PS: Political Science & Politics articles from March 1995

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from March 1995

The Christian Right and the 1994 elections: a view from the states. (Special: The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections)
March 1, 1995... In 1994 the news media rediscovered the Christian Right and came away perplexed. The movement seemed to contradict conventional wisdom at every turn. First, many observers were surprised that it was still strong and active, given the...

South Carolina: the Christian Right wins one. (Special: The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections)
March 1, 1995... Early in the 1994 campaign, South Carolina Democratic humorists quipped that only two skills were required to win a Republican gubernatorial nomination - speaking in tongues and handling snakes (Carney 1994). The reference, of course, was to the...

The Christian Right and Republican realignment in Oklahoma. (Special: The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections)
March 1, 1995... On November 8, 1994, Oklahoma Democrats were stunned by an unprecedented GOP tide in the mid-term elections. Just two years before, the Democrats still looked like the majority party: they held the governor's office, a 5-3 majority in the...

The Christian Right in the old dominion: resurgent Republicans or holy war? (Special: The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections)
March 1, 1995... In early 1994, Virginia Senator Chuck Robb appeared extremely vulnerable. Once touted as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, Robb spent much of his first term defending himself against charges that he had attended parties where drugs...

Rosy scenario: the Republican-white Evangelical alliance holds in Iowa. (Special: The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections)
March 1, 1995... Beginning with the 1980 presidential campaign, the Republican coalition became dramatically more heterogeneous by the incorporation of white Evangelical Protestants. Galvanized by the desire to promote traditional moral values, these new...

Christians and Quistians in Minnesota. (Special: The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections)
March 1, 1995... When Minnesota's popular sitting governor, a moderate Independent Republican (IR), was denied his own party's endorsement for re-election in June 1994, political analysts nationwide took notice. Throughout the nation, perhaps the most visible...

W(h)ither the Voting Rights Act after Shaw v. Reno: advancing to the past? (The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno)
March 1, 1995... Before Shaw, Voting Rights Act (VRA) disputes had become routinized. The stakes were significant, but the cases had become scripted. Expert witnesses and lawyers, some of whom have contributed to this symposium, dueled over, inter alia, whether...

Shaw v. Reno and the future of voting rights. (The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno)
March 1, 1995... Four key factors affected the initial phase of 1990 congressional and legislative redistricting: (1) the continued insistence by federal courts on strict standards of population equality (especially for congressional districts) that frequently...

Shaw v. Reno and the Hunt for double cross-overs. (The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno)
March 1, 1995... North Carolina's current congressional map is as shocking to the conscience and as antithetical to the Constitution as Tennessee's 1901 apportionment plan, the "crazy quilt" that led to Baker v. Carr (1962). Even though the districts vary in...

The appropriateness of biracial approaches to measuring fairness of representation in a multicultural world. (The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno)
March 1, 1995... Ours is an increasingly multicultural political world. In the United States today, the population growth rates of racial and language minorities are outpacing those of whites. While it is fairly common knowledge that there are a number of areas...

Shaw v. Reno: a constitutional setback for minority representation. (The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno)
March 1, 1995... Gains in Minority Representation from Redistricting Prior to the latest round of redistricting, minorities remained severely underrepresented in Congress and state legislatures. Despite a national voting age population that is 11.1% black and...

Apres Shaw le deluge? (The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno)
March 1, 1995... During its 1992 term, the Supreme Court decided a trilogy of voting rights cases. In Growe v. Emison and Voinovich v. Quilter, a unanimous Court rejected challenges by black voters to Minnesota's and Ohio's post-1990 reapportionments; under the...

The Voting Rights Act - whither history? (The Voting Rights Act After Shaw v. Reno)
March 1, 1995... Eva Clayton and Melvin Watt were elected from North Carolina's First and Second Congressional Districts, respectively, in 1992. They were the first African Americans elected to Congress from North Carolina since Reconstruction. The state's long...

Public support for environmental protection: objective problems and subjective values in 43 societies.
March 1, 1995... Policies designed to solve environmental problems are unlikely to succeed unless they have broad public support, but the motives for mass support are poorly understood. The problem is global in scope, but most of the relevant public opinion...

Why Americans hate politics and politicians.
March 1, 1995... Do psychiatrists still use word-association techniques with their patients? I sometimes do word association with my students, usually on the first day of my introductory American government classes at Rhodes College. The first word I say is...

Teaching comparative politics in the 1990s. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1995... In seeking to bring together the three tasks of teaching facts, introducing concepts, and beginning comparative analysis, many instructors of the introductory course have used some variation on the concept of "three worlds" - a First World of...

A post-Cold War approach. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1995... My preference in teaching comparative politics is to take the vertical rather than the horizontal approach, i.e., comparing countries rather than concepts, institutions or processes. I believe the horizontal approach is flawed simply because not...

Explaining Third World democracies. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1995... Comparative politics need not beat a hasty retreat in the face of the paradigmatic disarray occasioned by the unpredicted collapse of the former Soviet Union. On the contrary, students of comparative politics are in a position actually to witness...

Narrowing the focus of introductory comparative politics courses. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1995... What is the purpose of the introductory course in comparative politics? I grow more and more concerned that those of us who teach introductory comparative politics courses are expected to accomplish too many goals in a single introductory course....

The parable of the frog. (teaching comparative politics introductory courses) (The Teacher)
March 1, 1995... In discussing the teaching of introductory courses in comparative politics with colleagues, I am frequently reminded of a metaphor that some management consultants use: the parable of the frog (Senge 1990, esp. 22-25). Management consultants use...

On reading: strategies for students. (The Teacher)
March 1, 1995... Why should you read an essay on reading? Good question. What do you do before you write? You surely know what you must do first. You must think. You sit down at your desk to write an essay. Why is it such an ordeal? You must think. Let's step...

Faculty rank among political scientists and reports on the academic environment: the differential impact of gender on observed patterns. (The Profession)
March 1, 1995... Within academia, the hiring, tenure, and promotion of women faculty members are an important part of the overall question of equality for women in the work place (Conover and Palley 1992; Stetson et al. 1990). As of fall 1991, in the 29...

New GRE General Test to be introduced. (Graduate Record Examinations) (The Profession)
March 1, 1995... The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Board has announced plans to introduce a new GRE General Test, possibly as soon as 1997-98. The current three-measure format of the GRE General Test will be replaced by a General Test with five measures. The...

International Forum for Democratic Studies established by the National Endowment for Democracy. (The Profession)
March 1, 1995... Never has there been a time when understanding what helps or hinders the advancement of democracy around the world has been more critical for international peace, political stability, and human progress. The spread of democracy to many countries...

In memoriam: Paul Theodore David. (Obituary)
March 1, 1995... Paul T. David, Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, died September 7, 1994, at home in Charlottesville. Born August 12, 1906, son of a Methodist minister in a family devoted to education and service,...

Political theory in Albania: an exercise in democratic culture.
March 1, 1995... What can political theory contribute to the emerging democracies in East-Central Europe? Under the communist regimes of many of these countries, the study of political thought was often reduced to political propaganda and used for the ideological...