Democracies of both the East and the West function in a world depression that began 20 years ago and has grown uninterruptedly. Overlaying the economic crisis is the fact that the current economic powers, Germany, Japan, and Russia, are without military might; while the military power, the United States, has virtually no industrial base and an…

The many movements toward a multicultural approach to education have met with resistance from various quarters. A predominant opposing view is that tampering with the status quo is tantamount to inviting educational disaster across the nation. When education becomes more accessible, the argument implies, it is letting people down. Two recent…

Being a teacher of writing carries certain ideological implications, not the least of which is the fact that the teacher must participate in and perpetuate an educational system which works effects in and upon society that are repugnant. Overall, teachers work to maintain a status quo that shrugs its shoulders at many inequalities and injustices…

The compilation of cross-institutional comparative information to support a college or university's goals is an effective yet politically dangerous venue of institutional research activity. Selecting a group of institutions for comparison can often be a major task involving external governing agencies, key institutional administrators, and…

A study examined the strategies used in 11 "get-out-the-vote" (GOTV) 1982 direct mail campaign letters, which were mailed on behalf of Republican candidates in two gubernatorial, one congressional, and one U.S. Senate race. All letters were mailed from four states with different political climates: Illinois, Minnesota, California, and…

The events leading to Cherokee removal are discussed. (NQ)

The purpose of this paper is to review some of the central segments of educational activities in the German Democratic Republic in order to determine the extent to which the two-way relationship implied in the "authoritarianism" model fits the present situation. (Author/RK)

This paper reports on the High/Scope National Policy Conference, which was concerned with the process of designing good early childhood legislation and the political processes that enhance or impede legislative passage. Discussion began with an overview of the range of options facing policymakers as they attempt to design legislation or write…

This extensive bibliography of books, ERIC documents, and journal articles is intended for use by researchers at the postsecondary level and beyond. Standard bibliographic data (author, date, title, place, and publisher) are included under various headings except in the case of ERIC documents, for which author, title, and "ED" number are given.…

The "great national discussion" of 1787 involved deliberations, writings, debates, and speeches concerning the newly created U.S. Constitution. Both the framers and the critics of the Constitution utilized philosophies of: (1) republicanism; (2) Lockean liberalism; (3) work-ethic Protestantism; and (4) state-centered theories of power…

From their inception in 1856, the ultimate purpose of national political conventions and also the speechmaking at the conventions, have undergone significant changes. The role of the keynoter is gradually becoming more clearly defined by the dictates of tradition and precedent. Whereas the earliest keynoters were relatively free to discuss…

A study examined the television network visibility of representatives and senators during the two-year period of the 97th Congress (1981-82). Among other questions, the study sought to determine whether high visibility on network news was limited to an elite group of leaders and activists, and whether the Senate-to-House network coverage ratio was…

As a study in the presentation of a public policy issue in education, the argumentative rationales of 139 opinion pieces (editorials, op-ed pieces, and letters to the editor) in "The New York Times" on the issue of school busing were analyzed. Material from the years 1971-75 was located through "The New York Times Index" and…

A study tested the hypotheses (1) that reporting of methodological information needed to gauge the accuracy of public opinion poll stories in metropolitican daily newspapers improved significantly during the presidential election years from 1968 to 1980, and (2) that these newspapers were more likely to report this information in their own inhouse…

Political campaigns are major, high-budget marketing efforts, but because they are usually managed by people with little training in either marketing or communications, they fail to persuade voters to vote in the desired way. Political targeting can be treated as a segmentation problem, one of identifying and responding to the specific qualities…