Business Meeting: APSA Organized Section on Experimental Research

1. Business Meeting: APSA Organized Section on Experimental Research September 3, 2015 San Francisco CA

2. Agenda Membership Update Report of Treasurer Report of Vote on By-law Changes Nomination of Officers Presentation of Awards JEPS Annual Report New JEPS Editor Report Newsletter/Website Update Registry update APSA 2016 Program Chair Report Questions/New Business

3. Membership Update • 423 Members • 213 “new” members • 80 Student Members • Roughly the 25th largest section

4. Report of Treasurer • Starting balance 10/2014: $15,864.23 • Total revenue up to July 2015 is $6,486 • The expenses were journal costs for JEPS from Cambridge Univ Press. Total expenses have been $6,055. • Current balance: $16,295.23.

5. Vote on By-law Changes • Summary of Proposal 1, Changing the start & end dates for Section leadership: Clarify that the term of Section leadership (officers, council members, newsletter editor, and webmaster)begins and ends at the American Political Science Association Meeting. • Summary of Proposal 2, Making the leadership terms consistent:Make the officers’ terms consistent with one another by extending the President’s (and President-elect’s) terms from one to two years to match the Secretary, Treasurer, and Council Members; and shortening the newsletter editor and web master terms from three to two years to match the others. • BOTH PASS (127-0-3; 124-3-3) • Thanks to those who voted • WINNER OF $50 iTunes gift card: Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl.

6. Nomination of Officers to assume roles in 2016 and serve to 2018(Committee: FotiniChristia, Seth Hill, Nick Valentino) • MacartanHumphreys— Chair • Thad Dunning — Chair-elect • Betsy Sinclair — Secretary • John Bullock — Treasurer • Council 1 — Cheryl Boudreau • Council 2 — NahomiIchino • Council 3 — Jake Bowers (term STARTS at THIS meeting and runs to 2017.)

7. Presentation of Awards • Best Paper – Thomas Leeper & Kevin Mullinix • Best Book – Dan Butler; Chris Karpowitz & TaliMendelberg • Best Dissertation – Meredith Sadin

8. Public Service Award Warren Slocum Many experiments only occur thanks to the assistance of non-researchers who provide access to resources and data.  This award recognizes a special form of public service, the facilitation of randomized experiments in political science by those outside the academy.  Considerations in the evaluation of nominees for this award include (1) their generosity with time, resources, and data and (2) their willingness to permit research transparency (e.g., allowing researchers to publish research without regard to how the results come out). 

9. JEPS Annual Report • Special thanks to Josh Tucker and Becky Morton for their service to JEPS.

10. Congratulations!Eric Dickson, Editor JEPS • In January, Eric will take over as Editor of JEPS.

11. Newsletter/Website • Looking for volunteers who want to take over producing the section newsletter and/or maintain a section website

12. Registry • Macartan sent a document discussing the possibility of a political science registry • Committee of multi-section members has been at work all year.

13. 2016 APSA CHANGES • MIKE FINDLEY, Program Chair • New formats

14. Questions/New Business