In November 1972, electorates in California, Colorado, Michigan, and Oregon decisively rejected consitutional amendments that (according to their supporters) would have reduced or eliminated reliance on the property tax as a means of financing education. School finance reformers were perplexed by these defeats. This study sets out to explain the…

The focus of the dramatistic approach as a method of rhetorical criticism is the message rather than the speaker, audience, or situation. Using the approach developed by Ernest Bormann, the rhetorical critic examines man's symbolic reality and reacts to it by looking for strategies that are inherent in certain dramas. Conspiracy dramas are popular…

The evolution and governing structure for teacher education and certification provide the context for analyzing the probable impact and issues caused by the implementation of performance-based teacher education (PBTE). Because the concept of PBTE is still being refined, such an analysis must be of a prescriptive and speculative nature. However,…

Focusing on some significant events of 1971 relating to the use and management of natural resources, this report points out that environmental concern is coming of age. Government activities, congressional messages and action, major court cases, and citizen action are reviewed in the light of growing public acceptance of environmental quality as…

The author describes the program which permitted six out of seven candidates for the May 1972 senatorial primary in North Carolina to appear free on educational television. Each candidate was given one hour for his program, with the first thirty minutes spent in a presentation of his own choosing and the last half hour devoted to questioning by a…

A SOCIAL STRATA STUDY WAS MADE OF SELECTED HIGH SCHOOLS. THE INSTRUMENTS, METHODS OF CLIQUE AND CROWD DETECTION, AND THE STRUCTURE OF PARTICIPATION WERE ALL REPORTED. EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS INCLUDED CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, AND POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS. THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED PRIMARILY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING…

This book analyzes a number of issues related to citizen involvement in land-use planning. Based on this analysis, the author recommends a set of organizational principles that can be utilized to develop an integrated, coherent citizen involvement program. The core of the study is a review of several major program design issues that political…

Discussed are the impact of technologies on the regenerative capacity of natural ecosystems and on human health, the impact on human societies and non-human species of modifying habitats for settlements or other uses, and what society chooses to do about these issues. (BB)

Underinvestment in the basic support structure of energy production and utilization projects is discussed as a major source of inefficiency. Causes lie within institutional and economic constraints on the investment decision process. Four constraints are explored. Appropriate federal impact assistance, siting standards, and energy industry…

Describes live radio broadcasting from the chambers of the British Parliament. After 55 years of campaigning by broadcasters and Members of Parliament, and following experimental broadcasting by the BBC and Independent Local Radio, service was installed in April 1978. Initial experimentation, current procedures, and implications for television…

Examines how social change in Europe has altered peoples' attitudes toward and interest in the history of European nations. Modern attitudes are characterized as less structured, less informed, and more escapist than traditional attitudes. (DB)

Examines the current predicament of governments and opposing political parties in Western Europe and questions whether political parties will give way to a different type of political organization. Concludes that party reform is the best way to lead Western European politics out of its present state of fragmentation. (DB)

The major proposition in this essay is that black politics is moving from the tumultuous politics of idealistic protest to a cautious politics of backlash pragmatism. (Author)

Suggests that the importance of the Bakke case lies in the fact that it could act as a catalytic agent that would force social theoreticians, especially black ones, to face to an important question: what is the role of racism in the U.S. political economy? (Author/AM)