Criticizes the conceptualizations of class struggle, social stratification, and racial relations in Britain as expounded in a recent book ("Colonial Immigrants in a British City") by John Rex and Sally Tomlinson. Identifies potential problems created by their interpretations. (GC)

In order for leftists to mobilize effective resistance to current economic policies, they must confront right wing groups whose chief rallying points are opposition to feminism and sexual freedom, glorification of the traditional patriarchal family, and advocacy of authoritarian moral and religious values. (Author/GC)

Educator and author Laurence E. Lynn recommends the case study as a method for training policy analysts to understand the cognitive style and uniqueness of the decision makers they serve. Analysts must be interdisciplinary, politically knowledgable, yet unbiased. Policy analysis, particularly by external institutions, is spreading to Congress. (CP)

Describes how faculty-produced 35 mm slides can be used to enhance student interest in political science in undergraduate college level courses. Emphasis is placed on copying existing photos and on fieldwork where political events are photographed. Information is presented on copyright law, photographic equipment, and slide program technique.…

Reviews the influences that city and State politics have on school desegregation in Los Angeles. Asserts that the Los Angeles desegregation plan reflects the influence and power of the city's westside by providing an escape from its provisions of mandatory busing while meeting the school district's desegregation guidelines. (Author/GC)

State legislatures are writing more legislation to deal with the day-to-day operation of schools. Special interests, energy, inflation, and declining enrollments have all been the subject of a broad spectrum of legislation. (Author/MLF)

Examines three rhetorical techniques that Franklin D. Roosevelt used in his "First Inaugural Address" to announce and implement his New Deal. The various speech drafts examined reveal that he purposefully used military metaphor, the scapegoat, and the carrot-and-stick approach to accomplish certain persuasive goals. (JMF)

An agenda-setting effect of the first Ford-Carter debate on college student viewers is demonstrated. Subjects who viewed the debate seem to have effected a synthesis between their personal priorities and the relative weight accorded issues in the debate. (JMF)

Findings of a survey of 229 television news personnel suggested that most news personnel were not satisfied with the fairness doctrine as now applied and that attitudes toward the doctrine were based on a complex mixture of educational background, managerial position, and political participation. (GT)

Argues that the compromises involved in the final acceptance of the UNESCO Mass Media Declaration favored none of the parties involved. The developing Third World nations gained the most by the declaration's recognition of the present imbalance in news reporting. (JMF)

Reviews the three stages involved in the development of the UNESCO Mass Media Declaration: the developing countries' initiative, the Western counter move, and the mutual accommodation in a spirit of realistic compromise. (JMF)

Presents a study to determine the effects of inherent structural dimensions of network television news, such as story placement and visual treatment, on campaign agendas as perceived by their audiences. Results suggest that some inherent structural biases in the coverage of the 1976 campaign produced nonpurposive effects in perceptions of the…

A study of undecided voters in the 1976 political campaign indicates that they were neither inattentive nor apathetic. Only two characteristics distinguished decided from undecided voters: frequency of discussing the candidates and viewing national network television news. (JMF)

Analyzes the content of television news and advertising during the 1972 presidential campaign in terms of two divergent views of television programing in order to balance one viewpoint against the other. (GT)

Text of an interview of Frank Reissman by Irving Louis Horowitz suggests that while social problems are experienced locally in the big cities, their cure lies nationally at the federal level. (Author/AM)