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C. Lijphart presented the minutes of lishing a Rowman & Littlefield representa- Draft Minutes the Administrative Committee meeting tive as chair of the selection committee. APSA Council Meeting and raised three items for Council con- sideration. E. Lijphart announced the award re- August 28, 1996 cipients for 1996; the interim appoint- San Francisco 1. Responding to a letter from Ben ment of Carol Nechemias to represent Marquez on behalf of the Committee on APSA at the American Association for Hilton & Tower the Status of Latinos in the Profession, the Advancement of Slavic Studies; and 10:00am-5:00pm the Administrative Committee recom- appointment of Martha Kumar as mended that the Council increase the APSA's representative to the National Archives and Records Administration. [Editor's Note: Minutes still pending number of Latino Fellowships to two, and regularly review the minority fellow- All items were approved unanimously. Council approval] ships as circumstances are likely to change in the current legal environment. Present: The recommendation was approved 4. Report of the Executive Director Martha Ackelsberg, James Alt, Sheila unanimously. Ards, Suzanne Berger, Ruth Berins Col- A. Catherine Rudder summarized the lier, Timothy Cook, Ada Finifter, Mi- 2. Recognizing the extensive contribu- tions of Walter E. Beach to APSA, the highlights of the year by referring Coun- chael W. Giles, Rodney E. Hero, Harry cil members to her written Executive Hirsch, Jennifer Hochschild, Gary C. National Capital Area Political Science Association, the Southern Political Science Director's report. She noted that APSA Jacobson, M. Kent Jennings, Pamela K. had made progress on all but one of the Jensen, Bruce W. Jentleson, David Association, and the Women's Caucus, the Administrative committee recommended nine items set by the Council at its Laitin, Margaret Levi, Arend Lijphart, Spring meeting. Paula McClain, Helen Milner, William to the Council the naming of APSA's ar- Nelson, Elinor Ostrom, Richard Payne, chive as Walter E. Beach APSA Archive B. Rudder announced the appoint- Dianne Pinderhughes, Ronald Rogowski, at Mount Vernon College. The recom- ment of Jun Yin as a new APSA Staff Catherine Rudder, Virginia Sapiro, Ian mendation was approved unanimously. Associate. She also announced the re- Shapiro, Theda Skocpol, Paul Snider- 3. Reviewing the request of Wilma tirement of Kay Sterling, Administrative man, Harvey Starr, Joseph Stewart, Jr., Rule that APSA establish a task force on Director of the Congressional Fellowship Toni-Michelle C. Travis, Susan Welch. electoral reform of the U.S. House of Program and her replacement by Lisa Representatives, the Administrative Foust, a former fellow. APSA Staff: Robert J-P. Hauck, Shei- C. Rudder reported that the APSA lah Mann, Jun Yin. Committee agreed that diverse represen- tation is an important issue and sug- Building was undergoing some remodel- gested to the editor of PS and the 1997 ing to improve working space and safety. D. Rudder thanked former APSR Edi- 1. President Arend Lijphart called Annual Meeting Program Co-Chairs that they should incorporate the subject in tor Bing Powell for returning $41,000 in the meeting to order and initiated a their respective activities as appropriate. budgeted but unused APSR funds. round of introductions. The Council concurred with the Admin- E. Rudder reported on APSA's plan for the new membership directory and 2. Council Action: The Council istrative Committee Decision. D. Lijphart also reviewed the follow- the joint publication with the American approved the Minutes of the April Historical Association of a new and ex- 20, 1996 Council Meeting. ing Administrative Committee decisions with the Council: panded journal discount brochure enti- tled "The Scholar Saver." 3. Report of the President: 1. A request from APSA's Organized F. She committed the Association staff A. Lijphart announced the renewal of Section on Public Policy to publish a to central proposal processing for the Catherine Rudder's appointment as ex- book series on general public policy is- 1997 Annual Meeting—proposals will be ecutive director and the extension of the sues in cooperation with SUNY Press. submitted to the APSA's national office term of the appointment until 2003. 2. A request to present the Rowman rather than the individual division chairs B. Lijphart commended Catherine and Littlefield Publishers' Innovation in by November 15, 1996. The APSA An- Rudder and the staff at APSA for their Teaching Award at APSA's President- nual Meeting staff will acknowledge re- work, Ronald Rogowski and Jennifer Elect's Reception at the Annual Meeting ceipt of proposals, bundle the submis- Hochschild for their wonderful job of in conjunction with the recognition of sions and send them to the appropriate putting together the 1996 meeting, other teaching awards. division chairs who will decide which James Alt and Margaret Levi for co- The Council decided to discuss the proposals will be accepted. chairing the 1997 Annual Meeting, and issue of sponsorship of APSA activities Ada Finifter for her service as APSA and events at a future Council meeting. editor. He also thanked the members of Members expressed gratitude to Row- 5. Standing and Award Committee program committee, the leaders of Orga- man & Littlefield for the establishment Appointments of the President-Elect nized Sections, Council members, and of the teaching award and for support of (Elinor Ostrom) the members of the Administrative Com- the President-Elect's reception. At the mittee for their efforts on behalf of the same time, discussion arose concerning Elinor Ostrom presented the Council profession and discipline. the appropriateness of permanently estab- with her list of committee appointments.

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All appointments were approved unani- eral Nobel Laureates to the Annual B. Jacobson presented the Council mously by the Council. The Council also Meeting to promote interaction between with the Revised Budget for FY96-97 approved any additions or changes that political scientists and economists. An- and asked for Council approval. The Re- might be necessitated during her presi- other innovation will be the central pro- vised Budget was approved unanimously. dential year. cessing of paper and panel proposals. Alt C. Jacobson reported that the value of and Levi added three members to the the Trust and Development Fund was up Program Committee as general advisors 26% and the value of other endowed 6. Report of the President-Elect on a to the Co-chairs, an action approved by funds were up 26.4%. He reported that Task Force on Civic Education for the Council. Alt promised other innova- the annual audit for FY95-96 had been the New Century tions such as new panel formats, empha- completed, and the independent auditors sized the importance of teaching pro- found no weakness within the internal A. Elinor Ostrom proposed the creation grams, suggested that a panel on the controls and offered no recommenda- of a Task Force of the American Politi- relation between teaching and research tions for improvements or changes. Ja- cal Science Association on Civic Educa- be created and a poster session be de- cobson concluded that the Association tion for the New Century which will voted to teaching. was in robust financial health and was complete its work by 2003, the centen- B. Levi asked Council members to operating at a high level of financial ac- nial of the APSA. think about how to stir divisions chairs countability. B. The Council approved the proposal to actively shape the intellectual sub- and allocated a budget of $5,000 to the stance of their divisions. Alt and Levi Task Force. also reminded the Council that the dead- 11. Report of the Endowments line for proposal submission will be changed to November 15 and asked Committee 7. Review of the 1996 Annual them to spread the word. It was agreed A. Sheilah Mann gave an update on Meeting that the new deadline will be posted on fund raising for the dissertation awards. the PSRTL and be highlighted in the She reported that among the four disser- A. Ronald Rogowski and Jennifer Hoch- annual departmental mailing. tation awards whose endowments in 1995 schild, 1996 Program Co-chairs, reported were insufficient to support a $500 an- on some of the highlights of the meeting. nual prize, the Corwin, Almond, and Rogowski focused on the Lasswell Sym- 9. Committee on the Anderson Awards had now reached the posium, James Madison Lecture, John Annual Meeting required size, and that the endowment Gaus Lecture, APSA Awards Ceremony for the Schattschneider Award is only and Presidential Address, and Presiden- On behalf of the Committee on the An- $1,900 below the necessary level. The tial Reception. Hochschild on Robert nual Meeting, Robert Hauck requested campaign for the contributions to the Dahl's plenary session on equality and that the Program Committee budget be Schattschneider endowment will con- inequality. She also reported on some of increased from $ 5,000 to $12,500 in or- tinue. the innovations of the meeting, including der to accommodate special, non-politi- Breakfast with Champions and Poster cal science participants for plenary and B. Robert Hauck reviewed the core Sessions. The Co-chairs also emphasized other sessions at the meeting. He also strategies and materials for the Centen- the importance of relations with the proposed the Annual Meeting Commit- nial Campaign which included the Cam- press. They concluded by expressing tee's plan for central processing of paper paign Statement, the establishment of their appreciation to Program Commit- and panel submissions to be adopted the Goodnow Award for contributions to tee division chairs and the APSA staff. with the 1997 meeting. He proposed for building the profession, and an endow- ment spending rate of 5%. He then B. Catherine Rudder updated the the committee that paper givers and panel participants accept their invitation asked for Council approval. All three Council on the record preregistration items were approved unanimously. numbers [5011] for the 1996 meeting. to participate by submitting their prereg- C. Robert Hauck reported that the istration fee, and that the fee be non- Council supported 94 advanced graduate refundable for program participants. students and international graduate stu- These requirements he said, would serve 12. Report of the Committee on the dents and faculty. as an encouragement to those accepted Status of Lesbians and Gays in the D. Hauck noted approximately 1,500 to fulfill their obligations, rather than Profession (Harry Hirsch) graduate students will be a part of the leaving a position on the program empty 1996 Annual Meeting and cordially in- that many others would like to have A. Harry Hirsch reported that most rec- vited the Council Members to the annual filled. These requests and proposals were ommendations from the APSA Commit- Graduate Student Reception hosted by approved unanimously. tee on the Status of Lesbians and Gays President Lijphart and President-Elect in the Profession endorsed last year by Ostrom. the APSA Council have been acted upon E. Catherine Rudder asked the Coun- 10. Report of the Treasurer, by APSA Committees. He identified two cil to review and approve the Agenda of Gary Jacobson areas in which the Committee has not APSA 1996 Annual Business Meeting. received a positive response. The first The agenda was approved unanimously. A. Gary Jacobson observed that the As- was that no action has been taken on the sociation's net assets were up 18%. He request that the APSA health benefit presented the Administrative Commit- plan offer coverage to same-sex couples 8. Report on the 1997 Annual tee's recommendation that $30,000 of comparable to that provided for married the FYI 1996 budget surplus be allo- heterosexual couples, even if that entails Meeting Program cated to the Ralph Bunche Summer In- more expensive benefit policies. A. James Alt and Margaret Levi pre- stitute and the remaining amount be al- A second recommendation that has sented the Council with the plans and located to the Second Century Fund and not been accepted is the one that called innovations for the 1997 Annual Meet- asked for Council approval. The recom- upon the Managing Editor of the APSR ing. One innovation will be to invite sev- mendation was approved unanimously. to include expertise on gay and lesbian

December 1996 837 Gazette politics on the journal's editorial board. the basis of gender, race, color, na- dolph Gordon and San Francisco Mayor APSR Editor Ada Finifter gave three tional origin, sexual orientation, mari- Willie Brown. reasons for the lack of such expertise on tal status, physical handicap, disabil- the editorial board: [1] In correspon- ity, or religion in any condition of dence to her, copies of which went to employment except in those cases in 15. Report of the Editor of the Arend Lijphart, Elinor Ostrom, and which federal laws allow religious American Political Science Review APSA staff, Professor Hirsch asked for preference in hiring. (Ada Finifter) "gay and lesbian representation, or, at The guiding principle is that em- minimum, the presence of a scholar who ployment should be based on only Ada Finifter updated the Council on studies these issues" on the Editorial those criteria which relate directly to the APSR editorial office workload, the Board. As to the first, Finifter stated professional competence. review process, acceptance rates at vari- that membership on the Editorial Board In accordance with this policy, ous stages of the review process, and should not be earmarked for individuals therefore, the Association will not book reviews. Finifter reported that with any particular personal characteris- indicate a preference, limitation, or there are three general issues she has tics. Rather, Editorial Board members specification based upon these classi- been focusing on: service to various con- are chosen to represent fields of scholar- fications in job listings, except that stituencies including authors, reviewers, ship in which the Review receives large religious preferences may be indi- and readers; good communication with numbers of submissions; as to the sec- cated when allowed by federal law. various constituencies; and maintaining the ond, [2] Articles on gay and lesbian poli- However, it is Association policy to APSR as an excellent scholarly journal. tics are reviewed now by readers expert support the principles of affirmative in the broader field in which the re- action and to urge political science search is based, such as American poli- departments to pursue aggressively 16. Report of the Publications tics or political theory; and [3] Of over affirmative action programs and poli- Committee 650 manuscripts processed this past year, cies with regard to African Americans, APSR received only three manuscripts Latinos, women, and other minorities. A. Sheilah Mann updated the Council which had any gay and lesbian content, on JSTOR (The Journal Storage Project). The back issues of the APSR and they were handled by experts in 1. In response to the recommendation public opinion, political philosophy, and will be available in electronic form late from the Committee on the Status of this fall. social movements. Finifter argued that Lesbians and Gays in the Profession that the editor needs to receive enough pa- B. Robert Hauck informed the Coun- the language on affirmative action be cil of the publication of the new cumula- pers in this area to justify enlarging the broadened to refer to sexual orientation, Board. Hirsch replied that there are pa- tive index of the APSR prepared by the Committee on Professional Ethics, Kenneth Janda and Richard Powell. pers on gays and lesbian politics that Rights, and Freedoms reported that it is have been submitted to and published by C. Sheilah Mann conveyed the Publi- unprepared to make a recommendation cations Committee's deliberations on other journals, and that the APSR needs at this time but it would appreciate fur- to create a welcoming environment to APSR submission fees. The Committee ther comments from the Status Commit- had recommended that the Council in- bring submissions to APSR. Finifter em- tee and the Council. phasized that the Review welcomes sub- troduce a submission fee for nonmem- missions in all fields and that she strives bers and decide the amount of such a to get fair and impartial reviews for all fee. A full discussion followed. Finifter manuscripts. The Council discussed the 13. Report on Joint Meeting of noted that 28% of submissions to the Committee's concerns, but noted it was Committees on the Status of Blacks, APSR come from nonmembers. Laitin inappropriate for the Board to dictate to Latinos, and Lesbians and Gays (in and Starr pointed out that other fields the editor the composition of the Edito- consulate with the Committee on the do impose submission fees or processing rial Board. Status of Women) fees. President-Elect Ostrom suggested that the proposal be sent back to the B. Hirsch noted that the Committee The four Status Committees asked Publications Committee and that it clar- on the Status of Lesbians and Gays in that the Association make a general pol- ify why submission fees were necessary. the Profession is continuing to meet with icy statement supporting affirmative ac- The Council agreed to send the proposal the Committee on Professional Ethics in tion. The APSA Administrative Commit- back to the Publications Committee for order to present it requests regarding tee recommended to the Council that it elaboration. partners benefits and affirmative action. reaffirm APSA's longstanding commit- D. Robert Hauck reported on APSA's C. On behalf of the Ethic Committee, ment to affirmative action as stated in negotiation with Michigan State Univer- Robert Hauck requested Council ap- the Guide to Professional Ethics and the sity and Humanities Online regarding an proval of a change to Section F of the Personnel Service Newsletter. This rec- H-Net/APSA cooperative agreement that Ethics Guide. The section will be retitled ommendation was approved unani- would have H-Net function as the Asso- "Personnel Issues" generally, and the mously. ciation's server and make discussion lists language altered to refer to "any condi- and websites available to Organized Sec- tions of employment," and not simply be tions. He asked the Council to approve restricted to "hiring." The Council ap- 14. Report on Minority Programs APSA's alliance with H-Net. The alli- proved the change unanimously. The ance was approved unanimously. Section will now read: Catherine Rudder delivered a brief report on the continuing success of the F. Ethics in Recruitment, Hiring, and Minority Fellowship Program, the Ralph 17. Report of the APSA Committee Personnel Practices Process25. Equal Bunche Summer Institute, and the Mi- on International Programs Employment Practices and Opportu- nority Identification Project. She invited nities Council members to the Committee on A. Robert Hauck reported on APSA's It is Association policy that educa- the Status of Blacks in the Profession's effort to initiate a cooperative program tional institutions not discriminate on Nightcap Reception in honor of Ru- with the Ukrainian Academy of Political

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Sciences/Ukrainian Association of Politi- Faculty, minutes of the Publications nomic policies and the behavior of cal Scientists in league with the Ameri- Committee, Organized Section update, unions and business associations. The can Association for the Advancement of minutes of the Committee on the Status Scandinavian countries for some time Science. The AAAS Society Fellow Pro- of Lesbians and Gays in the Profession, represented this path to adjustment. gram enables international scholars to report on the Congressional Fellowship With non-accommodating decentraliza- learn the theory and practice of learned Program, and press release on the 1996 tion, decentralized unions and employers societies. Efforts will continue for 1997. Annual Meeting. adjust their behavior to government poli- B. Hauck reported that the exchange cies that deliberately eschew accommo- program with the Japanese Political Sci- dation and coordination. Germany, Ja- ence Association continues to provide 21. Adjournment pan, and Switzerland have pursued this for APSA member participation in the path to adjustment. Both of these out- JPSA's annual meeting and vice versa. Elinor Ostrom presented Arend Li- comes are superior to those produced jphart with a Certificate of Appreciation, when centralization is combined with a lauding him for his work on behalf of non-accommodating policy regime or 18. Update Education and the Association. The meeting adjourned when decentralization is coupled with an Professional Development with no further business. accommodating one. Committee The two paths that produce better re- sults are both Pareto optimal, but they Sheilah Mann reported on the difficulties APSA Awards differ markedly in the opportunities for of the FIPSE project to develop designs organized interests to exercise influence. for comprehensive introductory courses. Presented at 1996 For this reason, they are supported by She also reported that the Annual Meet- Annual Meeting different coalitions. This poses the puzzle ing focus group discussion among gradu- as to why different institutional arrange- ate students on the introductory courses ments arise in the first place. Building on they are being prepared to teach. Mann DISSERTATION AWARDS the literatures on new classical econom- noted that Community college and high ics, coalition formation, institutional Gabriel A. Almond Award ($500) school teachers have received special change, and corporatist theory, Iversen invitations to attend the 1996 Annual For the best doctoral dissertation com- argues that institutions arise as an out- Meeting. In addition, the APSA co-spon- pleted and accepted in 1994 or 1995 in come of a process of coalition formation sored a national convention on science the field of comparative politics. between partisan governments and orga- and engineering doctoral education held nized interests. Institutional change re- by the National Academy of Sciences in Award Committee: Scott Mainwaring, sults when technological, environmental, June. A small report will appear in the University of Notre Dame, chair; and economic transformations lead to a December issue of PS. Thomas Koelble, University of Miami; new constellation of interests among the and Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University actors (government, unions, and employ- ers' associations) that Iversen considers 19. Report of the Committee on Recipient: Torben Iversen, Harvard in his model. Professional Ethics: Follow up on University Iversen's dissertation builds on a vari- outside letters of reference Dissertation: "Contested Economic Insti- ety of literatures, and also contributes rich new insights to these literatures, The Council received a memo from Kay tutions: The Politics of Macro-Econom- challenging them in refreshing ways. It is Schlozman, Chair, Committee on Profes- ics and Wage Bargaining in Organized comparatively broad and theoretically sional Ethics' dealing with the Commit- Capitalism." bold. tee's reconsideration of the language in the Guide to Professional Ethics regard- Citation: Torben Iversen's dissertation ing requests for letters from outside ref- examines the interaction between wage erence. It has been suggested that de- bargaining institutions, macro-economic William Anderson Award ($500) partments may be unfairly taking policy regimes, and the welfare state in advantage of the faculty members pro- organized capitalism, focusing mostly on For the best doctoral dissertation com- fessional obligation to supply letters northern Europe and Japan. His central pleted and accepted in 1994 or 1995 in when asked. The Committee and the puzzle is to explain different patterns in the field of state and local politics, feder- Departmental Services Committee will institutional change in organized capital- alism, or intergovernmental relations. conduct a survey of department chairs ism. and senior faculty to collect data on de- He argues that in advanced industrial Award Committee: Gerald A. McBeath, partmental practices. The survey will be democracies with well organized labor University of Alaska-Fairbanks, chair; conducted in October 1996. unions and business associations, macro- Herman Bakvis, Dalhouise University; economic performance—especially the and Marilyn Davis, Spelman College level of unemployment—depends funda- Recipient: Thomas M. Carsey mentally on two variables: the degree of 20. Committee Reports and Other Dissertation: "Election Dynamics: Candi- centralization of the bargaining system, Materials Submitted for the date Strategy and Electoral Cleavages in Council's Information and the nature of the monetary policy regime. Two quite different macroinstitu- United States Gubernatorial Elections" The Council was presented with the tional equilibria facilitate successful ad- Dissertation Chair: Gerald C. Wright, following reports and materials for its aptation to the erosion of the post-1945 Indiana University information: minutes of the Departmen- Social Democratic consensus: flexible tal Services Committee, Agenda of the centralization and non-accommodating Citation: The William Anderson Award 1996 Conference of Political Science decentralization. With flexible centraliza- Committee honors Thomas M. Carsey chairs, Announcement of the new Direc- tion, economic adjustment occurs for the best doctoral dissertation of 1995 tory of Undergraduate Political Science through a coordination of macroeco- in the fields of state and local politics,

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