The mismatch between education and work results in social and economic costs. Career education, intended to ease the problem, is criticized for opting for economic efficiency at the expense of individual development. (Author/MLF)

Explores the cessation of the protest activity prevalent during the 1960s by examining one form of protest activity -- that which occurred in several Los Angeles high schools -- by means of an analytical framework based on a view of protest as a bargaining tactic designed to induce the intervention of sympathetic third parties. (Author/JM)

Traces the historical background of the Canadian national agency, Radio-Quebec. (JY)

City Lights Books of San Francisco has served as a literary meeting place, as a bookstore that concentrates on serious literature--especially poetry, as a publisher of significant voices such as those of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski, and as an institution with a political conscience. (JMD)

Discusses improvement of relations between Western European governments and the Soviet Union and the parallel disillusionment of the revolutionary left political parties in Western Europe with the Soviet regime. (DB)

Raises several policy issues concerning interactive cable television, including the role of government and the regulation powers, and the implications of telecommunication/social service system concerning privacy and confidentiality, approaches to electronic opinion polling, and the potential widening of the information gap between rich and poor.…

Keith Spicer, Canada's Official Languages Commissioner from 1970 to 1977, reflects upon strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of the Official Languages Act and expresses his views on the current status of French language rights in the spheres of government administration and education. (Author)

Concludes that as black unemployment rates stay well above the national average, black power's potential for precipitating change has diminished because its internal weaknesses have enabled it to be transformed into reinforcement for conventional American political and economic ideology. (Author/AM)

The comparison in this article centers on a relatively neglected area in the politics of race relations, the development of national reservation systems in the U.S. and Canada. (Author)

This paper identifies the politically significant others for 154 6th, 9th, and 12th grade respondents for the following topics: political parties, the presidency, Richard Nixon, and the war in Vietnam. Parents emerge as the most influential individual political socialization agent, with peers a close second. (Author/AM)

Presents a conceptual approach to the legislative process which includes coverage of the role of the media. Major texts are reviewed in terms of their coverage of the media topic. Suggestions are made for ways in which the role of the media can be more appropriately presented and emphasized in political science courses. (Author)

Explains how the use of feature-length motion pictures, combined with interesting readings, can generate enthusiasm, discussion, and analysis of basic political ideas, concepts, and values. Reviews costs and identifies specific movies and readings on various political topics. (AV)

The belief that the education that most white children are getting is quality education and that if black and other cultural groups are integrated into white schools they are better off than if segregated, is inconsistent with the fact that racism and racial bias exist in schools. The result is poorer quality education for all children. (JD)

The insistence on "sticking to the issues" in political argument is presented as an ideological commitment rather than a dictum of logic. Edmund Burke's alternative criterion of decision, derived from public evaluation of a leader's image, is used to contrast the contemporary dedication to issue-oriented political argument. (JF)

Examines the public discourse surrounding political corruption by arguing that the ritualistic deposition of corrupters is based in a sociolinguistic process of assigning meanings to acts, a dialectical process of contrapositioning competing voices, and a ceremonial process of acting out the drama of purgation before the affected institutions…