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PS: Political Science & Politics archives from December 1994
Reinventing public administration. (The 1994 John Gaus Lecture)
December 1, 1994... Editor's Note: James Q. Wilson of the University of California, Los Angeles was designated the 9th Annual John Gaus Distinguished Lecturer at the Association's 1994 Annual Meeting in New York City. Wilson joined the company of previous award...
Alternative voting systems for representative democracy. (Election Systems and Representative Democracy)
December 1, 1994... The ideal electoral system in a representative democracy is one allowing all eligible citizens to cast an equally weighted vote, and for united groups of voters, except very small ones, to elect one or more of their candidates to a governing...
Understanding electoral systems: beyond plurality versus PR. (proportional representation) (Election Systems and Representative Democracy)
December 1, 1994... Although we often plead with our colleagues and students to be more "systematic," we may not always be clear about what we mean. In biology, systematics is the "scientific study of the kinds and diversity of organisms and of any and all...
Gerrymandering: out of the political thicket and into the quagmire. (Election Systems and Representative Democracy)
December 1, 1994... The term gerrymandering always evokes spirited partisan debate and political controversy. Yet, when we begin to scratch at the surface, we see that there is more to gerrymandering than debates about cartographical aesthetics. The issue goes...
The Voting Rights Act: disfranchisement, dilution, and alternative election systems. (Election Systems and Representative Democracy)
December 1, 1994... The Voting Rights Act (VRA) (79 Stat. 667) is widely regarded as the most effective piece of civil rights legislation enacted in the United States. Adopted initially in 1965 to protect the voting rights of African Americans, it was expanded in...
Women's underrepresentation and electoral systems.
December 1, 1994... "The crudity and unfairness of the present method of election. . . . as a representative system it is a sham, a delusion, and a snare to the unthinking."
Kate Sheppard, New Zealand Suffragist, 1902 (Women's Electoral Lobby and Electoral Reform...
An update on the National Election Studies. (The Profession)
December 1, 1994... On February 28, 1994, the National Science Foundation announced a four-year extension of its long-term funding of the National Election Studies (NES). To mark this occasion, we want to update the social science community on recent developments...
Reordering American constitutional law teaching. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... Constitutional law is the cornerstone of an undergraduate public law curriculum. Political scientists will therefore want to teach constitutional law in the most effective manner possible. To that end, there is a welcome trend to offer...
Political colony in a lunar economy: a simulation relationship between technology and politics. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... In the spring semester of 1990, a class was organized and conducted at New College of the University of South Florida as an experiment in political science education. The centerpiece was the simulation of a lunar colony in a mainframe computer at...
Using Prodigy and other online services in the political science classroom. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... Commercial online computer services provide a wealth of features that can be helpful in teaching political science. The four most prominent services are Prodigy, America Online, CompuServe, and Delphi.[1] All feature a variety of materials...
Revitalizing undergraduate programs through intercollegiate mock trial competition. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... Although the movement currently appears more prominent at the high school than the college level, recent years have witnessed an upsurge in law-related education programs. Studies have shown that such programs have been successful not only in...
Mainstreaming gender, race and sexual orientation in the teaching of political science. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... Introduction
As we know, teaching has three aspects: instructors, students, and the material taught. Within the current academic generation, the first two of these have changed significantly in North American universities. Unevenly, often...
Incorporating a women's studies dimension into mainstream political science courses. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... In more than 30 years of teaching, I have taught a multitude of courses. Almost from the start, I was able to use women's studies material in my classes. Some courses were by their nature heavily dependent on a women's dimension (Women and the...
Organizing a course that is attentive to issues of racial and sexual difference. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... "Mainstreaming" race and gender is the next intellectual frontier in building a curriculum that is enriching to us all. Of course, mainstreaming implicates many large issues of pedagogy--from the nature and uses of liberal education to the proper...
Social hierarchies as systems of power. (The Teacher )
December 1, 1994... My starting point, both inside and outside the classroom, is the assumption that social hierarchies such as race, physical ability, gender, class, age, and sexual preference constitute interlocking systems of power. Because these systems are...
The case of African American women and politics. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... The effort to mainstream gender and race in political science courses over the past three decades has met with varying degrees of success depending on the nature of the courses, who teaches the courses, and the availability of relevant...
Teaching against the double couplet of problem/victim. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... In There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, Gilroy argues that one of the definitive characteristics of contemporary racism is its use of the double couplet: the assignment of the status of both problem and victim. Gilroy asserts that Blacks must...
Mainstreaming gender, race, and sexual orientation in teaching: a student's point of view. (The Teacher)
December 1, 1994... In the early 1970s when I was at York University, Toronto, Canada, I was always race conscious, as I still am. As a student for many years in the field of political science, I always brought my race into whatever I learned, asking at all times,...