Association News . Political Scientist Transition and Administration Appointments — An Addendum

The following political scientists were either not listed in the list of Transition and Ad- ministration Appointments or have been named by President Reagan to posts since the publication of PS.

Name Affiliation Office

ADMINISTRATION APPOINTMENTS Cora Prifold Beebe U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Admin- istration, Department of the Treasury Donald J. Devine University of Maryland, Director, U.S. Office of College Park Personnel Management Thomas Patrick Melady Sacred Heart University Assistant Secretary of Education for Post Secondary Education TRANSITION TEAM Darrell Trent Senior Research Fellow, Director of Policy Coordination Associate Director, Hoover Institute, Stanford (on leave) John Joseph Tierney, Jr. Adjunct Associate Professor, Office of Policy Coordination Catholic University, Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Political Scientist in the Project 87 Reagan Administration Project 87, the joint American Association/American Historical Association project to study the United States Constitution, held a conference on Congress in Washington, D.C. on Febru- ary 2 through 4. The Conference Coordi- nators were Joseph Cooper and Harold Hyman of Rice University and Harry Schieber and Samuel Kernell of the Uni- versity of California, San Diego. The Pro- gram included:

FEBRUARY 2 9:30 a.m.-noon Election Patterns and Congressional Voting Behavior Room 357, Russell Senate Office Building Donald J. Devine, former associate profes- sor of government and politics at the Uni- Chair: Thomas Mann, American Political versity of Maryland and the new Director Science Association of the U.S. Office of Personnel Manage- ment. Papers: "The Electorate and Congres- sional Voting Behavior in the 19th 296 PS Spring 1981 Century." Les Benedict, Ohio State tion in the 20th Century." Jordan University Schwarz, Northern Illinois University "Short-Term Forces in Congressional Discussants: Nelson Polsby, University Elections: 1938-1978." Glenn Par- of California, Berkeley; Herman Belz, ker, Florida State University University of Maryland Discussants: Richard Fenno, ; Maxwell Bloomfield, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Catholic University Reception Columbia Foyer, Hyatt Regency Washington 2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Congress as an Institution: 7:30 p.m. Policy Making and Performance Dinner Room 357, Russell Senate Office Bunker Hill, Hyatt Regency Washington Building Chair: Harold Hyman, Rice University FEBRUARY 4 Papers: "Alignments and Alignment Change: The House of Representa- 9:30 a.m.-noon tives, 1928-1978." Barbara Sinclair, Congressional Careers University of California-Riverside Chair: Mack Thompson, American His- "Congress as an Institution in First torical Association Half of the Nineteenth Century." No- Papers: "Congress and the Emergence of ble Cunningham, University of Mis- a Political Career Structure." Samuel souri Kernell, University of California, San Discussants: David Brady, University of Diego Houston; Richard Baker, U.S. Senate "The Court and the Congress: Elite Age Structures and Differential Re- FEBRUARY 3 cruitment." John Schmidhauser, Uni- versity of Southern California 9:30 a.m.-noon Discussants: Richard Abrams, University Congressional Leadership of California, Berkeley; Samuel Room 357, Russell Senate Office McSeveny, Vanderbilt University Building Chair: Charles 0. Jones, University of Project 87 has also made the following Pittsburgh awards in its fourth competition for re- Papers: "Party Leadership in Times of search support: Crisis." Larry Dodd, Indiana University Peter Bachrach and Aryeh Botwinick, po- "Party, Policy and Political Leadership litical science. Temple University, in Congress During the Nineteenth "Democracy and Society: Towards a Century." Ballard Campbell, North- Theory of Participatory Democracy." eastern University James H. Broussard, history, Ball State Discussants: Roger Davidson, Congres- University, "Redefining the Republican sional Research Service; Michael Holt, Constitution: The Debate Over Republi- University of Virginia can Nationalism, 1815-1820." Theodore Eisenberg, School of Law, Uni- 2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. versity of California, Los Angeles, "En- Congress and Change: forcement and Impact of 42 U.S.C., Challenge and Adaption 1983." Chair: Joseph Cooper, Rice University Charles Lofgren, history, Claremont Col- Papers: "Adaptation Through Prolifera- lege, "The Impact of General Fourteenth tion: Toward Understanding the Con- Amendment Jurisdiction on the Constitu- gressional Committee System in the tional Law of Race, Ca. 1870-1910." Proliferating Society." Heinz Eulau, Stanford University Michael Malbin, American Enterprise In- stitute, "Congress and the Principles of "Congress and Change: Fiscal Innova- Representative Government." 297 Atjoclation Newi

Marvin Meyers, history, Brandeis Univer- dent for Intergovernmental Affairs under sity, "Political Thought of the American President Carter, has been appointed as Founders." Director of the Democratic National Com- mittee. Dr. Eidenberg has also taught Gerald D. Nash, history, University of political science at the University of Min- New Mexico, "Administering the Consti- nesita, was an APSA Congressional Fel- tution: A Short History of American Bu- low, and served as Administrative Depu- reaucracy, 1787-1987." ty to the Mayor of Minneapolis and as Jennifer Nedelsky, politics, Princeton Vice Chancellor of the University of Illi- University, "The Role of Property in nois, Chicago Circle. American Law and Political Thought." Barbara Bowen Oberg, The Papers of Philip Mazzei, Farleigh Dickinson Univer- APSA Publication Ust sity, "The Papers of Albert B. Gallatin." Harold J. Platt, history, Loyola University The Association offers the following pub- of Chicago, "Constitutional Orphan: The lications available for sale: City in the Federal System, 1865- 1930." The American Political Science Re- view. Quarterly journal of scholarly arti- Donald R. Songer, political science, Okla- cles and book reviews in political science. homa Baptist University, "The Impact of Included in APSA membership. Back is- Constitutional Interpretation by the sues: $20 per copy; $80 per volume.' United States Supreme Court on the De- cisional Tendencies of State Courts and PS. Quarterly journal of Association Lower Federal Courts." news and articles of professional con- cern. Included in APSA membership. George Alan Tarr, political science, Rut- Back issues: $5 per copy; $20 per vol- gers University, and M.C. Porter, political ume. ($6 for the Spring issue containing science, Barat College, "State Supreme the preliminary program.) Courts and Judicial Federalism." The News for Teachers of Political Sci- Clement E. Vose, government, Wesleyan ence. Quarterly newspaper on education University, "Nature and Impact of Fed- eralism of New Public Law Litigation." Richard A. Watson, political science, Uni- versity of Missouri-Columbia, 'The Presi- dent's Veto Power." Wesley T. Wooley, history, University of Victoria, "The University of Chicago's Constitution for World Government."

Also, a book, The American Constitu- tional System Under Strong and Weak Parties, edited by Patricia Bonomi, James MacGregor Burns, and Austin Ranney, growing out of an earlier Project 87 con- ference, has recently been published by Praeger Publishers. An ad for the volume is contained on page 253 of this issue of PS.

Eugene Eidenberg Appointed Director of the Democratic National Committee

Eugene Eidenberg, former Secretary to the Cabinet and Assistant to the Presi- Dr. Eugene Eidenberg

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