PS: Political Science & Politics articles from December 1997

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from December 1997

Administrative practice, organization theory, and political philosophy: ruminations on the Reflections of John M. Gaus.(1997 John M. Gaus Lecture)
December 1, 1997... The 1997 recipient of the John Gaus Award, James G. March, is Professor of Political Science and Sociology Emeritus and Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Management Emeritus of Stanford University. March was born in Cleveland, Ohio,...

The House GOP's civil war: a political science perspective. (Republican Party)
December 1, 1997... In 1997, just two years after their impressive show of unity on the Contract With America, the House Republicans were apparently turning into the House of Atreus. Squabbles high and low divided their leadership, demoralized their rank and file,...

Democratic transition? The 1997 Mexican elections.
December 1, 1997... Mexico's 1997 midterm elections promise to democratize Mexico's autocratic and centralized presidentialist regime and thereby change Mexican politics profoundly. The electoral blow dealt the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido...

"Nation" and "nationalism": the misuse of key concepts in political science.
December 1, 1997... One of the essential starting points of any branch of science is a consistent, broadly understood terminology. Generally accepted definitions of key terms within a discipline are important in order to judge claims by scholars about a given topic....

Inside The Turner Diaries: neo-nazi scripture.
December 1, 1997... At 9:02 on the morning of April 19, 1995, a powerful fertilizer bomb exploded in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. One hundred sixty-eight people, including twenty children, were killed. More than 500 people were badly...

On site, not out of mind: the role of experiential learning in the political science doctoral program.
December 1, 1997... Various forms of "experiential learning" have been the subject of substantial scholarly attention in the last decade. Internships, community-based education, and service learning have all been presented as pedagogical tools for inculcating the...

A dramaturgical approach to teaching political science.
December 1, 1997... Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us. Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured Politics has become increasingly theatrical in...

Learning styles of political science students.
December 1, 1997... The perennial struggle to reach out to our students and engage their minds is something that plagues all college and university faculty. Political science instructors may have a slight advantage over instructors in other fields in connecting with...

Numbers? Borrinnnggg!!!
December 1, 1997... How big is government anyway? Compared to what? How much does it spend? How many people work for it? Doing what? Should we cut welfare? Social Security? Should we reduce taxes? Balance the budget? Reduce the national debt? These questions...

The record of American democracy, 1984-1990.
December 1, 1997... A massive new aggregate data set on American politics is now available. Our Record Of American Democracy (ROAD)(1) data include election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of...

Crosscutting the subfields: learning from our colleagues.
December 1, 1997... When sawing a log or carving a roast, one can go with the grain or cut across it. The difference is that cutting across the grain requires more effort. So it is with patterns of thinking about our research. It is easier to draw on familiar...

The future of our discipline: the status of doctoral students in political science.
December 1, 1997... The future of our discipline rests in the hands of those individuals still pursuing their doctorates. The way we train our doctoral students to handle their roles as future professors will have a lasting impact on the discipline. When graduate...