Benjamin Ginsburg, Department of the Editorial Board of the APSR personalized remarks about the Government, Cornell University, from 1985-88, and has served as well honorees. Ithaca, NY 14853. on the editorial boards of the Ameri- can Journal of Political Science and Stephen Holmes, Department of the Midwest Journal of Political Organized Section on Political Science, University of Science. Chicago, 5828 South University The members of the Managing Transformational Politics Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Editor Search Committee were Approved by Council Robert Keohane, Department of Richard Fenno, University of Government, Harvard University, Rochester, Chair; Lucius Barker, The Organized Section on Trans- Cambridge, MA 02138. Washington University; Alexander formational Politics was officially George, Stanford University; Virginia Paula D. McClain, Center for Public approved by the Council at the Gray, University of Minnesota; Affairs, Arizona State University, Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Robert Jervis, Columbia University; Tempe, AZ 85287. This brings to twenty-six the number Peter Lange, Duke University; of Organized Sections functioning Kay Schlozman, Department of Samuel C. Patterson, Ohio State within the Association. Political Science, Boston College, University; and Judith N. Shklar, Individuals seeking membership in Chestnut Hill, MA 02167-3807. Harvard University, ex officio. this new Section should send their $5 Donald L. Robinson, Department of dues to the national office, or desig- Government, Smith College, North- nate membership with their next ampton, MA 01063. Committee on Status of APSA renewal. A statement of the aims of the new Section by Jeff Blacks Presents Awards Fishel, American University, and G. Bingham Powell, Jr. at Annual Meeting Betty Zisk, Boston University, is Selected Next Managing printed in the September 1990 issue Editor of APSR The APSA Committee on the of PS. Status of Blacks in the Profession G. Bingham Powell, Jr., Univer- honored two political scientists at the sity of Rochester, has been selected Annual Meeting in San Francisco. to serve as the next Managing Editor Ronald Walters, Howard University, of the American Political Science and Michael Preston, University of Public Policy Section Review. President Judith Shklar pro- Southern California, were both Is Reconstituted posed Bingham's appointment to the warmly acclaimed at the meeting for their substantial contributions to the Council at its Fall meeting in San At the Annual Meeting the Public profession. They were recognized for Francisco after consideration of the Policy Organized Section adopted their scholarship, leadership and recommendations of the ad hoc new bylaws and a new name, ap- mentorship. Walters and Preston are Search Committee for the Managing proved a slate of officers for the up- both professor and chair at their Editor. His selection was approved coming year, and initiated plans for respective institutions. by the APSA Council at the meeting. new Section newsletter. Robert Line- Powell's scholarship in the field of Mitchell Rice, Louisiana State, berry, University of Houston, was comparative politics, electoral poli- chair of the Committee, made the elected President of the Section, Ran- tics, and political participation has presentations at the annual nightcap dall Ripley, Ohio State University, is been widely recognized. He received reception of the Committee. Profes- Vice President, and H. Brinton Mil- the Woodrow Wilson Foundation sors Robert Smith, San Francisco ward, University of Arizona, will Award for the best book published State University; Joseph McCormick, serve as Secretary-Treasurer. Howard University; Paula McClain, in the United States during 1982 on Virginia Gray, University of Min- Arizona State; and Dianne Pinder- government, politics, or international nesota; Terry Moe, Stanford Univer- hughes, University of Illinois, made affairs for his study Contemporary sity; Elinor Ostrom, Indiana Univer- Democracies: Participation, Stability sity; Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale and Violence, published by Harvard Law School; Paul Sabatier, Univer- University Press. sity of California at Davis; and Anne Bingham Powell has been Profes- Schneider, Arizona State University, sor of Political Science at the Univer- are serving on the Governing Coun- sity of Rochester since 1979. He cil. Helen Ingram, University of began his teaching career at the Uni- Arizona, will take the lead on initiat- versity of California at Berkeley in ing the Newsletter. 1968 and moved to Rochester in The purpose of the Public Policy 1970. He has also taught at the Uni- Section is to foster professional versity of North Carolina at Chapel growth and communication among Hill. He received his Ph.D. from political scientists interested in public Mitchell Rice (center), chair of the Commit- Stanford University in 1968. Bing- tee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, policy. Dues-paying members of ham Powell served on the APSA presided at the reception honoring Michael what was previously named the Council from 1986 to 1988 and on Preston (left) and Ronald Walters (right). Policy Studies Section of the APSA

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