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Dear Public Choice Society Members and Friends,
The 2009 annual meeting of the Public Choice Society will be held in the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 5–8, 2009. Registration will begin at 3:00PM on Thursday, March 5, and the panels and plenary sessions will extend from early morning on Friday, March 6, through noon on Sunday, March 8.
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Submissions:
If you want to present a paper or organize a whole panel session, please send us the following information in a single-page proposal.
For a paper:
•Name of author and coauthors
•Contact information, including
academic or professional affiliation
e-mail address
mailing address
telephone number
fax number
•Paper title
•Abstract [~150 words; one page only]
•Paper classification in one or more of the following areas:
Social Choice and Welfare
Game Theoretic Applications
Experimental Applications
Constitutional Choice and Institutional Analysis
Legislative and Electoral Processes
Bureaucratic Models
Public Goods and Public Finance
•Panel participation preference category (as immediately
above) and chair/discussant preference
•$25 deposit per paper (new this year; see below)
For an entire panel:
- For each member of the proposed panel (typically three or four), follow the instructions for individual paper submission above
- Panel chair with contact information
- Note: abstracts (as above) for each paper must be submitted by the panel organizer
If you have any additional questions regarding panel submissions, email me at nmiller@umbc.edu or pubchsoc@gmu.edu.
You may propose more than one paper and/or panel. Please submit your proposal(s) by email, with a one-page PDF attachment for each proposal. (Your word processor most likely can convert files into PDF format; if PDF is not possible, submit the attachments as RTF/DOC files.) The email should be sent to pubchsoc@gmu.edu.
ONLY if email is not feasible, mail your proposals (a separate sheet for each paper and/or panel) to:
Public Choice Society c/o Jo Ann Burgess
Buchanan House, MSN#1E6
4400 University Drive
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
Proposals for papers and panel sessions (accompanied by the $25 deposit fee) should be submitted by Monday, December 15, 2008, with final papers being due by Friday, February 6, 2009. I expect to be able to notify you by the first week of January whether your submission will be included on the program.
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Deposit:
Each paper proposal must be accompanied by a deposit of $25 that will be applied to your registration fee and will be refunded only in the (unlikely) event that we cannot include your paper in the program, but not if you decide to withdraw from participation. The PayPal account is open for deposits or you can send a check to Jo Ann Burgess at the address given above. No paper will be considered without both the abstract and the accompanying deposit.
Registration Fees (online registration is open):
The meeting registration fee will be $200 for members of the Society and $230 for nonmembers, with students entitled to a discounted rate of $100 for members and $115 for nonmembers. If you are not a PCS member, you can join for $30 (see below), so membership is effectively free if you attend the meeting. Please note that this registration fee includes the society luncheon on Saturday, an evening reception on Friday with substantial food as well as a cash bar, a continental breakfast buffet each morning, and coffee and tea between sessions. Meeting registration fees must be paid by January 31, 2009, and are nonrefundable; those who have not paid by then will be dropped from the program. Please be courteous and inform the Society immediately if you do not plan to attend. Due to the increasing number of no-shows, we can no longer accept payment on site.
The PCS rate for deluxe rooms in the Imperial Palace Hotel is $160 (plus 9% tax) per night for either single or double occupancy. A $150 meeting registration surcharge will apply if you do not stay in the meeting hotel as a member of the PCS group, and a $75 surcharge will apply if you stay in the hotel for only one night. The surcharge is applied because the Society does not directly pay the hotel for use of its meeting rooms. Rather we promise that a given number of our attendees will stay in the hotel each night (and also that we will spend a given amount on catered food and beverages). Without such a surcharge, PCS attendees who do not stay in the hotel would not be paying their fair share of the meeting expenses. (The hotel provides us with a list of our bloc attendees, including the number of nights registered. Please don’t attempt to free-ride. If the surcharge is not submitted before the meeting, it will be collected at registration.)
To join the society or renew your membership, go to
http://www.pubchoicesoc.org/membership.html for complete online information. If you have any problems or questions, please feel free to contact Jo Ann Burgess at pubchsoc@gmu.edu.
Additional Responsibilities:
People whose papers are accepted on the program are expected also to serve as either session chairs or discussants. You should therefore plan on attending the entire meeting. Typical panel sessions have three or four papers and two discussants.
You will receive further information and reminders of deadlines later in the coming months. The most up-to-date information will always be posted here on the PCS website.
I hope to see you in Las Vegas.
Best regards,
Nicholas R. Miller
President, Public Choice Society
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