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Nonelectoral Participation in Deeply Divided Societies: Transforming Consociations from the Ground Up?
Authors: Agarin Timofey 
Published: May 2020

AbstractPremised on elite accommodation, consociations provide little consideration for citizens’ input on institutional change. Likewise, valuable analyses of cross-community political participation in divided societies have emerged in recent years, yet whether the relationship between the grassroot and formal political process has broader consequences remains to be fully explored. The article examines the conditions in which nonelectoral participation takes place and the ways in which actors involved therein negotiate constraints for continuous cross-community mobilization. The structure of political systems and the nature of deep divisions in Northern Ireland and Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina invite a comparison of the consequences of nonelectoral political participation in these two illustrative case studies. The article concludes that while the formal political context shapes the likelihood of engagement on a cross-community basis, whether nonelectoral participation changes the structure of political decision-making depends on the willingness and ability of those involved to cooperate with formal institutional politics.
Functional assessments in the UK social security system: the experiences of claimants with mental health conditions
Authors: PYBUS KATIE , PICKETT KATE. E. , LLOYD CHARLIE , PRADY STEPHANIE , WILKINSON EMERITUS RICHARD 
Published: May 2020

AbstractEligibility for health-related income benefits in the United Kingdom is now determined through the use of functional assessments conducted by healthcare professionals. Claimant satisfaction with both Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Work Capability Assessments (WCA) has been mixed and concerns have been raised that mental health conditions are not well-understood in this context, but academic research has so far been limited. Individuals with a range of common mental disorders and severe mental illness were interviewed (n=18) about their experiences of undergoing eligibility assessments for health-related income benefits. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis approach.Eleven out of the 18 participants had been turned down for one or more income benefits and successful claims were more likely where supported by health and care professionals. Eligibility assessments were overwhelmingly perceived as focusing on physical health with limited scope to explore the impact of mental health on functioning. Evidence from this and other studies suggests that improvements are needed to the eligibility assessment process for all claimants but particularly those with a mental health condition.
Evaluating Manuscripts in Political Science
Authors: Fisher Phyllis 
Published: May 2020

A developmental review is a request for advice from experts and potential adopters of the book. Basically, we ask the reviewer to help us evaluate and shape the manuscript by telling us honestly and directly what's good about it and what's not so good.We commission three kinds of reviews.We occasionally ask well known scholars to serve as expert advisors, providing bibliographies, abstracts of articles, and outlines. They read draft chapters and then reread them. The point of their efforts is to help a nonexpert author gain expertise. Remuneration is generous by publishing standards: about $500 per chapter. The expert advisor can expect to have his or her name associated with the book when it's published. This kind of reviewing is relatively rare in political science.In another kind of expert review, we ask specialists to prepare outlines and provide bibliographies and do one careful reading. The fee is usually $250 per chapter.
Clusters of Power and Influence in American Society
Authors: Rouse John E. 
Published: May 2020

In teaching political science courses in American government, public policy, and public administration, students have considerable difficulty in conceptualizing the complexity of the two essential values of democratic capitalism.Those values are equality, espousing the values of democracy, and efficiency, depicting the rationale of capitalism.The purpose of this brief essay is to conceptualize more clearly the setting of the infrastructure of public and private relations in the United States. These clusters of power and influence will enable students to comprehend more easily the dynamics of political economy in the United States.
Enlivening Classrooms with Personal Subscriptions
Authors: Barber Charles T. 
Published: May 2020

As a lively discipline, political science meshes well with the print media. Coverage of recent events by newspapers and magazines can be an outgoing part of the classroom experience. Encouraging students to get personal subscriptions points them toward greater involvement in the learning process.My initial use of media revolved around single issues of journals in combination with texts. For Introduction to International Relations, I ordered the latest Foreign Affairs and for International Law, I included the most recent American Journal of International Law. One of my best finds, a special issue of International Organization devoted to Canada, rounded out coverage for a special topics seminar on Canada. Student personal copies of journals, sometimes tied to student memberships, proved rewarding in helping juniors and seniors to learn.
Reporting on Washington From Back Home
Authors: Wolfson Lewis W. 
Published: May 2020

Americans are increasingly concerned about the federal government's impact in their lives. While the news media inform us more fully about government these days, it is not always easy to grasp what ‘those people in Washington’ really do and why they do it, or how that affects what happens back home.C-SPAN has opened a window onto Washington, providing journalists a unique opportunity to learn more about the system. Some observers say television shows mostly staged political rituals. But it still offers a view of the federal government that few Americans have had a chance to see. You can cover debate of policy issues that may affect thousands of people in your area and millions more nationally. You can watch our political leaders being tested. You can report on hearings and symposia that help set the agenda for policymaking and legislation.
Why Teach About Congress
Authors: Davidson Roger 
Published: May 2020

Political scientists' long-standing love affair with the United States Congress no doubt baffles people outside the profession. By the same token, the popularity of courses on Congress is not fully understood. Articles and monographs on the subject pour out at a phenomenal rate, and students receive unique benefits from courses on the subject year after year. Still the question is posed: Why so much attention to the U.S. Congress?Much of the puzzlement arises from Congress's persistent image problem. The other branches of government have nothing quite like the comic image of Senator Snort, the florid and incompetent windbag, or Congressman Bob Forehead, the bland and media-driven founder of the "JFK Look-Alike Caucus." Pundits and humorists — from Mark Twain and Will Rogers to Johnny Carson, from Thomas Nast to Garry Trudeau — find Congress an inexhaustible source of raw material. Running down Congress, it seems, is a leading national pastime.
News and News Making in the Study of Politics
Authors: Hedblom Milda K. 
Published: May 2020

Several political Scientists, philosophers, English and speech specialists, legal specialists, and even one geographer recently gathered to discuss and consider how to teach news and new-making at the third annual “Classroom and the Newsroom” seminar sponsored by the Modern Media Institute and The Poynter Center, Indiana University with Ford Foundation funding. It was an excellent opportunity for us to discuss news theory, criticism, and pedagogy among ourselves and with prominent broadcast/print journalists and media scholars.Various local media organizations provided special tours or meetings, and most interesting of all, access as observers to working sessions.Apart from discussion of news theory and classroom technique an extenseive bibliography for books, films and video tapes about news and news media was available to seminar participants. An abbreviated list indicating those materials likely to be most directly useful to political scientists follows.
Critical Thinking and Clear Writing
Authors: Lee Anne F. 
Published: May 2020

As part of an on-going effort at West Oahu College (a small, liberal arts, upper-division campus of the University of Hawaii) I am experimenting with ways to help my political science students improve their ability to think critically and communicate clearly. For some time we have been aware of a large number of students having difficulties in writing and critical thinking. We have made an informal and voluntary commitment to use writing-across-thecurriculum (WAC) with faculty participating in workshops and conferring with the writing instructor who coordinates our WAC program.1In-coming students must now produce a writing proficiency sample which is analyzed, returned with numerous comments, and results in students being urged to take a writing class if there are serious problems. A writing lab is offered several times a week and students are free to drop in for help.
Integrating Women's Studies in a Political Science Curriculum
Authors: Moniz Leta A. 
Published: May 2020

Integrating Women's Studies with any curriculum, political science or otherwise, is a formidable task. And like most changes in curriculum, the integration of Women's Studies material has not come about in orderly fashion. There are some dimensions to Women's Studies integration, however, that set it apart from other curriculum change.The thrust of Women's Studies vis a vis any discipline is to revise and reinterpret that discipline from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy has argued that traditional methodologies, theories, and manifest analyses have contained a patriarchal bias which has excluded the impact of women from the intellectual evolution of humankind. Thus, on the discipline and on the academy itself, the very premise of Women's Studies makes demands which are far-reaching and threatening to establishment doctrine.
Men, Women and Government Violence
Authors: Stiehm Judith , St. Germaine Michelle 
Published: May 2020

Governments claim to protect citizens. They claim to protect them from criminals at home and enemies abroad. A government's capacity to protect is rooted in that government's capacity to do violence — specifically, its capacity to do more violence than can criminals and/or enemies. Governments lay claim to skill, sagacity, and support, but they also claim strength and a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Citizens may enjoy security but they also provide for security through the payment of taxes and men especially pay for it through personal service and sometimes sacrifice.State violence is often approved by citizens. Indeed, when the state exercises or threatens violence it is often seen not as violence but as “defense” or as “law enforcement.”
Teaching Lobbying Skills
Authors: Carroll John J. , Fyock Jack W. , Moniz Rita 
Published: May 2020

Political scientists can be of practical assistance to important segments of the adult population who need training to develop lobbying skills. This is an area in which the subjectmatter expertise and teaching experience of political scientists have direct application outside the traditional classroom setting.A great many citizens’ groups, professional associations, public officials, business organizations and private citizens have occasion to contact their representatives on legislative business. Yet many, if not most, of these groups and individuals have little understanding of the process in which they are engaged. In consequence, they may approach lobbying with great trepidation, they may be unable to maximize their influence and they may hold unrealistic expectations of the ability of individual legislators to shape policy.
State Supreme Courts and Public Policy: A Bibliography
Authors: Tarr G.Alan 
Published: May 2020

During the past decade political scientists have become increasingly aware that state supreme courts make major contributions to public policy. Various highly publicized decisions concerning, for example, school finance, the termination of life support systems, and plea bargaining have underlined the importance of state supreme court policymaking. Historical studies have documented that this policy involvement is not merely a recent phenomenon. However, the Burger Court's new federalism has invited state supreme courts to play a more active role, and many courts have availed themselves of this opportunity.Yet despite the obvious importance of state supreme court activity, research on their policymaking has lagged. In part this can be attributed to the sheer volume of cases they annually decide. Numerous law journals assist the political scientist in overcoming this difficulty by publishing annual surveys of state supreme court decisions. Listed below are journals which provide such surveys.
College Research Services and P.S. Term Papers
Authors: Orman John 
Published: May 2020

After grading my last batch of spring 1980 term papers, my paranoia began to strike deep. Did Michael really write that paper on intelligence oversight in Congress? And wasn't Joan's term paper remarkably better than her written exams? And didn't I get a term paper from a basketball player at Indiana University a few years ago that was 10 pages long with 81 footnotes? Hey, who really writes these papers anyway?My general operating assumption throughout the 1970s had been that I assumed each paper turned into me was written by that person, during the semester, for my course only.
Athena Beheaded: Introducing the Study of Nuclear Weapons Technology
Authors: Hadari Saguiv A. 
Published: May 2020

This essay offers a clear, nontechnical framework for introducing students to the strategic and moral dilemmas surrounding nuclear weapons technology. The acute importance of these issues appears selfevident, and the disheartening confidence exhibited by both presidential candidates in the relative ignorance of the public in these matters amply illustrates the urgent need for more accessible information.A strict rule has governed the elaboration of this framework: avoid both the dominant modes of discourse on the nuclear question —the new scholasticism of technological complexity and the new millenialism of technological doom. Both perplexity and panic paralyze. Accordingly, no claim whatsoever is made to offer new information or new prophecies: addressing political scientists merely seems the best way to reach students. It is the latter's frightening lack of understanding of this crucial issue, which I have personally experienced, that prompted this effort.
Teaching the Politics of Aging
Authors: Drew Lyndon S. 
Published: May 2020

Real satisfaction in teaching comes from former students who find the value of a course in the world of work. I have experienced this satisfaction many times since I began teaching a course on the politics of aging three years ago.The course targets two audiences: political science students who want to learn about aging and gerontology students who want to learn about politics. The course is the only cross-listed course in the gerontology curriculum at Wichita State University and attracts a variety of graduate and undergraduate students from diverse departments. By the end of the semester, all of them have learned something practical about the politics of aging. The elements of success in the course include the text, the format of each class, and the five assignments.
Expanding the Beltway: Developing a Washington Resource Center
Authors: Alpert Eugene J. 
Published: May 2020

“Inside the Beltway” is the phrase most often used by observers of national politics to capital area. Apparently, according to critics, the only people who really follow or care about the “inside baseball” of Washington intrigue are the people who live within the 257 sq. miles of roadway. The rest of the country is either unconcerned or unaware, since a) theWashington Postis not available for home delivery in their area, b) they are not invited to Georgetown cocktail parties or intimate Chevy Chase dinners, c) they aren't in contact with the 40,000 plus lawyers in D.C. or d) all of the above.Despite the difficulty of following Washington politics on a daily basis, it is something that cannot be totally avoided.
On the Partisanship of Political Science
Authors: Lawler Peter Augustine 
Published: May 2020

Political scientists, whatever skeptical pretensions they have in theory, cannot help but believe that political knowledge is good for human beings. This belief is based on another: well-informed citizens are better citizens. Scientific enlightenment makes citizens better. Political scientists cannot help but be concerned with the education of citizens.Consider the early survey research that seemed to show American citizens are mostly ignorant and apathetic. Its purpose was not to undermine responsible citizenship by showing that such citizenship is not possible. Instead, its purpose was to make it possible, perhaps for the first time. For some, it signaled the need for a project of citizen education to eliminate ignorance and apathy. For others, the proper conclusion was that democratic normative theory must be reformulated to make the idealism of citizens responsible and effective by locating it within the boundaries of the possible. Either way, it was clear that the significance of the research findings were not viewed as purely or even primarily theoretical. They could and were used to improve political practice, to improve the American regime in accordance with its citizens’ values.
Foreign Policy Through A Great Decisions Practicum
Authors: Chernotsky Henry I. 
Published: May 2020

Many political science departments face the difficult challenge of providing practical learning experiences of use to students beyond their collegiate years. The problem is particularly pronounced in the international field, where there are fewer internship and work-credit outlets and participation in study abroad programs may be limited by financial or logistical considerations. An alternative device offering “hands on” experience is a practicum, combining classroom instruction with the opportunity to apply acquired knowledge through activity outside the traditional classroom setting.One such effort to augment the international relations curriculum is the Great Decisions practicum. Sponsored nationally by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA), Great Decisions is a non-partisan study/discussion program intended to familiarize citizens with critical foreign policy issues facing the United States. Each year, participants are exposed to eight major policy issues by reading the Great Decisions study guide and through involvement in a community lecture and discussion series.
Futurism in Policy Analysis
Authors: Ross E. Clarke 
Published: May 2020

Michael Genovese's summer 1985 article, “Politics and Science Fiction Films,” is an excellent introduction to the broader topic of futurism and forecasting as methods of public policy analysis. These methods can be an interesting and challenging aspect of a graduate public administration course in public policy analysis.“The future does not simply happen. We create it. We can choose our future.” Accepting this assumption, I have integrated futures studies and forecasting into the Troy State University European Region graduate public administration course, “Policy and Decision Making in Government.” The course is a required component of a master's degree program offered under contract with the U.S. Air Force European Command. I have taught the course seven times, at bases in England, Turkey, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Simulations: Urban Fiscal Crisis
Authors: Pohlmann Marcus D. 
Published: May 2020

PurposeI wish to describe a role-playing simulation, as opposed to an educational game. A game normally has an elaborate set of rules and requires participants to function within the logic of its own reality. A role-playing simulation, on the other hand, allows the participants to maintain their own personalities and values as they interact within far more general roles and rules, creating a unique reality each time. The goal of this particular simulation is to overcome a public policy problem within a simulated political environment.
Using Community Resources to Teach Public Policy
Authors: Mueller Keith J. 
Published: May 2020

The recent growth in policy studies curricula in political science departments affords increased opportunities for experimentation with alternative instruction modes. This article describes one innovation found to be appropriate for courses for which the instructor has access to experts in the policy being studied. In this example, community experts in health policy issues were used as resource persons to assist in discussion of specific health policy concerns. Other policy courses should be amenable to this format, including energy, environment, and economic development courses. Even without using community experts, the general format of weekly colloquiums could be replicated for other policy courses.The courses described herein is an upper division/graduate level course in American Health Policy. It is taught for one semester every other year as one of several topical courses in the public policy track within political science.
Organizational Change: Case Studies and Analysis
Authors: Pavlak Thomas J. , Wong Molly 
Published: May 2020

One continuing source of frustration in public policy and mangement education is the relative paucity of materials in empirical inquiry. Typically, instructors must borrow and adapt instructional materials originally developed for use in other fields (e.g., Political Science, Sociology). While many of these texts, laboratory manuals and other instructional resources are of excellent quality, they often are only marginally related to public policy and management concerns. Learning for skillbuilding in empirical inquiry is not content-free, however, and students frequently have difficulty applying concepts and techniques covered in these instructional materials to their own field of study—the linkages may not be readily apparent.The problem is particularly acute when one is trying to provide students with relevant "hands on" experience in applying various analytic methods to actual data for public policy and management decision-making.
The Dover Project
Authors: Hartwig Richard E. , Atkins Ann , Bradley Darla , Mize Kathleen , Taylor Greg 
Published: May 2020

As a veteran gypsy scholar who has done time in seven or eight institutions of higher learning, I thought I had seen it all. But once again, I was wrong. This time it was not a question of teachingper se— as in the university where I was ordered to teach Texas Politics within two weeks of entering the state. Now it was just a little thing: the chalk-holders on the blackboards were usually empty.For a teacher, the situation was irritating. The standard operating procedure was to ask the departmental secretary for a piece of chalk—two if you insisted. You were then supposed to take the chalk with you from class to class because, I was told, it would disappear if you left it in the room.