Section 1: Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations

Formed: 1983, Dues: $10 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.apsafederalism.org/

Chair: Timothy J. Conlan, George Mason University, Public & International Affairs, MSN 3F4, Fairfax VA 22030-4444; tconlan@gmu.edu

Secretary/Treasurer: Michael McGuire, University of North Texas

Council: Jocelyn M. Johnston, University of Kansas; Lenneal J. Henderson, University of Baltimore; Joseph R. Marbach, Seton Hall University; Robert D. Thomas, University of Houston; Brian J Galligan, University of Melbourne; Denise L. Scheberle, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; James W. Fossett, Rockefeller Institute of Government; Jody Neathery-Castro, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Troy E. Smith, Drury University

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Scholar Award The Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Deil Wright Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is conferred for the best paper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Martha Derthick Best Book Award The Best Book Award is conferred for the best book, published at least ten years ago, that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

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/

Chair: James F. Spriggs, II, University of California, Davis, Political Science, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616; jfspriggs@ucdavis.edu

Chair Elect: Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland

Secretary/Treasurer: Christine B. Harrington, New York University

Law and Courts Listserv Moderator: Howard Gillman, University of Southern California

Webmaster: Christine B. Harrington, New York University

Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence Program Chair: Susan R. Burgess, Ohio University

Law and Courts Program Chair: Cornell Clayton, Washington State University

Law and Politics Book Review Editor: Wayne V. McIntosh, University of Maryland, College Park

Newsletter Editor: J. Mitchell Pickerill, Washington State University

Council: Charles R. Epp, University of Kansas; Susan Haire, University of Georgia; Roy B. Flemming, Texas A&M University; Sara C. Benesh, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Roger E. Hartley, University of Arizona

Wadsworth Publishing Award The Wadsworth Publishing Award is given annually for a book or journal article, 10 years or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts.

Teaching and Mentoring Award The Teaching and Mentoring Award recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts. The Award is supported by a contribution from the Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association.

McGraw Hill Award The McGraw Hill Award recognizes the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year.

Lifetime Achievement Award The Lifetime Achievement Award honors a distinguished career of scholarly achievement and service to the Law and Courts

CQ Press Outstanding Student Paper The CQ Press Award is given annually for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student.

C. Herman Pritchett Award The C. Herman Pritchett award is given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year.

American Judicature Society Award The American Judicature Society Award is given annually for the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year's annual meetings of the American, Midwest, Northeastern, Southern, Southwestern, or Western Political Science Associations.

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: Diana Evans, Trinity College, Political Science, 300 Summit Street, Hartford CT 06106-3100; diana.evans@trincoll.edu

Treasurer: Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland

Program Chair: Eric Schickler, Harvard University

Editor, LSS Newsletter: Ronald M. Peters, University of Oklahoma

Editor, Extension of Remarks: Sean Q. Kelly, Niagara University

Council: Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego; Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University; C. Lawrence Evans, College of William and Mary

Richard F. Fenno Book Prize In the tradition of Professor Fenno's work, this prize is designed to honor work that is both theoretically and empirically strong. The prize is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics.

Congressional Quarterly Press Award The CQ Press Award is conferred for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the 2004 APSA Annual Meeting.

Carl Albert Dissertation Award The Carl Albert Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation, national or subnational in focus, on Congress, parliaments, state legislatures, or other representative bodies completed in 2003 or 2004.

Jewell-Loewenberg Award This award is given for the best article published in Legislative Studies Quarterly in 2004.

Alan Rosenthal Prize In the spirit of Alan Rosenthal's work, this prize is dedicated to encouraging young scholars to study questions that are of importance to legislators and legislative staff and to conduct research that has the potential application to strengthening the practice of representative democracy. Topics may be national or subnational in focus and apply to any country. The prize is funded by the Trust for Representative Democracy of the National Conference of State Legislature and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation.

Section 4: Public Policy

Formed: 1983, Dues: $10 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: Barry G. Rabe, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources & Environment, 1427 Ross Avenue, Plymouth, MI 48170; brabe@umich.edu

Information Officer: Kenneth N. Bickers, University of Colorado

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

Program Chair: Denise L. Scheberle, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Council: Alesha E. Doan, Cal Poly University; Daniel P. Carpenter, Harvard University; Thomas A. Birkland, SUNY-Albany; Eric M. Patashnik, University of Virginia; Saundra K. Schneider, Michigan State University; Deborah Stone, Dartmouth College; Duane H. Swank, Marquette University; Deborah R. McFarlane, University of New Mexico

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on Public Policy Given at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Aaron Wildavsky Award The Aaron Wildavsky Award is for a book or article published in the last ten to twenty years that continues to influence the study of public policy.

Harold Lasswell Award The Harold D. Lasswell prize is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of public policy completed in the previous year. It is cosponsored by the Policy Studies Association and the APSA Public Policy Section.

Section 5: Political Organizations and Parties

Formed: 1983, Dues: $5 The organized section on Political Organizations and Parties works to further scholarship on American political parties, comparative political parties, and interest groups. We do this in a number of different ways. Through our meetings, workshops, newsletter, and website, we provide a means of interaction and communication for like-minded scholars. At our annual workshop at the American Political Science Association conference we work to train scholars in the use of various methods or databases, or to promote new research in a particular area. Our participation through the sections mechanism of the American Political Science Association allows us to be a voice for our members' interests within APSA. We also organize the panels in our subfields for the annual APSA conference. Finally we recognize excellence in scholarship with our best book, best article, best APSA paper, career achievement, and emerging scholar awards. We are governed by the volunteer efforts of our officers and board. Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~pop/

Chair: Frank R. Baumgartner, Pennsylvania State University, Political Science, 107 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802; frankb@la.psu.edu

Treasurer: John M. Bruce, University of Mississippi

Program Chair: Kevin M. Esterling, University of California, Riverside

VOX/POP Journal Editor: John C. Green, University of Akron

Council: Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University; Barbara Norrander, University of Arizona; Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame; Mark A. Smith, University of Washington; Holly Brasher, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Byron E. Shafer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Daniel J. Tichenor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award This award is “to honor a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.”

POP/Party Politics Award This award honors the best paper delivered on a Political Organizations and Parties-sponsored panel at the preceding APSA annual meeting. The award recipient is offered the opportunity to publish the paper in Party Politics.

Leon Epstein Book Award This award “honors a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.”

Jack Walker Award This award “honors an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.”

Emerging Scholars Award The Emerging Scholars Award is given to a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. within the last five years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

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: Norma M. Riccucci, Rutgers University-Newark, 360 King Boulevard, Hill Hall, 7th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102; riccucci@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Chair Elect: Kathryn Newcomer, George Washington University

Treasurer: Sharon H. Mastracci, University of Illinois, Chicago

Newsletter Editor: Domonic Bearfield

Program Chair: Katherine C. Naff, San Francisco State University

Best Book Award The Herbert A. Simon Book Award is conferred annually for the best book on public administration published in the last 3 to 5 years that has made a significant contribution to public administration scholarship.

Herbert Kaufman Award The Herbert Kaufman Award is conferred annually for the best APSA conference paper in the field of public administration.

Best Article Award The American Review of Public Administration Best Article Award is conferred annually for the best article appearing in this journal.

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

Chair: D. Scott Bennett, Pennsylvania State University, Political Science, 318 Pond Lab, University Park, PA 16802-6106; sbennett@psu.edu

Treasurer: D. Scott Bennett, Pennsylvania State University

Program Chair: Will H. Moore, Florida State University

Council: Philip A. Schrodt, University of Kansas; Mark J.C. Crescenzi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kenneth A. Schultz, Stanford University; Kelly M. Kadera, University of Iowa; Errol A. Henderson, Pennsylvania State University; Scott Gates, PRIO

Lifetime Achievement Award This award was created to honor lifetime achievement in the study of conflict and peace.

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: Richard S. Katz, Johns Hopkins University, Political Science, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2686; richard.katz@jhu.edu

Secretary/Treasurer: Jason F. Kirksey, Oklahoma State University

Newsletter Editor: Joseph F. Zimmerman, SUNY, Albany

Program Chair: Richard E. Matland, University of Houston

Council: Joseph F. Zimmerman, SUNY, Albany; Mark E. Rush, Washington & Lee University; Pippa Norris, Harvard University; Richard L. Engstrom, University of New Orleans; André Blais, Université de Montreal; William J. Crotty, Northeastern University

Leon Weaver Award The Leon Weaver Award given for the best paper presented at a panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Division.

Lawence Longley Award The Lawrence Longley Award is given for the best article published in the previous year.

George H. Hallet Award The George H. Hallett Award is presented annually to the author of a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.

Section 9: Presidency Research Group

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/

Chair: Bruce Miroff, SUNY, University at Albany, Political Science, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222; miroff@albany.edu

Vice Chair & Chair Elect: Nancy Kassop, SUNY, New Paltz

Treasurer: Lori Cox Han, Austin College

Council: Terri L. Bimes, Harvard University; Meena Bose, United States Military Academy; Joel D. Aberbach, University of California, Los Angeles

Career Service Award

Richard E. Neustadt Award The Richard E. Neustadt Award is given for the Best Book on the U.S. presidency published during the previous year.

Founders Best Paper Award The Founders Award, named for Thomas E. Cronin, is given for the best paper presented at the previous year's annual meeting.

Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award The Founders Award, named for Don Bonafede, this award is given for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the previous year's annual meeting.

Paul Peck Presidential Award This award is presented by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery to honor Presidential Service and Portrayal. For more information, please visit http://www.npg.si.edu/.

Best Undergraduate Paper Award This paper is given for the best paper presented by an undergraduate at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Section 10: Political Methodology

Formed: 1986, Dues: $26 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. Much of the work we do relies upon the use of mathematical and statistical software, so this site also includes links to useful computing resources. Political methodology focuses on the analysis of empirical data, so we also provide replication data sets and example data sets from published and unpublished work on the Research and Teaching page. The Section Activities page includes additional useful information about the Society such as officers, events, announcements about upcoming events, and other useful information such as local groups, travel links, , and polmeth in the news. There is also a Conference page with information about conferences in political science and other disciplines that are of interest to section members. Web site: http://polmeth.wustl.edu/

Chair: Simon D Jackman, Stanford University, Political Science, Encina Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-6044; jackman@stanford.edu

Vice Chair: Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University

Treasurer: Jonathan N. Katz, California Institute of Technology

Program Chair: Kevin Quinn, Harvard University

Editor, Political Analysis: Bob Erikson, Columbia University

Editors, The Political Methodologist: Jeffrey Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael Herron, Dartmouth College; Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Webmaster: Andrew Martin, Washington University

Council: Wendy K. Tam Cho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Best Student Poster The Best Student Poster is given for the Best Poster paper presented at the 2004 APSA Annual Meeting.

Gosnell Paper Prize The Gosnell Prize is given for the best methodology paper presented at a conference between Aug 1, 2004 and July 31, 2005.

Warren Miller Article Prize The Warren Miller Prize is given for the best article in Political Analysis in 2004.

Section 11: Religion and Politics

Formed: 1986, Dues: $8 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: www.denison.edu/~djupe/relpol/index.html

Chair: Andrew R. Murphy, Valparaiso University, Christ College, Mueller Hall 121, Valparaiso, IN 46383; andrew.murphy@valpo.edu

Secretary/Treasurer: Daniel J.B. Hofrenning, St. Olaf College

Program Chair: James M. Penning, Calvin College

Newsletter Editor: Corwin E. Smidt, Calvin College

Council: Geoffrey C. Layman, University of Maryland; Barbara A. McGraw, Saint Mary's College of California; David E. Campbell, University of Notre Dame; Stephen T. Mockabee, University of Cincinnati

Best Publication Award The Religion and Politics organized section will be presenting an award for the best publication by a member. This award will be given for the first time at the 2005 APSA annual meeting. The Committee will consider items published (books or articles) between 1999 and 2003.

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award for the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous year's APSA Meeting.

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award The Aaron Wildavsky Award is given for the best dissertation on religion and politics.

Section 13: Urban Politics

Formed: 1986, Dues: $10 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 person interested in urban politics within the Association and within related disciples. Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/~urban/

Chair: Peter Eisinger, Wayne State University, College of Urban, Labor & Metropolitan Affairs, 3198 FAB, Detroit, MI 48202; p.eisinger@wayne.edu

Chair Elect: Hank V. Savitch, University of Louisville

Secretary/Treasurer: Karen Mossberger, Kent State University

Newsletter Editor: Baodong (Paul) Liu, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

Program Co-Chairs: Evan McKenzie, University of Illinois, Chicago; Karen M. Kaufmann, University of Maryland, College Park

Council: Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University; Toni-Michelle Travis, George Mason University; Jefferey M. Sellers, University of Southern California; Wilbur C. Rich, Wellesley College; James Jennings, Tufts University; Juliet F. Gainsborough, University of Miami; Judith A. Garber, University of Alberta

Norton Long Career Achievement Award The Norton Long Career Achievement Award is given for a profound and lasting impact on the field of urban politics.

Best Paper Award Best Paper Award for the best paper given at an Urban Politics Section panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Byran Jackson Dissertation Research Support Award

The Bryan Jackson Award is given to a graduate student studying racial and ethnic politics in an urban setting.

Best Dissertation Award The Best Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation on urban politics accepted in the previous year.

Best Book Award Best Book Award for the best book on urban politics published in the previous year.

Norton Long Young Scholars Given to scholars who have completed their Ph.D. within the last three years, recognition is given via a panel presentation at the APSA Annual Meeting.

Section 15: Science, Technology, and 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/~step/

Chair: J. P. Singh, Georgetown University, Communication Culture & Technology, 3520 Prospect Street NW, Ste. 311, Washington, DC 20057; jps6@georgetown.edu

Program Co-Chairs: Mark Lubell, University of California, Davis; Paul Sabatier, University of California, Davis

Secretary/Treasurer: George J. Busenberg, University of Colorado, Denver

The Step ForwardNewsletter Editor: Mark Lubell, University of California, Davis

Council: Gary Bryner, Brigham Young University; David Guston, Rutgers University; W. D. Kay, Northeastern University; Paul Sabatier, University of California, Davis; Frank Laird, University of Denver

Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize The Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize is given for the best book on environmental politics and policy, published in the past three years.

Don K. Price Award The Don K. Price Award is given for the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the past three years.

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award The Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in science, technology and environmental politics finished in the last two years.

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented on science, technology, and politics at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

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

Chair: Amrita Basu, Amherst College, Political Science, Cooper House, PO Box 5000, Amherst MA 01002; abasu@amherst.edu

President-Elect and 2005 Program Chair: Lee Ann Banaszak, Pennsylvania State University

Treasurer: Debra J. Liebowitz, Drew University

Secretary: Maryann Barakso, American University

Newsletter Editor: Kira Sanbonmatsu, Ohio State University

Council: Mala Htun, New School University; Joanna Everitt, University of New Brunswick, Saint John (Canada); Wendy Smooth, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Nancy Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania

Best Dissertation Award The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous calendar year.

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on women and politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Section 17: Foundations of Political Theory

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: Michael T. Gibbons, University of South Florida, Government & International Affairs, SOC 107, Tampa, FL33620-8100; mgibbons@chuma1.cas.usf.edu

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

David Easton Award The David Easton Award is given for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities.

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented on a foundation panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

First Book Award The First Book Award is given for a first book by a scholar in the “early stages of his or her career” in the area of political theory or political philosophy

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: Stuart W. Shulman, University of Pittsburgh, Information Science & Public Administration, 121 University Place, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; shulman@pitt.edu

Chair Elect: Jeffrey Seifert, Congressional Research Service

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

Program Chair: Alexandra Samuel, Harvard University

Council: Jane E. Fountain, Harvard University; Michael Margolis, University of Cincinnati; Kenneth S. Rogerson, Duke University

Information Technology and Politics Newsletter Editor: Stuart W. Shulman, University of Pittsburgh

Best Graduate Student Paper Award The Best Graduate Student Paper Award recognizes the best, sole-authored paper, written by a political science graduate student working in the area of information technology and politics, presented at a political science conference in 2004.

Best Information Technology & Politics Article Award The Best Published Article Award recognizes the best scholarly article published about information technology and politics in the 2004 calendar year.

Best Instructional Political Science Website Award The Best Instructional Political Science Website Award recognizes the web site with the best instructional value for teaching political science.

Computer Instructional Software Award The Best Research Software Award recognizes work in software, other than statistical software, by a member of APSA, which best contributes to the furtherance of research in the field.

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/

Chair: James J. Wirtz, Naval Postgraduate School, National Security Affairs (NS/WZ), 1411 Cunningham Rd, Bldg 302, Room 319, Monterey, CA 93943-5100; jwirtz@nps.edu

Treasurer: Paul R. Viotti, University of Denver

Joseph Kruzel Memorial Award for Public Service

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.

Chair: Peter A. Hall, Harvard University, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; phall@fas.harvard.edu

Chair Elect: Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University

Secretary/Treasurer: Karen L. Remmer, Duke University

Program Chair: Carles Boix, University of Chicago

CP Editors: Michael J. Coppedge, University of Notre Dame; Anthony M. Messina, University of Notre Dame

Council: Jeffrey Herbst, Princeton University; Matthew Shugart, University of California, San Diego; Torben Iversen, Harvard University; Susan C. Stokes, University of Chicago

Sage Best Paper Award The Sage Best Paper Award is given to the best paper in the field of comparative politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Luebbert Best Book Award The Luebbert Book Award is given for the best book in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.

Luebbert Best Article Award The Luebbert Article Award is given for the best article in the field of comparative politics published in the previous two years.

Data Set Award The Data Set Award is given for a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.

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: Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina, Political Science, Hamilton Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265; hooghe@unc.edu

Chair Elect: Mark N. Franklin, Trinity College

Treasurer: Andrew M. Appleton, Washington State University

Program Chair: Mark Franklin, Trinity College

Webmaster: Leonard Ray, Louisana State University

EPS Newsletter Editor: Mark A. Pollack, Temple University

Council: Mark A. Pollack, Temple University; Mark N. Franklin, Trinity College; Leonard Ray, Louisana State University; Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University; Paulette Kurzer, University of Arizona; Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina; Andrew M. Appleton, Washington State University; Isabela Mares, Stanford University; Valerie Bunce, Cornell University

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at a panel sponsored by the section at the most recent meeting.

Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on European Politics and Society filed during the previous year.

Best Book Award The Best Book Award is given for the best book on European Politics and society published in the previous year.

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

Chair: David Lowery, University of Leiden, Department of Public Administration, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden 2300 RB, Netherlands; dlowery@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Secretary/Treasurer: Thomas M. Carsey, Florida State University

Program Chair: Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas

Newsletter Editor: Thomas Carsey, Florida State University

Council: Kathleen A. Bratton, Louisiana State University; Todd Donovan, Western Washington University; Christopher Z. Mooney, University of Illinois, Springfield; Caroline Tolbert, Kent State University; Mark Rom, Georgetown University; Kevin Smith, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on state politics and policy presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Graduate Student Paper Award The Best Graduate Paper Award is given for the best paper on state politics and policy presented by a graduate student at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Career Service Award Given every biennium to a political scientist who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the study of politics and public policies in the American states.

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: Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University, Communication and Political Science, McClatchy Hall, Room 110, Stanford, CA 94305-2050; siyengar@stanford.edu

Treasurer: Dianne G. Bystrom, Iowa State University

Program Chair: Scott L. Althaus, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign

Paul Lazarfeld Best Paper Award The Paul Lazarfeld Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on political communication presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting.

Doris Graber Award The Doris Graber Award is conferred for the best book published on political communication in the last ten years.

Murry Edelman Distinguished Career Award The Murry Edelman Distinguished Career Award is given for lifetime contribution to the study of political communication.

Best Graduate Student Paper Award The Best Graduate Student Paper Award is given for the best paper on political communication presented by a Graduate Student at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Section 24: Politics and History

Formed: 1989, Dues: $8 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: Elizabeth Sanders, Cornell University, Government, 214 White Hall, Ithaca NY 14853-4601; mes14@cornell.edu

Chair Elect: Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia

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

Program Co-Chairs: Elisabeth S. Clemens, University of Chicago; Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University

Clio Newsletter Editor: David B. Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Council: Kimberley S. Johnson, Barnard College; Stephen Amberg, University of Texas, San Antonio; Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College; Deborah J. Yashar, Princeton University; Jason Wittenberg, University of Wisconsin; Jytte Klausen, Brandeis University; Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College; Uday Mehta, Amherst College

Mary Parker Follett Award The Mary Parker Follett Prize for the best article on politics and history published in the previous year.

J. David Greenstone Book Prize The J. David Greenstone Book Prize is given for the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years.

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: Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington, Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis, 513 N. Park, Bloomington, IN 47408-3895; ostrom@indiana.edu

Secretary/Treasurer: Robert J. Franzese, Jr., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Political Economist Newsletter Co-Editors: William T. Bernhard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego

Council: James D. Fearon, Stanford University; Nolan M. McCarty, Princeton University; Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Beth A. Simmons, Harvard University; Scott Adler, University of Colorado, Boulder; Burt L. Monroe, Michigan State University

William H. Riker Award The William Riker Award is given for the best book on political economy.

Mancur Olson Award The Mancur Olson Award is given for the best dissertation completed and accepted in the previous two years.

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper in Political Economy presented at the APSA meeting.

Section 27: New Political Science

Formed: 1992, Dues: $5 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/

Chair: Manfred B. Steger, Illinois State University, Political Science, Campus Box 4600, Schroeder Hall, Normal, IL 61790-4600; mbstege@ilstu.edu

Secretary/Treasurer: Carl Swidorski, College of Saint Rose

Program Chair: Bradley J. Macdonald, Colorado State University

New Political Science Editor: Joseph Peschek, Hamline University

Michael Harrington Book Award The Michael Harrington Book Award is given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award The Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award for a progressive political scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher and activist.

Francis Fox Piven and Richard Coward Activism Award The Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award for an activist group, in the region of the annual meeting, that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section, “to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world,” into practice.

Christian Bay Award The Christian Bay Award for a New Political Science paper presented at the previous year's of the American Political Science Association.

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/Treasurer: Barbara Farnham, Columbia University, Institute of War and Peace Studies, 420 West 119 Street, New York NY 10027; bf66@Columbia.edu

Program Chair: David Redlawsk, University of Iowa

Council: Douglas Foyle, Wesleyan University

Robert E. Lane Award The Robert E. Lane Award is given for the best book in political psychology published in the past year.

Best Dissertation Award The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year.

Section 29: Undergraduate 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: John Ishiyama, Truman State University, Social Science, 207B McClain Hall, Kirksville, MO 63501; jishiyam@truman.edu

Vice Chair: Lynne E. Ford, College of Charleston

Secretary/Treasurer: Johnny Goldfinger, Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis

Program Chair: Quentin Kidd, Christopher Newport University

Council: William J. Ball, The College of New Jersey; Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida; Elizabeth G. Williams, James Madison University; Quentin Kidd, Christopher Newport University; Michelle D. Deardorff, Jackson State University

Journal of Political Science Education Editor-In-Chief: John Ishiyama, Truman State University

Journal of Political Science Education Editor: Marijke Breuning, Truman State University

Political Science Educator Newsletter Editor: John Ishiyama, Truman State University

Best Presentation Award The Best Presentation Award is given for the best presentation (be it in a paper, poster, or roundtable format) delivered in a session sponsored by the Undergraduate Education Section at the Annual Meeting.

Lifetime Achievement Award The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a person whose lifetime contribution to political science have had a significant impact on undergraduate education.

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: Eduardo A. Velasquez, Washington & Lee University, Politics, Williams School of Commerce, Lexington, VA 24450-0303; velasqueze@wlu.edu

Chair Elect: Joseph H. Lane, Jr., Emory & Henry College

Secretary/Treasurer: Lisa P. Vetter, American University

Program Chair: Eduardo A. Velasquez, Washington & Lee University

Council: Michael P. Zuckert, University of Notre Dame; Peter Josephson, Saint Anselm College; David Whiteman, University of South Carolina

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

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

Chair: Paul A. Kowert, Florida International University, Florida International University, International Relations, University Park Campus, Miami, FL 33199; kowert@fiu.edu

Chair Elect: Patrick James, University of Missouri

Secretary/Treasurer: Lisa C.O. Brandes, Yale University

Program Chair: Patrick James, University of Missouri

Council: Bruce W. Jentleson, Duke University; Gideon Rose, Council on Foreign Relations; Miriam Fendius Elman, Arizona State University; Jay M. Parker, US Military Academy

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at a FP Section panel at the 2004 APSA Annual Meeting. Chairs of panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the foreign policy division are invited to nominate the best paper presented.

The Best Graduate Student Paper Panel chairs from any division are invited to nominate outstanding graduate student papers presented at the 2004 APSA annual meeting that are relevant to the study of foreign policy.

Section 32: Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior

Formed: 1994, Dues: $8 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/

Chair: Virginia Sapiro, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Political Science, 117 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1380; vsapiro@wisc.edu

Vice Chair: Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis

Treasurer: Kathleen McGraw, Ohio State University

Communications Director: Paul Gronke, Reed College

Program Chairs: Pippa Norris (Elections), Harvard University; Vincent Hutchings (Public Opinion), University of Michigan

Council: Ann N. Crigler, University of Southern California; James E. Campbell, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; John G. Geer, Vanderbilt University; John R. Hibbing, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Katherine Tate, University of California, Irvine

Philip Converse Book Award The Philip Converse Book Award is given for an outstanding book in the field published in the last five years.

Emerging Scholar Award The Emerging Scholar Award is awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within ten years of his or her doctorate.

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper delivered at the 2004 APSA Annual Meeting.

Section 33: Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Formed: 1995, Dues: $8 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-Chair: Joseph P. McCormick, II, Penn State, York Campus, Academic Affairs, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue, York, PA 17403; jpm32@psu.edu

Co-Chair: Valerie J. Martinez-Ebers, Texas Christian University, Political Science, 2800 South University Drive, Box 297021, Fort Worth, TX 76129-2873; v.martinez@tcu.edu

Secretary: Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Yale University

Treasurer: David I. Lublin, American University

REP Listserv Editor: Jessica L. Pérez Monforti, University of Texas, Pan American

Webmaster: S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)

REP Newsletter Co-Editors: Kim Geron, California State University, Hayward; David L. Leal, University of Texas, Austin

Program Co-Chairs: Paula Mohan, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; Gary M. Segura, University of Iowa

Council: Maruice Mangum, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Anna Sampaio, University of Colorado, Denver; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Joely De La Torre, California State University, San Bernardino; Richard Iton, Northwestern University; Ange-Marie Hancock, Yale University; Dale Turner, Dartmouth College; Okiyoshi Takeda, Aoyama Gakuin University; Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, Wheaton College

Best Paper Award The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on race, ethnicity, and politics presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Dissertation Award The Race, Politics, and Ethnicity Section of the American Political Science Association is accepting nominations for Best Dissertation completed in 2004. The selection will be announced at the 2005 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Book Award The Best Book Award is given for the best book in the field of race, ethnicity, and politics.

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/

Chair: Deborah Welch Larson, University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science, Box 951472, 4289 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles CA 90095-1472; dlarson@polisci.ucla.edu

Vice Chair: William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College

Secretary/Treasurer: Colin Elman, Arizona State University

Program Chair: Emily O. Goldman, University of California, Davis

Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award The Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award is given for the best single-authored book, multi-authored book, or edited volume on international history and politics published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented.

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: Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University, Political Science, 2201 G St., N.W., Washington, DC 20052; mcclin@gwu.edu

Vice Chair: Gretchen G. Casper, Pennsylvania State University

Secretary: Carrie Manning, Georgia State University

Treasurer: William M. Reisinger, University of Iowa

Newsletter Editor: Thomas W. Skladony, National Endowment for Democracy

Program Chair: Eva R. Bellin, Hunter College-CUNY

Best Article Award The Best Article Award is given for the best article published on Comparative Democratization within the last year.

Best Book Award The Best Book Award is given for the best single authored, multi-authored, or edited book on comparative democratization published in the previous year.

Best Field Work Award A new award in 2004, the Award for best field work will be presented for the first time at the 2005 APSA Annual Meeting.

Juan Linz Dissertation Prize The Juan Linz Dissertation Prize is given for the best dissertation in the comparative study of democracy, a new award in 2004.

Section 36: Human Rights

Formed: 2000, Dues: $8 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: Michael E. Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh, Politi cal Science, 4L01 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; goodhart@pitt.edu

Vice Chair: Mark P. Gibney, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Vice Chair-Elect: James M. McCormick, Iowa State University

Secretary: Rhonda L. Callaway, Rochester Institute of Technology

Treasurer: Todd Landman, University of Essex

Program Chair: Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina, Asheville

At-Large Members: Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University; Melissa Scheier, University of Houston; Lilian A. Barria, Eastern Illinois University

Best Book Award The Best Book Award competition is open to all books on human rights that were written by a political scientist and published in the previous year (2004).

Best Dissertation Award Political Science dissertations that focus on human rights and that are filed in academic year 2004-2005 are eligible for the award competition.

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: www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/cqrm/QualitativeMethodsAPSA.html

Chair: Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University, Government, 37th & O Streets, NW, Suite 681 Intercultural Center, Washington, DC 20057-1034; bennetta@georgetown.edu

Chair Elect: James Mahoney, Brown University

Vice Chair: Elizabeth Kier, University of Washington

Secretary/Treasurer: Colin Elman, Arizona State University

Newsletter Editor: John Gerring, Boston University

Program Co-Chairs: Gary Goertz, University of Arizona; Ted Hopf, Ohio State University

Council: Deborah Welch Larson, University of California, Los Angeles; Ted Hopf, Ohio State University; Kathleen Thelen, Northwestern University; Deborah J. Yashar, Princeton University

Alexander L. George Article Award The Alexander L. George Article Award honors Alexander George's contributions to the comparative case-study method, including his work linking that method to a systematic concern with research design, and his contribution of developing the idea and the practice of process tracing. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article.

Sage Paper Award The Sage Paper Award honors Sara and George McCune, who founded and sustained Sage Publications as a leading publisher of social science methodology – including very centrally qualitative methods. This award will be given to a paper presented at the 2004 APSA Annual Meeting.

Giovanni Sartori Book Award The Giovanni Sartori Book Award honors Giovanni Sartori's work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings. The award is intended to encompass two types of contributions: new research on methodology per se, i.e., studies that introduce specific methodological innovations or that synthesize and integrate methodological ideas in a way that is in itself a methodological contribution; and substantive work that is an exemplar for the application of qualitative methods.