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The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences. Sparked by Professor
Edmund J. James Edmund Janes James (May 21, 1855 – June 17, 1925) was an American academic, president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920, and the primary founder, first president and first editor for the American Academy of Political and Social Sc ...
and drawing from members of the faculty of the
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,
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, the Academy sought to establish communication between ''scientific thought and practical effort''. The goal of its founders was to foster, across disciplines, important questions in the realm of
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, and to promote the work of those whose research aimed to address important social problems. Today the AAPSS is headquartered at the
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at the
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in
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and aims to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on important social issues.


Establishment

The primary modes of the Academy's communication were to be the bimonthly journal, ''The Annals'', annual meetings, symposia, and special publications. Difficult topics were not avoided. The 1901 annual meeting was on race relations in America, and included a paper by
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. The Academy began as a membership organization. Membership was ''open and inclusive'' with an emphasis on educated professionals; even from its establishment, women were permitted to obtain membership. The Academy's members have included not only
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, but also distinguished public servants such as
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and
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. Perhaps for this reason, it is not a member of the
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. In 2000 the Academy began selecting and installing ''Fellows'' in recognition of social scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field.Pearson, Robert W. (2003) "A New Look at The American Academy of Political and Social Science" ''Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'' 585(Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century): pp. 6-7, p.7 Since 2008 the Academy has presented an annual Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to recognize public officials and/or scholars who have used social science and informed judgment to advance the public good. The Academy continues to publish its bimonthly journal, and holds congressional briefings, special conferences, and biannual meetings of its board of directors. The Academy has moved away from the membership model, however.


Presidents of the Academy

* 1889–1895 - Edmund J. James * 1896–1900 -
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(acting in the absence of Edmund J. James) * 1900–1902 - Samuel McCune Lindsay * 1902–1929 - Leo S. Rowe * 1930–1952 - Ernest M. Patterson * 1953–1970 - James C. Charlesworth * 1970–1972 - Richard D. Lambert * 1972–1998 - Marvin E. Wolfgang * 1998–1999 - Kathleen Hall Jamieson * 1999–2001 - Jaroslav Pelikan * 2001–2005 -
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* 2006–2015 - Douglas S. Massey * 2015–2021 - Kenneth Prewitt *2021–present Marta Tienda


Publications


''The Annals''

''The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', a policy and scientific journal in political and social science, began publication in July 1890 and has continued uninterrupted up until the present."Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science," in International Magazine Co., ''Periodicals,'' vol. 1, no. 1 (October–December 1917), pg. 5. The journal began as a quarterly but switched to a bi-monthly schedule effective with volume 2 in the summer of 1891. From 1897 (volume 6), volume numbers began to be changed every three issues, with each single issue after volume 38 constituting its own volume. A number of pamphlet supplements were also issued during the journal's early years. ''The Annals'' recent authors and editors have included
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, Richard A. Clarke, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and
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. ''The Annals'' has been published by
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since 1981. In 2003, it changed from its traditional plain orange cover to a more graphic cover containing photographs. ''The Annals'' has covered topics including "The World's Food" (November, 1917) to "The Motion Picture and its Economic and Social Aspects" (November 1926), "Women in the Modern World" (May, 1929), "America and Japan" (May, 1941), "Urban Renewal Goals and Standards" (March, 1964), and "The Global Refugee Problem" (May, 1982). More recent volumes have focused on such topics as "Confronting the Specter of Nuclear Terrorism" and "The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections after Four Decades". According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2017
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of 2.401, ranking it 33rd out of 169 journals in the category "Political Science" and 11th out of 94 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary".


Editors

* 1890–1895,
Edmund J. James Edmund Janes James (May 21, 1855 – June 17, 1925) was an American academic, president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920, and the primary founder, first president and first editor for the American Academy of Political and Social Sc ...
* 1896–1900, Roland P. Falkner * Jan. 1901–Mar. 1902, Henry Rogers Seager * May 1902–Sept. 1914, Emory R. Johnson * Nov. 1914–July 1929, Clyde L. King * Sept. 1929–July 1968, Thorsten Sellin * Jan. 1969–Nov. 1995 Richard D. Lambert * Jan. 1996–Nov. 2003 Alan W. Heston * Jan 2003–May 2006 Robert W. Pearson * July 2006–Dec. 2010 Phyllis Kaniss * Dec. 2010-Dec. 2011 Emily Wood * Dec. 2011–present Thomas A. Kecskemethy


The Academy Online

In 2006, the Academy created a blog to take advantage of the Internet to provide a forum for ideas and research in the
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. Today, the Academy'
website
is the main source for news of the Academy, recently published Annals volumes, and information about the Fellows and Moynihan Prize.


Moynihan Prize Winners

* 2008 - Alice M. Rivlin * 2009 - David T. Ellwood * 2010 - Robert Greenstein * 2011 - Diane Ravitch * 2012 - Paul Volcker * 2013 -
William Julius Wilson William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist. He is a professor at Harvard University and author of works on urban sociology, race and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science, he served as the 80th P ...
* 2014 - Joseph Stiglitz * 2015 -
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* 2016 - Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins * 2017 - Alan Krueger * 2018 - John Holdren * 2019 - Samantha Power *2020 -
William Nordhaus William Dawbney Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941) is an American economist, a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and one of the 2 recipients of the 2018 Nobel Memoria ...


See also

The American Academy of Political and Social Science is not to be confused with the following entities: * Academy of Political Science * American Academy of Arts and Letters *
American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...
* American Association for the Advancement of Sciences *
American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orle ...
*
American Social Science Association In 1865, at Boston, Massachusetts, a society for the study of social questions was organized and given the name American Social Science Association. The group grew to where its membership totaled about 1,000 persons. About 30 corresponding members ...
*
United States National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the N ...


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External links


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