PS: Political Science & Politics articles from March 1999

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from March 1999

The disempowerment of the gender gap: soccer moms and the 1996 elections.(Gender and Voting Behavior in the 1996 Presidential Election)
March 1, 1999... The 1996 elections were truly historic for women voters. These elections produced the largest gender gap ever in voting in a presidential contest, and, for the first time in history, feminist activists could legitimately claim that the votes of...

The enthymeme gap in the 1996 presidential campaign.(Gender and Voting Behavior in the 1996 Presidential Election)(difference between campaigns of Pres Bill Clinton and Bob Dole)
March 1, 1999... As scholars puzzle over the so-called gender gap in the 1996 presidential election, we invite them to consider the ways in which communication by the Clinton campaign explicitly and implicitly told women that Clinton was a president more...

The gender gap and experiences with the welfare state.(Gender and Voting Behavior in the 1996 Presidential Election)
March 1, 1999... Ideally, one would want to develop a theoretical approach to explaining the "gender gap" (the difference between men and women with regard to their support for candidates or parties) that could help us understand its attitudinal and...

Why the gender gap became news in 1996.(Gender and Voting Behavior in the 1996 Presidential Election)
March 1, 1999... Four years, after 1992's "Year of the Woman,' gender was a major factor in the presidential and congressional election campaigns. Both in preelection commentary and in the final results the "gender gap" mattered. Election returns documented...

Bruce Ackerman.(Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee)(law professor at Yale University; views on impeachment)
March 1, 1999... Yale University December 7, 1998 Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and the distinguished members of this Committee. My name is Bruce Ackerman. I am Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale. I request the Chair's permission to...

Samuel H. Beer.(Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee)(Harvard University political scientist; views on impeachment)
March 1, 1999... Harvard University December 7, 1998 My concern is the political and constitutional consequences of impeachment rather than its legal and judicial aspects. The process is judicial in form, impeachment by the House being like indictment by a...

Matthew Holden Jr.(Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee)(University of Virginia political scientist; views on impeachment)
March 1, 1999... University of Virginia November 9, 1998 Editor's Note: This excerpt from Professor's Holden's testimony is taken from the concluding section, titled "Impeachment is a Caged Lion: Should it Be Loose in the Streets?" Someone, at a...

Cass R. Sunstein.(Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee)(University of Chicago political scientist; views on impeachment)
March 1, 1999... University of Chicago November 9, 1998 Editor's Note: This excerpt from Professor's Sunstein's testimony' is taken from the concluding section, titled "How Should We Understand Impeachment Today?" Thus far I have suggested that both...

Rational choice and biopolitics: a (Darwininan) tale of two theories.
March 1, 1999... In a recent paper (Somit and Peterson 1998), we discussed the relative successes and failures of "biopolitics" since it emerged as an identifiable subfield within political science during the mid-1960s (see also Degler 1991).(1) Toward that...

Fair division: a format for the debate on the format of debates.
March 1, 1999... In 1960, a televised presidential debate, four of them in fact, occurred for the first time. This came to seem, despite initial expectations, a mere blip in electoral history until the debates of 1976. During the intervening era, strategic...

Untangled Web: Internet use during the 1998 election.(World Wide Web)
March 1, 1999... During the 1996 election cycle, candidates for public office began to use the Internet as a campaign tool (Browning 1996; Casey 1996; Rash 1997). AS Internet use grew among the general population, it was reasonable to expect that the 1998...

Explaining the success and failure in the 1998 midterm elections: comparing the influence of swing voters and core party supporters.
March 1, 1999... In the aftermath of a disappointing showing in the 1998 midterm elections, Republican party leaders and strategists have been debating what went wrong on November 3, and what the party needs to do differently in the future. Two competing...

One experience is worth a thousand words: engaging undergraduates in field research on gender.
March 1, 1999... In teaching about women in politics and public administration, I have encountered two reactions most common among undergraduates - avoidance and resistence. Avoidance prevents many undergraduates from considering a course with the words...

Running for elected office: a ten-week political campaign simulation for upper-division courses.(includes guidelines for running for public office)
March 1, 1999... Elections are a central feature of the U.S. system of government. Therefore, it is important that undergraduates, especially political science majors, acquire a substantive understanding of the electoral process. To help students gain this...

"Bringing it all back home": the issues involved in teaching a U.S. regional politics course.
March 1, 1999... To engage students more fully in the study of American politics, more needs to be done to make political science courses relevant to the world in which they live. I believe one way to do that is by offering courses on regional American...

The Internet and film: teaching Middle East politics interactively.
March 1, 1999... Recent innovations in information technology can benefit students and instructors if they are effectively integrated with the curriculum. As computer technologies have become more affordable, more powerful, and easier to use, their integration...

Tenure in a chilly climate.(women college teachers)
March 1, 1999... In this article we discuss the emotional and structural dimensions of seeking tenure in a chilly climate(1) and describe and analyze the devaluation and hostility junior women faculty experience working in that climate. We write as two women...

Misdirected backlash: the evolving nature of academia and the status of women in political science.
March 1, 1999... The backlash remarkets old myths about women as new facts and ignores all appeals to reason. - Susan Faludi (1991, xxii) When we began to study the status of women in the professorate, we naively assumed that this research would be...

The small, remote, or odd college: making the most out of your new teaching position.
March 1, 1999... Okay. Princeton did not thrill to your vita. In fact, none of the big schools seem interested in hiring you. Fortunately, you have an offer from a school you had never heard of before you read their ad in the Personnel Service Newsletter. Heck,...

Ranking political science departments: do publications matter?
March 1, 1999... In 1995 the National Research Council (NRC) released the results of its most recent study of the subjective evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of political science departments in the United States with Ph.D. programs. These NRC...

Comparative political science: an inventory and assessment since the 1980's.
March 1, 1999... What have political scientists in comparative politics published over the last 15 years? What methods have they employed? And what do the recent trends in the journal literature suggest about where the field of comparative politics will (or...

Luther A. Allen.(political scientist)(Obituary)
March 1, 1999... Luther A. Allen, born 1921, died Feb. 27, 1998, was a good political scientist; more important, he was a good person, whose presence enriched a host of students and friends. Born in Plattsburgh, New York, he was educated at Williams College,...

Ferdinand Aloys Hermens.(political scientist)(Obituary)
March 1, 1999... Ferdinand A. Hermens was born on December 20, 1906, in Nieheim, Germany, and died on February 2, 1998, in Rockville, Maryland. He was awarded the Diploma in Economics at the University of Bonn in 1928 and the doctorate three years later. His...

Darrell P. Hammer.(political scientist)(Obituary)
March 1, 1999... Darrell P. Hammer, our friend, mentor, and colleague, died on March 25, 1998, in Bloomington, Indiana. He was 67 years old; we had expected to have him with us much longer. Darrell was Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana...