PS: Political Science & Politics articles from December 2000

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from December 2000

An Open Letter to the APSA Leadership and Members.(American Political Science Association)
December 1, 2000... As many of you are aware the American Political Science Association has recently experienced an extraordinary outpouring of frustration with the current state of the American Political Science Review, the APSA, and the profession generally. An...

Editor's Note.(strategic planning for the American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In September 1999, the APSA Council initiated a Strategic Planning Process (www.apsanet.org/new/planning/). According to 1999-2000 APSA President Robert Keohane, the purpose of strategic planning was to "evaluate the overall condition of the...

"Technicism" Supplanting Disciplinarity among Political Scientists.
December 1, 2000... I write to express my support for the spirit if not all the particulars of the Perestroika protest letter concerning the representativeness of APSA and its journals. In my view this question should be settled democratically via the market and...

APSR a Reflection of Its Submissions for Better and Worse.(American Political Science Review)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... [Gregory Kasza's letter of November 3] raises a number of important issues that need to be addressed by our membership and deliberated by the APSA committees and Council, but here I'd just like to provide some information on the Council's...

Rethink APSR Review Policy.
December 1, 2000... APSA president Robert Jervis has written to the Perestroika forum avowing his support for the goal of expanding the range of articles carried by the APSR. He further noted that APSA's strategic planning committee and the incoming editor, Lee...

Discipline out of Touch with Real-World Concerns.(political science)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... I am a graduate student nearing completion of my Ph.D., and the recent discussion regarding APSA's institutional exclusiveness and near-obsession with statistical methods resonates strongly with me. As an undergraduate, I majored in English and...

Ideas for Reforming APSA Officer Elections.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Notably missing from your mission statement is the thought of staging competitive elections for key offices, including president, of the APSA. It is ironic that the APSA, many of whose members (myself included) study and write on...

Taking Ontology Seriously in Political Science and Political Theory: A Reply to Mayhew [*].
December 1, 2000... The June 2000 issue of PS featured a symposium on "Political Science and Political Philosophy," that included three papers first given as part of a political science department workshop at Yale. Let me start by expressing my admiration of that...

Lawsuit Filed to Intimidate Researchers.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... I am writing to request the support of APSA members in my defense against a lawsuit that has been filed against me by Laredo National Bancshares, Inc., Laredo National Bank (LNB), and Gary G. Jacobs, president and CEO of those organizations....

Some Further Sources on Nonviolence as Strategy and Philosophy.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In addition to the articles published in the symposium titled "A Force More Powerful," may I suggest immodestly that my article, "On Civil Disobedience in Recent American Democratic Thought" (APSR, March 1970) may still have some bearing. ...

More Meaningful Analysis of Civic Education Is Needed.
December 1, 2000... The growing number of articles on service learning, field courses, advocacy learning, and theories of democratic education in PS is extremely encouraging. So is the profession's growing interest in and commitment to these related approaches to...

Attention to Process Blinds Political Scientists to Real Causes of World Problems.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Many years ago I became a dropout from the American Political Science Association. Throughout the early years of my career, I faithfully attended meetings and participated in the organization's activities. As my interests shifted from narrow...

Public Administration in Today's World of Organizations and Markets.
December 1, 2000... It is a special pleasure for me to give a lecture named in honor of John M. Gaus. My files still retain several gracious letters from him to a young colleague, one after a session in which we had participated at the 1950 APSA meeting; another...

What I Wish Political Scientists Would Teach about Congress.
December 1, 2000... I am delighted to be here for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and honored to deliver this year's Pi Sigma Alpha lecture. Over the years, I benefitted greatly from the contributions of many APSA Congressional...

The Census Count: Who Counts? How Do We Count? When Do We Count?(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... The 1787 Constitution of the U.S. mandates that, starting in 1790, a census be conducted every 10 years. The country has changed considerably since then; and so has the manner in which the census is conducted. Census data are used in a...

Using Statistical Sampling to Estimate the U.S. Population: The Methodological and Political Debate over Census 2000 [*].
December 1, 2000... One of the most hotly debated issues of the past four years has been the method to be used to count the population in Census 2000. Broadly, the debate is over whether to incorporate statistical sampling in the decennial census for the purposes...

History, Myth Making, and Statistics: A Short Story about the Reapportionment of Congress and the 1990 Census.
December 1, 2000... Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfil it. George Santayana, 1905-06 Those who are familiar with the "equal proportions" formula used to...

Rejoinder to Anderson and Fienberg.(Margo Anderson, Stephen E. Fienberg, in this issue, p. 783)
December 1, 2000... ecological fallacy: (a) mistakenly attributing an average or modal characteristic across individuals in a group to an individual in a group; (b) mistakenly attributing the combination of characteristics that are most common within a group to...

Partisan Politics at Work: Sampling and the 2000 Census.(response to article by Thomas L. Brunell, in this issue, p. 775)
December 1, 2000... In his preceding article, Brunell offers some background on Census 2000, the use of sampling and adjustment in a census context, the magnitude of the differential undercount from prior censuses, and the debate over the use of sample-based...

Making Sense of the Census: It's Political.(response to article by Margo Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg, in this issue, p.795)
December 1, 2000... With "Partisan Politics at Work," Anderson and Fienberg continue their spirited, if misleading, defense of the plan to statistically adjust the census count. Unfortunately, their argument in favor of making the adjustments misses the mark and...

How Congress Does the Difficult.
December 1, 2000... Legislators in democratic countries find it relatively easy to do certain things. For example, they typically have little problem reducing taxes or increasing benefits for a majority of citizens. However, should they attempt to raise taxes or...

It's a Small World: Incorporating Service Learning into International Relations Courses [*].
December 1, 2000... Teachers of international relations and comparative politics courses face a difficult task because young people are generally not interested in politics and because Americans lack knowledge and concern for international issues. In a recent PS...

An Alternative End-of-Semester Questionnaire.
December 1, 2000... The end-of-semester instrument completed by students has become pervasive throughout higher education. Typically, it is viewed as an unbiased tool (as students are considered objective observers) that can be used to measure teachers'...

Duh, or the Role of IT in Teaching Comparative Politics.
December 1, 2000... Editor's Note This issue of PS features the first of a series of short pieces on teaching trends and issues in political science. Items included in these columns will call attention exemplary initiatives and programs in under graduate and...

Innovative Teaching in Political Science: 2000 Rowman & Littlefield Award Winner Mark A. Boyer.
December 1, 2000... As described in a December 2,1996 issue of U.S. News & World Report cover article on innovative uses of computers in the classroom, arms control diplomats from Russia generally don't wear flannel shirts, baseball hats and sneakers during work...

Virtual Field Trips: Bringing College Students and Policymakers Together through Interactive Technology.
December 1, 2000... In a democratic society, education in the values and operation of the political system takes on a high level of importance. Citizens must be made conscious of the system within which policy is created and, as instructors at the college level,...

Active Engagement of the Intro IR Student: A Simulation Approach.
December 1, 2000... Standard classroom lectures may not capture the imagination of students new to the subject of international relations, students for whom the Cold War seems as distant as the Peloponnesian War. In order to convey the full richness, complexity,...

Simulating Issue Networks in Small Classes Using the World Wide Web [*].
December 1, 2000... In this article we describe a novel approach towards conducting class simulations that combines the advantages of role-playing simulations, which mobilize student interest and involvement, with the advantages of more traditional pedagogical...

Congressional Committee Simulation: An Active Learning Experiment.
December 1, 2000... As many universities are presured to maintain high levels of academic instruction with fewer and fewer resources, faculty often find themselves teaching not only larger classes but also those outside of their areas of specialty. Since...

Two Types of Procedural Dissatisfaction with Institutions: Lessons from Faculty Senate Reform [*].
December 1, 2000... In their seminal work on public attitudes toward national government institutions, John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse emphasized how perception of decision-making processes colors evaluation of policy-making bodies. Why do people...

Take the Plunge: A Plea for, and Advice on, Entering University Administration [*].
December 1, 2000... My plea to "take the plunge," "throw their hats into the ring," and accept university and college administrative posts is directed to able and energetic political scientists, especially (or initially) at their home institutions and for limited...

Participation by Women in the 2000 APSA Meeting.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... This is the twenty-ninth year that I have been monitoring participation by women at APSA's Annual Meeting. These PS reports have documented the ascent of women in our profession. (At this year's meeting, I presented a poster session tracing...

IN MEMORIAM.
December 1, 2000... Diane Blair Diane Blair died on Monday, June 26, 2000, at the age of 61. She left family, thousands of students, and friends all the way from Arkansas to the White House. Her loss is felt keenly by a large, admiring number of political...

PEOPLE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE.
December 1, 2000... Activities Marijke Breuning and John T. Ishiyama, both associate professors of political science at Truman State University, will share the book review editor responsibilities for International Politics. Alan B. Cohen, professor of...

Woodrow Wilson Center Names Fellows for 2000-01.
December 1, 2000... Ten APSA members were among the 21 scholars awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for the 2000-01 academic year. Their names and projects are: Javier Corrales, assistant professor of political...

William Browne.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... William Browne, professor, department of political science, Central Michigan University, was given the Robert Lane Award for outstanding service as a PSO president.

Rodolfo de Ia Garza.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Rodolfo de Ia Garza, Mike Hogg Professor of Community Affairs, department of government, University of Texas, Austin, shared the Theodore Lowi Award for the best article in the Policy Studies Journal.

Peter deLeon.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Peter deLeon, University of Colorado, Denver, received the Harold D. Lasswell Award for outstanding scholarship contributing to the understanding of the substance or process of public policy.

A. Lee Fritschler.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... A. Lee Fritschler, assistant secretary for post-secondary education, U.S. Department of Education, and president emeritus, Dickinson College, was named winner of the Hubert H. Humphrey Award, given each year to an outstanding public policy...

Christopher Z. Mooney.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Christopher Z. Mooney, director, Illinois Legislative Studies Center, University of Illinois, Springfield, received the Don Hadwiger Award for editing the best symposium in Policy Studies Journal in 1999. The symposium was titled "The Politics...

Marion Orr.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Marion Orr, associate professor, Brown University, received the Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best policy studies book published in 1999: Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore.

Mark Setzler.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Mark Setzler, Ph.D. candidate, department of government, University of Texas, Austin, shared the Theodore Lowi Award for the best article in the Policy Studies Journal.

Thomas Dye Award.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Also receiving PSO's Thomas Dye Award, given to individuals who have edited two or more PSO books or journal symposia, were: William Browne, Central Michigan University; David Cingranelli, SUNY-Binghamton; William Crotty, Northeastern...

Kettering Foundation Names Fellowship Winner.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Kettering Foundation awarded a one-year ABD fellowship to Maurice Meilleur. Meilleur is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from the department of political science at Indiana University where he has served as an associate instructor. His...

Stephen Bach.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Stephen Bach, doctoral candidate, department of politics and society, University of California, Irvine, received the university's Outstanding TA Award for Social Sciences.

Herman L. Boschken.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Herman L. Boschken, professor of organization and management, San Jose State University, has been named a Fullbright Distinguished European Chair. He will spend the 2000-01 academic year at the University of New Brunswick.

Dovile Budryte.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Dovile Budryte, assistant professor of international studies, Brenau University (GA), was named a History and the Politics of Reconciliation Fellow by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. She will study interethnic...

David E. England.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... David E. England, department of political science, Arkansas State University, received the university's annual Faculty Teaching award in April 2000

Joel N. Glassman.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Joel N. Glassman, associate professor, department of political science, and director, Center for International Studies, University of Missouri, St. Louis, received the 1999 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Service.

Celine Jacquemin.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Celine Jacquemin, doctoral candidate, department of politics and society, University of California, Irvine, received the TA Fellowship Award for UCI.

Seymour Martin Lipset.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Seymour Martin Lipset, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association at the ASA's 2000 annual meeting.

Ian Lustick.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Ian Lustick, professor of political science, was awarded the Merriam Term Chair by the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.

Anthony W. Marx.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Anthony W. Marx, associate professor of political science, Columbia University, has been awarded the 2000 Barrington Moore Prize of the American Sociological Association for his book, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States,...

Matthew C. Moen.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Matthew C. Moen, professor, department of political science, University of Maine, was named the University of Maine Trustee Professor for 2000-01. The professorship honors and supports contributions to academic excellence. Moen will spend the...

Richard Pacelle Jr.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Richard Pacelle Jr., associate professor of political science, University of Missouri, St. Louis, has received the 2000 Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Frances Fox Piven.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center-CUNY, received the Distinguished Career Award for the practice of Sociology from the American Sociological Association at the ASA's 2000 annual meeting.

Rosemary O'Leary.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Rosemary O'Leary, Syracuse University, Bob Durant, University of Baltimore, Dan Fiorino, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Paul Weiland, Harvard University, won two awards for their jointly authored book, Managing for the Environment...

Wayne Sandholtz.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Wayne Sandholtz, department of politics and society, University of California, Irvine, received the Teaching Excellence Award from the UCI School of Social Sciences.

Phillippa Strum.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Phillippa Strum received an honorable mention for the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for her book, When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for the Speech We Hate. The award is given in recognition of outstanding efforts to foster...

Charles Tilly.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Sciences, Columbia University, received the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association for Durable Inequality.

Renee Van Vechten.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Renee Van Vechten, doctoral candidate, department of politics and society, University of California, Irvine, received the Teaching Excellence for Social Sciences award from UCI.

Howard J. Wiarda.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Howard J. Wiarda, Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has received a Fulbright award to study in Austria and Hungary.

Planning Our Future: The Report of the American Political Science Association's Strategic Planning Commitee.
December 1, 2000... The American Political Science Association will celebrate the centennial of its founding in 2003. As we approach the centennial and look forward to the Association's second hundred years, it is useful to take a long-term look at the leading...

Political Science at the NSF: The Report of a Committee of the American Political Science Association.(National Science Foundation)
December 1, 2000... In late 1998, the Council of the Association established this ad hoc committee to explore political science's standing with the National Science Foundation. As is the case usually with legislative histories, the history of that mandate is not...

An Update on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in Political Science: What the Profession Should Be Doing.
December 1, 2000... Latinos and Latinas continue to be woefully underrepresented in all aspects of the political science profession, and the urgent message of this report is that this should be cause for deep concern and concerted action on the part of the APSA's...

APSA 2000.(American Political Science Association)
December 1, 2000... Washington Meeting Draws Record Crowd The 2000 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, surpassed all registered attendance records with a total of 6,167 political scientists (31 more than came to Boston in 1998). Adding in exhibitors and members...

American Political Science Review Editor's Report for 1999-2000.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... The number of submissions to the APSR during 1999-2000 was lower than in any of the previous four years. We received 461 manuscripts; 346 of them original and the balance revisions, a decrease of 47 original manuscripts from the number received...

Treasurer's Report.(American Political Science Association)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Along with the Administrative Committee, the APSA Treasurer has general responsibility for oversight of the assets of the Association, for budgeting APSA operations, and, with the Trust and Development Board, of the Association's investments....

Congressional Fellowship Alumni Gather to Honor Lee Hamilton.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Jeffrey R. Biggs, APSA Congressional Fellowship Program Following his packed-room Pi Sigma Alpha Quest Lecture, "What I Wish Political Scientists Would Teach about Congress," former member of the House of Representatives (1964-98) and...

eJobs: Developing a Year-Round Electronic Job Placement Service.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... When hearing the name "Annual Meeting Placement Service," many former participants envision a vast hall filled with job candidates and employers anxiously flipping through binders looking for the perfect match. Those who attended the 2000 APSA...

Minority Identification Project Goes Online.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... APSA is pleased to announce that the Minority Identification Project (MID) is now online. A collaboration of undergraduate and graduate political, science programs, the MID was created with the goal of attracting undergraduate students to...

Introducing MyAPSA for Departments.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... As part of its expanding online services, APSA introduced MyAPSA for Departments this fall. Designed to provide departments a central location to manage participation in APSA programs and keep abreast of developments of interest to departments...

A Look Back: 2000 IPSA World Congress.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Members of the International Political Science Association gathered in Quebec City, Canada, from July 31 to August 5 for the organization's Twentieth World Congress. The theme of the conference, led by William Lafferty of the University of Oslo...

Building Resources Abroad.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The American Political Science Association is committed to the internationalization of the study of political science. To that end, APSA annually donates subscriptions of the American Political Science Review and PS: Political Science and...

A Gift of Knowledge.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Helene Silverberg, a political scientist who is currently an attorney at Morrison and Foerester in San Francisco practicing antitrust and intellectual property litigation, recently donated her entire collection of political science books to the...

APSA Participates in Decade of Behavior.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Decade of Behavior, an initiative involving more than 50 societies representing the behavioral and social sciences to focus the talents, energy, and creativity of behavioral and social scientists on meeting many of society's most...

Law and Courts.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Law and Politics Book Review published 192 book reviews and 32 book notices between August 1999 and August 2000. The electronic journal (www.polsci.wvu.edu/lpbr/) is currently edited by Richard A. Brisbin of West Virginia University. Those...

Information, Technology, and Politics.
December 1, 2000... The section formerly known as Computers and Multimedia has changed its name to Information, Technology, and Politics.

Ecological and Transformational Politics.(Organized Section of the American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The section has revised its mission statement to read, "The Organized Section on Ecological and Transformational Politics supports scholarship, teaching, and political action in the areas of participatory democracy, ecological well being,...

New Political Science.(American Political Science Association award)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The section has establish a new annual, lifetime achievement award to recognize a career of distinguished service. The award has not yet been named. Carl Boggs of National University will chair the selection committee (cboggs@nu.edu).

Foreign Policy.(Organized Section of the American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Members of the Organized Section on Domestic Sources of Foreign voted to change the organization's name to simply Foreign Policy.

International History and Politics.(Organized Section of the American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... During the section's 2000 business meeting, the members of the Organized Section on Interdisciplinary Approaches to International History and Politics Section agreed to change the section's name to International History and Politics. They also...

Comparative Democratization.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... APSA members interested in democracy and transitions from authoritarian regimes in African, Latin American, Eurasian, and Asian countries are invited to join the new Organized Section on Comparative Democratization. Serving temporarily as...

Human Rights.(Organized Section of the American Political Science Association)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In November 2000, the APSA Council approved the formation of a new Organized Section on Human Rights. For information on the section's concerns and how to become a charter member, please contact Zehra Arat, Purchase College- SUNY, at...