IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research

The election of a new Executive Board (President, Vice Presidents, Secretary General and Treasurer), and International Council will begin officially February 24, 2008. However, nominations may be submitted before that date. (See details below.)

The Statues and By Laws specify the following:

• The President, Vice Presidents, Secretary General and Treasurer, as well as the International Council, take office immediately for a four-year term and are eligible for reelection once only.
• The International Council should include an equal number of members as the Section Heads, and, as far as possible, an equitable representation of age, gender and geographical distribution.
  

Voting rights are as follows:

• Full individual members shall have one vote.
• Full institutional members that are nationally constituted shall have three votes.
• Full institutional members that are internationally constituted shall have five votes.
• Associate Members may participate in the deliberations of the General Assembly but may not vote.
  

NOMINATION AND ELECTION PROCESS 2008

The Election Committee consists of three members appointed by the International Council to manage the election process. The committee includes Janet Wasko (chair) (USA), Cees Hamelink (Netherlands), and Dipak De (India).

NOMINATIONS

The Election Committee will call for candidates for the Executive Board and the International Council at least 150 days before the General Assembly. The General Assembly for the Stockholm conference is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Thus, the call for candidates will be issued by at least FEBRUARY 24, 2008. (Nominations can be accepted earlier.)

Send all nominations and other material to:

Janet Wasko
Election Committee Chair
jwasko[AT]uoregon.edu

• Each candidate must be a paid-up member of the Association.
• Candidates for the Executive Board must be sponsored by a minimum of five (5) paid-up members from at least two (2) different countries.
• Candidates for the International Council may be nominated by either one paid-up member of the Association or by themselves. They may include members also nominated for the Executive Board.
• Candidates may be nominated for one or more positions on the Executive Board and, if they wish, for membership of the International Council. Candidates for election to both the Executive Board and the International Council shall, if successful in the former, be automatically removed from the latter.
• Each candidate shall send a confirmation of their candidacy and a curriculum vitae and/or statement of no more than 200 words, either electronically or by registered mail, to the Chair of the Election Committee at least 120 days before the relevant session of the General Assembly, or by at least MARCH 25, 2008.

Post to:

Professor Janet Wasko
School of Journalism and Communication
University of Oregon
1275 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1275
USA

Or e-mail:

jwasko[AT]uoregon.edu

VOTING PROCEDURE

All paid-up members of the Association shall be sent by post, no fewer than 90 days prior to the relevant meeting of the General Assembly, or no later than APRIL 23, 2008:

• A ballot containing the names of all candidates
• A curriculum vitae and/or statement not exceeding 200 words for each candidate
• A voting envelope for the returned ballot
• A pre-printed return envelope

Members must sign across the back-flap of the return envelope and return it to the Chair of the Election Committee, who must receive it not less than twenty one (21) days before the date of the General Assembly, or no later than by JULY 3, 2008.

PROCESSING THE BALLOTS

The Election Committee shall, prior to the Ceremonial Opening of the Association’s relevant Conference, appoint a Tellers Committee of seven (7), drawn from those members of the Association already present and registered for the Conference, none of whom shall be candidates for election nor members of the Election Committee.

The Tellers Committee shall count the ballot on the day of its appointment, using the “first past the post” electoral system. Any candidates for both the Executive Board and the International Council who succeed in this first election shall automatically be removed from the ballot for the International
Council.

The Election Committee shall convey the results of the elections to the President, who shall announce them immediately in the way he/she seems fit, then formally to the next meeting of the General Assembly.

REMINDER FROM THE LEGAL COMMITTEE

The Legal Committee reminds members that according to the so-called "transition rules" in the appendix of our current statutes, the mandates of Heads of sections, International Council Members, Executive Board members, elected for four years in 2004 may all be renewed in 2008, whether or
not they held similar positions before 2004.

For the Legal Committee,

Philippe J. Maarek