PS: Political Science & Politics articles from December 1993

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from December 1993

The voice of the people. (lecture given at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sep 3, 1993) (The 1993 James Madison Award Lecture) (Transcript)
December 1, 1993... Rosenau, James N. 1974. Citizenship Between Elections: An Inquiry into the Mobilizable American. New York: The Free Press. Rosenstone, Steven J. and John Mark Hansen. 1993. Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in America. New York:...

Whose bureaucracy is this, anyway? Congress, the President and public administration. (The 1993 John Gaus Lecture)
December 1, 1993... The 1993 John Gaus Lecture Editor's Note: Francis E. Rourke, the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy Studies of The Johns Hopkins University, was designated the John Gaus Distinguished Lecturer at the Association's 1993 Annual...

The friends of Bill and Hillary. (appointees to the Clinton administration)
December 1, 1993... If the Clinton administration "looks like America," then we have become a nation of lawyers and lobbyists. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that almost all of the top jobs in the Clinton administration are filled by lawyers, lobbyists,...

Suppose they held an election and almost everybody came! (the National Voter Registration Reform Act of 1993)
December 1, 1993... No modern political system, with the possible exception of a few dictatorships, can produce close to a 100% turnout of all those who are legally eligible to vote. But imagine a democratic system in which almost all citizens of voting age were...

A new defense of state-imposed Congressional term limits.
December 1, 1993... Do states have the authority to limit the legislative terms of their members of Congress? Up until very recently this question was merely hypothetical, pondered by those with the luxury to ask and develop answers to an assortment of...

The feminization of leadership in State legislatures.
December 1, 1993... Throughout the past two decades, the number of women in elected politics has been increasing slowly, but incrementally. Women remain most underrepresented at the national level, with little prospects of parity in the near future (Whicker et al....

News coverage and talk shows in the 1992 presidential campaign.
December 1, 1993... One of the question marks of the 1992 presidential campaign was how television would cover it. After the debacle of campaign coverage in 1988, television vowed to do better. At issue was the amount of substantive information vs. the time spent on...

The Twenty-Seventh Amendment and constitutional change by stealth.
December 1, 1993... The process of how to amend the U.S. Constitution is the least discussed and least examined aspect of the Constitution. The vagaries surrounding the amendment process were highlighted in 1992 as the Twenty-Seventh Amendment gained momentum and...

A community's public talk.
December 1, 1993... One of the most important responsibilities that I have as an American National Government teacher is convincing my students that the rudimentary characteristics of civitates (the art of government) may be found in virtually all levels of...

The early years of the Freedom of Information Act - 1955 to 1974.
December 1, 1993... The Freedom of Information Act was conceived in partisan planning, went through its gestation period immersed in public relations and saw the light of day in 1966 because of a political deal. But that's all right. The same process 200 years ago...

Between the Single Market and the European Union.
December 1, 1993... You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Nikolai Lenin), and Jack Nicholson (the Joker), Batman The sovereignty of this House is not a matter that is up for grabs--that is perfectly clear. Prime Minister Major,...

Measuring electoral change in three-party systems: an alternative to swing.
December 1, 1993... In a recent paper in this journal, Butler and Van Peek (1990) advocated analyzing patterns of electoral change in the USA with the swing statistic--the average change in the share of the vote won by two parties contesting successive elections....

Teaching American Government. (undergraduate American politics class)
December 1, 1993... Teachers of the introductory course in American Government and Politics have pondered the question of what to teach for many years. Today the problem is becoming more complex as increasing numbers of students enter college, in the words of the...

The District-D.C. connection: a semester project for an undergraduate Congress course.
December 1, 1993... Instructors of undergraduate courses on the U.S. Congress face two major challenges. First, like teachers of other upper-level courses, they must provide students with a meaningful opportunity to do original research. But, undergraduates...

Using e-mail to enhance class participation.
December 1, 1993... Bluebook number 7. This student has never said a word in class. You barely remember what she looks like; her essay is . . . well organized, thoughtful, even witty in places. Too bad that she didn't speak up in class. Too bad that other class...

Capitalism and democracy: a play.
December 1, 1993... There are a variety of ways to present the material in a political science class. One that is not often considered is the use of play-acting. Creating a play to present the material is relatively simple as will be demonstrated below. In...

Civic education as public leadership development.
December 1, 1993... In the last several years, many critics have observed the erosion of Americans' commitments to politics or participation in the public world (Dionne 1991). Such erosion is connected to the virtual disappearance of any active idea of "public life"...

Honoring mentors of distinction.
December 1, 1993... Every few years, the Women's Caucus for Political Science (WCPS) issues a call to its members to identify people who have acted as their mentors in the process of becoming and remaining a political scientist. Everyone wins in this "competition,"...

The science of Political Science graduate admissions.
December 1, 1993... As political scientists, we spend much time teaching and doing scholarly research, and more time than we may wish to remember on university committees. However, just as many of us believe that teaching and research are not fundamentally different...

Editing multiauthor books in Political Science: plotting your way through an academic minefield.
December 1, 1993... A rough sample taken by wandering around the book exhibits at a recent APSA meeting revealed that about 20% of all books in political science are compiled by an editor, though the percentage varies considerably among publishers. Editing a...

Managing a multiauthor research project in comparative politics.
December 1, 1993... All of the potential participants approached about appearing on an APSA panel on managing multiauthor research projects in comparative politics had the same first reaction: they laughed. A second reaction, voiced by T. J. Pempel, was fear--that...

Windows statistics packages. (Microsoft Windows graphic user interface)
December 1, 1993... The first article in this PS series appeared a decade ago and covered the first generation of microcomputer statistics packages.(1) They were useful tools that performed many of the tasks that previously could only be managed on mainframe or...

Policy on dissemination of federal information resources updated.
December 1, 1993... In an age of both intense cost-cutting and technological advance, federal information policy is in transition. There is in particular growing pressure to institute or increase fees for federal data, and to substitute electronic forms of...

The Political Science research and teaching list.
December 1, 1993... The Political Science Research and Teaching list (PSRT-L) is a moderated electronic discussion list on the Bitnet computer network (part of the internet). It deals with issues of interest to professional political scientists, both researchers and...

Political science and U.S. policy toward China.
December 1, 1993... Recently, the strain between political science research and public policy practice has drawn increasing attention among political scientists. Most of the discussions on this topic have focused on three issues. First, the gap(1) is becoming wider...

Procrustus and the regression model: on the misuse of the regression model.
December 1, 1993... In The Logic of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn (1970) described the power of prevailing paradigms to assist--or impede--progress in the sciences. A paradigm channels thinking and observation; under conditions of what Kuhn calls "normal...

Charles O. Jones: political institutionalist.
December 1, 1993... Charles O. Jones, presently Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, will serve as the eighty-ninth president of the American Political Science Association during 1993-94. No...