PS: Political Science & Politics articles from June 1995

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from June 1995

Why political scientists want to study literature.
June 1, 1995... The emergence of an Organized Section devoted to the study of politics and literature is indicative of the evolution of the discipline during the last generation. In the 1960s, political science was in the midst of the behavioral revolution. In...

Poetry vs. philosophy.
June 1, 1995... Political scientists seek knowledge about political things. Literature stretches the limits of experience and provides descriptive information. Political scientists who study urban affairs need to know something about police officers and fire...

Literature and politics: understanding the regime.
June 1, 1995... Over the years I have found one concept from political theory especially useful in analyzing literature: the idea of the regime developed in classical political philosophy, especially by Plato and Aristotle. The study of literature offers...

Stories and political life.
June 1, 1995... In an essay on "The Nature and Aim of Fiction," Flannery O'Connor offers a powerful brief on behalf of "the concrete" as the distinguishing quality of any fiction worthy of the name. "The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses," she...

Poetry, politics, and the comic spirit.
June 1, 1995... Poetry, Aristotle teaches, differs from history in being more concerned with universals - with what a kind of human being will "probably or necessarily" say or do in given circumstances, as opposed to narrative's focus on the singularities of...

Is Clinton doomed? An early forecast for 1996.
June 1, 1995... Any astronomer can predict just where every star will be at 11:30 pm tonight; he can make no such prediction about his daughter (Granger 1989) Forecasting elections may be impossible, but no more so than resisting the temptation to try. As...

Pork barrel spending - on the wane?
June 1, 1995... Is pork barrel(1) spending on the wane? Many think it is, including reformers inside and outside of Congress. Citing the recent decline of earmarks in House appropriations bills for projects in members' districts, reformers suggest that a new era...

John C. Calhoun, Lani Guinier, and minority rights.
June 1, 1995... Early in the first year of his presidency, Bill Clinton floated the name of Lani Guinier to be the Justice Department's chief civil-rights lawyer. Although Guinier never made it to Senate confirmation hearings, she was well qualified by education...

Civil liberties and poetic license. (includes related article)
June 1, 1995... A number of articles in PS have described the value of involving students directly in political life as part of teaching. Concepts come to life; the purposes of compromise become clearer; and above all, the serious stakes behind the public circus...

Getting students to think (comparatively): teaching the introductory course in the 1990s. (comparative politics)
June 1, 1995... The essential problem facing teachers of introductory comparative politics is engaging students' intellects. This is so for three reasons. First, students experience most education passively rather than actively. This is particularly true of...

Teaching administrative ethics with help from Jefferson. (Thomas Jefferson)
June 1, 1995... An important question in public administration education asks whether moral education should concentrate primarily on intellectual skills or moral character. Another way of stating this is to ask whether the education of students should aim at...

Teaching the art of public deliberation - National Issues Forums in the classroom.
June 1, 1995... Democracy requires a deliberating citizenry, and college is the best place to teach the practice of public deliberation. From this perspective we will describe how you can teach this democratic practice in your political science classroom. In...

A comparison of Washington Semesters at public colleges and universities: who gets what, when and how.
June 1, 1995... There is a "revolution" in learning that is taking place in America. It is a silent revolution in academia, a movement begun in and out of Washington, D.C. that has spread over the past sixty years, nurtured by modern political scientists devoted...