PS: Political Science & Politics articles from December 1995

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from December 1995

Tuning in, tuning out: the strange disappearance of social capital in America.
December 1, 1995... Editor's Note: The Ithiel de Sola Pool Award and Lectureship was established by the APSA Council in 1994. Ithiel received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1952. He held academic positions at Hobart College and Stanford University...

Market and democracy - obliquely.(The 1995 John Gaus Lecture)
December 1, 1995... Editor's Note: Charles E. Lindblom of Yale University was designated the 10th Annual John Gaus Distinguished Lecturer at the Association's 1995 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Lindblom joined the company of previous winners: Herbert Kaufman [1986],...

The Republican tidal wave of 1994: testing hypotheses about realignment, restructuring and rebellion.
December 1, 1995... Editor's Note: The 1995 Annual Meeting Program included 651 panels organized by the Program Committee, Related Groups, and APSA Standing Committees. The attention an individual panel or roundtable received from meeting attendees and from...

Fair division and politics.
December 1, 1995... In the Hebrew Bible, the issue of fairness is raised in some of the best-known narratives. Cain's raging jealousy and eventual murder of Abel is provoked by what he considered unfair treatment by God, who "paid heed" to Abel's offering but...

Party government and the Contract with America.
December 1, 1995... American voters issued mixed signals in November 1994 about the preferred role of party in the nation's governing structures. Accordingly, those political scientists who advocate party government for the United States -- disciplined parties...

Political science and the 1994 elections: an exploratory essay.
December 1, 1995... To a substantial extent, political scientists continue to be in a state of shock, or even denial, over the results of the November 1994 midterm elections. This degree of surprise has been largely attributed to the failure of the 1994 elections...

STV and the representation of women. (single transferable vote)
December 1, 1995... In an informative account of different electoral systems and their effects on representation Joseph F. Zimmerman (1994, 674) recommended the single transferable vote (STV) system on the grounds that it "provides [...] broad representation with...

Using the Internet as a teaching tool: why wait any longer?
December 1, 1995... Introduction The Internet is a rapidly growing international collection of computer networks which operates largely over leased phone lines. A few political scientists have for some time taken advantage of the traditional strengths of...

USENET discussion groups in political science courses.
December 1, 1995... Network news -- or "netnews" -- is divided into hundreds of newsgroups on a variety of topics, some more technical than others. Most useful to political science students, however, are the groups on politics and on culture. Users can post...

Bringing the world into the classroom: POS302-L - the race and ethnicity seminar discussion list.
December 1, 1995... Last spring I invited a crowd of over 300 faculty, students, and administrators from around the world to spend the semester with the 18 students enrolled in my race, ethnicity, and social inequality seminar. They read and commented on the...

Poughkeepsie to Persian Gulf revisited: ICONS, the Internet and teaching international politics.
December 1, 1995... In the fall of 1990 when the hot spots in the world were Beijing, Baghdad, and Berlin, I was searching for a better way to teach international politics. I stumbled into the fascinating ICONS (International Communication and Negotiation...

Press briefings exercise. (teaching political science)
December 1, 1995... In this emerging world of "real time" information and media influence, new technology offers us an opportunity to provide our students access to once unavailable information. This press briefings exercise has been used over the last four...

Teaching about American democracy through historical cases.
December 1, 1995... Public reaction to "Whitewater" should remind us how fragmentary most citizens' understanding of American democracy is. How does Whitewater differ from Iran-Contra? From Watergate? From other less famous events in our country's political...

Ranking research doctorate programs in political science.
December 1, 1995... The National Research Council released its long awaited report, Research-doctorate Programs In The United States, Continuity and Change, on September 12, 1995. This is an extensive, comprehensive, and systematic assessment of the quality,...