The Social Science Journal articles from April 2000

The Social Science Journal archives from April 2000

A New Labor Movement for the New Century.(Review)
April 1, 2000... by Gregory Mantsios, Editor New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998, 342 pages This book is an anthology arising from a special conference organized by the Queens College Labor Resource Center on the eve of the AFL-CIO convention that...

The Campaign by Cincinnati Business Interests for Strong Mayors and Sports Stadia.
April 1, 2000... CLYDE BROWN [*] Between August 1995 and March 1996 Cincinnati area citizens faced two referenda elections: (1) a change in the City's charter from a council-manager form of government to a strong-mayor system, and (2) a local sales tax...

The Process of Direct Democracy: Colorado's 1996 Parental Rights Amendment.
April 1, 2000... DANIEL A. SMITH [*] Why are some statewide citizen initiatives in the American states successful at the polls and others not? Quantitative studies tend to emphasize the aggregate spending of the proponents and opponents of ballot measures...

The Influence of Fiscal Information on Preferences for City Services.
April 1, 2000... WILLIAM SIMONSEN [*] This article looks at the effects of fiscal information on citizen preferences for city services. We ask the question: Does support for taxes for government services change if citizens are presented with the tax...

The Meaning of Marginality: Interpretations and Perceptions in Social Science.
April 1, 2000... MICHAEL PRETES [*] Interpretations and perceptions of the meaning of marginality and marginal regions differ among social scientists. Despite using shared sets of characteristics and determinants about marginality and marginal regions, no...

Interest Group Conflict, Alliances, and Opposition: Evidence from Three States.
April 1, 2000... ANTHONY J. NOWNES [*] Despite a recent surge in attention to the role of private interests in American public policy-making, there is little systematic empirical research on the nature of interest group systems. This article analyzes a new...

American Indians in Court: The Burger and Rehnquist Years.
April 1, 2000... The Supreme Court and individual justices' treatment of American Indian interests has generated relatively little scholarly attention. To fill this void in the extant literature, this study seeks to examine how American Indian interests fared...

The Public Memory of Women's Suffrage in Iowa.
April 1, 2000... ETHAN YORGASON [*] This paper examines the concept of public memory by comparing two created memories marking the achievement of women's suffrage in Iowa: (1) the installation of a memorial honoring suffragists in 1936; and (2) the 50th...

A Survey on Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
April 1, 2000... BRUCE A. McDANIEL [*] This article attempts to use the early works of Joseph A. Schumpeter to more clearly functionally define both entrepreneurship and innovation in their current usage. The case is made that much of the more recent...

Pursuing the President: White House Access and Organized Interests.
April 1, 2000... NEIL SCOTT COLE [*] How do interest groups get the president to hear their problems? Specifically, what channels of access do they exploit in order to contact the president? What researchers need is an effective tool to examine the full...

Reactions to Random Acts of Kindness.
April 1, 2000... JAMIE YOUNG [*] In our fast-paced, high pressure society we are encouraged to take care of ourselves and not worry about our fellows. This has become such routine, that we have forgotten how to he kind to strangers for the sheer pleasure...

Attributes of Repeat Visitors to Small Tourist-Oriented Communities.
April 1, 2000... JOHN P. TIEFENBACHER [*] This study investigates the characteristics of small tourist towns to discern why visitors want to return. It examines how accessibility, physical and cultural amenities, the social setting, and the prestige of...

The Ethics Edge.
April 1, 2000... Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association, 1998 The l990s have seen a tremendous increase in the number of works looking at public ethics, morality, values, and anything seen as "good" for society and the public...

Collegial Professionalism: The Academy, Individualism, and the Common Good.(Review)
April 1, 2000... by John B. Bennett Phoenix: American Council on Education, Oryx Press, 1998, 180 pages John Bennett is a former director of the American Council on Education's Department Leadership Program and the Office of Self-Regulation...

American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice.(Review)
April 1, 2000... by David E. Wilkins Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997, 430 pages In his preface, David E. Wilkins writes that "it is not my intention to depict the court as an evil institution bent on the destruction of indigenous rights,"...

Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations: A Multiple Perspective Approach.(Review)
April 1, 2000... by Steven A. Shull and Thomas C. Shaw Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999, 200 pages Steven A. Shull, Research Professor of Political Science at the University of New Orleans, and Thomas C. Shaw, A Survey Specialist at the...

Urban Problems and Community Development.(Review)
April 1, 2000... Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1999, 628 pages by Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens, Editors The National Community Development Policy Analysis Network (NCDPAN) produced Urban Problems and Community Development to...

Review Essay: Population Aging and Retirement Issues in the Next Millennium.
April 1, 2000... A. B. VILLANUEVA [*] A demographic phenomenon that occurred between the end of World War II and the start of the Vietnam War has taken the center stage of strategic planning and has become a high priority item in the policy agenda...

Correction [*].(Correction Notice)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2000... The following 4 figures were omitted from Dr. Shannon Lindsey Blanton's article, "The Transfer of Arms and the Diffusion of Democracy: Do Arms Promote or Undermine the 'Third Wave', " Vol. 36, No. 3, 1999 on pp. 413-429. This was an unfortunate...