TO:        Mark Schneider

FROM:  Lee Sigelman

 

As the incoming editor of the American Political Science Review, I want to do everything I can to see that the very best work from the diverse array of scholars and subfields that constitute our discipline gets submitted to and published in the APSR.  I’m writing to ask for your help, as head of the Organized Section on Public Policy.

 

I have three requests.

 

(1) To expand the pool from which reviewers are drawn, I need names (and addresses, if possible) of people you think would be good reviewers but are relatively new to the discipline or, for any other reason, may not have made much of a mark yet.

 

(2) I’m currently in the process of identifying members for the editorial board.  I’m looking for people who are well grounded in one or more subfields, have a broad intellectual range, and are open to a wide range of theoretical orientations and methodological approaches.  There’s no formal nomination process, but I’ll be very grateful for any suggestions you may have.

 

(3) No matter who is on the editorial board and who does the reviewing, the APSR can’t publish a diverse array of the very best work in our discipline unless it receives a diverse array of the very best work in our discipline.  So please, when you see papers that you think have great potential, encourage the authors to submit them to the APSR.  And, of course, please keep the APSR in mind for your own work.

 

Thanks for any help that you can provide.  I look forward to hearing from you.

 

 

Lee Sigelman

lees@gwu.edu

Department of Political Science

The George Washington University

Washington, DC 20052

202/994-8837