PS: Political Science & Politics articles from June 1993

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from June 1993

Weather forecasters should be so accurate: a response to "Forewarned before Forecast." (election forecasts)
June 1, 1993... It has often been said that forecasting elections is a dangerous business. Unlike most of what we do as political scientists, forecasting is the one area where you can be proven wrong and quite publicly at that.(1) As Jay Greene's "Forewarned...

Constitutional federalism: labor's role in displacing places to benefit persons. (Federalism: Aftermath of the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s)
June 1, 1993... During the 1980s, federalism was significantly altered by a defining contest between persons and places over the nature of the federal union. At issue was the extent to which "the authority of the Union" can be extended "to the persons of the...

Congressional regulation of subnational governments. (Federalism: Aftermath of the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s)
June 1, 1993... The gradual concentration of additional political powers in the national government had been a characteristic of the evolution of the federal system in the United States until 1965 when the pace of centralization accelerated as Congress...

Challenges facing fiscal federalism in the 1990s. (Federalism: Aftermath of the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s)
June 1, 1993... A major trend in the American system of governance is the decentralization of fiscal federalism since the late 1970s. States took on additional responsibilities, both from the national government and from their local governments. Local...

American federalism, state governments, and public policy: weaving together loose theoretical threads. (Federalism: Aftermath of the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s)
June 1, 1993... Decisions about the provision and delivery of public goods and services take place within the framework established by America's most distinctive political invention--federalism. Author after author reminds students and scholars alike that policy...

International and comparative federalism. (Federalism: Aftermath of the 1980s and Prospects for the 1990s)
June 1, 1993... Federalism has become a major issue in world affairs and consequently in political science after many years of being ignored as a proper subject for political study except as intergovernmental relations in specifically federal systems, especially...

Lowi's critique of political science: a response. (US political scientist Theodore Lowi)
June 1, 1993... Sometimes an emotional irritant can be intellectually productive and provocative. For me, this was the case with Theodore Lowi's APSA presidential address, reprinted in the American Political Science Review (Lowi 1992). While disagreeing at many...

Three steps back for women: German unification, gender, and university "reform." (the role of women in German reunification)
June 1, 1993... The process of German unification has been a series of political surprises. Before the chain of events of summer and fall 1989 that led to the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989, few could have predicted the "change of direction" (die Wende) of...

Sex and the singular Constitution: what remains of Roe v. Wade? (court case upholding freedom of choice as a basic constitutional right)
June 1, 1993... We are not free to vote abortion up or down because Roe v. Wade in 1973 made "freedom of choice" a basic constitutional right. Last June in the Casey case only two members of the Supreme Court upheld Roe unequivocally. Three others sustained it,...

The long legacy of proposals to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.
June 1, 1993... The Symposium on "Divided Government and the Politics of Constitutional Reform" in the December 1991 issue of PS highlighted the way that critiques of current governmental policies and perceived ailments in the body politic are so often followed...

Congressional term limits, state legislative term limits and congressional turnover: a theory of change.
June 1, 1993... During the first Congress of the United States, two measures to amend Article I of the Constitution were considered which, if ratified, would have limited the number of successive terms held by senators and representatives. Those measures were...

Asking better questions: the problems of constitutional theory.
June 1, 1993... Recently, some members of the public law subfield have begun exploring American constitutionalism in ways that may sound strange, if not perverse, to the uninitiated. Panels and papers are devoted to such topics as What is the Constitution? and...

Techniques, technologies, and Tocqueville: alternatives for introductory American government.
June 1, 1993...... |T~he parallel between the occupations of graveyard attendant and custodian of learning was one which often suggested itself to others besides the students. --Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim In a typical year of this decade, some 14 million...

The advent of dynamic graphics statistical computing. (data analysis in political science)
June 1, 1993... Easy-to-use microcomputer statistics programs are becoming available, programs that take advantage of the dynamic interaction possibilities of personal computers. This article outlines these dynamic features and describes the performance of...

The objectionable utterance: a moment for teaching. (discursive teaching methods in political science)
June 1, 1993... As educators become less enthusiastic about the lecture format in the classroom, with its one-way communication pattern, discursive methods present themselves as likely alternatives. Political science courses that stress values and ideas are...

A season of service: introducing service learning into the Liberal Arts curriculum.
June 1, 1993... I challenge young Americans to a season of service. --Inaugural Address, President Clinton We live in times when rights and obligations have become uncoupled. Individuals regard themselves almost exclusively as private persons with...

Making critical thinking a classroom reality. (teaching of political science)
June 1, 1993... Critical thinking is core to my teaching. I encourage students to be independent thinkers, who examine assumptions and look at the implications of ideas, both their own and those of others (Brookfield 1987, 7-8). However, I see critical thinking...

Collaborative education in Taft seminars energizes political science education of teachers. (Taft Seminars for Teachers)
June 1, 1993... "I am amazed at the amount I have learned about our system and the depth to which I now can explore this topic. I'm now curious and excited to learn more. I'm also more confident about the system than I was before," wrote a North Carolina teacher...

Bringing law to bear on International Relations Theory courses.
June 1, 1993... As an area of serious study, international law has all but disappeared from the contemporary curricula of political science and international relations (IR) in the United States. Basic courses in international relations at the undergraduate level...

A challenge to graduate education: better preparation for a new generation of college teachers - an executive summary.
June 1, 1993... Editor's Note: Copyright 1992 by the Association of American Colleges; reprinted with permission. AAC has published a monograph reporting more fully on the results and implications of this project. The monograph, The Next Generation: Preparing...

Only connect: politics and literature 10 years later, 1982-92.
June 1, 1993... The evidence available suggests that the method of using literature for teaching political science does work: the interesting questions are now those concerned with how the "method"--the combination of politics and literature in political science...

Alleviating professional immobility in political science: faculty exchanges as a remedy.
June 1, 1993... In the winter of 1990 we conducted a survey of chairpersons of political science departments that confirmed what many of us suspect has been the case in the tight academic job market in recent years: with only a few exceptions political science...

Federal hiring of graduates of political science and public administration programs.
June 1, 1993... Is federal employment a significant option considered by college graduates with degrees in the fields of political science or public administration when they look for work? This study examines this issue and such subsidiary questions as: Where do...

Reflections on building an active state association. (state political science associations)
June 1, 1993... This essay results from the gathering of state political science representatives that was initiated by the APSA at its meeting in Chicago in September 1992. At the invitation of the national office, we have put together some thoughts on running a...

Running for president of Estonia: a political scientist in politics.
June 1, 1993... My family left Estonia in 1944 when I was 11, and I had been forbidden by Soviet authorities to return to my native land until 1987. Two years later, opinion polls showed me among the most popular public figures, on the strength of my writings,...

The premature senility of the new democracies: the Hungarian experience.
June 1, 1993... Since the 1989 "revolutions," the democratizations in the East Central European countries (Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary) have shown premature signs of aging. A short survey of contradictions could explain this "medical report." The...