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Present for all or part of the meeting: Hans Baer, Eileen Barker, David Bromley, Donald Capps, Marie Cornwall, James D. Davidson, Stephen Glazier, David Hackett, Jeffrey K. Hadden, Edward C. Lehman, Armand L. Mauss, Katherine Meyer, Donald Miller, Nancy Nason-Clark, Margaret Poloma, James Richardson, Richard Schoenherr, William Silverman, Ruth Wallace,and Stuart Wright. H. Paul Chalfant, executive officer of the Religious Research Association, was present as an observer.

AGENDA:

1. Call to order
2. Approval of agenda
3. Minutes of last meeting
4. President's remarks
5. Executive secretary report
6. New executive secretary
7. SSSR directory
8. International members
9. International travel
10. SSSR history project
11. JSSR Book Review Editors
12. Monograph series
13. JSSR Editor
14. Publicity
15. 1992 Program Chair
16. Program chair issues
17. Student paper award
18. Research awards
19. AAAS
20. Distinguished article award
21. Distinguished book award
22. Book exhibit
23. Treasurer
24. 1992 - 1993 budget
25. Other business
26. President's remarks
27. Adjourn

1. CALL TO ORDER:
President Eileen Barker called the meeting to order at 8:10 a.m., November 5, 1992, at the Stouffer Concourse Hotel, Arlington, Virginia. A moment of silence was observed in memory of Council member Romney Moseley who died in May 1992 at age 48.

2. AGENDA:
The agenda which was circulated before the meeting was approved.

3. PREVIOUS MINUTES:
The minutes of the November 7, 1991 Council meeting were approved as circulated.

PRESIDENT'S REMARKS:
4.1 President Barker said that she felt it was important that necessary information should be readily available to new officers and members of the Council, both so that they knew what they were meant to be doing and also so that informed decisions could be made. To this end she had begun job descriptions from officers of the Society, which describe their responsibilities and how these are implemented. While these were not to be regarded as written in tablets of stone, they would provide useful information not only for officers taking up their duties but also for people who might be considering whether they might in fact want to stand as an officer or not. These job descriptions would be kept by the Executive Secretary and could be updated as and when required.

4.2 President Barker also pointed out that the time of expansion in financial terms had come to an end and we would have to consider several proposals which involved the spending of money. She suggested that each proposal should be discussed on its merits as it arose on the agenda but that final decisions would be delayed until we reached the discussion of the budget so that priorities could be considered. This was agreed.

4.3 For the future, President Barker proposed the setting up of two ad hoc committees on financial policy. One would study SSSR investment policy (reassessing what we do with our invested money) and the other would look at SSSR expenditures (reviewing priorities for expenditures). One issue which should be considered is the inability of schools to be as generous as they were in the past in supporting faculty involvement in organizations. In the case of program chairs, for example, either the Society will have to make institutional support a criterion for selecting program chairs or it may have to provide additional funding for the work of program chairs.

5.1 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY - INFORMATION AND EVALUATION ITEMS: Secretary Davidson distributed a three page written report to the Council. Highlights of this report were discussed. Grateful thanks were offered to people who are completing terms of office: Armand Mauss, retiring editor of the JSSR; Hans Baer and Gordon Shepherd, retiring book review editors of JSSR; and David Bromley, completing his term as Council member. Two new members of the Council were elected and will begin work in 1993: Janet Jacobs and Kenneth Pargament.

5.2 Membership is down slightly. In August 1991 we had 1570 members. In August 1992 we had 1542, a net loss of 28 members. Library subscriptions are down slightly, from 1246 in 1991 to 1225 in 1992, a loss of 21.

5.3 Our financial situation remains decently balanced. But it must be watched carefully given the unpredictability of the national economy. Another matter which bears watching is that people who joined the Society in the 1950s and 1960s are now approaching retirement age. We will need to replace them.

5.4 Davidson investigated the pros and cons of using Visa and Master cards to pay for membership dues, annual meeting registrations or purchasing monographs. The major benefit is convenience for members. The financial costs are: annual fee of $45; $25 to buy the machine or $3 a month to rent it; and a five percent charge on each transaction. (This would be $1.40 on a $28 membership.)If we assume that half our members use cards to pay their dues and pre-register for the annual meeting ($25), the cost to the Society would be about $2200 a year plus the $45 annual fee. Before the business manager could process a charge she would have to call an 800 number to confirm credit. This would create a bottleneck at the annual meeting registration desk.

5.5 David Bromley reported that about twenty percent of American Sociological Association members use credit cards to pay dues or register. If our members follow this pattern the annual costs to the Society would be lower than those estimated by Davidson.

5.6 Davidson recommends that we should not use credit cards at the present time. He thinks the costs outweigh the benefits.

5.7 Four members died this year: Romney Moseley (University of Toronto), Sister Francis Jerome Woods (Our Lady of the Lake College), John Doyle (New Rochelle), and George Connolly (Loyola University of Chicago).

5.8 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY - ACTION ITEMS: SITE OF THE 1995 MEETING: Last year the Council voted to hold the 1995 meeting in the Great Lakes region. After discussion the Council voted to set the following rankings for meeting sites: St Louis, Marriott Hotel, ranks first; Chicago, Bismarck Hotel, ranks second; and Indianapolis, Hilton Hotel, ranks third.

5.9 LOCATION OF 1996 ANNUAL MEETING: The Council reaffirmed the decision to go to the South Eastern region in 1996. Considerable enthusiasm for New Orleans was expressed. Several Council members noted that information about a possible meeting in New Orleans might be available from the Southern Sociological Society or the South Western Social Science Association which have met there.

6. NEW EXECUTIVE SECRETARY: A motion was made to offer the executive secretary job to Edward Lehman for a four year term. The motion passed and Lehman was welcomed.

7.1 INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF SCHOLARS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION: A three page report by James Beckford was circulated before the meeting. In Beckford's absence, the report was presented by Barker.

7.2 Initial discussion of this agenda item dealt with a matter that is only peripherally related to matters discussed in Beckford's report. Several officers mentioned that they need an up-to-date membership list to do their work for the Society. This is especially true for the nominations committee, the program chair, and the JSSR editor. The last directory, published in 1982, is obsolete. The present Society membership list is maintained as a ASCII.

7.3 Motion: That an ad hoc committee on an up-to-date membership list be established to work out the best way to produce a membership list for SSSR officers. Such a membership list maybe provided on diskette, as a copied print out, or as a demand produced computer print out. The motion passed. President Barker appointed the following committee: David Bromley, Marie Cornwall, Anna Davidson, Edward Lehman, Nancy Nason-Clark, and Ruth Wallace (Chair).

7.4 Motion: The ad hoc committee on an up-to-date membership list will explore the feasibility of providing a membership list to members of the Society. Such a list could be provided on diskette or as a print out. The committee will figure out how much it would be necessary to charge members to pay the costs of producing lists on demand. The committee will determine how much it would cost to provide a printed membership directory and will report on this to the Council at its 1993 meeting. The committee will explore the technical computer procedures necessary to produce these lists. The motion passed.

7.5 Making the current membership list available to members on diskette or as a printed list may reduce the revenue which the Society receives from selling mailing labels.

7.6 It is useful to have e-mail and/or fax numbers on the membership list. But when the Society requested this information in its 1991 membership renewal mailing many members did not supply this information. Either because they do not have access to these services or because they do not want to provide the information.

7.7 Motion based on Beckford's recommendation #3.1: That the SSSR, in consultation with the ASR, RRA, ISA Committee 22, and ISSR, shall assemble a small team of people knowledgeable about computing and electronic networks to identify the possibilities and costs of: managing the solicitation and receipt of membership lists, merging membership lists and related information, editing the consolidated lists, disseminating the information by electronic network, producing and distributing a hard-copy version, and apportioning expenditure or income between associations. The motion passed. Beckford will be asked to chair this committee and to select members of the committee.

7.8 Motion based on Beckford's recommendation #3.2: If the practical problems can be overcome satisfactorily, lists of members from relatively few associations at first should be merged into a file available through e-mail networks on a trial basis. This will be treated as a pre-test for a larger effort which would include lists from many societies. The motion passed. As Beckford notes in his report, it will be necessary for members to approve of the dissemination of information about themselves before it can be used in a consolidated list. This could be accomplished by including a permission notice on membership renewal forms.

8.1 INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS: At its 1991 meeting, the Council asked the ad hoc committee on international members to prepare an estimate of the basic costs of providing membership to international members. William Silverman (chair) reported for the committee. (Eileen Barker and Richard Schoenherr, members.)

8.2 Motion: The committee proposes that a category of"international associate member" be created by the SSSR. This category of membership will be available only to people outside of the United States and Canada. It will be set at $20.00 a year."International associate members" will receive the Journal, two newsletters, and the preliminary program for the annual meeting. They will not be allowed to apply for research grants, to hold offices in the Society, to serve on the Council, or to vote in elections. These restrictions are established in order to deterinter national scholars who are currently members of the Society from shifting from full membership to the new reduced rate membership category.

This international associate membership proposal, if enacted, will be in effect for a limited period of four years. In the last year it will be evaluated and the Council will decide whether to continue it.

8.3 Discussion: The goal of this new category of membership is to encourage additional international scholars to join the Society. The twenty dollar membership fee is set to cover most of the costs of services provided to those members. One Council member doubted that the difference between 20 and 28 dollars is large enough to attract additional members. Ruth Wallace suggested a fifteen dollar membership fee. James Richardson commented that there is some value in a symbolic statement. Such a statement shows our interest in encouraging international memberships.

8.4 It might be desirable to target the subsidized membership more narrowly on people who need it. Such as people with devalued currency in Eastern Europe.

8.5 After considerable discussion one point was added to the motion in _8.2: That a contributions line be added to the SSSR membership form on which members could contribute to a fund which would pay to subsidize membership and travel of international scholars. The amended motion passed.

8.6 The committee recommends that the Council should discuss the possibility of providing highly subsidized membership to members in developing countries ("third world") and "second world" countries. The goal of such a membership is to involve scholars from such countries in the Society. Such memberships could cost ten dollars, or even five dollars, a year. So the subsidy would be 18 or 23 dollars a year each. It would be necessary to work out a definition of exactly which countries are included in this membership rate. These members would receive the same package of services and restrictions proposed above for international associate members. This proposal, if adopted, should be in effect for a four year trial period. In the last year the Council will decide whether to continue it.

8.7 James Richardson commented that this was done in the past on an ad hoc basis. For example, a free subscription to the JSSR was provided so the journal would be available at a Polish University. Perhaps the president and executive secretary should be given flexibility to decide on this on a case by case basis.

8.8 David Bromley suggested that it might be desirable to donate some back issues of the JSSR to some institutions and countries which do not yet have the Journal.

8.9 The consensus of the Council is that it is desirable to pursue this proposal. The President appointed a committee of Stephen Glazier, James Richardson, and William Silverman (chair)to prepare a proposal for next year.

9.1 INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: James Richardson reported on his efforts to encourage attendance at the 1992 annual meeting by international scholars who would not otherwise be financially able to attend. The other committee members are Nancy Nason-Clark and Meredith McGuire. Richardson summarized his written report. Five hundred dollar grants for travel expenses were provided to Vasil Gluchman (Czecho-Slovakia), Halina Grzymala-Moszozynska(Poland), and Irena Borovik (Poland).

9.2 The allocation of $1500 in the SSSR budget for international travel was not sufficient to cover necessary expenses of our three grantees. Richardson sent out a letter which solicited additional contributions from members. About $1200 was contributed in response to this letter.

9.3 Richardson thinks that it is desirable to solicit lectures at universities near the convention location for visitors. Honoraria from such lectures could cover some expenses. It is possible for Europeans to buy an airplane ticket for around $400 which allows them to travel around the United States for three weeks. International visitors should be made aware of this possibility.

9.4 Richardson thinks that it might be desirable to establish a standing committee on international visitors. Such a committee could set up a list of places which would welcome lecturers. A committee could also be active in promoting visits by international scholars to the United States.

9.5 Motion: That the SSSR dues notice should include an item inviting contributions to an international visitor fund which would bring people to the United States. The motion passed. Since some people pay their dues at the annual meeting it mightalso be desirable to put such an item on the dues notice which is sent along with the program for the annual meeting.

9.6 Richardson expressed his willingness to continue as chair of the ad hoc committee on international visitors for another year.

9.7 Richardson listed six rules which he thinks should apply to selection of international visitors:

a. Must participate in the program and attend for the entire meeting.
b. Must submit a full paper with the application to assist in assessing quality of participation.
c. Must accept funds after arrival, except in an extreme situation.
d. Preference given to more established international scholars over beginners, including graduate students, especially when the scholar has not been able to attend our meetings in the past.
e. Funds awarded can be used for any actual travel and meeting expense, with proof of the expense required.
f. Awards made only to the "truly needy" (= little funding help from their university or church, for instance).

To this list, the Council added item "g".

g. That the visitor must be able to speak English. The consensus of the Council is that these rules are acceptable.

9.8 Regarding the number of grants and the amount granted, the Council favors leaving this flexible so the committee can make its own allocation decisions. The range in possible amounts of travel awards should be included in the announcement of the 1993 travel grant program. When the announcement of the 1993 travel grant program is written, points a to g above should be re-stated in less blunt wording.

10.1 SSSR HISTORY PROJECT: Armand Mauss discussed his written report on the feasibility of an SSSR history project.

10.2 Mauss favors the establishment of a permanent archives committee which would encourage members to deposit materials. Donald Capps and Margaret Poloma expressed support for the immediate pursuit of oral histories. Donald Miller doubts that we can pay someone enough to do oral histories and organization Of archives. He favors a history with a point of view which would look forward to the future of the Society. Miller also thinks that a survey of current SSSR members would be a desirable element in the larger history project.

10.3 Motion: An ad hoc committee for the SSSR history project will be established to get in touch with senior members of the Society. The committee will arrange for oral history interviews with these members and will invite them to place their personal papers relevant to SSSR history in the SSSR archives. The committee will prepare an interview guide for the oral history interviews. It may consult experts in oral history as necessary to assist its work. In time to report to the 1993 Council, the committee will evaluate its experiences with interviews and it will decide whether it is necessary to appropriate [further] money to conduct these interviews. [This motion anticipates no expenditures of money this year.] The motion passed.

10.4 President Barker appointed Armand Mauss, Donald Miller, and Margaret Poloma to the committee. Subsequently Phillip Hammond was appointed as chair and Charles Glock agreed to serve on this committee.

10.5 The Council assumes that volunteers who do oral history interviews will not have first publication rights to these interviews. They will be expected to make the interview transcripts available to the committee.

10.6 Motion: The Council is on record as favoring eventual production of a written history of the Society to be completed in or near 1999. Practical arrangements will be made later to implement this motion. The vote on this motion: 5 in favor, 2 opposed, 5 abstain. The motion passed.

11.1 REPORT OF THE BOOK REVIEW EDITORS: Hans Baer presented the report. Jeffrey Hadden has been appointed to be the new book review editor. He inherits a backlog from Baer and Gordon Shepherd of more than 26 completed reviews awaiting publication.

11.2 A bunch of books are now ready to be sent to Eastern Europe. Harve Horowitz has a bunch of unsold books. Some of them should be discarded because they are of no academic interest. Others should be given away or sent to Eastern Europe.

11.3 Motion: The Council expresses gratitude to Hans Baer and Gordon Shepherd, past book review editors; Armand Mauss, past editor; and Dynette Ivie Reynolds, past assistant editor, for their work on the JSSR. We also express gratitude to Washington State University for the support which it provided. Letters will be written by the President to convey these sentiments to the appropriate people. The motion passed.

12.1 MONOGRAPH SERIES: Katherine Meyer reported that the completed manuscript of the translation of Simile's essays on religion was not delivered in June 1992 as expected. It is now expected in December 1992. If the new deadline is met it is possible that editorial and other work could be completed in time for publication in December 1993. Therefore the $6000 which is budgeted for publication of this monograph will not be used until 1993 at the earliest.

12.2 Meyer reported to the Council about a number of matters of policy and practice concerning the monograph series. Our past practice has been to price monographs to break even, not to earn money for the Society. Some manuscripts which Meyer has received are better suited to journal submission than to publication as a monograph. Some manuscripts are now being reviewed. Some of the manuscripts which have been submitted are not quite ready for publication. But Meyer is willing to work with the author(s) to bring the manuscript up to standard. Meyer asked Council members to encourage their students and colleagues to send in manuscripts. 154 copies of the reprinted edition of the Wright monograph have been sold.

12.3 Meyer will consult with Richard Fenn about a possible reprint edition of his monograph. She will also ask him if he would be interested in writing a new manuscript on the topic of secularization which could be published as a "much revised edition''.

12.4 David Bromley suggested that one way to improve the quality of manuscripts submitted to the monograph series is to arrange co-publications with other presses, such as Rutgers University Press or JAI. Meyer will look into this.

12.5 The SSSR monograph series provides several advantages to authors and readers. It provides an outlet for manuscripts which appeal to specialized readership. A small press run -- about 800 copies -- allows publication of such manuscripts. Fast turnaround time is possible. The series editor is able to work with authors. Submitted manuscripts need not be in entirely publishable form.

12.6 Bromley noted that there is a new trend for presses, such as Garland Press or SUNY Press, to publish dissertations. Eventually the Society might want to phase out the monograph series if some of the tasks which the series was established to perform are now being performed adequately by other publishers.

The meeting resumed at 12:50 p.m.

13.1 JSSR - REPORT OF THE NEW EDITOR: David Bromley will appoint associate editors to solicit articles outside the fields of sociology and psychology. He will try to move toward electronic publication procedures under which authors will be able to submit computer diskettes. Such procedures should reduce the cost of producing the Journal. James Beckford has been asked to look for excellent articles in foreign language journals which it would be worth while for the JSSR to publish in translation. At some time in the future the Society may have to pay translation fees for such articles.

13.2 Publication of the current backlog of book reviews would be facilitated by the availability of an allotment of extra pages. This request for funding of additional pages for the Journal initiated a general discussion of page allotments. Bromley noted that there is always uncertainty about the number of manuscripts that will be sent in, revised, and accepted. He proposes that a contingency fund be established to pay for more pages if they are needed. This would make it possible for the editor to maintain the same standards for acceptance of manuscripts even if submissions increased. (Raising the standard is one way of dealing with an over supply of publishable manuscripts.)

13.3 Armand Mauss reminded the Council that printing and postage costs can change quickly. The uncertainty which Bromley mentioned is not only a matter of the number of manuscripts which are accepted. A contingency fund will not deal with all cost overrun problems. Mauss's working rule as JSSR editor was that he had to stay within a page limit of 500 pages a year. Jeffrey Hadden said that when he worked as an editor the page limit was 114 pages for each quarterly issue.

13.4 Jeffrey Hadden noted that editors always want to publish good articles. The Council must set a page limit and expect the editor to stick to it.

13.5 Motion: That an annual page limit be set for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. The motion passed.

13.6 Motion: That the page limit be set for 1993 so the budgeted printing cost of $38,000 will not be exceeded. The motion passed.

14.1 PUBLICITY: Stuart Wright reported on the extensive media coverage of the 1991 annual meeting. Reporters found the press room which was set up for them last year to be useful.

14.2 Donald Miller suggested that a panel on writing op-ed pieces be put on the program at a future annual meeting. There is a set formula for writing op-ed pieces which is learn able.

15.1 1992 PROGRAM CHAIR: An unusually large number of graduate students and scholars from outside the United States and Canada are on the program this year. Loretta Morris has been appointed program chair for 1994.

15.2 [Anna Davidson said that 482 people were registered for the 1992 annual meeting as of Sunday morning. This is more than expected.]

15.3 Motion: In the future both the current and next year's program chair will be invited to attend Council meetings. They will both receive reimbursement for their transportation costs and their attendance at the Council dinner will be paid for. The motion passed.

16.1 PROGRAM CHAIR ISSUES: Nancy Nason-Clark presented a written report in which several issues are discussed. She suggests that future program chairs prepare a form which could be used to submit papers for the annual meeting. Such a form could be printed back to back with the call for papers. It would save the program chair a great deal of time and work if all submissions are sent in with complete information.

16.2 Nason-Clark encountered problems with the program chair budget allocation. At present $500 is allocated in the budget. But all of this money now goes to cover the travel costs of our guest speaker. In addition, the program chair's travel costs to the meeting are paid. All other costs -- for postage, telephone calls, etc. -- must be picked up by the program chair's institution. Nason-Clark estimates that in her year these costs were about $2000. (This is a bit higher than usual because of high Canadian postage costs.) The program chair's institution needs to know in advance what expenses it will be expected to pay.

16.3 Ruth Wallace and Margaret Poloma noted that in the future this may become a serious problem as institutional budgets are under more pressure. In the future, institutions may be unwilling to subsidize the work of their faculty member who is a program chair.

16.4 Margaret Poloma is in favor of the Society paying for program expenses. Setting up a program is not a secondary activity. The Society should cover it. She wants it to be possible for people at small schools to be appointed as program chairs.

16.5 Marie Cornwall favors making the costs of service as a program chair explicit so the program chair can negotiate with her institution. Cornwall opposes setting a blanket policy that the Society will cover all costs. Her first preference is to try for coverage of all costs by the institution.

16.6 Cornwall argued that non-tenured people should not be appointed as program chairs. This is an exploitation of people who need to concentrate on research and publication. A counter argument is that sometimes work as program chair can assist the career of an untenured person.

16.7 Motion: The Council affirms that it is our consensus that it is appropriate for the president to select a program chair from institutions that cannot afford to subsidize that chair's work. The motion passed.

16.8 Motion: A president's discretionary fund will be set up. This money will be used to cover the expenses of the program chair and/or for the expenses of a guest speaker. It is up to the president to decide how the money will be allocated. If the complete sum of money is not spent in the first year of the president's term it will be available to be spent in the second year of the term. (The allocation is for a two year period.) The exact sum of money to be allocated will be set later in this meeting. It is our hope that all of the money that is allocated will not need to be spent. The motion passed.

16.9 Motion: In the past, our policy has been to insist on advance requests by presenters at annual meetings for audio visual equipment. If a presenter comes in with a last minute request for such equipment, the request will be granted only if the presenter is willing to pay the fee himself/herself on his/her hotel bill. The motion passed.

17.1 STUDENT PAPER AWARD: Nancy Nason-Clark (committee chair) reported for the committee. (Peter Beyer, Joseph Bryant, and Adair Lummis, members.) 8 papers were submitted. The winner is Joel Fetzer, Department of Political Science, Yale University, for his paper, "Evangelical's attitudes on the morality of war".

17.2 The committee did not think that the quality and range of papers is as good as in past years. Papers co-authored by a student and his supervisor are not considered for the student award. Papers submitted after the deadline are not considered for the award.

18.1 RESEARCH AWARDS: 1992 committee members are Ruth Wallace (chair), Joseph Tamney, and Robert Wuthnow. 14 eligible applications were received. The committee had $8000 to allocate. The committee used a conference call to do its work quickly.

18.2 Five research awards were made:

Lyn Gesch, University of California, Santa Barbara,
"Gender construction in ambiguous work situations", $2000.

Mark Chaves, Notre Dame,
"Understanding movements for ordination of women ", $2000.

M. Jean Heriot, Hamilton College,
" New Age religion and American individualism", $1000.

Susan Palmer, Dawson College,
"Spiritual procreation", $1000.

B. Gerald Shenk, Eastern Mennonite Seminary,
"Religion in new societies of Eastern Europe", $2000.

18.3 Donald Miller suggests that the executive secretary should request reports on how money was spent from research two years after the award was made if such reports have not already been received.

19. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: Hart Nelsen invites session proposals from members for the February 1994 AAAS meeting in San Francisco.

20.1 DISTINGUISHED ARTICLE AWARD: David Hackett (chair) reported for the committee which also includes Janet Jacobs and Jeffrey Pfeifer. 30 articles were nominated. Most of the nominations came from journal editors. Awards were given to a winner and three finalists.

20.2 In order to preserve suspense the names of the winners were not announced at the Council meeting. But on Saturday, November 7 it was announced that the winning article is Rhys H. Williams and N.J. Demerath, III, "Religion and political process in an American city", 56 American Sociological Review, August 1991,417 - 431.

20.3 The runner up articles are: Lee A. Kirkpatrick and Ralph W. Hood "Intrinsic-extrinsic religious orientation",29 JSSR, December 1990,442 - 462; Thomas Robbins and Roland Robertson, "Studying religion today", 21 Religion, 1991, 319 -337; and Michael R. Welch and David C. Leege, "Dual reference groups and political orientations", 35 American Journal of Political Science, February 1991, 28 - 56.

20.4 Motion: That the chair of the distinguished article award committee and the chair of the distinguished book award committee should be in touch with each other in order to compare the names of nominees for their awards. The motion passed. This motion is motivated by a concern that both awards could be made in one year to publications based on the same research project. The two committees are to be given discretion to decide how to deal with situations in which the same authors are nominated for both awards.

21.1 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD: James Davidson reported for William Garrett, committee chair. The other members of the 1992 committee are Kevin Christiano and Dean Hoge. 19 books were nominated this year.

21.2 The prize winning book was not announced at the Council meeting in order to preserve suspense. But on Saturday, November 7 the winner was announced as: Nancy Ammerman, Baptist Battles,Rutgers University Press, 1990.

21.3 The committee mentioned several policy preferences in its report: Books should be eligible for consideration for the book award for three years. Books that do not win in a particular year will automatically be re-nominated for the next year. In order not to stir up prejudice against non-winners, the names of these books will not be read at the award ceremony. The Council agreed with these policy choices.

22. BOOK EXHIBIT: James Davidson reported for Harve Horowitz. The book display is larger than usual this year. There are 25 tables instead of the 15 tables used in 1991. 7 or 8 publisher representatives will be present. An increase in revenue of around $1000 may be anticipated. Holding the meeting in a place convenient to the home offices of publishers may account for this enlarged participation.

23. TREASURER'S REPORT: Richard Schoenherr reported that for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1992 income was $1,296 (1.0%) above budget. Expenditures were $3,759 (3.1%) below budget. The surplus was $12,383. Less money was spent during the last fiscal year for travel and the monograph series. But the JSSR went over its budget. A surplus was planned after the last dues increase. This surplus will not be as large as anticipated during the 1992-1993 fiscal year because of the additional expenditures which the Council is now considering.

24.1 1992-1993 BUDGET: Several changes were voted in the original 1992 -1993 budget which was circulated before the meeting.

24.2 Motion: That the allocation for travel by international scholars to the SSSR annual meeting will be kept at the level of $1500. The motion passed. The alternative proposal, which was rejected, was to increase the budget allocation for this purpose.

24.3 Motion: A "program development - presidential discretionaryfund" will be established with a budget allocation of $1500. $500 comes from the old budget item called "program development".$1000 is a new allocation. The motion passed. In the budget report this new fund will be listed under the annual meeting rubric.

24.4 Motion: $2000 will be allocated to the ad hoc committee on the SSSR history project from the 1992 - 1993 budget to start work on oral history interviews. The committee will use its discretion about the amount of money it spends. The motion passed.

24.5) The history committee will look for voluntary interviewers.

24.6 Motion: The Council agrees that the travel and Council dinner expenses for next year's program chair will now be paid for by the Society. The motion passed. This is done because the Council decided earlier in the meeting to invite both program chairs to the Council meeting. This motion will add about $300 to the ''council subvention" line of the budget.

24.7 Motion: The Council moved to accept the 1992 - 1993 budget as amended. The new total expense budget is $132,779, which is $3,300 more than originally anticipated. The planned deficits $2,929. The motion passed.

25. OTHER BUSINESS: A motion was made to establish two ad hoc committees to examine the finances of the Society. These committees will include the treasurer, executive secretary, past executive secretary as a consultant, and other members named by the president. One committee will examine policy concerning investments and the other committee will consider changes in expenditures. The motion passed. Subsequently Jeffrey K. Hadden was appointed to chair the investment policy committee and Phillip Hammond was appointed to chair the committee on expenditures.

26. PRESIDENT'S REMARKS: President Barker expressed thanks to James D. Davidson for his extra ordinarily effective work as executive secretary for the last five years. All Council members applauded.

27. The meeting was adjourned at around 3:15 p.m.

Respectfully submitted
William Silverman, Secretary