The purpose of this paper is to explain why the Supreme Court has had limited effects on American society, to suggest some means by which the Court's influence can be increased, and to raise some questions about the proper role of political science in this endeavor." (SE)

Legal research is needed on what happens to Supreme Court opinions after they are written, as well as on the proper intellectual processes to be employed in writing the decisions. (Editor/IR)

College level American government textbooks used in introductory courses give limited treatment to religion in their analyses of the political system. Reasons for this are discussed. The relation of religion and politics ought to be both a theoretical and a practical aspect of studies in politics. (RM)

In the analysis of foreign economic policy issues, the bureaucratic politics model is the most useful for understanding how final decisions are made. Four other models--presidential politics, organizational process, congressional behavior, and interest group activity--are also examined to assess the importance of nonbureaucratic factors in the…

Examines the issue of what the content and organization of an introductory political science course should be from the point of view of student expectations. Canadian students expect a more evaluative and behavioral and less institutional course than they are offered. Recommendations for changes in introductory courses are suggested. (RM)

A public service internship program at Baylor University is described. Student participants work a minimum of 100 hours per semester at a public or nonprofit agency in a job with a substantial administrative component. In 1976 the program was expanded to include student interns working in political campaigns. (MLW)

Presents highlights of a multidisciplinary, cross-sectional study investigating the attentiveness of students to science and three other political domains. These three components of attentiveness to science are discussed: interest, knowledge, and acquisition. Also describes how the attentives and nonattentives differed in their responses. (CS)

Examines normative and methodological foundations of teaching international political economy. Stresses the need for a critical value perspective, an historical approach, and a holistic and historically grounded theoretical framework. (Author/DB)

Explains how political scientists in colleges and universities can cooperate with high schools in their communities to help students improve their quantitative skills in an introductory computer course. (Author/DB)

Introduces findings from an investigation of political education in schools and colleges in the United Kingdom. It focuses on describing and analyzing political learning processes, political socialization, political learning experiences in the classroom, and problems which beset political education programs. (DB)

A modified adversary context within a team teaching approach was used in a course on media law and ethics. Although some problems occurred, overall reaction to the course structures and teaching procedures was favorable. (RL)

Discusses how modern governments support and use social science research data to keep informed about social needs and the functions of various government programs. Questions what happens to the data and how government policy research influences policy formation. (Author/DB)

Relates the advance and development of political science in Yugoslavia to the process of democratization and self-management. Maintains that political science in socialist societies should continue to be critical but should also apply principles of Marxist analysis to social phenomena. (DB)

An American politics text should offer a realistic account of the political process and develop the student's own ability to observe, analyze, and criticize political institutions, processes, and ideologies and statements about them. (Author/RM)

Believing that inclass evaluation of material gives the instructor information useful in making decisions about course format and content, illustrations of the semantic differential questionnaire are presented and explained. (ND)