Correction

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-520
Author(s):  
Fred I. Greenstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
Review Article ◽  
White Children ◽  
Science Review ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Traffic Policeman ◽  
Substantive Importance

I report with regret that several of the tables in ‘The Queen and the Prime Minister [this Journal, IV (1974), 257–87], contained small mechanical errors, largely affecting percentage distribution by one or two per cent. Should anyone need a ‘laundered’ reprint of the article, please let me know. There is one error of substantive importance: in Table 6 (p, 282) the correct percentage of French and U.S. white children perceiving that a head of state stopped by a traffic policeman would be described as ‘above the law’ is 43 and 31 per cent respectively. English nationalists will be pleased to know that this revised statistic eliminates the ‘finding’that U.S. whites are less likely to evince this sentiment than are English children. The correct statistics will appear in my December 1975 American Political Science Review article ‘The Benevolent Leader Revisited’.

Convergence's Democracy Problem: A Critique of Kogelmann and Stich

2018 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-427
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN R. HERTZBERG
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Reason ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Science Review ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Stability ◽  
American Political Science

In their 2016 American Political Science Review article, Kogelmann and Stich argue that public reason fails to provide the assurance reasonable citizens require to act justly and that, as a consequence, Rawls's account of political stability fails. Convergence discussions, because they are a costly signal, provide such assurance. Kogelmann and Stich fail to recognize that constituents influence representatives such that the costs of convergence discourse are unknown. It thus cannot assure. Constituents’ influence also undermines convergence's ability to show how decision-making processes that follow its norms result in justified laws. Far from supporting convergence, then, the stability question demands revision of the view. This response develops these objections, extends them from Kogelmann and Stich's analysis to other convergence theorists and political liberals, and explores what political theorists can learn from convergence's difficulties.

A Response to Jeffrey Isaac

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (04) ◽  
pp. 739
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Kasza
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
Comparable Data ◽  
Science Review ◽  
Political Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Regional Association ◽  
American Political Science

The purpose of the present symposium was to evaluate Perestroika's impact. Since theAmerican Political Science Review(APSR), theAmerican Journal of Political Science(AJPS), and theJournal of Politics(JOP) were all targets of criticism in the movement, whereas other national and regional association journals such asPerspectives on PoliticsandPolitical Research Quarterlywere not, I looked for change in the former. Comparable data on the past contents of theAPSRandAJPShad already been published, so I focused my recent surveys on those two. This focus implies no judgment as to the relative prestige of these journals. They pretend to represent the discipline as a whole and are paid for by all association members, and these are sufficient reasons to address their editorial biases.

How International Is Political Science? Patterns of Submission and Publication in the American Political Science Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 789-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijke Breuning ◽  
Ayal Feinberg ◽  
Benjamin Isaak Gross ◽  
Melissa Martinez ◽  
Ramesh Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Review Process ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science Review ◽  
Global North ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTHow international in scope is publishing in political science? Previous studies have shown that the top journals primarily publish work by scholars from the United States and, to a lesser extent, other global-north countries. However, these studies used published content and could not evaluate the impact of the review process on the relative absence of international scholars in journals. This article evaluates patterns of submission and publication by US and international scholars for the American Political Science Review—one of the most selective peer-reviewed journals in the discipline. We found that scholars from the United States and other global-north countries are published approximately in proportion to submissions but that global-south scholars fare less well. We also found that scholars affiliated with prestigious universities are overrepresented, irrespective of geographic location. The article concludes with observations about the implications of these findings for efforts to internationalize the discipline.

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