PS: Political Science & Politics articles from September 1998

PS: Political Science & Politics archives from September 1998

Human rights fifty years after the universal declaration: reconciling American political science and the study of human rights.(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Fifty)
September 1, 1998... On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights without negative vote. In 1945, the UN Charter, unlike the League of Nations Covenant, had required member states to cooperate on human...

The universal declaration and the U.S. Constitution. (human rights)(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Fifty)
September 1, 1998... Can the spirit and principles of an 18th century document help transform national rights into international human rights? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been acclaimed as perhaps the most important international document of the...

Transnational politics, international relations theory, and human rights: a new model of international politics is needed to explain the politics of human rights.(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Fifty)
September 1, 1998... The rise of human rights as an international issue in the later half of the 20th century presents a puzzle for students of comparative politics and international relations. Many of our dominant theories - realism, rational choice, and economic...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights.(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Fifty)
September 1, 1998... Editor's Note: On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act, the Assembly...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the role of Congress.(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Fifty)
September 1, 1998... Can Congress be a moral entrepreneur? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has provided the U.S. Congress with a significant rationale for promoting cherished, historic individual rights in U.S. relations with foreign governments and their...

Unfinished business: failure of imagination preserves inequality and jeopardizes the universality of human rights.(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Fifty)
September 1, 1998... Earlier articles in this symposium have shown the important role played by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the spread of international human rights ideas and practices. Forsythe, Henkin, Galley, and Sikkink have also documented...

Young Americans' indifference to media coverage of public affairs.
September 1, 1998... Although young Americans are normally less engaged in politics than their elders (Converse with Niemi 1971), today's youth are more withdrawn from public affairs than earlier birth cohorts were when they were young (Bennett 1997). One indicator...

Navigating the academic job market minefield.
September 1, 1998... As any recent job applicant can attest, the academic job market is tight.(1) Many who have endured this market might paraphrase Thomas Hobbes in describing the job search process: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and long." In this "buyer's...

External reviews in tenure and promotions decisions: how does the process work? How should it?
September 1, 1998... External reviews in tenure and promotions cases . . . a headache for those who solicit them, a chore for those who write them and, presumably, a source of terror for those who are the subject of them. To assist in making personnel decisions that...

Civic education: three early American Political Science Association committees and their relevance for our times.
September 1, 1998... In 1996 Elinor Ostrom, then-president of the American Political Science Association appointed a Task Force on Civic Education for the Next Century. The Task Force was presented as a response to a specifically modern problem: the loss of social...

Marjorie Lansing. (political scientist)(Obituary)
September 1, 1998... Her academic career was relatively brief - from 1966 through 1986 - but her contributions have lasting impact. Marjorie Lansing developed the "gender gap" concept and helped popularize the term with her path-breaking dissertation research that...

Mancur Olson. (political scientist) (Obituary)
September 1, 1998... The sudden passing of Mancur Olson on February 19, 1998, at the age of 66, was a blow to his many colleagues, admirers, and friends. Rarely, if ever, has one individual made such a notable difference to political science. His intellectual...

Myres Smith McDougal. (Yale University's law professor)(Obituary)
September 1, 1998... Myres Smith McDougal, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University, died on May 7, after a long illness. He was 92 years old. A renowned authority on international law, Professor McDougal founded, along with political scientist Harold...

Richard C. Sinopoli. (associate professor of political science at the University of California)(Obituary)
September 1, 1998... Richard C. Sinopoli, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Davis, died, tragically and shockingly, in a swimming accident in Kauai, Hawaii, on May 3, 1997. It is relatively easy to appreciate the tragedy. The...

Vernon Van Dyke. (political science scholar and professor)(Obituary)
September 1, 1998... Vernon Van Dyke died May 26, 1998. He graduated from Manchester College in Indiana in 1933, and he received his Ph.D. in 1937 from the University of Chicago. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. Before and after the war, he...

Matthew Holden Jr.: between theory and practice. (American Political Science Association president)
September 1, 1998... Matthew Holden is a man who stands astride what, in the late twentieth century, are often thought to be contradictions. He has been, at different times in his life, both a serious, theoretically informed scholar and public official. Insistent...

Executive director's report. (American Political Science Association)
September 1, 1998... Preface The challenges an organization faces are largely generated by its ambitions. While the 1997-98 year presented APSA with a sufficient number of challenges to demonstrate abundant ambition, meeting them has been made possible thanks to...

Research, teaching heightened by congressional experience. (American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program)
September 1, 1998... Within the discipline, "hands-on" experience as a congressional staffer has never been a sine qua non for doing cutting-edge legislative research or teaching well. But, as linguistic ability or overseas exposure have their advantages for...

Walter E. Beach, Warren E. Miller, and Jewel Prestage to receive 1998 Goodnow Awards.
September 1, 1998... Walter E. Beach, Warren E. Miller, and Jewel Prestage will receive the 1998 Frank J. Goodnow Awards for distinguished service to the profession and the American Political Science Association at the 1998 Honors Reception, Wednesday, September 2,...

Encouraging the brightest: the 1998 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute.
September 1, 1998... Fifteen gifted African-American undergraduate students from colleges across the country attended the 12th annual Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at the University of Virginia this summer. Their mission: To learn more about graduate study in...

Television, individualism, and social capital.
September 1, 1998... Students of political culture and political theory (Pool 1990; Postman 1985; Merelman 1984, 1989, 1991; Habermas 1975) hypothesize that values associated with individualism have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, with distressing...

Searching for government performance: the Government Performance and Results Act.
September 1, 1998... If there is a single theme that characterizes the public sector in the 1990s, it is the demand for performance. A mantra has emerged in this decade, heard at all levels of government, that calls for documentation of performance and explicit...

Service learning: what's a political scientist doing in Yonkers?
September 1, 1998... As an urban politics teacher, I discerned a disconnect between what I said about urban politics and what my students understood. Although I offered a variety of perspectives, I nonetheless felt that students were coming to class, and leaving...

Citizenship Service Learning: becoming citizens by assisting immigrants.
September 1, 1998... Citizenship Service Learning (CSL) serves to reinforce the strengths inherent in the traditional principles of higher education while concurrently transcending its limitations. CSL principles are celebrated on two grounds. The first is...

Computers and teaching: evolution of a cyberclass.
September 1, 1998... During the last few years, academics have been bombarded with information relating to the tremendous growth in information technology and with conjecture - some purely speculative, some solidly grounded - about how this growth in information...

Internet Lite: short Internet assignments for American government courses.
September 1, 1998... The Internet can be an important tool for gathering information about politics and for participating in politics. The Internet also provides easy access to a multitude of "real world" examples of concepts discussed in political science classes....

The World Wide Web and active learning in the international relations classroom.
September 1, 1998... Over the last two years, the explosive growth of information technology has excited and engaged faculty and students alike. Instructors have readily applied these advances to their educational endeavors. Many include their email addresses on...

Evaluating implementation of Web-based teaching in political science.
September 1, 1998... There is increasing interest in the use of the World Wide Web for teaching purposes. Interest is increasing because, as Sheryl Burgstahler has noted, the web "provides new ways for us to teach and learn. It allows us to do new things, as well as...

Finding jobs in political science: 1996 placement candidates report on their employment search and outcomes.
September 1, 1998... The American Political Science has been participating in a project funded by the National Science Foundation that examines the employment of recent Ph.D.s. The project, "Supply and Demand for New Science and Engineering Doctorates," coordinated...

So you want to get a tenure-track job....
September 1, 1998... Relative to other kinds of employment, the process of getting a tenure-track job in political science is remarkably institutionalized. There is a specific timeline from August to March; APSA's Personnel Service Newsletter greatly reduces search...