Draft Agenda
Business Meeting
APSA Political Communication
Section
September 1, 2000, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
1. Approval of Minutes
from 1999 Meeting (Motion to approve)
2. Chair's Report
a. Summary of APSA organized sections meeting
b. Search for new Journal Editor
3. Secretary Treasurer Report (Steve Livingston)
4. Nominating Committee
Report (Chair: Jerry Manheim; Members: Ellen Mickiewicz, Scott Althaus, and
Doris Graber)
Recommendations
Vice Chair: Darrell West
Executive Committee at Large: Gadi Wolfsfeld
Lazarsfeld Award Committee: Richard Flickinger (Chair), Bruce Bimber, and Regina Lawrence
Edelman Award Committee: David Weaver (Chair), Susan Herbst, and Pam Shoemaker
Nominations Committee Chair: Mark Wattier
Program chair (2002): Montague Kern
5. Journal Editor's Report
(David Swanson)
6. Newsletter Editor's
Report (Kevin Barnhurst) a. Move to electronic dissemination
7. Website Report (Pippa Norris)
8. Report of 2000 Program
Chair (Darrell West)
9. Report of 2001 Program Chair (Lynda Lee Kaid)
10. Presentation of Paul
Lazarsfeld Award: Best Paper on Political Communication at the 1999 APSA meeting
Chair: Gadi Wolfsfeld, Amy Jasperson, Jill Edy
11. Presentation of Murray Edelman Career Award Chair: Lee Sigelman, Diana Owen,
Bob Boynton
12. Presentation of Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award Chair: W. Russell Neuman,
Diana Mutz, Paolo Mancini
13. New Business
a. Proposed panel on "Innovative Research in Political Communication" (Gadi Wolfsfeld)
b. Report on New International Communication Section of the International Studies Association (Robin Brown)
c. Report on "Young Scholars Committee" for Political Communication Section (Amy Jasperson)
d. Report on former chairs' ideas for the Section's future (Doris Graber)
e. Other new business
14. Handing of the gavel
to Bob Entman
15. Adjourn to reception (Congressional B, Omni Shoreham)