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Francisco State University; Michael Lipsky, MIT; Sandy Maisel, Colby College; Judith Stienm, Florida International University; and Ronald Walters, Howard University. Continuing their 1988-90 terms are; Christopher Achen, ; Kathleen Frankovic, CBS News; Peter A. Gourevitch, University of , San Diego; Ted Robert Gurr, University of Maryland, College Park; Ronald Kahn, Oberlin College; Barbara J. Nelson, Uni- versity of Minnesota; Adolph Reed, Jr., ; and Donald Searing, Uni- versity of North Carolina.

Theodore J. Lowi (r.) and David Brady partici- Nominating Committee pated in a program marking the Bicentennial of the U.S. Congress. The symposium was spon- Welcomes Suggestions sored by the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress.

APSA's Nominating Committee, chaired Science, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, by , , MA 02167-3807 seeks suggestions for nominees to APSA offices. The Committee will make nominations for eight Council persons, as well as the offices of secretary, vice presidents (three positions) and president-elect. The Com- APSA Presidents mittee will meet in February in Washing- ton and report to the President no later Honored than April 15. Members of the nominating committee are: Eighteen of APSA's 28 living former pres- idents attended a dinner September 2 Lucius J. Barker, Department of Political given by outgoing President Lucian W. Pye Science, Washington University, St. Louis, at the Atlanta annual meeting. This is the MO 63130 first time such an event was planned for Bernard C. Cohen, Vice Chancellor for former presidents; some had not met Academic Affairs, University of Wisconsin- before the dinner. Madison, Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln Drive, Those attending and the year of their Madison, Wl 53706 presidency: Stephen Holmes, Department of Political Pendleton Herring—1952-53 Science, University of Chicago, 5828 South R. Taylor Cole-1958-59 University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 C. Herman Pritchett—1963-64 —1965-66 Robert Keohane, Department of Govern- Karl W. Deutsch-1969-70 ment, Harvard University, Cambridge, HeinzEulau-1971-72 MA 02138 Robert E. Ward-1972-73 Dale Rogers Marshall, Dean of the Col- Avery Leiserson—1973-74 lege, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Austin Ranney—1974-75 02138 James MacGregor Burns—1975-76 Samuel H. Beer—1976-77 Kay Schlozman, Department of Political JohnC. Wahlke—1977-78

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Annual Meeting Placement Services, 1986-89

1986 1987 1988 1989 it Employers 127 143 161 179 t Applicants 487 423 545 483 f Positions 213 227 252 282 Other* 6 9 4 15

•Refers to listings with an unspecified number of vacancies.

L. to r., former APSA Presidents C. Herman Pritchett, R. Taylor Cole, Heinz Eulau and Pen- The End of dleton Herring share a moment with former APSA Executive Director, Evron Kirkpatrick. Realignment?

Carol Nechemias Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg Leon D. Epstein—1978-79 Warren E. Miller-1979-80 Chaired by Harold F. Bass, Jr., —1981-82 of Ouachita Baptist University, the 1989 William H. Riker—1982-83 Symposium focused on a —1985-86 household word within our profession— Samuel P. Huntington—1986-87 the concept of realignment. Although all the papers, presented, respectively, by Also attending were President Judith N. Professor Joel H. Silbey of Cornell Univer- Shklar, many spouses, and two former sity, Professor Everett Carll Ladd of the Executive Directors of the Association, University of Connecticut and the Roper Evron M. Kirkpatrick and Thomas E. Center for Research,1 and Mann. Professor Byron E. Shafer of Nuffield Col- lege (Oxford University), attacked the util- ity of realignment, their critiques shared lit- tle in common other than the view that realignment has obscured more than it APSA Annual Meeting clarifies. Faced with this critical onslaught, the discussants, Professor Walter Dean Placement Service Burnham of the University of Texas, Continues to Grow Austin, and Samuel T. McSeveney of Van- derbilt University, provided a counter- balance to what had become a "coroner's No matter how much space is set aside inquest." for the Annual Meeting Placement Service Silbey presented an alternative ap- in recent years, it never seems to be proach to periodizations of American elec- enough. The Atlanta Placement Service toral history which rely on critical realign- registered significant increases in the ing elections. He argued that while signifi- number of employers using the service, cant changes have occurred in the Ameri- and the number of positions available. The can political universe, these changes were decline in the number of applicants may be not necessarily coterminous with realigning an early indication of changing market con- elections. Characterizing the first 50 years ditions in academia, or it may simply under the Constitution as ones of a "vola- reflect the decline in applicant numbers tile non-party system" Silbey noted that that takes place when the Annual Meeting the 1828 election could not be labelled a is held outside of Washington, D.C. realigning election. He pointed out that

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