Crisis, Choice, and Change in Retrospect

1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel A. Almond ◽  
Scott C. Flanagan ◽  
Robert J. Mundt
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
The Political ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

THE ‘NEW INSTITUTIONALISM’ HAS BEEN THE MOST VISIBLE movement in American political science during the last decade. It is a recoil from reductionism that is said to have dominated the political science of the previous decades. During the American Political Science Association presidency of Charles E. Lindblom in 1981, with Theodore Lowi and Sidney Tarrow as co-chairs of the Program Committee, it was decided that all titles of panels and round tables at the annual meeting were to have ‘and the state’ tacked on. The implication was that the behavioural revolution had resulted in the neglect of the power and autonomy of the state. But this adding on ‘and the state’ had very little effect on the content of the papers, and seemed primarily to have ‘buzzword’ significance. A second manifestation of this discomfort was an article in the American Political Science Review of 1984 by James March and Johan Olsen, entitled ‘The New Institutionalism; The Organizational Factor in Political Life’, followed by a book by the same two authors called Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics.

The Political Science Curriculum in War-Time: Report of the Committee of the American Political Science Association on War-Time Changes in the Political Science Curriculum

1942 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1142-1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan P. Allen ◽  
Rodney L. Mott ◽  
Kenneth O. Warner ◽  
Francis O. Wilcox ◽  
E. M. Kirkpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
The Political ◽  
The People ◽  
The Common ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

In these days of war, with democracy facing the greatest challenge in its history, it would be a sad mistake for anyone to assume an attitude of smug complacency. Such would be disastrous if not literally treasonable. Educators, therefore, along with labor and industry, business and agriculture, need to re-examine and revaluate their contribution to the common welfare of the community. Engaged in a war that threatens the very existence of freedom of thought, scholarship, and teaching, educational leaders have an obligation to see that the best possible use is made of one of democracy's outstanding institutions—a free educational system. If the democratic nations fail to train men in good moral and intellectual habits, fail to produce men of keen insight and critical judgment, fail to give us free minds that can join in our struggle toward a better life for all the people of the world, they will have failed in one of their most important obligations to the human race, no matter how the struggle upon the field of battle may end.

Present Tendencies in American Politics

1920 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Henry Jones Ford
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
The State ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
The Road ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
Running Away ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
First Time ◽  
Science Association

For the first time since its sessions began in 1904, the American Political Science Association was last year unable to hold its regular annual meeting. For fourteen years, in unbroken series, the association had brought its members together for conference and discussion; but last year, with more matter in its field engaging thought and provoking study than ever before, the association had to suspend its activities. This was due to circumstances so well known that the matter would be scarcely worth mentioning were it not that it exhibits a plight in which political science is apt to find itself whenever the ordinary course of events is interrupted by some great catastrophe.In President Lowell's standard work on Governments and Parties in Continental Europe, he remarks that to him “the State sometimes presents itself under the figure of a stage-coach with the horses running away. On the front a number of eager men are urging the most contrary advice on the driver, whose chief object is to keep his seat; while at the back a couple of old gentlemen with spy-glasses are carefully surveying the road already traversed.”

Participation in APSA Annual Meetings, 1964–1969

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (04) ◽  
pp. 629-640
Author(s):  
Donald D. Barry ◽  
James G. Bommer
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Program Chairman ◽  
Background Data ◽  
Leadership Group ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

This is a study of participation in six annual meetings (1964–1969) of the American Political Science Association. Participation was defined to include not only membership on panels but also membership on the Program Committee (i.e., program chairman and chairman of the panel categories-here called subject area chairman). Data on participation were gathered from the programs of the meetings and background data on participation were obtained from the APSABiographical Directory(Fifth Edition, 1968 and Fourth Edition, 1961) and from other sources.The study is divided into three parts: multiple participants and two sub-groups thereof, “rule violators” and the leadership group. Multiple participants (MPs) are those who participated in APSA annual meetings two or more times during the period 1964–1969. “Rule violators” (RVs) are those who, contrary to what is stated to be APSA general policy, participated more than one time in any single year. The leadership group includes members of the program committee.

Scholasticism in Political Science

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Mead
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Real World ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Science Centers ◽  
Science Review ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

Criticism of trends in political science centers on specific methodologies—quantitative methods or rational choice. However, the more worrisome development is scholasticism—a tendency for research to become overspecialized and ingrown. I define that trend more closely and document its growth through increases in numbers of journals, organized sections in the American Political Science Association, and divisions within the APSA conference. I also code articles published in the American Political Science Review to show a growth in scholastic features in recent decades. The changes affect all fields in political science. Scholasticism serves values of rigor. To restrain it will require reemphasizing relevance to real-world issues and audiences. To do this should also help restore morale among political scientists.

Identity challenges Facing the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 77-79
Author(s):  
David Goetze
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early Success ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

Founded in 1980, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) sought to establish biopolitics as a recognized field and to integrate biologically based research methods into mainstream political science. The association's founders established these goals to encourage a generation of scholars and promote the spread of biopolitical knowledge. There was early success when the American Political Science Association (APSA) recognized biopolitics as an organized section. However, this development did not leave an appreciable imprint on the political science profession and the experiment conjoining the two did not last long. The other goal of the founders, to integrate biologically based research methods into mainstream political science, faced more formidable obstacles and still faces challenges, though not without some progress.

scholarly journals Spotlight: Grain of Sand Award of 2009 Presented to Professors Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (02) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Dvora Yanow
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
The Creation ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group of the American Political Science Association is proud to announce the creation of the “Grain of Sand” Award to honor a political scientist whose contributions to interpretive studies of the political, and, indeed, to the discipline itself, its ideas, and its persons, have been longstanding and merit special recognition.

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