PS: Political Science & Politics articles from September 1994

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from September 1994

Democracy, Islam, and the study of Middle Eastern politics.
September 1, 1994... Introduction The study of Middle Eastern politics shares the problems of area studies in general in political science. Area specialists emphasizing the language and culture of other peoples have been pressured by behavioralists to "objectify"...

Beyond democratization: political change in the Arab World.
September 1, 1994... Over the past decade the paradigm of "democratization" has dominated analysis of political change, reflecting the dramatic transitions from authoritarian rule in Southern and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and East Asia. While the new literature...

Civil society: effective tool of analysis for Middle East politics?
September 1, 1994... Does the Middle East's presumed "exceptionalism" imply the disutility of "civil society" as a tool for political analysis? Although the term has gained wide usage in other areas of the world, the Middle East specialists have shown some reluctance...

Arab democratization: a poor cousin?
September 1, 1994... Introduction If only two important features may be singled out to characterize the "New World Order," they are the collapse of communism and the globalization of the demand for democracy. We have thus reached "the end of history." Western...

Whose liberalism? Which Islam? Leonard Binder's "Islamic Liberalism."
September 1, 1994... For many students of contemporary Arab politics, the most pressing question is whether Islam will become democratic. One need only point to the case of Algeria to find ready evidence that Islamic movements have already become highly democratic,...

The old orthodoxy and the new orthodoxy in the study of Middle Eastern politics.
September 1, 1994... It is said that the old political science attempted to be explanatory and the new political science is interpretive. A key question then is what is the meaning of political interpretation. Does it mean that political analysis is simply subjective...

The politics of Middle East politics.
September 1, 1994... The Middle East field is in a crisis within the broader discipline of political science. A review of major departments of political science reveals surprisingly few that have full professors with the politics of the Middle East as their primary...

Comparative Middle East politics: still in search of theory.
September 1, 1994... In a 1985 American political science roundtable analyzing the state of the field of comparative politics, the participants concluded that Middle East studies lagged behind most other area studies in the generation of theory (PS 1985). They...

The Russian elections: back to square one?
September 1, 1994... In the fall of 1993 President Boris Yeltsin dissolved the Russian legislature and called for elections to a new assembly in the hope of getting a more pro-reform parliament. That parliament in turn would consolidate his position in the struggle...

What political scientists can learn from the 1993 electoral reform in New Zealand.
September 1, 1994... In November 1993, 100 years after becoming the first nation to enfranchise women, New Zealand again made electoral reform history as its citizens voted by a 54-46 margin to replace their venerable, U.S.-style first-past-the-post (FPP) method of...

A primary/secondary democracy distinction.
September 1, 1994... Just as sportsmanship is essential for competitive sports, statesmanship is necessary for competitive democracy. This obvious assertion, which I followed with a distinction between primary and secondary democracy, was greeted with some...

Teaching politics panoramically: American government and the case method. (includes related article)
September 1, 1994... Perhaps the most demanding aspect of teaching political science during my first years in this profession has been to bridge the gap between the needs to divide information into understandable units and to portray political reality to my students....

Critical thinking and the use of optical illusions.
September 1, 1994... The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy,...

The validity of student evaluations of teaching.
September 1, 1994... Introduction and Background Virtually all liberal arts colleges consider classroom teaching a major factor in evaluating overall faculty performance (Seldin 1989, 4). As of 1988, 80% used systematic student ratings as all or part of the means...

Teaching research methods using appropriate technology.
September 1, 1994... Undergraduate and graduate-level courses in social science research methods are widely avoided and maligned by students while faculty members who are required, or who choose, to teach these courses often suffer from poor student evaluations. The...

Netting the big one: some things candidates (and departments) ought to know ... from the hiring department's perspective.
September 1, 1994... I read the articles on hiring in the March 1994 PS with great interest (Furlong and Furlong 1994; Zahariadis 1994). Having recently served seven years as a department chair during which I hired seven tenure-track faculty, I would like to review...

Mark A. Bartholomew. (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
September 1, 1994... Mark A. Bartholomew, 42, died April 19, at Maine Medical Center in Portland, where he had been a patient for five days following a short illness. He was born March 14, 1952, in Salem, Ohio, the son of Robert E. and Gerry P. (Paxson)...

Norman Beckman. (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
September 1, 1994... Norman Beckman, 66, a former government official who had been a professor of political science and public administration at Howard University since 1990, died of lung cancer Feb. 18 at his home in McLean, Virginia. Beckman came to Washington...

Mario Einaudi. (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
September 1, 1994... Mario Einaudi, Goldwin Smith Emeritus Professor at Cornell, died in Piedmont, Italy, in the house in which he was born almost 90 years ago. The eldest son of Luigi Einaudi, economist and Italy's first president (1948-55), Einaudi's wisdom,...

William E. Lyons. (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
September 1, 1994... William E. (Bill) Lyons died of lung cancer on May 20, 1994. He was born in 1935 in Martinsville, Virginia. He received a B.A. from Millersville State College in Pennsylvania in 1957, an M.A. from Temple in 1962 and a Ph.D. in political science...

Ralph Miliband. (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
September 1, 1994... Ralph Miliband, formerly Morris Hillquit Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis and, later, Visiting Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, died in London on May 28. Miliband, born in Belgium...

John Roche. (In Memoriam) (Obituary)
September 1, 1994... John Roche, 70, a former columnist and professor who also had served as a Capitol Hill staffer and presidential adviser, died May 6 at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after a stroke. He lived in Weston, Massachusetts. He had served as...

Sidney Verba: an intellectual biography.
September 1, 1994... It is common practice to divide the study of politics into two--normative and empirical; then into three--American, comparative, and international; then into two again--substantive and methodological; then into two yet again--micro vs. macro; and...