PS: Political Science & Politics articles from June 1999

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from June 1999

Action alert: in defense of academic research.
June 1, 1999... APSA and other scholarly societies are waging an uphill battle against recent legislation mandating changes in Office of Management and Budget Circular A110 (Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of...

APSA responds to OMB's draft regulations.(American Political Science Association; Office of Management and Budget)
June 1, 1999... March 29, 1999 Mr. F. James Charney Room 625 New Executive Office Building Washington, DC 20503 Dear Mr. Charney: On behalf of the Council of the American Political Science Association(APSA), I am writing to you concerning...

Tocqueville's journey on C-SPAN.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)(French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville)
June 1, 1999... Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont traveled in North America from May 9, 1831 to February 20, 1832. They stopped in 17 of the then 24 United States. Their travels resulted in two books - Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1994)(1)...

Teaching through Tocqueville.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)(French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville)
June 1, 1999... Students often find it hard to connect with the writings of "ancient dead white men." The Founders, with their powdered wigs, ubiquitous images on coins to stamps, and their legendary names, are distant from the reality of everyday student...

Tocqueville and the cultural basis of American democracy.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)(French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville)
June 1, 1999... Thoughtful people are rediscovering Alexis de Tocqueville, Marx's slightly older contemporary, whose intellectual system can be seen to have much more accurately described, analyzed, and explained the late-modern and early-post-modern world. If...

Federal democracy and liberty.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)
June 1, 1999... Federalism figures prominently in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1969) because federalism is a fundamental constitutive principle of the American polity and because federalism aims to achieve conditions that Tocqueville regarded...

Race and democracy.(Symposium: Tocqueville and Democracy in America)
June 1, 1999... Prologue As every school child knows, America, if nothing else, is a nation of immigrants drawn from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. What many adult Americans also consciously perceive, but seldom admit, is our collective discomfort...

The Rise and Growth of American Politics: a sketch of constitutional developments by Henry Jones Ford.(Time Capsule: Reflections on the History of Political Science and APSA)(political scientist and former president of the American Political Science Association)
June 1, 1999... "It is the rule of our politics that no vexed question is settled except by executive policy," noted Henry Jones Ford (1851-1925) in his 1898 work describing the state of national politics. "Whatever may be the feeling of Congress towards the...

Henry Jones Ford and the American presidency.(Time Capsule: Reflections on the History of Political Science and APSA)(political scientist and former president of the American Political Science Association)
June 1, 1999... The Rise and Growth of American Politics (1898) provides a sweeping analysis of the American political system. In this short article, I will focus on Ford's understanding of the American presidency, showing how his thoughts presaged important...

Political science then and now: thoughts on Henry Jones Ford.(Time Capsule: Reflections on the History of Political Science and APSA)(political scientist and former president of the American Political Science Association)
June 1, 1999... I remember an afternoon graduate seminar in 1958 at Yale when Bob Dahl asked a question: "How would we best go about 'testing' the insights of Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America?" Two answers were offered. "Survey research can do it...

Henry Jones Ford on the development of American institutions.(Time Capsule: Reflections on the History of Political Science and APSA)(political scientist and former president of the American Political Science Association)
June 1, 1999... American political scientists in the 1890s were deeply divided on the central question they had chosen to address: Where to place government in the United States in the larger scheme of Western political development. The "idealists," led by...

Henry Jones Ford: the political science of forecasting.(Time Capsule: Reflections on the History of Political Science and APSA)(political scientist and former president of the American Political Science Association)
June 1, 1999... Henry Jones Ford published The Rise and Growth of American Politics in 1898, and in it he looked back into the eighteenth century to find meaning in the developments of the nineteenth and provide material for his forecasts of the twentieth. So,...

Drivers wanted: motor voter and the election of 1996.
June 1, 1999... The cartoon below, which I first saw printed on the cover of PS in March 1994, has unfortunately proved prophetic. Voter turnout has steadily declined from its 1960 peak of 63%, and the presidential election of 1996 was the first in the...

Civic education: lessons learned.
June 1, 1999... It has become common among political scientists to bemoan a loss of civic responsibility, particularly among young people, and to urge increased attention to the civic education of students at every level. If the goal is solely one of improved...

Enlivening political science courses with Kolb's learning preference model.
June 1, 1999... Most political science professors hope their courses will produce graduates with well-developed critical-thinking and problem-solving abilities, but many report frustration at not being able to meet this goal with all, or even most, of their...

Ranking the presses: political scientists' evaluations of publisher quality.
June 1, 1999... Numerous studies in political science have rated and evaluated various elements of importance to the discipline, including graduate programs, journal quality, and even the contribution of individuals within the discipline itself.1 We could not...

What the survey of American college freshmen tells us about their interest in politics and political science.(includes related articles)
June 1, 1999... Since 1966, the annual Freshmen Survey has recorded the attributes, activities, expected educational outcomes, and life objectives of the students entering some 1600 institutions. Since 1973, the survey has been coordinated and analyzed by...

Ronald Christenson.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... Ronald Christenson, founder of the political science department at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, died in September 1998, after a two-year illness. He was that rarest of persons, a true teacher-scholar-activist. ...

Werner J. Feld.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... Dr. Werner J. Feld, founding chair of the department of political science and Distinguished Professor at the University of New Orleans, passed away in September 1998, at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At the time, Werner was working on...

John P. Lovell.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... John P. Lovell, professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University and founding director of the Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, died on September 15, 1998, at his Bloomington residence, of Parkinson's disease. He was...

Warren E. Miller.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... As noted in the previous issue of PS, Warren E. Miller died on January 30, 1999, in Scottsdale, Arizona, from complications associated with his long battle against diabetes. Beginning with The American Voter (1960, coauthored with Angus...

Good-bye to two dear friends: Warren Miller and Dwaine Marvick: a personal memoir.(political scientists)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... They left us within the short span of four weeks - Warren in late January, Dwaine in late February. I met both of them almost half a century ago, in the early 1950s, and also within the span of four weeks. The person who brought us together was...

Henry Paolucci.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... Henry Paolucci, professor emeritus of government and politics at St. John's University and vice chairman of the Conservative Party of New York State, died Friday, January 1, 1999, at New York Hospital Queens Medical Center from complications...

Henry J. Raimondo.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... Professor Henry Raimondo, associate director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and professor of public policy at Rutgers University, died suddenly on February 11, 1999. News of his death came as a great shock to his colleagues and students,...

Alston J. "Jerry" Shakeshaft.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... Friends and colleagues of Jerry Shakeshaft at Iowa State University, in Ames, and throughout Iowa and far beyond were shocked to learn of Jerry's sudden death on December 23, 1998. Jerry had been seriously ill for several years but, with almost...

Henry A. Turner.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... On August 1, 1998, Henry A. Turner, professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, died after a lengthy illness. He was 79 years of age. Born in 1919, Henry received his undergraduate education at...

Marcia Lynn Whicker.(political scientist)(Obituary)
June 1, 1999... Marcia Lynn Whicker, chair of the graduate department of public administration at Rutgers University, Newark died on March 23, 1999, after a long battle with cancer. She was only 51. She came to Rutgers-Newark in 1992, after having taught at...