PS: Political Science & Politics articles from December 1999

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from December 1999

Correction to ExecutiveDirector's Report,September 1999.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 1999... Correction to Executive Director's Report, September 1999 APSA Members 1974-99 Total Year [*] Regular Associate Unemployed Retired...

James Rosenau and Monica Lewinsky.(international relations theorist; White House intern)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Throughout the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, media pundits and commentators puzzled and despaired that Americans were not more outraged at their president's behavior (Kurtz 1998). Opinion poll after poll showed that most Americans believed the...

Kansas Press Should Have Been Ranked.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... In a trademark case, Judge Learned Hand declared that "reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator." Goodson, Dillman, and Hira's flawed article in the June 1999 issue of PS, "Ranking the Presses: Political Scientists'...

It's About Quality, Not Prestige.(university presses; political science publications)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... In their 1983 PS article, "What Do the New Ratings of Political Science Departments Measure?" (15[Summer]: 532-39), Welch and Hibbing asked a question I am tempted to ask about the recent poll conducted by Larry Goodson, Bradford Dillman, and...

Response to Critics of "Ranking the Presses".(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Studies that present rankings always provoke controversy, especially when the subject being ranked has not undergone such analysis before. As with any attempt to break new ground, we faced the problem of simultaneously creating valid indicators...

Globalization and Governance.
December 1, 1999... In 1979 I described the interdependence of states as low but increasing. It has increased, but only to about the 1910 level if measured by trade or capital flows as a percentage of GNP; lower if measured by the mobility of labor, and lower...

The Repositioning of American Public Administration.
December 1, 1999... Younger public administration scholars may not regard this lecture and the public administration panels at this conference as remarkable. I do, and I suspect others of my generation would agree. Twenty years ago, public administration had all...

Observations on the Transformation of the Political Science Community in Post-Soviet Russia [*].
December 1, 1999... For at least the past decade, the international political science community has been debating the state of the discipline, the level of its maturity, and the challenges to it from realpolitik (Goodin and Klingemann 1996, chap. 1). One of the...

Sex, Politics, and Public Opinion: What Political Scientists Really Learned From the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal [*].(President Bill Clinton; Monica Lewinsky)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... William Jefferson Clinton is only the second president to have been impeached by the House of Representatives. While he was not removed from office, roughly half of the Senate chamber voted him guilty on the perjury and obstruction of justice...

Otto I.Q. Besser-Wisser: An Appreciation of the Pioneer of Post-Distanciationalist Politometrics.
December 1, 1999... The death occurred on July 12, 1999, at a tragically young age, of Otto I.Q. Besser-Wisser, probably the most influential political thinker and analyst of our times. He was born in 1906 on the island of Helgoland, where the bustling...

Lessons of a Political Science Webcaster.(privacy on the World Wide Web)
December 1, 1999... Until I developed a new web site, I had no idea how much personal information webcasters collected on visitors. I always had assumed that surfing the Internet was an anonymous experience. The net was a benign tool that made my job easier. It...

Congratulations to the 1999 Campus Wide Teaching Award Recipients.
December 1, 1999... APSA is pleased to recognize the following political science faculty who received campus-wide awards for teaching excellence in academic year 1998-99. APSA and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, presented each of...

German Politics auf Deutsch: Teaching Comparative Politics in a Language Across the Curriculum Format [*].
December 1, 1999... One goal of any comparative politics course is to educate students about another part of the world. Students may learn specifically about how a parliamentary system functions in the United Kingdom, for example, or how Brazilian peasants...

Countering Popular Misconceptions of Federal Bureaucracies in American Government Classes.
December 1, 1999... In teaching classes in American politics, I find myself in the position of returning to the classroom with practical government experience. After teaching introductory American government classes at a large state university, I worked for the...

"Pure Futility and Waste": Academic Political Science and Civic Education.(response to American Political Science Association Task Force on Civic Education in the Next Century, PS Political Science & Politics, September 1998)
December 1, 1999... In the September 1998 issue of PS, the APSA Task Force on Civic Education in the Next Century (TFCE) urged members of the discipline to renew their commitment to civic education. In the same issue, Professor Hindy Lauer Schacter published an...

The Past Need Not Be Prologue: Why Pessimism about Civic Education Is Premature.
December 1, 1999... Like Hindy Lauer Schachter (1998), Stephen Leonard (1999) warns that scholars who favor the APSA Task Force on Civic Education's goal of educating for an active citizenry should study past failures to achieve this aim. Both urge learning from...

Making the Past into Prologue: A Response to Professor Bennett.
December 1, 1999... I am reticent to reply to Professor Bennett's comments for two related reasons. First, because he and I generally agree on the importance of civic education in the mission of academic political science, [1] and I do not wish this point to be...

Rebuttal to Response by Stephen Leonard.(response to article by Stephen Leonard in this issue, p. 749)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Professor Leonard is entitled to assert that research counts for more in our profession than efforts at civic education. That said, it does not advance his case to create false dichotomies when characterizing another's view of how political...

Participation by Women in the 1999 APSA Annual Meeting.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... This is the twenty-eighth year I have been monitoring participation by women, at our Annual Meeting. It is also the thirtieth anniversary of the Women's Caucus for Political Science. These PS reports have documented the ascent of women in our...

They Blinded Me with Political Science: On the Use of Nonpeer Reviewed Research in Education Policy.
December 1, 1999... On March 4, 1998, a story appeared in Education Week about research by Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, and Christine Roch (hereafter referred to as STR). It summarized their research, which claims that an innovative public school choice program in...

PEOPLE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE.
December 1, 1999... Activities Morgan N. Knull, a doctoral candidate in the department of political science at Louisiana State University, has been named editor of the Civil War Book Review. Lord Norton of Louth, professor of government, University of...

David T. Cattell.(Obituary)
December 1, 1999... David Cattell's retirement from 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...

Cornelius Philip Cotter.(Obituary)
December 1, 1999... Cornelius P. Cotter, my husband, colleague, and friend of 33 years, died on July 12, 1999, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. After retiring from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1989, he lived in Atascadero, California,...

Regis A. Factor.(Obituary)
December 1, 1999... Regis A. Factor, professor of government and international relations at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, died of ALS on April 18, 1999. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1937. He attended Washington and Jefferson College and then...

Arvid Pardo.(Obituary)
December 1, 1999... Arvid Pardo, diplomat, international civil servant, rigorous scholar, and university professor, passed away on June 19, 1999, in Seattle, Washington. He was born in Rome, Italy, on February 12, 1914. He will be remembered on many accounts,...

Tang Tsou.(Obituary)
December 1, 1999... Tang Tsou usually spoke with a low voice and a measured cadence. He also had a habit of asking his interlocutors whether his English was absolutely correct or as precise as it could be. Yet, even those who met him for the first time were not...

Peter R. Weitz.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
December 1, 1999... Peter Robertson Weitz, 55, a political scientist, consultant, and former official of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, died of brain cancer September 7, 1999. Weitz was a Washington native and grew up in Turkey and Europe,...

Council Launches Strategic Planning.
December 1, 1999... APSA's Council approved a measure to begin a strategic planning process that is to be completed by August 2000. On September 1, in Atlanta, President Robert Keohane was authorized to appoint a committee of at least nine persons who would reach...

ATLANTA '99.(conference of the American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Atlanta Draws Record Attendance for Annual Meeting in the South Atlanta hosted the largest meeting APSA has ever held in the south. More than 5,300 political scientists participated in a program featuring 720 panel sessions. Including...

Achievements of Researchers and Teachers Recognized during APSA Honors Reception.(American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Honoring those scholars who have helped shape the profession, APSA hosted its 1999 Honors Reception at the Academy of Medicine in Atlanta as part of the Annual Meeting. At the awards ceremony following the reception, the Association recognized...

APSA Honors Waltz, Frederickson, and Others with Annual Awards.(American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Recognizing outstanding achievement, the Association honored 22 members of the profession at the APSA Awards Ceremony held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Hosted by 1999 Program Co-Chairs John Garcia of the University of...

New Officers and Council Elected.(American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Robert Keohane, James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke University, became the Association's ninety-sixth president on September 4 at the APSA's annual business meeting. Outgoing president Matthew Holden Jr., University of...

Centennial Campaign Exceeds Goals for First Year.(American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... In its first year, APSA's Centennial Campaign, officially begun during the 1998 Annual Meeting in Boston with the goal of raising $3 million over five years to support the creation of a study center at the Association's Washington headquarters...

Graduate Students Attend Meeting with APSA Assistance.(American Political Science Association)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... In a continuing effort to assist graduate students wishing to participate in the Annual Meeting, the Association awarded 32 Advanced Graduate Student Travel Grants for its 1999 meeting in Atlanta. Funded by APSA, winners were selected from a...

An International APSA Annual Meeting.(American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The growing participation of international scholars is increasing the scope of research interests and techniques at the Annual Meeting. APSA continues to support international scholars through the APSA Senior Scholar Travel Grant Program and...

1999 Annual Meeting Papers Now Available Online.(American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... All 1999 Annual Meeting authors were invited to submit their papers to PROceedings: Political Research Online (http://pro.harvard.edu), the online collection of APSA Annual Meeting papers. More than 1,000 authors accepted the invitation. ...

Annual Meeting Placement Service Unveils Online System.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Seeking to improve the way qualified applicants are matched with open positions in political science, APSA introduced E-Jobs, the electronic placement service, before the 1999 Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The new online systems allowed candidates...

Association Reluanches APSANet.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Working to increase its usability and the services provided, the Association launched the latest of version of APSANet at the 1999 Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Now in its third generation, the APSA web site is designed to provide members...

American Political Science Review Editor's Report for 1998-99.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... The number of submissions during 1998-99 was about the same as in the previous three years. We received 536 manuscripts, 393 of them original. The average figure for 1995-99 shows an increase of 11% as compared to the Powell editorship and 26%...

Treasurer's Report.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999, the Association again earned excellent returns on its investments, finishing the year with assets totaling over $24.4 million. This represents an increase of over $2.7 million from the previous year (see...

Bunche Students Present Posters in Atlanta, Institute Expands Eligibility.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Eight of this year's Ralph Bunche Summer Institute students were selected to present posters at APSA's 1999 Annual Meeting in Atlanta. They were DeAunderia Bryant, University of California, Berkely: "Gender, Race, and Support: Black Women...

The State of the State Associations.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Representatives of eleven state associations gathered during APSA's Annual Meeting in Atlanta to discuss the opportunities state associations have and the problems they face in trying to take advantage of those opportunities. The picture is...

Sue Davis Joins APSA Staff.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... APSA is pleased to announce that Sue Davis, a Ph.D. graduate of Emory University who specializes in comparative politics with a focus on the areas of the former Soviet Union, has joined the Association staff. Dr. Davis came on board to be...

1998-99 Congressional Fellows Honored, 1999-2000 Fellows Welcomed.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... From the purist's point-of-view, the only "right" time to conclude a working experience with the Congress is when the final gavel adjourns the institution sine die. For a ten-month program, which has to merge diverse career needs of political...

JPSA Representatives Participate in 1999 Meeting.(Japanese Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... As part of its continuing exchange with the Japanese Political Science Association, APSA hosted four JPSA members at the recent meeting in Atlanta. Hiroshi Hirano of Gakushuin University, Kuniaki Tanabe of Tokyo University, and Kengo Akiduki of...

IPSA Names New Secretary General-Designate.(International Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... At its April meeting in Krakow, Poland, the International Political Science Association executive council appointed Guy Lachapelle of Concordia University as the new secretary general-designate. Lachapelle will become secretary general at the...

APSA Welcomes New Section on Interdisciplinary Approaches to International History and Politics.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... During their meeting on September 1, members of APSA's Council approved the establishment of an Organized Section on Interdisciplinary Approaches to International History and Politics. Section organizers have set themselves the goals of...

Section News.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Political Psychology * At their 1999 business meeting, section officers honored Robert Lane by naming its annual book award for him. They also honored Margaret M. Hermann by naming the section's graduate student scholarship award for her....

Organized Sections Distribute Awards at Annual Meeting.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... At their respective meetings during APSA's 1999 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Organized Sections presented over 50 awards recognizing dissertations, books, papers, and careers. Many of these section prizes are annual and nominations are sought at...

Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Distinguished Scholar Award, recognizing distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations, was presented to Joseph Zimmerman, a member of the department of political science at University at...

Law and Courts.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Members of the Law and Courts section saw the American Judicature Society Award conferred upon Melinda Gann Hall of Michigan State University for her paper, "Competition in Judicial Elections, 1980-1985." The award is given for the best paper...

Legislative Studies.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... At the Legislative Studies business meeting, the section presented a number of prizes. The CQ Press Award for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the 1998 APSA Annual Meeting went to Sarah Binder of The Brookings Institution for...

Public Policy.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award, given for a book or article published in the last 10 to 20 years that continues to influence the study of public policy was presented to Michael Lipsky, who is currently at the Ford Foundation,...

Political Organizations and Parties.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Lifetime Award honoring a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field was given to Malcom E. Jewell, now retired from the University of Kentucky. The Leon...

Public Administration.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Denis Saint-Martin of Carleton University was presented the 1999 Herbert Kaufman Award for the best paper presented at the preceding year's APSA Annual Meeting. Saint-Martin was recognized for "How the Reinventing Government Movement in Public...

Conflict Processes.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Conflict Processes section's Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Ole Holsti of Duke University in recognition of his lifetime of contributions to the study of conflict processes.

Representation and Electoral Systems.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The George H. Hallett Award, presented annually to the author of a book published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems, was given to Matthew Shugart of the...

Presidency Research.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Richard E. Neustadt Award, given for the best book published during the year that contributed to research and scholarship in the field of American presidency, was given to Keith Krehbiel of Stanford University for his book, Pivotal...

Political Methodology.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Harold Gosnell Award for the best paper on political methodology presented during a 1998 professional conference was given to Nathaniel Beck of the University of California, San Diego for "Improving Quantitative Studies of International...

Religion and Politics.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Nathalie Gagnere of the University of Oklahoma was presented the Aaron Wildavsky Award for her dissertation, "The Catholic Church and the Rebirth of Civil Society: Elite Convergence, Mobilization, and Civil Society." The Wildavsky prize is...

Urban Politics.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Best Book Award for the best book on urban politics published in 1998 was given to Bruce A. Wallin of Northeastern University for his book, From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities (Georgetown University...

Women and Politics.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The women and politics section's Best Paper Award was presented to Leonie Huddy of SUNY-Stony Brook for her 1998 Annual Meeting paper, "The Social Nature of Political Identity: Feminist Image and Feminist Identity." Kathleen Casey and Susan J....

Foundations of Political Theory.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... At the Foundation section's business meeting, David Laitin of Stanford University was honored with the David Easton Award for his book, Identity In Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press, 1998)....

Burning the Midnight Oil in the Ivory Tower.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... A 1998 study of faculty at 16 mid-sized colleges and universities shows that faculty members work an average of 53.6 hours a week. According to data collected by Associated New American Colleges, faculty spend an average of 34 hours (or about...

Senate Considers Establishing "Special Committee on American Culture".(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), with support from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) and twelve other Senators, introduced a resolution in early August calling for the establishment of "a special committee to address the cultural crisis...

Declassification Programs Complicated, Underfunded in New Budget.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... A provision in the Defense Reauthorization Act for 2000 requires the rereview of almost all of the nearly 600 million pages of government documents declassified since 1995. Executive Order 12958, issued by President Clinton in 1995, gave...

Follow Ups.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... * Federal grand jury records for the Alger Hiss case were opened to the public on October 12. Such records have traditionally been kept sealed for security and privacy reasons. * The United States Court of Appeals for the District of...

Comparative Politics.(literary awards)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... David Laitin's Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad also won the comparative politics section's Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award for the best book in comparative politics. Additionally, the section...

State Politics and Policy.(political science awards)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Best Paper Award of the State Politics section was presented to Michael Mintrom of Michigan State University for "Local Organization as Sites for Deliberative Democracy--Learning from Charter Schools," prepared for the 1998 APSA Annual...

Political Communication.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Doris Graber Award was given to Nicholas Valentino of the University of Michigan recognizing his paper, "Who Are We on Election Day? Crime News and the Priming of Group Identities during Candidate Evaluation." The award is given for the...

Politics and History.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The J. David Greenstone Book Prize for the best book in politics and history published in 1998 was presented to Peter Trubowitz of the University of Texas for his book, Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign...

Political Economy.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Ohio State University faculty member Charles Boix was recognized with the political economy section's Best Book Award for Political Parties, Growth, and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy...

Ecological and Transformational Politics.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... William R. Caspary of Washington University was selected as winner of the Best Paper Award, recognizing a paper of outstanding merit given on a panel on ecological and transformational politics at the APSA Annual Meeting in the preceding year....

New Political Science.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Michael Harrington Book Award is given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world. Michael Forman of the University of Washington, Tacoma was named winner for his book,...

Political Psychology.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Best Book Award was given to Diana Mutz of Ohio State University for Impersonal Influence. How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Undergraduate Education.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Lynne E. Ford, John Creed, Phil Jones, and Frank Petrusak of the College of Charleston were named winners of the Best Paper Presentation Award for "Providing a Reason for Students to Care: Creating Learning Communities through A Simulation...

Politics and Literature.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on politics and literature delivered at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. The 1999 prize went to Paul Cantor of the University of Virginia for "The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear...

Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Best Paper Award was won by Richard Sinnott from University College, Dublin for his work, "Knowledge and the Position of Attitudes to a European Foreign and Security Policy on the Real-to-Random Continuum." The award is presented for the...

Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior.(political science awards)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Stan Humphries of the University of Virginia took home the 1999 Best Paper Award for "The Impact of Economic Structure on Social Capital and Civic Engagement." The Philip E. Converse Book Award for an outstanding book in the field published at...

Race, Ethnicity and Politics.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics presented a number of awards, including three book prizes. The Best Book Award on the Social Construction of Race went to Matthew Frye Jacobson of Yale University for Whiteness of a...

Scholars Attend IU Conference.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Drawn together by their common research interests in children and adolescent issues, 13 scholars from various U.S. universities, colleges, and academic institutions came together at Indiana University this August for "Multidisciplinary Pathways...

OMB Finalizes Rules on Data Sharing.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... True to the timetable it set for itself, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued final rules governing public access to federally funded research data. The rules flesh out language inserted by Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) in the...

Political Science Down South: Alabama and Mississippi Political Science Associations.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Alabama Political Science Association continues to be a vibrant organization with over 50 active members. Each year it meets in a different part of the state. Numerous subjects are addressed, including, for example, civil rights,...

Draft Minutes APSA Council Meeting.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... American Political Science Association Annual Meeting September 1, 1999 Atlanta Hilton Atlanta, Georgia Present: Council Members: Matthew Holden, Jr., Robert Keohane, Jane Bayes, Tim Cook, Gary Cox, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ada Finifter,...