The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903, it publishes three academic journals (American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and PS: Political Science & Politics). The Information Technology & Politics section also has an official journal, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.
There are 35 organized sections of APSA organized around research themes. APSA presidents serve one-year terms; the current president is Peter Katzenstein of Cornell University. Woodrow Wilson, who later became president of the United States, was APSA president in 1911. APSA has its headquarters at 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in a historic building that was the home of Harry Garfield, son of President James Garfield.
The APSA administers the Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs, which provides conference and research space for scholars, and Pi Sigma Alpha, the honor society for political science students. APSA also periodically sponsors seminars and other events for political scientists, policymakers, the media, and the general public.
APSA presents several awards each year, including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs, which is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at Princeton University and includes a cash prize of $5,000.
The annual APSA meeting is among the world's largest gatherings of political scientists. It occurs on Labor Day weekend each summer. The 2007 meeting in Chicago drew 6,900 participants. The 2008 annual meeting was in Boston and the 2009 meeting was in Toronto (September 3-6). Future annual meetings will be in Washington, D.C. (September 2-5, 2010), San Francisco (August 31-September 4, 2011), and New Orleans (August 29-September 2, 2012).
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Presidents of the American Political Science Association
- Frank J. Goodnow, 1904-1905
- Albert Shaw, 1905-1906
- Frederick N. Judson, 1906-1907
- James Bryce, 1907-1908
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1908-1909
- Woodrow Wilson, 1909-1910
- Simeon E. Baldwin, 1910-1911
- Albert Bushnell Hart, 1911-1912
- Westel W. Willoughby, 1912-1913
- John Bassett Moore, 1913-1914
- Ernst Freund, 1914-1915
- Jesse Macy, 1915-1916
- Munroe Smith, 1916-1917
- Henry Jones Ford, 1917-1918
- Paul Samuel Reinsch, 1918-1919
- Leo S. Rowe, 1919-1920
- William A. Dunning, 1920-1921
- Harry A. Garfield, 1921-1922
- James W. Garner, 1923-1924
- Charles E. Merriam, 1924-1923
- Charles A. Beard, 1925-1924
- William Bennett Munro, 1926-1925
- Jesse S. Reeves, 1927-1926
- John A. Fairlie, 1928-1927
- Benjamin F. Shambaugh, 1929-1928
- Edward S. Corwin, 1930-1929
- William F. Willoughby, 1931-1932
- Isidor Loeb, 1932-1933
- Walter J. Shepard, 1933-1934
- Francis W. Coker, 1934-1935
- Arthur N. Holcombe, 1935-1936
- Thomas Reed Powell, 1936-1937
- Clarence A. Dykstra, 1937-1938
- Charles Grove Haines, 1938-1939
- Robert C. Brooks, 1939-1940
- Frederic A. Ogg, 1940-1941
- William Anderson, 1941-1942
- Robert E. Cushman, 1942-1943
- Leonard D. White, 1943-1944
- John Gaus, 1944-1945
- Walter F. Dodd, 1945-1946
- Arthur W. MacMahon, 1946-1947
- Henry R. Spencer, 1947-1948
- Quincy Wright, 1948-1949
- James K. Pollock, 1949-1950
- Peter H. Odegard, 1950-1951
- Luther Gulick, 1951-1952
- E. Pendleton Herring, 1952-1953
- Ralph J. Bunche, 1953-1954
- Charles McKinley, 1954-1955
- Harold D. Lasswell, 1955-1956
- E.E. Schattschneider, 1956-1957
- V.O. Key, Jr., 1957-1958
- R. Taylor Cole, 1958-1959
- Carl B. Swisher, 1959-1960
- Emmette S. Redford, 1960-1961
- Charles S. Hyneman, 1961-1962
- Carl J. Friedrich, 1962-1963
- C. Herman Pritchett, 1963-1964
- David B. Truman, 1964-1965
- Gabriel A. Almond, 1965-1966
- Robert A. Dahl, 1966-1967
- Merle Fainsod, 1967-1968
- David Easton, 1968-1969
- Karl W. Deutsch, 1969-1970
- Robert E. Lane, 1970-1971
- Heinz Eulau, 1971-1972
- Robert E. Ward, 1972-1973
- Avery Leiserson, 1973-1974
- Austin Ranney, 1974-1975
- James MacGregor Burns, 1975-1976
- Samuel H. Beer, 1976-1977
- John C. Wahlke, 1977-1978
- Leon D. Epstein, 1978-1979
- Warren E. Miller, 1979-1980
- Charles E. Lindblom, 1980-1981
- Seymour Martin Lipset, 1981-1982
- William H. Riker, 1982-1983
- Philip E. Converse, 1983-1984
- Richard F. Fenno, Jr., 1984-1985
- Aaron B. Wildavsky, 1985-1986
- Samuel P. Huntington, 1986-1987
- Kenneth N. Waltz, 1987-1988
- Lucian W. Pye, 1988-1989
- Judith N. Shklar, 1989-1990
- Theodore J. Lowi, 1990-1991
- James Q. Wilson, 1991-1992
- Lucius J. Barker, 1992-1993
- Charles O. Jones, 1993-1994
- Sidney Verba, 1994-1995
- Arend Lijphart, 1995-1996
- Elinor Ostrom, 1996-1997
- M. Kent Jennings, 1997-1998
- Matthew Holden Jr., 1998-1999
- Robert O. Keohane, 1999-2000
- Robert Jervis, 2000-2001
- Robert Putnam, 2001-2002
- Theda Skocpol, 2002-2003
- Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, 2003-2004
- Margaret Levi, 2004-2005
- Ira Katznelson, 2005-2006
- Robert Axelrod, 2006-2007
- Dianne Pinderhughes, 2007-2008
- Peter Katzenstein, 2008-2009
Presidents of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association
- Jeffrey K. Tulis, (University of Texas at Austin), 1990-1991
- Theda Skocpol, (Harvard University), 1991-1992
- Ira Katznelson, (Columbia University), 1992-93
- Walter Dean Burnham, (University of Texas at Austin), 1993-1994
- Stephen Skowronek, (Yale University), 1994-1995
- Karen Orren, (UCLA), 1995-1996
- Martin Shefter, (Cornell), 1996-97
- Margaret Weir, (University of California, Berkeley) 1997-1998
- Ian Lustick, (University of Pennsylvania), 1998-1999
- James Morone, (Brown University), 1999-2000
- Anne Norton, (University of Pennsylvania), 2000-2001
- Rogers Smith, (Yale University), 2001-2002
- Eileen McDonough, (Northeastern University), 2002-2003
- Paul Pierson, (Harvard University), 2003-2004
- Elizabeth Sanders, (Cornell), 2004-2005
- Sidney Milkis, (University of Virginia), 2005-2006
- Victoria Hattam, (New School for Social Research), 2006-2007
- Kathleen Thelan, (Northwestern University), 2007-2008
- Richard Bensel, (Cornell University), 2008-2009
Toronto Meeting Dispute
- See related articles, Canadian Human Rights Commission free speech controversies and Censorship in Canada
A group of several dozen professors from the 7,000-member American Political Science Association contend that recent free speech precedents in Canada put academics at risk of prosecution. The group includes Robert George and Harvey Mansfield, and they have protested holding the scheduled 2009 APSA annual meeting in Canada for this reason. The leadership of APSA selected Toronto as the meeting location.
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