PS: Political Science & Politics articles from December 1998

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from December 1998

The uncivic culture: communication, identity, and the rise of lifestyle politics.
December 1, 1998... It is a great honor to deliver the Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture. Ithiel Pool was one of the grand visionaries of the modern social sciences. As a founder of the field we call political communication, he traced the great outlines of communication...

The human side of public administration.
December 1, 1998... To avoid any misunderstanding, let me say at the outset that the remarks that follow are selective impressions brimming with bias, the product of what one of our earlier distinguished colleagues, George Graham, described as old-fashioned...

Zog for Albania, Edward for Estonia, and monarchs for all the rest? The royal road to prosperity, democracy, and world peace.
December 1, 1998... Down with Communists, we want a king! Albanian demonstrators in Tirana's central square, rioting for the return of King Zog Monarchy has been the predominant form of governance throughout recorded history, and its hegemony extended...

Changing post-totalitarian values in Russia through Public Deliberation Methodology.
December 1, 1998... Public Deliberation Methodology (PDM) developed from activities sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, which engages in research to enhance the practice of politics. Politics, generally understood, encompasses public activities that...

The golden rule of grading: being fair.(teaching of political science)
December 1, 1998... Here is a typical scene. After two teaching assistants, one experienced and one new, hand back the first graded assignment in the fall, the experienced TA gets a few students coming in to ask about how they can improve their work. The students...

Using "World Series shares" to fight free riding in group projects.(teaching of political science)
December 1, 1998... Like other forms of active learning, group projects are increasingly common in colleges and universities (Bonwell and Eison 1991; Erickson and Strommer 1991).(1) Group projects can allow students to do quality work, often including data...

Plato meets Lawnmower Man in the virtual polis: the case of PS 776.(graduate seminar on sustainable urban design)
December 1, 1998... If popular movies are signposts of mass cultural fantasies, political terrors, and psychic nightmares, we Americans are in for some tough sledding as we negotiate the pathway to the next millennium. Already, we are being bombarded by cruel...

Weber's critique of advocacy in the classroom: critical thinking and civic education.(Forum on Advocacy in the Classroom)(sociologist Max Weber)
December 1, 1998... Weber on Advocacy Max Weber's "Science as a Vocation" is a useful starting point for examining some of the most important theoretical issues concerning advocacy in the classroom. In this 1918 speech, Weber addresses the problems and issues...

Teaching at its best: a passionate detachment in the classroom.(Forum on Advocacy in the Classroom)
December 1, 1998... Teachers should keep their personal opinions out of the classroom because they are teachers. Philosopher Michael Oakeshott writes that "teaching is not taming, ruling, restoring to health, conditioning, commanding, because none of these things...

Some proposed guidelines for advocacy in the classroom.(Forum on Advocacy in the Classroom)
December 1, 1998... In this article, I do not attempt to make the case for advocacy in the classroom, by which I mean any attempt by a teacher to convince students to believe some proposition or take some action. Rather, I take it for granted that college teachers...

"Truth" and advocacy: a feminist perspective.(Forum on Advocacy in the Classroom)
December 1, 1998... Feminist professors are often accused of being merely advocates in their classrooms. This charge suggests that feminist teachers do not share the time-honored commitment to the pursuit of "truth," but are instead attempting to recruit students...

The politics of government-funded research: notes from the experience of the Candidate Emergence Study.(includes related article on American Political Science Association's guidelines on freedom and integrity of research)
December 1, 1998... In the summer and fall of 1997, we became embroiled in a controversy surrounding our study of potential candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, entitled the Candidate Emergence Study (CES). The study is funded under a grant from the...

Placement report: political science Ph.D.s and ABDs on the job market in 1997.
December 1, 1998... It is of vital importance for the sustainability and growth of the discipline, and of great interest to those in the discipline, that political science doctoral students get jobs. For this reason, the American Political Science Association...

The good, the better, and the best in political science.(top political science departments in colleges and universities in terms of research)
December 1, 1998... There is no rhadamanthine solution to the problem of comparing the research performance of departments, and there is no shortage of interest in the topic. Institutionally, a favorable ranking provides graduate and faculty recruitment benefits....

Bugs in the NRC's doctoral program evaluation data: from mites to hissing cockroaches.(National Research Council)
December 1, 1998... In 1995, the National Research Council (NRC) released Research Doctorate Programs in the United States, Continuity and Change. This report was described as containing an "extensive, comprehensive, and systematic assessment of the quality,...

How many authors does it take to publish an article? Trends and patterns in political science.
December 1, 1998... Political scientists have a tradition of reflecting on the evolution and state of their discipline. Numerous studies have examined rankings of departments (Klingemann 1986; Jackman and Siverson 1996; Lowery and Silver 1996; Miller, Tien, and...

Creating the capacity for telephone survey analysis.(external funding sources for universities and colleges)
December 1, 1998... Over the past decade, two major realities have faced higher education. First, rising costs associated with running state colleges and universities have not been met with increasing state subsidies (Eckl, Hutchison, and Snell 1992; Lissner and...

Wanted: outstanding ideas for improving world order.
December 1, 1998... For more than a decade, the University of Louisville's Department of Political Science has administered the Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order." H. Charles Grawemeyer, a local industrialist and generous philanthropist, endowed an...

John Kingdon: exercising his 'academic freedom.'.(former political science professor at the University of Michigan)
December 1, 1998... Define retirement. Chances are your definition is different from most other people's. Granted that, you'd probably find it difficult to disagree with John Kingdon's definition. Upon retiring from the University of Michigan's department of...

James B. Christoph.(political science professor)(Obituary)
December 1, 1998... A major contributor to the study of comparative politics over the past 40 years, James Bernard Christoph, Emeritus Professor of Political Science and West European Studies at Indiana University, died May 8, 1998, in Bloomington, Indiana, at the...

Robert Howe Connery.(political science professor)(Obituary)
December 1, 1998... It is with deep sadness that we report the death on July 3, 1998, at age 90, of Robert Howe Connery, our colleague, friend, and, for one of us, our teacher. Connery was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of...

C.N. Fortenberry.(political science professor)(Obituary)
December 1, 1998... Charles Nolan Fortenberry died on May 10, 1998, at the age of 89. He made major contributions to the institutions of the University of Mississippi and Auburn University. Recognition of his impact on faculty and students in those two states over...

David T. Cattell.(political science professor)(Obituary)
December 1, 1998... David Cattell's retirement from the UCLA's department of political science in 1988, after a service of 36 years, most likely attracted little attention on campus, except from a handful of his close friends. This was because David was one of the...

John D. Martz III.(political science professor)(Obituary)
December 1, 1998... John D. Martz III, distinguished professor of political science and former head of the department of political science at Penn State, died on August 16, at the age of 64. At the time of his death, he was in Caracas, Venezuela, directing...

Emmette Redford.(political science professor)(Obituary)
December 1, 1998... I write to honor Emmette Shelburn Redford as a great teacher, an eminent scholar, and a dedicated public servant. But even more as a dear friend and colleague. Let it be stated for the record that he died on January 30, 1998, in Austin, Texas,...

The 1997-98 sail on the flagship 'American Political Science Review.'.(increase in number of manuscripts submitted)
December 1, 1998... Reviewers so often couch their remarks about manuscripts in terms of the standards of "the flagship journal of the discipline" that we in the editorial office sometimes feel that we should don naval gear and watch out for rough seas. The flow...