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Interested in Constitutional Bicentennial PS Fall 83 742 Summer 1983 College Faculty Workshops PS Fall 83 875-876

Presidents of APSA and the APSA PS Fall 83 706-711 Philip E. Converse: An Intellectual History PS Fall 83 717-722 Nominated as President-Elect PS Summer 83 546-547 Publications : The State of the Discipline PS Fall 83 752-753 1984 Guide to Graduate Study in Political Science PS Winter 84 84 Directory of Librarians and Information Scientists in Political Science PS Summer 83 602 Summer List PS Summer 83 625-627 Fall List PS Fall 83 '877-880 Winter List PS Winter 84 173-175 Spring List PS Spring 84 343-345 Research Resources for Children APSA Joins Research Resources for Children PS Summer 83 560-561

Sections Five New Sections Approved PS Fall 83 737-738 Guidelines for APSA Sections PS Fall 83 739 Six Organizations are Organized Sections PS Fall 83 825 PS Spring 84 265-268 Treasurer's Report 1982-83 Report PS Fall 83 816-824 G

Aaron Wildavsky Nominated mittee to serve a two-year term (1984- To Be APSA President-Elect 86). These nominees are: Brian Barry, Institute of Technology; F. , University of Cali- Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico; fornia, Berkeley, has been nominated William R. Keech, University of North president-elect of APSA for 1984-85. Carolina; J. Donald Moon, Wesleyan Uni- He would automatically become APSA's versity; Victor Olorunsola, Iowa State president the subsequent year under the University; Norman J. Ornstein, Ameri- Association's constitution. The nomina- can Enterprise Institute; Benjamin I. tion was made by the 1984 Nominating Page, University of Texas at Austin; and Committee which was appointed by Bruce Russett, . Association president Philip E. Converse and past president William Riker. Under APSA's constitution the preceding nominations are subject to the vote of The Nominating Committee also slated those members of the Association at- three vice-presidential nominees, Robert tending the Annual Business Meeting. If Gilpin, ; Samuel P. there is a contest for any elected office, Huntington, Harvard University; and an election will be conducted by mail Donna E. Shalala, Hunter College, CUNY. ballot. Ballots will be distributed within , University of Michigan, 30 days of the Annual Business Meeting is nominated to be secretary for by the executive director. They must be 1984-85. returned within the 30 days following distribution. Eight new members of the 16-member Council were also nominated by the com- The 1984 Annual Business Meeting rules

602 PS Summer 1984 and the constitution are printed in the who has made a distinguished scholarly Spring 1984 issue of PS on pp. 331- contribution to political science. 342. The rules require that any nomina- tions in addition to those made by the The Madison Award, which carries a Nominating Committee must be received cash prize of $2,000, is presented every in writing at the Association's Washing- three years. Previous winners were ton office prior to Monday, August 27, Robert Dahl in 1978 and 1984 or thereafter at the Association's in 1981. The recipient is asked to deliver annual meeting office in the hotel head- the Madison lecture at the Association's quarters. All such nominations and cer- annual meeting, scheduled for Friday, tifications must be received at least 24 August 31, at 5:30 p.m. in the Washing- hours before the session of the Annual ton Hilton Hotel. In addition, a citation Business Meeting in order to include will be presented at the Thursday even- those names on the original nominating ing awards ceremony. document. Specific procedures for offer- Committee members responsible for the ing nominations are indicated in the An- selection this year were Martin Landau, nual Business Meeting Rules. University of California, Berkeley, chair; Nazli Choucri, Massachusetts Institute of Members of the 1984 Nominating Com- Technology; and Donald Stokes, Prince- mittee are: , Indiana Univer- ton University. • sity, chair; Fred Greenstein, Princeton University; A. F. K. Organski, University of Michigan; Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University; Kenneth Shepsle, Washing- Political Language ton University; and Judith Stiehm, Uni- To Be Featured at versity of Southern California. Lasswell Symposium The current president-elect of APSA is Richard F. Fenno, Jr., University of "Lasswell and Orwell: The Relationship Rochester. He will become president of between Political Language and Political the Association after the 1984 Annual Reality" is the theme of the 1984 Lass- Meeting in September. Susan Welch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, will serve her second year of her two-year term as treasurer in 1984-85. Other continuing Council members, serv- ing their second year of a two-year term are: Charles W. Anderson, University of Wisconsin; Morris P. Fiorina, Harvard University; Helen Ingram, University of Arizona; Nannerl Keohane, Wellesley Col- lege; Michael P. Preston, University of at Urbana-Champaign; Arlene W. Saxonhouse, University of Michigan; W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota; and Gerald Wright, Indiana University. •

Herbert A. Simon To Receive Madison Award

Herbert A. Simon, of computer science and at Carnegie- Mellon University, has been chosen to receive the highest accolade of the Asso- Herbert A. Simon will receive the Madison ciation, the Award, given Award for distinguished scholarly contribution to a living American political scientist to political science.

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