PS: Political Science & Politics articles from September 1997

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from September 1997

Taking exception. (reply to Gregory Bruce Smith, PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 180-189, June 1997)
September 1, 1997... Gregory Bruce Smith's solid essay "Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-Democratic Cult?" (June 1997) attempts to challenge the current image of the late Leo Strauss as anti-democratic. The simplistic images and "intemperate" accusations...

Retreat into legalism: the Little Rock school desegregation case in historic perspective.
September 1, 1997... Law and order are not here to be preserved by depriving the Negro children of their constitutional rights. . . . The right of a student not to be segregated on racial grounds is indeed so fundamental and pervasive that it is embraced in the...

Patterns of school-level racial change in D.C. in the wake of Brown: perceptual legacies of desegregation.
September 1, 1997... As political scientists, we know that historical events like the 1957-58 Little Rock crisis are important, but our theoretical tools of the trade do not make it easy for us to reflect that insight in our work. The reigning paradigms generally...

Race or place? Emerging public perspectives on urban education.
September 1, 1997... Since World War I, America's cities have been the primary locus of its racial tensions, and urban school systems have been a lightning rod for these tensions. Unfortunately, our understanding of what residents of urban areas think about their...

Is school desegregation still a viable policy option?
September 1, 1997... Mandatory school desegregation is not usually seen as a success story. Most citizens and elected officials disfavor it; judges increasingly are withdrawing courts from active involvement in or even oversight of racially mixed school districts;...

Reaching beyond race. (public policies for African-Americans)
September 1, 1997... Fifty years ago, the cross was taken up again on behalf of racial equality. Success may seem to have been assured, but only in retrospect. Initiated by Southern blacks, reinforced by volunteer whites from the North, and transformed by the...

Reading more about the civil rights movement: recommendations from colleagues across disciplines.
September 1, 1997... The symposium on the fortieth anniversary of the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, I hope, has rekindled interest in the social phenomena we broadly call the Civil Rights Movement. The Movement was a collection of individual and...

Political views from below: a survey of Beijing residents.
September 1, 1997... With the death of Deng Xiaoping, China's political future is once again in the spotlight. Debate over the viability of the current political regime in China started immediately after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown when the prospects for...

Positive spin: Senate campaigning on the web.
September 1, 1997... "I'm extremely excited to have a prescene [sic] on the Web." The perpetual greeting from the campaign home page of Senator Carl Levin (1996) shows that as with the adoption of any new technology, Internet use by political candidates will...

"New realities, new thinking": report of the Task Force on Campaign Finance Reform.
September 1, 1997... Editor's Note: In 1996 the Citizens' Research Foundation established a Task Force on Campaign Finance Reform, under a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Nine political scientists of varied views were selected as members and the resulting...

Secrecy: report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy.
September 1, 1997... Editor's Note: In the June issue of PS, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan weighed the wisdom and potential dangers of "Secrecy as Government Regulation." In 1994, Senator Moynihan was appointed chairman of the Commission on Protecting and...

Introducing instructional technology to international relations. (the use of instructional technology in education)
September 1, 1997... I had just returned to my office, when the phone rang. On the line was a father of a student who an hour earlier had attended the opening session of my Introduction to International Relations course. He was calling to let me know that his...

Coalition theory in praxis: a comparative politics simulation of the cabinet formation process. (role-playing simulation in education)
September 1, 1997... While many role-playing simulations have been developed in the fields of international relations and American politics, few simulations exist for courses in comparative politics (Dodge 1983; Endersby and Webber 1995; Hensley 1993; Suransky 1983;...

Beyond Bosnia: contextualizing the politics of southeastern Europe.
September 1, 1997... Arms merchants and pop historians may well have been the chief beneficiaries of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Through weapons sales to the Yugoslav successor states, arms merchants have ensured that the region's military and political elites have...

Teaching democratic theory democratically.
September 1, 1997... Is the classroom appropriately democratized?(1) To what extent, and in what ways? In this article, I review the results of one experiment in democratic education that may shed some light on these questions. Democratic education is not the same as...

Teaching Iran-Contra: further reflections.
September 1, 1997... My brief essay departs from the useful discussion by John Scott Masker on his experience teaching the Iran-Contra affair which appeared in PS (1996, 701-03). Masker incorporated a six-week unit in a semester course on U.S. foreign policy, whereas...

Teaching ethics and values: a survey of graduate public affairs and administration programs in the U.S.
September 1, 1997... Introduction Moral education once occupied a central place in the intellectual life of students and professors. As Derek Bok reminds us in Universities and the Future of America, professors and college presidents committed themselves to...

Teaching Political Science 1: a hermeneutic approach.
September 1, 1997... In 1992, the University of Pennsylvania political science department undertook a comprehensive reform of its undergraduate curriculum. With no one course required of all majors, political science students had at that time no common language and...

Political Science 200: politics and governance.
September 1, 1997... This course is designed to introduce you to the concepts and terms needed to understand politics in a changing world. You will find these concepts useful not only in your course work but in becoming informed and (we hope) participating citizens....

American government: a comparative approach.
September 1, 1997... It is difficult, if not impossible, for students to understand their own political system without fundamental points of comparison. This includes evaluations of other democratic systems, such as those in the United Kingdom or Israel, as well as...

"Citizens and Governance": an alternative approach to American government.
September 1, 1997... I taught "Citizens and Governance" in the Spring semester of 1996. The course was taught as a "pilot" course offering for a new undergraduate curriculum plan that the university was in the process of formulating. The course was intended to...

The ugly process of journal submissions: a call for reform.
September 1, 1997... Virtually everyone in the business of political science has experienced some degree of difficulty in getting their work published. The following story describes a recent rejection of an article of mine by a major journal in the field. The...

Reforming the review process: right problem, wrong solution.
September 1, 1997... Professor Borer in "The Ugly Process of Journal Submission" quite rightly questions the journal review process. His situation, while perhaps rare, is clearly not unique. A common topic among political scientists at conventions is the vagaries of...

Political scientists and assisting democracy: too tenuous links.
September 1, 1997... Efforts to promote or assist democracy and strengthen civil society are soaring in popularity in the post-Cold War world.(1) Motivated by the recent democratic revolutions in Eastern Europe and the easing of authoritarian regimes in Asia, Africa,...

The American Political Science Association dues structure.
September 1, 1997... Introduction It is well-known that, in theory, free-rider problems plague social situations characterized by voluntary provision of public goods. Relatively little real-world evidence has been found to confirm the empirical prediction. In this...

Basic principles for managing intellectual property in the digital environment.
September 1, 1997... Editor's Note: The following document was prepared by the Committee on Libraries and Intellectual Property of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) in an effort to build consensus within the educational community on the uses of copyrighted...

G. Lowell Field. (political scientist)(Obituary)
September 1, 1997... It is with much sadness that we report the death of G. Lowell Field on April 23, 1997. Lowell spent most of his academic career at the University of Connecticut. He arrived in 1952 to take the headship of the Department of Political Science and...

Harold F. Gosnell. (political scientist)(Obituary)
September 1, 1997... On 8 January 1997, the discipline lost one of the last true founders of modern American political science. Harold Foote Gosnell died at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. He was 100 years old. In the 1920s and 1930s, Gosnell pioneered the...

Ernest S. Griffith. (political scientist)(Obituary)
September 1, 1997... Ernest S. Griffith, the founding Dean of American University's School of International Service, former director of what is now the Congressional Research Service, and officer of the American Political Science Association, died in Portland,...

M. Kent Jennings: an intellectual profile.
September 1, 1997... Political science long has been concerned with the central questions of democratic political behavior: What are the prevailing patterns of citizen political opinion and behavior? How do these patterns change over time and across nations? What are...

Report of the executive director. (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association)
September 1, 1997... Highlights Few organizations are blessed with the quality of leadership and participation that APSA members willingly offer to this scholarly society. From the creativity of President Elinor Ostrom to the conscientiousness of an anonymous...

Placement of political science doctoral students in 1996: degree matter.
September 1, 1997... Terry W. Hartle and Fred Galloway (1996) summarized studies of the academic job market made at the end of the 1980s and in the early 1990s that predicted a demand for faculty would emerge from 1997 to 2002 due to projected increases in the number...