PS: Political Science & Politics articles from March 1994

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from March 1994

Studying substantive democracy. (Public Opinion, Institutions, and Policy Making)
March 1, 1994... Within the last decade, the amount and quality of research on the relationship between public opinion and policy making has taken a dramatic step forward. This research contributes to the development of democratic theory and to the...

The end of the Cold War, attitude change, and the politics of defense spending. (Public Opinion, Institutions, and Policy Making )
March 1, 1994... Throughout the Cold War, United States national security policy, and the public attitudes that supported it, seemed anchored in the great ideology and power rivalry with the Soviet Union. A basic component of that policy, the ups and downs of...

From social security to health security? Opinion and rhetoric in U.S. social policy making. (Public Opinion, Institutions, and Policy Making)
March 1, 1994... How does public opinion in American democracy relate to policy making, particularly in Washington, D.C.? This question has a special pertinence right now, and not just for political scientists. As I write, it is a little over a month after...

Democratic responsiveness? Untangling the links between public opinion and policy. (Public Opinion, Institutions, and Policy Making)
March 1, 1994... Abundant evidence has been produced to demonstrate substantial empirical relationships between public opinion (in the sense of survey-measured collective policy preferences) and public policy in the United States and elsewhere. Policy...

Opinion and policy: a global view. (Public Opinion, Institutions, and Policy Making)
March 1, 1994... In a world where citizens desire to have their preferences reflected in public policy and, for instrumental reasons, policy makers share that desire, the linkage of opinion to policy still faces formidable problems. Chief among these is this:...

The political contingency of public opinion, or what shall we make of the declining faith of middle-class African Americans? (Public Opinion, Institutions, and Policy Making)
March 1, 1994... Scholars who study the connections between public opinion and the policy process, and politicians who engage in making those connections, face the same two problems. First, determining what opinion the public actually holds is much more of an...

Would Ross Perot have won the 1992 presidential election under approval voting? (US presidential candidate) (Features)
March 1, 1994... The answer to the question we pose in the title is by no means obvious. That it might be affirmative is suggested by the facts that Ross Perot: * ran ahead of the major-party presidential candidates in several presidential preference polls...

The comparative politics of Eastern Europe. (Features )
March 1, 1994... During 1989, as Eastern Europe's communist regimes abdicated power in the face of popular coups, Daniel Nelson was asked by a journalist if such changes meant a career change for scholars of communist systems. He answered affirmatively: if such...

The new challenges facing European studies. (Features )
March 1, 1994... These should be bracing times for students and scholars of European studies. The tumultuous events of the past five years--from the collapse of the Soviet empire and the unification of Germany, to the problematic consolidation of the European...

Impacts of ideology on press reports about events in the former Soviet UNion. (Features)
March 1, 1994... Author's Note: Readers should be aware that this article was written in June 1993, prior to Yeltsin's disolution of Parliament, the "October events," and the December 1993 parliamentary elections. References to the Russian Parliamentary refer to...

Teaching research methods: an experiential and heterodoxical approach. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1994... Given that most students who enroll in undergraduate research methods courses will not go on to conduct original research, such courses should primarily train students to be intelligent consumers of research. Unfortunately, in my experience, most...

Traditional versus technology-aided instruction: the effects of visual stimulus in the classroom. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1994... The extravagant claims of the vendors of multimedia applications have raised the expectations of teachers who are searching for ways to improve their classroom performance. These teachers frequently see multimedia resources as a natural way to...

Teaching public administration by exploiting managerial experience. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1994... Creating and transmitting knowledge to understand, analyze, and evaluate organizational problems is the major strength of university education in public administration. Undoubtedly, the cognitive aspects of management can be effectively...

"Now That Was A Good Class": learning about politics by observing local government. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1994... It was Friday, the day before Spring Weekend. I had just handed back their papers, which were nearly all well done. The assignment for the paper had been to attend a trial or a meeting of the city or county council. The students were to imagine...

Faculty and community in the liberal arts college (with observations on research and teaching). (The Profession)
March 1, 1994... Political scientists and other faculty members at liberal arts colleges belong and contribute to many communities--the civic community, the community of our schools, a variety of faith communities, and others. Two communities, however, are...

Introducing a feminist pioneer in judicial politics: Beverly Blair Cook. (The Profession)
March 1, 1994... Author's Note: At the 1992 APSA meetings, Gayle Binion and I organized a roundtable tribute to the contributions of Beverly Blair Cook to the field of law and courts. Other participants in the session included Laurence Baum, Sue Davis, Sheldon...

Ghosts and giants in judicial politics. (The Profession)
March 1, 1994... A scientist who receives a prize has a conventional modest disclaimer: I am standing on the shoulders of giants. My response to being honored by this panel is to point to two lines of predecessors, on whose scholarship I have tried to build. One...

How to select a publisher in political science. (The Profession)
March 1, 1994... The questions most frequently asked of editors are "How do I get my book published?" and "Who should I talk to about my manuscript or project?" To help prospective authors, we have compiled the following list of publishers and editors working in...

Netting the big one: things candidates (and departments) ought to know. (search for tenure track employment) (The Profession)
March 1, 1994... While sitting in the waiting area at the 1992 APSA Placement Service, one has plenty of time to check out the competition. When we over heard one potential competitor--sporting a Harvard name tag--explain to his friends that he had removed his...

Garbage cans and the hiring process. (search for tenure track positions) (The Profession)
March 1, 1994... "It's crazy," "I don't understand it," "my condolences," "it's really tough out there"; these are all statements used to describe the process of getting hired at an academic institution. Most academics prefer to relate their experiences and give...

Intellectual fads in political science: the cases of political socialization and community power studies. (The Profession)
March 1, 1994... In his 1988 article in PS, "Separate Tables: Schools and Sects in Political Science," Gabriel Almond (1988) claimed that political science "has turned into a set of disembodied specialties lacking in linkage to politics and public policy." Such...

John T. Dorsey, Jr. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
March 1, 1994... John T. Dorsey, Jr., professor emeritus of political science at Vanderbilt University, died August 3, 1993, at the age of 68. He was a native of Opelika, Alabama, and received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Alabama,...

Harold C. Hinton (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
March 1, 1994... Born in 1924, Harold Clendenin Hinton moved with his family to Washington, D.C. in the early 1930s. He served in the Far East during World War II. After the war, he returned to Harvard, where he received all three of his degrees, including, in...

Sabe McClain Kennedy, Jr. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
March 1, 1994... Sabe McClain Kennedy, Jr., University Professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University, died in Lubbock, Texas, on September 12, 1993. His passing brought to an end a long, distinguished career in academic life, military...

John D. Millett (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
March 1, 1994... John D. Millett, 81, president of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1953-64; first chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents 1964-72, and senior vice president of the Academy for Educational Development, Washington, D. C., 1972-80, died November 14,...

William H. Riker. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
March 1, 1994... William H. Riker, Professor Emeritus and formerly the Marie Curran Wilson and Joseph Chamberlain Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, died on June 26, 1993, of cancer. He was 72. Riker joined the faculty of the...

Arthur Bruce Winter. (political scientist) (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
March 1, 1994... Arthur Bruce Winter, Professor Emeritus, Political Science Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died at home in Lincoln, Nebraska on October 6, 1993. He was 75 years old and had been retired for five years. Born in Mount Vernon, New...

A trip to free Kurdistan. (Iraqi Kurdistan) (International Political Science)
March 1, 1994... On August 11 of this year, I practically dropped into a black hole when I journeyed to free (Iraqi) Kurdistan. Once I entered this isolated Middle Eastern country I was cut off from practically all outside contact by the catch-22 double economic...

Serendipity and international experience in political science: the Bulgaria/Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Connection. (International Political Science)
March 1, 1994... Graduate students are routinely taught that research in a given area should move systematically from a review of the existing literature to the testing of specific hypotheses. One's research focus should proceed from identifying a serious...