Identifies five types of metaphors typically associated with the idea of "freedom" and discusses how they have formed the ideological core of an uncompromising foreign policy. States that the prevailing idea that freedom is "fragile" must be modified to construct a more balanced conception of national security. (GEA)

Discusses the meaning of the term "faculty development" and analyzes its effectiveness in the political science departments of U.S. universities. Presents recommendations for successful faculty development, including a warning to be cautious of centralized efforts and a suggestion that small successes should be accepted because substantial…

Provides structural overview of formation of public policy in various forms of government. Maintains that general population is not involved in formation of public policy in any existing system of government and provides a model for decentralized public policy formation. Maintains that mass education is most important preliminary for effective…

This article conceptually defines new political history, an approach to history represented by attempts to adopt the quantitative and scientific methods of the social sciences. It provides a history of the roots of the new political history and explores the question of how scientific social scientific history should try to be. (JDH)

Examines the effects of the welfare state on ethnicity in western societies. Maintains that group formation and action based on ethnic identity is aided by essential aspects of the welfare society. (JDH)

Elaborates ways in which literature may influence politics and demonstrates literary techniques employed to develop political arguments, disseminate political thought, and articulate ideological positions. Describes an interdisciplinary undergraduate course which used literature from Latin America as its focus. (JDH)

Examines the role played in community life and in work associations by young people born of immigrant parents from North Africa. Maintains that they must be more fully integrated into the mainstream of French social and cultural life. (JDH)

Considers the impact of empirical social science methodology and data analysis techniques on the process of historical analysis and its product, generalizations about the past. Uses political preference and voting information as a vehicle to illustrate the differences in historical conclusions reached by Lee Benson and J. Morgan Kousser. (JDH)

Provides a review of the growth of comparative policy studies and an analysis of the literature published in this area. Summarizes problems and potentials which have emerged as the field matures. (JDH)

Reviews conceptual models used for analyzing the implementation of public policies. Stresses the need of citizen involvement in developing policy strategies aimed at social change. (JDH)

Provides a sociological analysis of the works of Bernard Bailyn, Lawrence Cremin, Joel Spring, Samuel Bowles, and Herbert Gintis. Maintains that even though there are ideological differences among these authors, their themes are all informed by a functionalist perspective. Argues that their works lead to a deterministic, fatalistic, and…

Part of a training program for Congressional staff, this simulation involves 40 to 50 participants in taking mock legislation through all the major stages of consideration. The simulation is described. (RM)

The purpose of this essay is to show a way that college students can be brought to understand that it is in their interest to be good citizens of a good regime. Aristotle's formulations of distributive justice as they appear in his "Nicomachean Ethics" and "Politics" are used in the discussion. (RM)

Provides a review of Soviet dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's critique of Marx's ideas concerning property, family, women, and marriage. Demonstrates, through historical anecdotes, how the practices of Marx's communist doctrine undermines the human spirit and punishes people for their natural love of all that is their own. (JDH)

Nine author-contributed papers focus on social science perspectives of vocational rehabilitation. Papers address issues related to history, psychological perspectives, ideologies of clinical and ecological models, economics, social policy, political science, phenomenology, cross-cultural studies, and vocational rehabilitation as a social science.…