PS: Political Science & Politics articles from June 1994

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from June 1994

Economists and health reform. (role of polical economy in health care reform program)
June 1, 1994... The design of a health care reform program requires contributions from many disciplines. While we know that all disciplines are equal, we are also aware that some are more equal than others. I believe the record would show that, at this time and...

The politics of universal health insurance: lessons from past administrations?
June 1, 1994... There is a remarkable consensus that American medical care--particularly its financing and insurance coverage--needs a major overhaul. The critical unanimity on this point--what Paul Starr has rightly termed a "negative consensus"--bridges almost...

National health reform: an idea whose political time has come?
June 1, 1994... Health care, like many other arenas of social policy, offers plentiful evidence both to those who picture the policy process as highly dynamic and innovative and to those who prefer to portray it as beset by deadlock and stalemate. Over the last...

Health care and the Hill: why is this year different from all others? (prospects regarding Congressional action on Pres. Bill Clinton's health care reform proposal)
June 1, 1994... Before us is the question of whether or not the 103rd Congress will manage to do what no other U.S. Congress has ever accomplished: the enactment of a comprehensive reform of the way in which health care services are financed in the United...

Questioning the conventional wisdom on public opinion toward health reform.
June 1, 1994... Ample evidence confirms that public opinion influences the policymaking process. Research suggests that public preferences are not simply translated into government policy; rather, policymakers' response to public opinion is conditioned or...

Budget blues. (health care reform and Congressional cost control policies)
June 1, 1994... Budget politics has always been an obstacle to adopting national health insurance. The questions of budget politics--the risk or size of deficits and the size of government--have a conservative effect. In any country, very few people would...

Federalism and health care. (states and health care reform)
June 1, 1994... Among the many issues in the national health care debate is the role of the states. Some have asked whether the states can tackle health care on their own and have answered with a resounding "no." Deborah Stone (1992), for example, argues that...

Neglected institutions: politics, administration, and health reform. (political institutions and health care reform)
June 1, 1994... Americans have been debating national health insurance throughout the twentieth century. The content of this elusive reform has evolved far more than the tone of the debate. When Theodore Roosevelt championed health care reform (during the 1912...

The usefulness of Senate confirmation hearings for judicial nominees: the case of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
June 1, 1994... In the September 1993 pages of this journal, I asked whether senators can illuminate the political and legal beliefs of Supreme Court nominees by questioning them at confirmation hearings (Comiskey 1993). Many observers of the confirmation...

Why Justice Ginsburg is wrong about states expanding abortion rights. (Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
June 1, 1994... The growing strength of the pro-life movement in the 1980s and the escalating violence of parts of the movement in the 1990s have led many commentators to question the value of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade. Had the Supreme Court...

Information at your fingertips: online services for the new user. (online database services)
June 1, 1994... It is now possible while located in an office or home to search large journal collections, a Central Intelligence Agency world map database and world fact book, federal grant programs, law library catalogs, United States Supreme Court decisions,...

Comparative political philosophy and liberal education: "looking for friends in history."
June 1, 1994... Over the past eight years, we have jointly taught a series of courses comparing Chinese and European political philosophy. These courses have convinced us that teaching comparative political philosophy is a way of doing two eminently...

Space bridges: the U.S.-Soviet Space Bridge Resource Center.
June 1, 1994... The airing in the Soviet Union of the Donahue space bridges transformed the Soviet public's image of itself." Interview with Vladimir Pozner, Moscow, 1989 After Remembering War, when I toured the Soviet Union as a musician, even in the...

Oyez, oyez, oyez: the trials of teaching the Supreme Court. (Supreme Court simulations in the classroom)
June 1, 1994... The law is more than a list of case names and facts, and courts are not neutral mechanisms dispensing "justice" like so many cans of cola. Political scientists who teach public law may feel frustrated that an anachronistic jurisprudence of...

Twisting arms and holding hands: M.A. students and conference participation. (political science graduate students)
June 1, 1994... As they start their graduate education, students tend to perceive themselves more as absorbers than as producers of knowledge. While there is much they will need to absorb in substance, theory, and methodology, this is also an appropriate time to...

Giving flesh to ideas: constructing a cultural dialogue. (term papers based on dialogues between famous political thinkers)
June 1, 1994... There is perhaps nothing more unsatisfying--for student or teacher--than the perfunctory term paper performed with formulaic diligence. The term paper is assigned to encourage a competent, if not critical discussion, of a particular topic through...

APSA guidelines for teacher training: recommendations for certifying precollegiate teachers of civics, government and social studies. (American Political Science Association)
June 1, 1994... Objectives When the American Political Science Association held its second annual meeting in 1905, a major presentation was "What Do Entering College Freshmen Know About American Government Before Taking College Courses in Political Science?"...

Two ways to political science: critical and descriptive.
June 1, 1994... In 1893, 100 years ago, Frederick Jackson Turner delivered his famed paper, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," to an academic gathering. The historical occasion for Turner's address was the official closing of the frontier on...

Including Native American perspectives in the political science curriculum.
June 1, 1994... Both native and nonnative Americans recognized 1992 as a quincentennial year. But while many Americans of European ancestry celebrated their "discovery" of this hemisphere in which they are now the dominant culture, Native Americans celebrated...

Hugh A. Bone. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... For the last half century, Hugh A. Bone guided students through the halls of learning not only at the University of Washington but also in the state capitol. After retiring from teaching in 1979 at the age of 70, he was invited back to direct...

David W. Barkley. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... David W. Barkley, professor emeritus of political science at Northeastern University, died suddenly on August 9, 1993, in Westwood, Massachusetts. He had just moved to Westwood in 1993 after living for many years in Cambridge. He was 83....

Kenneth Farmer. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... Kenneth Farmer, associate professor and chair of the department of political science at Marquette University died in Milwaukee on January 13, 1994, at the age of 50. He died of a heart attack brought on by the aggravation of diabetes, a disease...

Martin L. Faust. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... Martin Faust, Emeritus Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia died on August 13, 1993, at the age of 95. Martin was a native of Pennsylvania. After service in the Army infantry in World War I, he took his A.B. (1919) and A.M. (1920)...

Albert Lepawsky. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... Albert Lepawsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 16, 1908, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He died in Berkeley, California, after a long and debilitating illness in June 1992 at age 84. His father was a carpenter and building...

Norton E. Long. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... Norton E. Long died suddenly and quietly on December 30, 1993, at the age of eighty-three, while spending the holidays with his family. He is survived by four children (Margaret Jurich; Judith Stalling; Eliot Long; and Mary Reeves), thirteen...

Grant McConnell. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... One of the preeminent political scientists of mid-century, Grant McConnell, died at his home in Bonny Doon, California, on September 27, 1993, at age 78. Best known as a powerful and influential critic of the dominant role of private interest...

Bob Cowley Riley. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... Bob Cowley Riley, professor emeritus of political science at Ouachita Baptist University, died February 16, 1994. He is survived by his wife, Claudia, and their daughter, Megen. Bob combined his commitment to the academic study of politics with...

Charles M. Tidmarch. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... Charles M. Tidmarch, professor of political science at Union College, died at his home on October 29, 1993, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was fifty. Charley was the very model of what a faculty member can be at a small...

Frederick L. Zimmermann. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
June 1, 1994... We regret the passing of Frederick L. Zimmermann, a long-time member of the American Political Science Association and of the political science faculty at Hunter College in New York City. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Professor Zimmermann received...

Newspapers as texts for students' political education: the case of Argentina. (Newspaper in the School program of Buenos Aires University's political science department)
June 1, 1994... During eight years (1976-83) the people in Argentina lived under a military dictatorship. Nobody in this country could ask any questions, nor give any answers. To talk and to listen were verbs of dangerous conjugation. Few young people studied at...