scholarly journals Book review on Jody C. Baumgartner and Peter L. Francia (2020). Conventional Wisdom and American Elections: Exploding Myths, Exploring Misconceptions (Fourth Edition)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gentle
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
American Elections ◽  
General Readership ◽  
Good For ◽  
American Political Science

Eleven common topics are discussed in this book by the authors. Very detailed research is reviewed. This helps the read understand that some topics have some degree of consensus among professors of American political science. Furthermore, those topics that do not have a firm consensus of opinion are described, so that the reader can see where more research is needed and is indeed happening. This book is good for general readership as well as for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Reviewing the Reviewers: Ideological Bias in the APSR Book Section

1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (04) ◽  
pp. 370-374
Author(s):  
Michael Parenti
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Political Science Review ◽  
Free World ◽  
Review Section ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
American Political Science

I would like to give attention to that portion of theAmerican Political Science Reviewwhich is most read and least criticized, the book review section. My reading ofAPSRbook reviews in recent years leads me to the following observations:Most of the books selected for review adhere to the orthodox ideological values of today's political establishment. More importantly, these books almost invariably are reviewed by political scientists who share the same centrist ideological slant as the authors they are reviewing. In the reviews dealing with international relations, for instance, cold war terms like “totalitarianism”, “Castroism”, “subversion” and “Free World” are employed uncritically. Western capitalist nations are described as having “governments”, while socialist nations are said to have “regimes”, usually identified as being under the tutelage of one personage, hence: “Mao Tse-tung's regime”, and “Fidel Castro's Cuba”. The idea that popular sentiments and democratic in-puts might be part of the governance of countries like Cuba or China is not entertained.

scholarly journals Book Review: Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Science Association

Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines. Edited by Elizabeth C. Matto, Alison Rios Millett McCartney, Elizabeth A. Bennion, and Dick Simpson. Washington, DC: American Political Science Association. 2017. ISBN: 978-1878147561. 454 pages. Paperback, $30.

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.

The Post-Behavioral Revolution in Community Power: A Brief Note from a Frontier of Research

1972 ◽  
Vol 5 (03) ◽  
pp. 274-277
Author(s):  
Arthur Clun
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Golden Opportunity ◽  
American Political Science

Now that American political science is safely launched into its post-behavioral era, the study of community power has at long last been pried loose from the suffocating embrace of a mode of thought sometimes referred to as “pluralist.” This is liberating for pluralist and antipluralist alike; the former can no longer be sneered at for embodying or expressing or fomenting “conventional wisdom.” Indeed, on some campuses, it takes quite a lot of courage, not to say eccentricity, to harbor, let alone utter, a vagrant pluralist thought. Anti-pluralists are faced with the golden opportunity of themselves offering explanations of social and political behavior. Already, in fact, little tendrils of creativity are sprouting up, like the spring's first dandelions through the cracks of a disused sidewalk. It is, I think, too much to think of these as more than preliminary attempts at establishing a fresh new Consciousness of things political. And so it is not my thought to subject any of the major propositions that have so recently emerged to the increasingly irrelevant tests of outmoded paradigms, such as obedience to rules of logic, agreement with the preponderance of evidence, accuracy and contextual aptness of citation to earlier work, and so forth.

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