PS: Political Science & Politics articles from June 2000

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from June 2000

CORRECTIONS.(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2000... In his March 2000 PS essay, "Contributions of Survey Research to Political Science," Henry Brady mistakenly described the annual cast of the Current Population Survey as "easily in the hundreds of millions of dollars." The actual cast is $40...

Mobilization and Democracy.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... April brought many things with it to the nation's capital, colorful drifts of spring bulbs--Lady Bird Johnson's legacy--record setting days of rain, and an assortment of young protesters intent upon disrupting the meetings of the International...

Political Science for Design of a Sensible Census.
June 1, 2000... I write to applaud the special issue on "The Public Value of Political Science Research" and to offer evidence that were this issue of PS heeded it would seriously improve American government. I speak from the little corner of government I...

Nonviolent Power in the Twentieth Century.
June 1, 2000... One Friday night in December 1981, Lech Walesa and other leaders of Solidarity were arrested after meeting in Gdansk. For sixteen months, their free trade union movement had shaken the foundation of communist power in Poland by occupying...

Nonviolence as Contentious Interaction [*].
June 1, 2000... Scholarly discussions of nonviolent direct action have often been framed in normative or even explicitly moral terms. But moral commitments also have a strategic dimension. As Ted Gurr writes in his contribution to this symposium,...

Nonviolence in Ethnopolitics: Strategies for the Attainment of Group Rights and Autonomy.
June 1, 2000... During the early 1990s, the integrity of the Russian Federation was threatened when many of its constituent republics declared that they were sovereign states independent of Moscow's control. The most populous republic to do so was Tartarstan,...

Blurred Lines: Nonviolence in South Africa.
June 1, 2000... In 1992, while South Africa's political leaders were stalemated in protracted negotiations to end the system of white supremacy known as apartheid, a group of anti-apartheid activists decided to challenge the government's control through...

Upon This Rock: The Black Church, Nonviolence, and the Civil Rights Movement.
June 1, 2000... Churches have traditionally been viewed as places of stability and strength in the African-American community. From slavery through the long racially segregated history of the United States, when African Americans were prevented from building...

Women's Movements and Nonviolence [*].
June 1, 2000... The ties between women's rights movements and nonviolence have been deep and enduring, In the United States, they stretch from tactics employed by suffragists and proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) through core beliefs espoused by...

Nonviolent Action and Human Rights.
June 1, 2000... Nonviolent action campaigns have been a part of political life for millennia. History records many instances of groups rising to challenge abuses by authorities, demand social reforms, and protest militarism and discrimination. In recent years,...

Political Science and Political Philosophy: An Uneasy Relation.
June 1, 2000... From its very beginnings political science has been a complex discipline torn in conflicting directions. Consider Aristotle's Politics, the first book that looks like a contemporary political science monograph. In the book, Aristotle presented...

Political Science and Political Philosophy: Ontological Not Normative.
June 1, 2000... What is the utility of classical political theory and modern writing about it for current-day positive (that is, explanatory) political science? By "classical," I mean works from Plato through at least Weber. In modern American political...

Political Science and Political Philosophy: Return to the Classics--No, Not Those!
June 1, 2000... Political philosophy as we know it blossomed with the arrival of European immigrants like Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Eric Vogelin after World War IL. These refugee scholars challenged their American colleagues in at least three important...

The Coming Democratic Realignment.
June 1, 2000... For many years, Democrats have waited patiently to preside over good times. No Koreas, Vietnams, or Irans. No stagflation. Just nice, tranquil prosperity--the sort of happy circumstances that make not only for short-run electoral success, but...

Minority Politics Courses: Moving Beyond Controversy and Toward Active Learning [*].
June 1, 2000... In this article I discuss how courses dealing with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation differ from traditional political science courses. I also describe my efforts to help students develop the analytical skills they need...

Teaching Introductory American Politics as Part of a Learning Community.
June 1, 2000... During the fall of 1998, I took part in an experimental learning community involving my introduction to American politics class, "The American Political System" (POLS001). Robert Hariman, professor of rhetoric and mass communication, and Ronald...

Drawing Out Theory: Art and The Teaching of Political Theory.
June 1, 2000... "Even the worst picture," Goethe pronounced, "can speak to our emotions and imagination by setting them in motion, releasing them and letting them run free" (1986, 85). As every teacher of introductory courses in political theory knows, the...

Should Public Discussion of Political Science Research Be Controlled? Why Interest Group Recommendations on the Proper Procedures for Reporting Research Should Be Treated with Skepticism.
June 1, 2000... In 1989, distinguished sociologist James Coleman, upon the receipt of an award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology of Education, asked the following question: "How can the discipline... so structure itself that it...

Social Science Should Be a Process, Not a Bloody Shirt.
June 1, 2000... Jay Greene and Paul Peterson's response to my December 1999 PS article spills indignation over a case I did not make while avoiding my basic argument: Advocacy under the banner of science is irresponsible when researchers have not conformed to...

If the Peer Review Attack Fails, Attack Something Else.
June 1, 2000... In Edward Muir's original article, "They Blinded me with Political Science: On the Use of Nonpeer Reviewed Research in Education Policy," he wrote: "To present to the general public research that has not endured the scrutiny of peer review... ..

Political Science and Post-Tenure Review.
June 1, 2000... Accountability, assessment, and productivity funding are realities confronting growing numbers of tenured faculty throughout the country. Tenured faculty are no longer immune from the calls for "reengineering" so common in the business world....

The Changing Structure of the Academic Job Market [*].(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... Numerous recent articles (e.g., Hartle and Galloway 1996; Lapidus 1997; Pfannestial 1998; Wilson 1996) examine the "crisis" state of the current academic job market. Conventional labor market indicators, however, often suggest more favorable...

PEOPLE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE.
June 1, 2000... Activities Craig Calhoun, professor of sociology and history, department of sociology, New York University, has been named president of the Social Science Research Council. Donald Green, professor of political science, Yale University,...

IN MEMORIAM.(Obituary)
June 1, 2000... Edwin H. Fedder, a retired administrator and professor at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, died on December 1, 1999, after a long illness. Ed was director of the Center for International Studies and professor of political science at...

Nominating Committee Offers Slate for 2000-01 Officers and Council Members.
June 1, 2000... The Association's 2000 Nominating Committee convened at the national office on February 26 and agreed upon the following slate of officers and Council members. Members of the Association will have an opportunity to meet the nominees at a...

Washington Meeting Examines the State of the Discipline and More.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... APSA's Annual Meeting returns to Washington, DC, this summer after a three-year hiatus. The Program Committee, led by Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner of Columbia University, has put together a challenging program of over 700 panels,...

Lee Hamilton to Deliver Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Lee H. Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will deliver the Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture on Thursday, August 31, at 5:30 p.m. at APSA's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Hamilton is the first nonacademic to...

Important Information for Annual Meeting Paper Authors.
June 1, 2000... APSA will begin accepting submissions for PROceedings (http:// pro.harvard.edu), the Association's online collection of Annual Meeting papers, on July 1. Authors can submit papers through September 3, when the meeting ends. An invitation...

Travel Grants for 2000 Annual Meeting Doubled.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... APSA has doubled the number of travel grants for advanced graduate students attending the Annual Meeting. Funded through the generosity of APSA members, the maximum award for any grant is $300 and must be used for travel to this year's meeting...

APSA-AAPC Roundtable Set for Annual Meeting.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... APSA and the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) recently established a cooperative relationship and have agreed to cosponsor a roundtable on political advertising at the 2000 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Darrell...

2000 Meeting to Feature E-Jobs, A Virtual Placement Service.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Building on the success of the online job placement service at the 1999 meeting in Atlanta, APSA will again open the B-Jobs service in mid-June for the 2000 Annual Meeting. Employers and job candidates wishing to take part in the Placement...

APSA to Launch Resume Database.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... APSA members in search of employment will have a new tool to assist them this fall, the APSA Resume Database. Job seekers will be able to submit their resumes to an online database for review by potential employers. The system builds upon the...

APSA to Offer Improved PSNonline.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Subscribers to the Personnel Service Newsletter and PSNonline will find a newly enhanced system in place when they log on in mid-June. To better assist subscribers in locating the jobs that interest them, APSA has developed a more user-friendly...

Area Studies Liaison Group at Work.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... APSA Area Studies Liaison Group In early 1999, APSA asked the several area studies associations to appoint representatives to a newly created Area Studies Liaison Group (ASLG). The ASLG's central purpose is to improve communication among...

Buche Institute Earns New Funding, Expands, and Moves to Duke in 2001.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The National Science Foundation has awarded Paula McClain a three-year $330,000 grant to support continued operation and expansion of the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI), a five-week academic program designed to introduce exceptional...

Russian Educators Visit APSA.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... On March 28, 2000, APSA welcomed a group of Russian educators to the national office for a discussion of civic education. Sue Davis, APSA's director of international programs, officially welcomed the group and briefly discussed the work of...

Bradburn to Head NSF Directorate.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Norman M. Bradburn, vice president and former director of the National Opinion Research Center and Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, has been chosen to succeed Bennett Bertenthal as...

Census Undercount Casts Localities.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... In a report commissioned by the Census Monitoring Board, analysts for PricewaterhouseCoopers gave evidence that an undercount of the U.S. population during the 2000 Census comparable to the undercount determined for the 1990 Census could cost...

Interdisciplinary Approaches to International History and Politics.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Interdisciplinary Approaches to International History and Politics is pleased to announce the launch of its web site (www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/ihap/), which features syllabi and meeting information. Also, information on joining IHAP was omitted...

Political Methodology.
June 1, 2000... Annual dues for membership in Political Methodology, which include subscription to Political Analysis, are $25. This amount was incorrectly listed on the membership form included in the March 2000 issue of PS.

Foundation of Political Theory.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Foundations home page can now be found at www.political-theory.org. The site features section-related material, including copies of current and previous newsletters, and links to theory-oriented sites. Visitors can also view and purchase...

Western Political Science Association.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Western Political Science Association held its annual meeting in San Jose, California, March 24-26, 2000. Ann Crigler of the University of Southern California served as program chair as more than 700 people from 46 states and several...

Southwestern Political Science Association.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Southwestern Political Science Association held its 2000 annual meeting in Galveston, Texas, March 15-18, 2000. Attendees from 37 states and six nations took part in nearly 80 panels, delivering over 250 scholarly papers. Meeting...

Approval Voting: A Significant Contribution Overlooked.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... None of the participants in the March 2000 PS symposium titled "The Public Value of Political Research" mentioned approval voting (AV) as a contribution by the political science community to better governance. In my undoubtedly biased opinion,...

Searching for Dollars or Sense?
June 1, 2000... Allow me to compliment you on your editorial creativity for beginning the special issue on "The Public Value of Political Science Research" (PS March 2000) with a brilliant Marxist satire on the commodification of our discipline: "Evaluating...

U.S. Global Hegemony a Reality Unlikely to Fade.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Kenneth Waltz' provided a powerful and admirably concise argument against the widespread overemphasis on interdependence and globalization as signaling the demise of the state and the lessened salience of international politics in his James...

OMB Drafts Guidance on Reporting, Using Race Data.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Individuals filling out government forms may now indicate more than one race and/or ethnicity. This change in policy, implemented in 1997, makes it possible for individuals to be categorized as members of 63 distinct single or multiple...

House Historian's Office to Be Reinstated?(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... A proposal to reestablish the position of Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives is being developed by the clerk of the House, Jeff Trandahl, despite opposition from the chair of committee that would have to approve any such plan. The...

Sheila Burke.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Sheila Burke, the current executive dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has accepted an appointment to became the Smithsonian institution's under secretary for museums, programs, and national outreach. Among the museums...

U.S. Supreme Court.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... On March 6, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from a group of plaintiffs led by Public Citizen that it review a 1999 federal appeals court ruling that allowed the National Archives and Records Administration to continue the policy...

Security and Emergency Operations.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The staff of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Security and Emergency Operations is set to begin rereviewing more than 450 million pages of formerly classified federal documents to ensure that no nuclear weapon design information is...