Complexes and Cognitive Complexity: Canadian Contributions to Political Psychology

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Life ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
The Status ◽  
Important Approach ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

While it remains a diffuse field of enquiry, political psychology has established itself as an important approach to the analysis of political life. In the United States, political psychology is offered as an optional programme in a number of leading graduate schools and is a recognized subfield of the American Political Science Association. Despite the existence of a number of active political psychologists in Canada, there has been relatively little curiosity about the status of the field. This article offers an account of research in the field. Central to this exploration is an evaluation of the ideological, cultural and substantive research in political psychology in Canada.

Swedish and Norwegian Attitudes towards the United States

1976 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
Peter Grothe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Social Welfare System ◽  
Return Home ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association ◽  
The U.S

This study, based on a paper given to the 1975 annual convention of the American Political Science Association, gives the results of questionnaires filled out by more than 2,800 Swedes and Norwegians. Swedes and Norwegians who had been to the United States were compared with control groups of their fellow countrymen who had not been there regarding their perceptions of America. Further, those who had been to the United States were asked about their perceptions of their own countries. The data showed that on most – but not all – indicators, those who had been to America were more positive than the control groups who had not been there. Scandinavians who had been to America were particularly positive about American personality characteristics but were negative about the perceived lack of a comprehensive social welfare system in the U.S. Scandinavians who had been to America seemed to return home both more appreciative and more critical of some aspects of their own countries.

Findings and Recommendations of the Special Committee on Service Voting

1952 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 512-523 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Special Committee ◽  
Recent Letter ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

The review is republishing below the findings and recommendations included in the Report recently prepared by the Special Committee on Service Voting of the American Political Science Association and presented to the President of the United States, who submitted it to Congress. The Committee was composed of the following members: Paul T. David, chairman, Robert Cutler, Samuel J. Eldersveld, Bertram M. Gross, Alexander Heard, Edward H. Litchfield, ex officio, Kathryn H. Stone, and William B. Prendergast, secretary.In a letter of April 7, 1952, to Luther Gulick, President of the Association, President Truman expressed his appreciation for the work of the Committee and of the Association in the following words:I wish to thank you, and the members of the Special Committee on Service Voting of the American Political Science Association, for the outstanding report on “Voting in the Armed Forces” which you sent me with your recent letter. This report more than fulfills my request to the American Political Science Association for an analysis of the progress made on soldier voting, and recommendations for steps to be taken to see that a maximum number of servicemen vote this year.

Recent Political Science Research in American Universities

1952 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 470-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude E. Hawley ◽  
Lewis A. Dexter
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Science Departments ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

This report is based upon a survey of research in progress in political science departments of American universities in the spring of 1950. Undertaken jointly by the Committee on Research of the American Political Science Association and the Division of Higher Education of the United States Office of Education, the survey was essentially an analysis of questionnaires sent to the chairmen of 112 departments of political science believed to be in a position that would enable them particularly to emphasize research. Seventy-five of the 112 chairmen replied to the questionnaire, fourteen merely to state that no research was being conducted in their departments. Although several leading institutions did not reply, it is a fair guess that at least seventy-five per cent of the research being conducted by or in departments of political science was reported and subsequently analyzed.

scholarly journals Editor's Introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Organization ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

The American Political Science Association is a global organization, and currently counts among its almost 15,000 members nearly 3000 individuals who are citizens of nation-states other than the US. And only half of its 1600 institutional subscribers are North American. At the same time, the contemporary political science discipline that it represents, however cosmopolitan, is deeply rooted in the distinctive historical experiences of the United States. As Ira Katznelson and Helen V. Milner observed in their 2002 Centennial edition of Political Science: State of the Discipline, the professional association responsible for publishing the words you are now reading was born in the United States during the Progressive Era, as an effort to more scientifically and thus more usefully understand the evolving American state and its national citizenship: “American political science has specialized in developing particular kinds of social knowledge. The modifier American has to be taken seriously” (3–4).

scholarly journals Woodrow Wilson como Administrador

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (02) ◽  
pp. 134-147
Author(s):  
Henry A. Turner ◽  
Raimundo Xavier de Menezes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
American People ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Constitutional Government ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

Vinte e oito de dezembro de 1956 assinalou o centenário do nascimento deWoodrow Wilson , um dos presidentes mais complexos que até hoje nos governaram.Poucos contribuíram tão significativamente em campos tão variados,e apresentaram tal número de interessantes facetas em sua personalidade.W i l s o n , o sexto presidente da American Political Science Association, é conhecidocomo ilustre cientista político, em virtude de suas obras CongressionalGovernment, The State e Constitutional Government in the United States,além de numerosos ensaios sôbre o mesmo assunto. É tido como historiadorem atenção aos seus trabalhos History oí the American People e Division andReunion. Sua ação como Presidente da Universidade de Princeton bem comoas manifestações literárias sôbre temas educacionais granjearam-lhe fama deeducador. As reformas promovidas sob sua orientação, quando Governador deNew Jersey, distinguem-no como um dos Chefes de Executivo estaduais maisnotáveis, dentre os de sua geração.

The British Civil Service in Transition

1949 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-344
Author(s):  
E. N. Gladden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Service Development ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
The Subject ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

It must be confessed that, outside the inner circles of the administration, people in Great Britain show little interest in their civil service. It is taken for granted by the majority and used as an Aunt Sally by a considerable minority to whom the merest suspicion of that much overworked epithet, “bureaucrat,” acts as a red rag to a bull. Much wider interest in the British civil service has, in fact, been shown in the United States, whence the most illuminating writings on the subject have almost invariably emanated. For this reason, the present writer believes that there must be many members of the American Political Science Association who will be interested in a brief survey of civil service development, with particular reference to the changes at present in hand. It might be as well to point out that this essay is written with all the prejudices of a writer in Britain, e.g., with regard to the importance of open competitive recruitment and a quite different approach to veteran preference; but this in itself may add something to the article's interest.

scholarly journals The Progressive Unfolding of the Powers of the United States: Presidential Address, Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

1912 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Simeon E. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
The Future ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
General Tone ◽  
Science Association

When the Constitution of the United States was pending for ratification, its supporters, in their public utterances, were disposed to minimize the powers which it conferred. This was the general tone of the Federalist. How far they might reach, indeed, was a question that only the future could fully answer. A set of traditions and usages and precedents must first grow up, under the Constitution, but outside of it.Every one saw that much would depend on the views of Washington. Every one looked forward with confidence to his unanimous election as the first President. Every one saw that it would be left to him to decide whether he should be reelected. His refusal to stand for a third term founded a usage that has become as controlling as an express constitutional provision.Washington took care that the judiciary should be composed of men who believed that Congress was not confined to the exercise of the powers expressly granted to it.

Political Science and Federal Employment

1941 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-310
Author(s):  
Frederick M. Davenport ◽  
Lewis B. Sims ◽  
Leonard D. White ◽  
G. Lyle Belsley ◽  
Frances R. Fussell
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Federal Employment ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

Only since 1939 have political scientists, as such, had much chance to gain entrance into the permanent federal civil service. This opportunity came as the result of two well-timed phenomena: (1) the demand of a number of federal agencies for young men and women educated in certain branches of political science, and (2) the United States Civil Service Commission's announcement of the Junior Professional Assistant examination, which included an optional called “Junior Administrative Technician.” This combination of happy circumstances, however, did not solve all the problems of the young political scientist or clarify all the requirements for federal employment; so, at the 1939 meeting of the American Political Science Association a committee was appointed to study the question.

Presidential Papers as a Political Science Concern

1975 ◽  
Vol 8 (01) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Clement E. Vose
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
White House ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Key Events ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

Among the modest number of widely-accepted generalizations about American history is the proposition that many subjects that were once ignored altogether or dealt with privately here, over the decades, come to be regarded as societal problems regulated best, or at least inevitably, by the national government in Washington. Whatever its applications otherwise, this description appears to fit the handling of the papers of Presidents of the United States from 1789 onwards. A backward step in this trend seemed to be signified on Pardon Day, September 8, 1974, when Philip W. Buchen, Counsel to the President, released two legal documents that expressed President Ford's conclusions about the Presidential materials of Richard Nixon. The bottom line was that the papers and other records, including tapes, retained during the Administration of former President Nixon in the White House offices “are the present property of Mr. Nixon.”Beginning with these documents, this report will describe each of the key events from September, 1974 to the end of January, 1975 concerning the wise handling of Presidential materials. The chief focus will be on the litigation challenging Nixon's ownership, especially the participation as a party by The American Political Science Association. We will examine the initial judicial phase of this controversy including the ruling of Judge Charles R. Richey on January 31, 1975 favorable to the Association and its allies.

scholarly journals We Still Need You! An Update on the Status of K-12 Civics Education in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (04) ◽  
pp. 630-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Journell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Civics Education ◽  
Science Engagement ◽  
The Status ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
K 12

ABSTRACTIn 2001, Richard Niemi and Julia Smith published an article inPS: Political Science and Politicson enrollments in high school civics and government courses. They framed their study on the premise that political scientists were ignoring an important aspect of American civic and political life, and they concluded by issuing a call for political scientists to become more involved in K-12 civics education. This article provides an update on the state of K-12 civics education and renews Niemi and Smith’s call for political science engagement in K-12 education.

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