Elections to the ISA Executive Committee for 2010-2014

ISA members are invited to use the nomination form [Word file, 2 MB] [Pdf file, 70 KB] to submit nominations for the slates of candidates for officers of the International Sociological Association for the period Fall 2010-Summer 2014. Elections will take place on the occasion of the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010.

16 members of the ISA Executive Committee will be elected by the Research Council and by the Council of National Associations. The President and Vice-Presidents will be elected by the Assembly of Councils composed of all members of the Council of National Associations and the Research Council. (For details of the procedure, and the duties of EC members, please see the relevant passages from the Statutes.)

The Delegates to the Council of National Associations and to the Research Council elected Nominating Committees whose task is to compile the slate of nominations for the eight places on the Executive Committee to be filled by the Council of National Associations and the Research Council respectively, and to take part in the compilation of the slate for the Presidency and the five Vice-Presidencies. The Nominating Committees elected are composed of:

Nominating Committee for the Research Council
Margaret ABRAHAM, USA, RC32 (resigned)
Ann DENIS, Canada, RC05, RC30, RC32 (Chair)
Lauren LANGMAN, USA, RC10, RC16, RC36, RC48
Markus SCHULZ, USA, RC01, RC07, RC14, RC16, RC47, RC48
Willfried SPOHN, Germany, RC09, TG02

Nominating Committee for the Council of National Associations
Syed Farid ALATAS, Singapore
Nilay CABUK KAYA, Turkey
Layi ERINOSHO, Nigeria
Devorah KALEKIN-FISHMAN, Israel (Chair)
Pekka SULKUNEN, Finland

The form and a curriculum vitae, should be e-mailed and sent by fax or regular mail to arrive by January 31, 2010, to:
Izabela Barlinska, Executive Secretary
International Sociological Association
Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology
University Complutense
28223 Madrid, Spain
fax: 34-91-3524945
isa@isa-sociology.org

The required curriculum vitae should consist of a maximum of 20 lines, including both academic and organisational experience, and listing up to three selected publications. For the candidates for the President and Vice-Presidents it should also include their priorities if elected to a post.

Relevant passages from the ISA Statutes

Nominations procedure
10.2 Each Nominating Committee shall seek nominations for candidacy, with appropriate biographical information, from its own constituency, the Council of National Associations from national associations and the Research Council from Research Committees, and both shall seek nominations for candidacy for the Presidency and Vice-Presidencies. Nominations may be made to the Nominating Committees by all ISA regular members in good standing. Each nomination must be supported by two members, and include evidence of the consent of the candidate. Not later than three months prior to the World Congress, each Nominating Committee shall draw up and send to the members of the relevant Council a slate of at least sixteen candidates for possible election to the Executive Committee.
10.3 The two Nominating Committees shall also act as a single committee, with the current President acting as the non-voting chair, to draw up a slate of candidates for the Presidency and the five Vice Presidencies; this shall be circulated to the members of the Assembly of Councils not less than three months before the World Congress. The slate shall comprise at least two candidates for the Presidency, and at least two candidates for each Vice Presidency.
10.4 All candidates other than those for the National Associations section must be individual members in good standing of the ISA at the time when the Nominating Committee is set up, and must have been such members from the time of the previous World Congress. After two consecutive terms on the Executive Committee no member is eligible for a further consecutive term, except as President.
10.5 In drawing up their slates the Nominating Committees shall consult the relevant constituencies, and give due consideration to fields within sociology, to geographical representation and to gender as well as to candidates' experience in organising international activities.
10.6 Nominations may also be made from the floor at all elections, if supported by five members present and made with the consent of the candidate.

Duties of EC members (excerpts from the Statutes)
8. The Executive Committee’s tasks shall include: proposing policies to the Assembly of Councils and carrying out the policies established by it; proposing the membership dues to the Council of National Associations, the Research Council or to the Assembly of Councils; acting on matters of urgency, and reporting on activities periodically to the Council of National Associations, the Research Council and the Assembly of Councils.

8.7 Individual members of the EC should serve on at least one sub-committee if appointed to it, and act to represent and further the interests of the Association in their home areas. They should also take an active part in EC discussions, sending comments if unable to attend meetings.

9.1 The ISA President shall legally represent the Association both internally and externally, and shall have general responsibility for the implementation of the Association’s policy and for supervision of the activity of the Secretariat. S/he shall chair the meetings of the EC...
9.2 There shall be five Vice-Presidents, responsible, respectively, for Research, National Associations, the Programme of the next World Congress, Publications, and Finance and Membership. Their responsibilities will be:
Research - to oversee and coordinate the activities of RCs, WGs and TGs, to propose policies in the area of research, and to encourage comparative and cross-national research.
National Associations - to maintain liaison with regular collective members, and to propose policies and activities to respond to their needs.
Programme - to develop the programme for the next World Congress, in liaison with the Local Organising Committee.
Publications - to oversee the running of the Association’s publications, and to propose policies in the area of publications.
Finance and Membership - to oversee the Association’s financial affairs in liaison with the Secretariat, and to propose policies in the area of finance and membership.