Announcements

• Published date: 01 June 2012
• DOI: 10.1177/1065912912445890
• Date: 01 June 2012
• Subject Matter: Announcements

Political Research Quarterly

65(2) 462 –463

© 2012 University of Utah

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Western Political Science

Association

The 2013 meeting of the association will be held at the

Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, California, from

March 28 to 30. Gary Segura, Stanford University, is

serving as Program Chair for this meeting. Ange-Marie

Hancock, University of Southern California, is the Local

Arrangements Chair. Christian Grose and Diana O’Brien,

both also from USC, will be serving on the local

arrangements committee.

Proposals for the 2013 meeting are encouraged. The

DEADLINE for submission of paper proposals and par-

ticipation forms is September 17, 2012. The theme for the

2013 meeting is “The Empires Strike Back!” Information

regarding the conference, its theme, the call for papers,

and proposal instructions appear on the WPSA website:

www.wpsanet.org.

PRQ Editor Search

The Western Political Science Association will soon be

announcing the search for a new editor for the Political

Research Quarterly (PRQ). The term of the current editors,

Cornell Clayton and Amy Mazur, will expire on June 30,

2014. The association will be seeking nominations of quali-

fied individuals to edit the journal from July 1, 2014,

through June 30, 2018. Complete information about the

search will be made available in early September on the

association’s web site at www.wpsanet.org. Some prelimi-

nary information has already been posted on this site.

PRQ is a highly ranked general journal of political

science and is owned and published by the University of

Utah. The journal aims to record advances in the under-

standing of politics in all areas by publishing scholarly

articles representing the highest standards of excellence

and reflecting a full range of substantive interests, theo-

ries, and approaches defining contemporary political sci-

ence. According to the Journal Citation Reports, PRQ’s

impact factor has risen steadily from 0.486 in 2007

(ranking it 56th out of 93 journals in political science) to

1.018 in 2010. Eclipsing the 1.0 impact factor mark is an

important benchmark in journal rankings, and PRQ now

ranks 39th out of 139 political science journals in the

total number of citations. The editor is responsible for

the substantive content of the journal.

Requests for more information should be submitted

to Richard Clucas, WPSA Executive Director, at hprc@

pdx.edu.

Recipients of 2012 WPSA Awards

The following WPSA awards were presented by the

association at the 2012 annual meeting held in Portland,

Oregon.

The Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper pre-

sented at the 2011 annual meeting of the WPSA was

awarded to Inés Valdez, European University Institute at

Florence, for her paper “Who’s the Toughest? Punishment

and the Organization of Immigration Exclusion.”

The Dissertation Award was given to Madeline Baer

for her dissertation “Privatizing Water: Globalization,

States and Human Rights,” completed at the University

of California, Irvine.

The Betty Nesvold Award for the best paper on

women and politics was given to Holloway Sparks,

Emory University, for her paper “Gender, Race, and Un/

Governability: The Politics of Democratic Disturbance

in Welfare Rights Activism.”

The award for the best paper on Latina/Latino poli-

tics was given to Ali A. Valenzuela, Princeton University,

for his paper “From the Pulpit or in the Pews: Religious

Beliefs, Clergy Messages and Social Influence in Latino

Politics.”

The award for the best paper on blacks and politics was

awarded to Jill Locke, Gustavus Adolphus College, for

her paper “The Social Question in the Jim Crow South.”

The Charles Redd award for the best paper on the poli-

tics of the American West was given to Ali A. Valenzuela,

Princeton University, and Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo

College, for their paper “Turnout, Status and Identity in Los

Angeles: Mobilizing Latinos to Vote in Two Contrasting

Neighborhoods.” An Honorable Mention in this category

was given to Rene R. Rocha, University of Iowa, and

Daniel P. Hawes, Kent State, for their paper “Policy

Climates, Enforcement Rates, and the Migratory Behavior

of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the United States.”

The award for the best article published in the PRQ dur-

ing the previous calendar year was given to Michael S.

Rocca, Gabriel R. Sanchez, and Jason L. Morin, University

of New Mexico, for their December 2011 article “The

Institutional Mobility of Minority Members of Congress.”

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