Gustauvs Adolphus College; Mark Rozell, George Mason University; George Mason University; Rachel McCleary, Harvard University

SECTION 13: URBAN POLITICS

Formed: 1986 / Dues: $28

The purpose of the section is to promote interest in teaching and research in urban politics and policy. The section seeks to encourage communication among persons interested in urban politics within the Association and within related disciples.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~urban

President: Karen Mossberger, University of Illinois, Chicago

President-elect: Steven P. Erie, University of California, San Diego

Secretary/Treasurer: Lenneal J. Henderson, University of Baltimore

Annual Meeting Program Co-Chairs: Mara Sidney, Rutgers University, Newark, and Michael Leo Owens, Emory University

Urban News Newsletter: Baodong (Paul) Liu, University of Utah, Oshkosh; http://apsanet.org/~urban

Executive Council: Martin Horak, University of Western Ontario; Jessica Trounstine, Princeton University; Thomas Vicino, Wheaton College; Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University; Michael Owens, Emory University; Lorraine J. Minnite, Barnard College; Susan Clarke, University of Colorado, Boulder (ex officio member); Kristin Good, Dalhousie University; Richard Fogelsong, Rollins College; E. Terrence (Terry) Jones, University of Missouri-St Louis; Mara Sidney, Rutgers University-Newark; Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Indiana University-Bloomington; and William R. Barnes, National League of Cities

SECTION 15: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

Formed: 1986 / Dues: $8

The purpose of this section is to stimulate fundamental inquiry on science, technology, and environmental issues as political phenomena.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/section_320

Chair: Mark Zachary Taylor, Georgia Institute of Technology, mzak@gatech.edu

Secretary/Treasurer: Stacy Van Deveer, University of New Hampshire

Annual Meeting Program Chair: David Konisky, University of Missouri

Executive Council: Mark Lubell, University of California, Davis; J. P. Singh, Georgetown University; Judy Layzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Renee Marlin-Bennett, American University; Pamela Strickler, California State University, San Marcos; Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara; Patrick Hamlett, North Carolina State University

SECTION 16: WOMEN AND POLITICS RESEARCH

Formed: 1986 / Dues: $25

The purpose of this section is to foster the study of women and politics within the discipline of political science.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~wpol

President: S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University

President-Elect: Kim L. Fridkin, Arizona State University

Secretary: Rina Verma Williams, University of Virginia

Treasurer: Heather L. Ondercin, Louisiana State University

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Kim L. Fridkin, Arizona State University

Newsletter Editor: Lanethea Mathews-Gardner, Muhlenberg College

Politics and Gender: Kathleen Dolan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Graduate Student Representative: Shannon Drysdale Walsh, University of Notre Dame

Council: Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Rutgers University; Pamela Paxton, Ohio State University; Melissa Haussman, Carleton University; Nancy Hirchmann, University of Pennsylvania

SECTION 17: FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

Formed: 1987 / Dues: $10

The Foundations of Political Theory section exists to advance the linkage of political theory and philosophy with political science as a discipline. Foundations recognizes and encourages research and teaching that crosses intellectual and disciplinary boundaries. It stands at and seeks to support the intersection where philosophical, psychological, normative, and empirical approaches and problems meet. Foundations, as the name suggests, aims to study the more permanent dimensions of political life ranging from the design of institutions and political practices to the terms and concepts used to interpret the former.

Web site: http://www.political-theory.org

Chair: Martha Ackelsberg, Smith College

Secretary: Michael T. Gibbons, University of South Florida

Treasurer: Stephen T. Leonard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Annual Meeting Program Co-Chair: Elizabeth R. Wingrove, University of Michigan, and Stephen G. Engelmann, University of Illinois, Chicago

Newsletter Editor: Michael Gibbons, University of South Florida

Placement Newsletter Editor: Michael Gibbons, University of South Florida

Executive Council: Danielle Allen, Institute for Advanced Study; Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, United Kingdom; Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago; Lori J. Marso, Union College; Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Elizabeth Wingrove, University of Michigan

SECTION 18: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS

Formed: 1988 / Dues: $5

The purpose of this section is to provide a forum for members with an interest in the use of computers, the Internet, and multimedia in teaching, research, and policy applications in political science and all related subfields and disciplines.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~itp

Chair: Priscilla M. Regan, George Mason University

Vice Chair: Nanette S. Levinson, American University

Secretary/Treasurer: Cecilia G. Manrique, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Nanette S. Levinson, American University

Newsletter: Kenneth S. Rogerson, Duke University, http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/ITPnews

Journal of Information Technology & Politics: Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, http://www.jitp.net

Executive Committee: Robert Boynton, University of Iowa; Matthew Hindman, Arizona State University; Meelis Kitsing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Kevin Wallsten, California State University, Long Beach; David A. Karpf, University of Pennsylvania and Brown University; M. Selcan Kaynak, Bogazici University

SECTION 19: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND ARMS CONTROL

Formed: 1988 / Dues: $8

The purpose of this section is to encourage research and scholarship in international security and arms control, providing an opportunity for presentation of papers and discussion of theoretical and empirical work at APSA section meetings.

Web site: http://www.intlsecurity.org

SECTION 20: COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Formed: 1988 / Dues: $8

The purpose of this section is to promote the comparative, especially cross-national, study of politics and to integrate work of comparativists, area studies specialists, and those interested in American politics.

President: Susan C. Stokes, Yale University

Vice President/President-Elect: Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Secretary/Treasurer: Ian S. Lustick, University of Pennsylvania

Annual Meeting Program Co-Chairs: Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester, and John Gerring, Boston University

Newsletter: Michael J. Coppedge, University of Notre Dame, and Anthony M. Messina, Trinity College, http://www. nd.edu/~apsacp/index.htm

Executive Committee: Catherine Boone, University of Texas, Austin; Richard F. Doner, Emory University; Carles Boix, Princeton University; Daniel Posner, University of California, Los Angeles

SECTION 21: EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Formed: 1989 / Dues: $10

The purpose of the section is to promote comparative discussion, research, and debate about the changing sociology of politics, the state, and social structures in modern Western Europe.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~ep

Chair: David Rueda, University of Oxford

Chair-Elect: Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University

Treasurer: Karl C. Kaltenthaler, University of Akron

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University

Webmaster: Leonard Ray, Louisiana State University

Newsletter: George E. Shambaugh, Georgetown University; http://apsanet.org/~ep/newsletter.html

Steering Committee: Christopher Anderson, Cornell University; Tanja Borzel, Free University Berlin; Rachel Cichowski, University of Washington; Marc M. Howard, Georgetown University; Kees van Kersbergen, Free University Amsterdam; Amie Kreppel, University of Florida; Bruno Palier, Sciences Po; David Rueda, University of Oxford; Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Missouri; Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University; Ingrid van Biezen, Leiden University; Jan Kubik, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

SECTION 22: STATE POLITICS AND POLICY

Formed: 1989 / Dues: $27

The purpose to this section is to further our understanding of the American states including their institutions, political actors, policies, and local, national, and international influence.

Web site: http://www.fsu.edu/~statepol

President: Lilliard E. Richardson Jr., University of Missouri, Columbia

Secretary/Treasurer: Margaret R. Ferguson, Indiana University-Indianapolis

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Richard C. Fording, University of Kentucky

Newsletter: Shannon Jenkins, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, http://www.fsu.edu/~statepol/section/news.htm

State Politics and Policy Quarterly: Richard Winters, Dartmouth College; Ronald Weber, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; David Lowery, University of Leiden; Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego; http://cspl.uis.edu/InstituteForLegislativeStudies/SPPQ

Council: Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas; Robert Lowry, University of Texas-Dallas; Susan Yackee, University of Wisconsin; James King, University of Wyoming; Elizabeth Rigby, University of Houston; Neil Woods, University of South Carolina

SECTION 23: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Formed: 1989 / Dues: $8

The purpose of this section is to foster the study of political communications within the discipline of political science including research on mass media, telecommunications policy, new media technologies, and the process of communicating and understanding.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~polcomm

Chair: Richard Davis, Brigham Young University

Vice Chair: Regina G. Lawrence, Louisiana State University

Secretary/Treasurer: David Taras, University of Calgary

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jonathan Ladd, Georgetown University

Newsletter: David M. Ryfe, University of Nevada, Reno

Executive Committee: Stephen Farmsworth, George Mason University; Kim Gross, George Washington University; Costas Panagopoulos, Fordham University

SECTION 24: POLITICS AND HISTORY

Formed: 1989 / Dues: $10

The purpose of this section is to bring together political scientists interested in historical issues and problems drawing from almost every traditional disciplinary subfield.

Web site: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~apsaph

Chair: Sven Steinmo, European University Institute

Chair-Elect: Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University

Secretary/Treasurer: David B. Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Sheri Berman, Barnard College, and Desmond King, Oxford University

Newsletter: David B. Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis; http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~apsaph/clio.htm

Council: Richard John, Columbia University; Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University; Evan Lieberman, Princeton University; Julie Lynch, Pennsylvania University; Pamela Brandwein, University of Michigan; Victoria Tin-bor Hui, University of Notre Dame; Ken Kersch, Boston College; Kimberly Morgan, George Washington University

SECTION 25: POLITICAL ECONOMY

Formed: 1990 / Dues: $7

The purpose of this section is to promote teaching and research that integrates politics and economics.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~polecon

Chair: Miriam A. Golden, University of California, Los Angeles

Secretary/Treasurer: David Leblang, University of Virginia

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jonas Pontusson, Princeton University

The Political Economist Newsletter: Matthew Gabel, Washington University in St. Louis; Randall L. Calvert, Washington University, http://www.apsanet.org/~polecon/newsletter.html

Council: Sara Brooks, Ohio State University; Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University; Sandy Gordon, New York University; Nathan Jensen, Washington University, St Louis; Philip Keefer, The World Bank; Duane Swank, Marquette University

SECTION 27: NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE

Formed: 1992 / Dues: $20

The purpose of this section is to help make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~new

Co-Chairs: Clyde W. Barrow, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Secretary: William L. Niemi, Western State College of Colorado

Treasurer: Meredith L. Weiss, University of Albany, SUNY

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jocelyn M. Boryczka, Fairfield University

Coordinating Committee: Michael Forman, University of Washington, Tacoma; Laura Katz Olsen, Lehigh University

Caucus Representatives: Jocelyn Boryczka, Fairfield University; Jennifer Leigh Disney, Winthrop University

Honorary Member: Frances Fox Piven, CUNY, Graduate Center

New Political Science: Nancy S. Love, Pennsylvania State University, and Mark S. Mattern, Baldwin Wallace College, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/07393148.html

SECTION 28: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Formed: 1993 / Dues: $8

The purpose of this section to facilitate communication across subfields and disciplinary boundaries among individuals interested in the relationship between political and psychological processes.

Chair: David P. Redlawsk, Rutgers University

Chair-Elect: Rose McDermott, Brown University

Treasurer: John E. Transue, University of Illinois, Springfield

Communications Director: Bethany Albertson, University of Texas, Austin

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jeffrey A. Karp, University of Exeter

Executive Committee: David Redlawsk, University of Iowa; Rose McDermott, Brown University; Bethany Albertson, University of Washington, Seattle; John Transue, University of Illinois, Springfield; Jeffrey Karp, University of Exeter; Cameron Thies, University of Iowa (at large); Christopher Federico, University of Minnesota

SECTION 29: POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION

Formed: 1993 / Dues: $5

The purpose of this section is both to promote exemplary undergraduate teaching within the political science discipline and to the scholarship of teaching. The section is especially dedicated to increasing the use of innovative teaching methods, particularly those tooted in experience (internships, service learning, simulations, and study abroad).

Web site: http://www.iupui.edu/~ueweb/

Chair: Juan Carlos Huerta; Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Vice-Chair: Karen M. Kedrowski, Winthrop University

Secretary/Treasurer: Quentin Kidd, Christopher Newport University

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Fletcher McClellan, Elizabethtown College

Political Science Educator Newsletter: Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, http://www.iupui.edu/~ueweb/

Journal of Political Science Education: John Ishiyama, University of North Texas, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15512169.asp

Council: William Ball, College of New Jersey; Jeffrey F. Kraus, Wagner College; Allison Rios Millett McCartney, Towson University; Charles Turner, California State University Chico; Bruce Caswell, Rowan University

SECTION 30: POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND FILM

Formed: 1993 / Dues: $5

The study of literature and film offers political scientists a particularly stimulating mode of inquiry into political institutions and principles, and into the ways of life that sustain them and are, in turn, shaped by them. Indeed, the creation of this division is itself a sign of the complex and changing landscape of the study of politics. The section explores the way in which literature—broadly understood to include film and other literary genres—provides unique insights into the nature of political life and the study of politics.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~politicsandlit

Chair: Natalie Taylor, Skidmore College

Chair-Elect: Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University

Secretary/Treasurer: Lilly J. Goren, Carroll University

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Natalie Taylor, Skidmore College

Newsletter: Charles T. Rubin, Duquesne University, http://www.apsanet.org/~politicsandlit/newsletters.html

Executive Council: Mary P. Nichols, Baylor University; Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University; Carol McNamara, Utah State University; Heather Wright, Wittenberg University; Natalie Taylor, Skidmore College; Lilly Goren, Carroll University

SECTION 31: FOREIGN POLICY

Formed: 1993 / Dues: $5

The section on foreign policy is the organization for those interested in multilevel approaches to the study of international relations. The section emphasizes individual, role, organizational, bureaucratic, societal, and/or state as well as situational and system level variables in foreign policy analyses. Members of the section employ a wide range of approaches, including historical, normative, rational, behavioral, liberal, institutional, psychological, and constructivist. Section members emphasize comparative as well as American studies of foreign policy. And the section recognizes the contributions of practitioners as well as academics in a broad range of professions and disciplines, e.g., communications, economics, diplomacy, government, history, political science, public opinion polling, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~fp

SECTION 32: ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION, AND VOTING BEHAVIOR

Formed: 1994 / Dues: $28

The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research on elections, electoral behavior, public opinion, voting turnout, and political participation, both within the United State and in comparative perspective.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~elections

President: William G. Jacoby, Michigan State University

Vice-President: André Blais, Université de Montréal

Treasurer: David Campbell, University of Notre Dame

Communications Director: Corwin D. Smidt, Michigan State University

Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Scott D. McClurg, Southern Illinois University

Political Behavior Journal Editors: Jon Hurwitz, University of Pittsburgh; Mark Peffley, University of Kentucky

Public Opinion: David A. M. Peterson, Texas A&M University

Executive Council: Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cindy D. Kam, Vanderbilt University; Stephen P. Nicholson, University of California, Merced; Matt Barreto, University of Washington; Claudine Gay, Harvard University; Karen Kaufmann, University of Maryland

SECTION 33: RACE, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS

Formed: 1995 / Dues: $10

The purpose of this section is to foster communication among scholars, recognize leadership in the field, facilitate research and publication opportunities, encourage undergraduate and student interest, and create a permanent forum for developing and refining appropriate theoretical models in the study of race and ethnicity.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~rep

Co-Chairs: Michael A. Jones-Correa, Princeton University; Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, University of Rochester

Secretary: Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti, University of Texas, Pan American

Treasurer: Tyson D. King-Meadows, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Newsletter: Catherine Paden, Simmons College; Natalie Masuoka, Tufts University; http://www.apsanet.org/~rep/section_newsletter.htm

Listserv Editor: Paula Mohan, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater

Web Administrator: James Dizon, University of California, Santa Barbara

Executive Council: Lorrie Frasure, University of California, Los Angeles; Amy Cabrera Rasmussen, California State University, Long Beach; Paru Shah, Macalester College; Ron Hayduk, CUNY, Borough of Manhattan Community College; Gabriel Sanchez, University of New Mexico; Khalila Brown-Dean, Yale University; Daniel HoSang, University of Oregon; Sheryl Lightfoot, University of British Colombia; Michael Minta, Washington University in Saint Louis; Shayla Nunnally, University of Connecticut

Graduate Student Issues Committee: Kathy Rim, University of California, Irvine; Janay Cody, University of Notre Dame; Francisco Pedreza, University of Washington; Michael Lerma, University of Arizona

SECTION 34: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

Formed: 1999 / Dues: $5

The purpose of this section is to promote the study of international history and politics, to disseminate research results; to encourage interdisciplinary conversations between political scientists and historians, and to advance the development, dissemination, integration, and application of qualitative and historiographical methodologies.

Web site: http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/ihap

President: Jeffrey W. Legro, University of Virginia

Vice-President: Etel L. Solingen, University of California, Irvine

Secretary/Treasurer: Colin Elman, Syracuse University

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Risa A. Brooks, Northwestern University

SECTION 35: COMPARATIVE DEMOCRATIZATION

Formed: 2000 / Dues: $8

The Comparative Democratization section exists to promote the analysis of the origins, processes, and outcomes of democratization among nations, spur communication among political scientists whose scholarship focuses on particular world regions, and stimulate greater involvement within APSA of political scientists working in various areas like Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, the Far East, Europe, and the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Web site: http://www.ned.org/apsa-cd/home.html

Chair: Ashutosh Varshney, Brown University

Vice-Chair: Leslie E. Anderson, University of Florida

Secretary: Jose Antonio Cheibub, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Treasurer: Juliet Johnson, McGill University

Newsletter: Diego Abente, Int'l Forum for Democratic Studies, http://www.ned.org/apsa-cd/Newsletter.html

SECTION 36: HUMAN RIGHTS

Formed: 2000 / Dues: $10

The section on human rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, and impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.

Web site: http://www.apsahrs.org

President: Todd Landman, University of Essex

Vice President: Jack Donnelly, University of Denver

Vice-President-Elect: Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University

Secretary: Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University

Treasurer: Basak Cali, University College London

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jack Donnelly, University of Denver

Steering Committee: Todd Landman, University of Essex; Jack Donnelly, University of Denver; Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University; Basak Cali, University College London; David Benjamin, University of Bridgeport; Alistair Cook, RSIS Centre for Non Traditional Security Studies; Shareen Hertel, University of Connecticut

SECTION 37: QUALITATIVE METHODS

Formed: 2003 / Dues: $9

The goals of the section are to promote research and training focused on the several branches of methodology associated with the qualitative tradition; and to strive for an integrated understanding of these diverse methods and of their relationship to quantitative methods.

Web site: http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/cqrm/QualitativeMethodsAPSA.html

President: Colin Elman, Syracuse University

President-Elect: Gary Goertz, University of Arizona

Vice President: Peter A. Hall, Harvard University

Secretary/Treasurer: Renee de Nevers, Syracuse University

Newsletter: Gary Goertz, University of Arizona; http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/cqrm/Newsletter.html

At-Large Executive Committee: Page Fortna, Columbia University; Dan Carpenter, Harvard University; Steve Van Evera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Barbara Geddes, University of California, Los Angeles

SECTION 38: SEXUALITY AND POLITICS

Formed: 2007 / Dues: $7

The objective of the Sexuality and Politics Section is to bring together scholars working in a variety of areas within political science to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and to foster intellectual community and expertise within the APSA. There is a growing body of scholarship within the discipline of political science that addresses the issue of sexuality within a variety of subfields including public policy; local, state and national governance; international relations, elections, public administration and political theory.

Web site: http://apsanet.org/section_737.cfm

President: Ellen Ann Andersen, University of Vermont

Vice President: Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Communications Officer: Julie Novkov, University of Albany, State University of New York

Treasurer: Jason Pierceson, University of Illinois, Springfield

Annual Meeting Program Chair: Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Membership Outreach: Gregory B. Lewis, Georgia State University

Executive Council: Alesha E. Doan, University of Kansas; Charles Anthony (Tony) Smith, University of California, Irvine; Ryan Muncy Combs, University of Manchester Shawn Schulenberg, University of California, Riverside

SECTION 39: HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICY

Formed: 2008 / Dues: $8

The organized section on Health Politics and Policy provides the ideal infrastructure in which members can more thoroughly, efficiently arm themselves with the additional expertise we need to explore health politics and policy questions. The Section will define “health politics and policy” just as broadly as the phrase implies. Everything from the politics of Medicare Part D to the politics of women's health; everything from comparative politics of AIDS in Africa, Eastern Europe, and South Asia to the comparative state politics of Medicaid and SCHIP, everything from the ethics of end of life decisions to the regulation of stem cell research, everything from public budgeting and regulation to public health disaster preparedness—all these and more fall with the scope of the section.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/content_52331.cfm?navID=221

President: Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

President-Elect: Thomas R. Oliver, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Secretary: Michael K. Gusmano, Columbia University

Treasurer: Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Annual Meeting Program Committee: Thomas R. Oliver, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Newsletter Editor: Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Council: Colleen M. Grogan, University of Chicago; James A. Morone, Brown University; Julia Abelson, McMaster University

SECTION 40: CANADIAN POLITICS

Formed: 2009 / Dues: $8

The purpose of this section is to promote the interest in Canadian politics, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information related to Canadian politics, and to encourage the cumluation of knowledge about Canadian politics.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/content_61978.cfm?navID=810

Chair: Melissa A. Haussman, Carleton University

Secretary: Janna Ferguson, Rutgers University

Treasurer: Christopher M. Sands, Hudson Institute

Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Candace Johnson, University of Guelph; Louise Carbert, Dalhousie University

Executive Committee: Patrick James, University of Southern California; Pauline Rankin, Carleton University; Laura Stephenson, University of Western Ontario; Raymond Tatalovitch, Loyola University of Chicago

SECTION 41: POLITICAL NETWORKS

Formed: 2009 / Dues: $8

The purpose of the Political Networks Organized Section is to promote intellectual exchange among scholars regarding the theoretical, methodological, and substantive aspects of political networks. The study of political networks brings a new lens to bear on political science that reveals new theoretical and methodological insights. The organization seeks to promote better understanding of network theorizing and analysis across political science and to connect the study of networks in political science to other disciplines as well. The study of political networks transcends the boundaries of the traditional subfields of political science by embracing work in American and comparative politics, international relations, public policy and administration, political methodology, and political theory.

Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/content_64174.cfm?navID=827

Chair: David Lazer, Northeastern University

Treasurer: John T. Scholz, Florida State University

2010 APSA AND ORGANIZED SECTION AWARDS

Deadlines for nominating recipients of APSA and organized section awards are quickly approaching.

Book Awards: January 15

Dissertation Awards: January 15

Career Awards: February 1

Organized Section Awards: These dates vary, so please visit http://www.apsanet.org/content_4569.cfm.

You can also visit http://www.apsanet.org/section_210.cfm for nomination information for all of our awards. If you have any questions, please e-mail Lauren Barry at lbarry@apsanet.org.