The 101st APSA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., celebrated the start of a second century of scholarship and teaching in political science. Program Co-Chairs Susan Stokes of the University of Chicago, Jack Knight of Washington University, St. Louis, and James Johnson of the University of Rochester organized the meeting, working with a 53-person Program Committee named by APSA President Margaret Levi and also drawn from all of APSA's 34 organized sections. The 2005 conference drew 7,469 registered attendees and exhibitors who traveled from near and far to discuss the Meeting's featured topic, Mobilizing Democracy.