PS: Political Science & Politics articles

Recent articles from PS: Political Science & Politics

An Open Letter to the APSA Leadership and Members.(American Political Science Association)
December 1, 2000... As many of you are aware the American Political Science Association has recently experienced an extraordinary outpouring of frustration with the current state of the American Political Science Review, the APSA, and the profession generally. An anonymous scholar writing as "Mr. Perestroika"...

Editor's Note.(strategic planning for the American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In September 1999, the APSA Council initiated a Strategic Planning Process (www.apsanet.org/new/planning/). According to 1999-2000 APSA President Robert Keohane, the purpose of strategic planning was to "evaluate the overall condition of the Association relative to its mission and key...

"Technicism" Supplanting Disciplinarity among Political Scientists.
December 1, 2000... I write to express my support for the spirit if not all the particulars of the Perestroika protest letter concerning the representativeness of APSA and its journals. In my view this question should be settled democratically via the market and the voting booth. To assure the...

APSR a Reflection of Its Submissions for Better and Worse.(American Political Science Review)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... [Gregory Kasza's letter of November 3] raises a number of important issues that need to be addressed by our membership and deliberated by the APSA committees and Council, but here I'd just like to provide some information on the Council's decisions in August, some or which responded to the...

Rethink APSR Review Policy.
December 1, 2000... APSA president Robert Jervis has written to the Perestroika forum avowing his support for the goal of expanding the range of articles carried by the APSR. He further noted that APSA's strategic planning committee and the incoming editor, Lee Sigelman, also embrace this goal. But his letter...