Newly Elected Officers and Governors

The american phytopathological society elected and appointed officers, representatives, and committees for 1996-1997.

Council President: L. V. Madden President-Elect: C. L. Campbell Immediate Past President: W. E. Fry Vice President: C. Windels Secretary: R. Gergerich Treasurer: S. P. Pennypacker Editor-in-Chief, Phytopathology: M. Daub Editor-in-Chief, Plant Disease: M. R. McLaughlin Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: S. Gelvin Editor-in-Chief, Phytopathology News: R. F. Nyvall Editor-in-C...

Elected officials.

On Governors

A GOVERNOR is a part of a machine by means of which the velocity of the machine is kept nearly uniform, notwithstanding variations in the driving-power or the resistance. Most governors depend on the centrifugal force of a piece connected with a shaft of the machine. When the velocity increases, this force increases, and either increases the pressure of the piece against a surface or moves the ...

Segal Democratically elected aristocracies

The article suggests a formalmodel of a two-tier voting procedure,which unlike traditional voting systems does not presuppose that every vote counts the same. In deciding a particular issue voters are called in the first round to assign categories of their fellow-citizens with differential voting power (or weights) according to the special position or concern individuals are perceived to have w...

Democratically Elected Aristocracies

The article suggests a formal model of a two-tier voting procedure, which unlike traditional voting systems does not presuppose that every vote counts the same. In deciding a particular issue voters are called in the first round to assign categories of their fellow-citizens with differential voting power (or weights) according to the special position or concern individuals are perceived as havi...