Political Science& Politics

Volume XXI Number 2 Spring 1988

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Private Lives and Public CareersBruce Buchanan, Ronald Elving and Sanford Levinson

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Tableof Contents

PS: Political Science & PoliticsSpring 1988Volume XXI Number 2

Letters 247V Editor's Corner 248

Private Lives and Public Careers 250Sizing Up Candidates Bruce Buchanan 250Candidates, the Need to Know and the

Press Ronald D. Elving 257Public Lives and the Limits of Privacy Sanford Levinson 263

Features 269Strategy on the Campaign Trail in Iowa Henry E. Brady 269Reflections on the New Hampshire Primary .. Theodore Rueter 273Does Approval Voting Elect the Lowest

Common Denominator? Steven J. Brams &Peter C. Fishburn 277

The Profession 285The Politics of Curriculum Reform Susan Webb Hammond 285Part-Time Faculty in Political Science:

Stepchildren of the Profession Nancy £. McGlen &

People in Political ScienceActivities and AppointmentsAwardsIn Memoriam .

Association News

Meredith Reid Sarkees 293

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309Washington Restaurants: From Politics to

Ethnic Cuisine 309Congressional FeHows to Hold

Alumni Dinner 312Zaferos Named Poynter Fellow 313Kohn Awarded Joan Shorenstein Barone

Congressional Fellowship 313Placement Service Set for Meeting 314APSA Offers Free Child Care 314

Spring 1988 241

Departmental Services ProgramSponsors Workshop for Chairs

Judith Shklar Nominated President-ElectGosnell Is Longest Continuous APSA

Member Jean WalenOrganized Sections Welcome

Members Kay SterlingAPSA Political Science Software Review

ProjectAPSA Selects Black American and

Chicano/Latino FellowsPolsby Assembles 1989 Annual Meeting

Program Committee

Announcements

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325Research and Training Support 336

Foreign Student Travel Grants

Upcoming Conferences and Calls for Papers. 336

340National Political Science Associations 346

• n ^ *International Political Science 357President Arias of Costa Rica Christian Anglade .

Gazette. 357

360Annual Business Meeting RulesAPSA Constitution and BylawsAPSA Publications ListIndex of Quarterly Features . .

Preliminary Program for the 1988 Annual Meeting

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Dairy College Rutgers University Union College

su Lenneal Henderson Frank MargiottaUniversity of Tennessee, Pergamon-Brassey'sKnoxville International Defense

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American PoliticalScience Association

Officers Council

PresidentKenneth N. WaltzUniversity of California, Berkeley

President-ElectLucian W. PyeMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Vice PresidentsArend LijphartUniversity of California, San Diego

Walter MurphyPrinceton University

Barbara SinclairUniversity of California, Riverside

SecretaryJames E. AndersonTexas A&M University

TreasurerNancy H. ZingaleCollege of St. Thomas

Executive DirectorCatherine E. Rudder

Program ChairsJohn A. FerejohnStanford University

Stephen D. KrasnerStanford University

Managing Editor, APSRSamuel C. PattersonOhio State University

1986-88Robert H. BatesDuke University

David W. BradyStanford University

Demetrios CaraleyBarnard College, Columbia University

Francis M. CarneyUniversity of California, Riverside

Margaret P. KarnsUniversity of Dayton

David MorganUniversity of Liverpool

Mitchell F. RiceLouisiana State University

Robert M. RosenzweigAssociation of American Universities

1987-89William I. BacchusDepartment of State

Donald KinderUniversity of Michigan

Jane MansbridgeNorthwestern University

Dianne PinderhughesUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Margaret E. ScrantonUniversity of Arkansas, Little Rock

Mary ShanleyVassar College

Richard A. WatsonUniversity of Missouri, Columbia

Aristide ZolbergNew School for Social Research

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Former PresidentsFrank J. GoodnowAlbert ShawFrederick N. JudsonJames BryceA. Lawrence LowellWoodrow WilsonSimeon E. BaldwinAlbert Bushnell HartW. W. WilloughbyJohn Basset MooreErnest FreundJesse MacyMunroe SmithHenry Jones FordPaul W. ReinschLeo S. RoweWilliam A. DunningHarry A. GarfieldJames W. GarnerCharles E. MerriamCharles A. BeardWilliam Bennett MunroJessee S. ReevesJohn A. FairlieBenjamin F. ShambaughEdward S. CorwinWilliam F. Willoughbykidor Loeb

Walter J. ShepardFrancis W. CokerArthur N. HolcombeThomas Reed PowellClarence A. DykstraCharles Grove HainesRobert C. BrooksFrederic A. OggWilliam AndersonRobert E. CushmanLeonard D. WhiteJohn GausWalter F. DoddArthur W. MacmahonHenry R. SpencerQuincy WrightJames K. PollockPeter H. OdegardLuther GulickPendleton HerringRalph J. BuncheCharles McKinleyHarold D. LasswellE. E. SchattschneiderV. O. Key, Jr.R. Taylor ColeCarl B. SwisherEmmette S. Redford

Charles S. HynemanCarl J. FriedrichC. Herman PritchettDavid B. TrumanGabriel A. AlmondRobert A. DahlMerle FainsodDavid EastonKarl W. DeutschRobert E. LaneHeinz EulauRobert E. WardAvery LeisersonAustin RanneyJames MacGregor BurnsSamuel H. BeerJohn C. WahlkeLeon D. EpsteinWarren E. MillerCharles E. LindblomSeymour Martin LipsetWilliam H. RikerPhilip E. ConverseRichard F. Fenno, Jr.Aaron B. WildavskySamuel P. Huntington

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• THE GREAT U-TURNCorporate Restructuring and thePolarizing of AmericaBENNETT HARRISON& BARRY BLUESTONEThis devastating critique documents howeconomic policies of the Reagan era havedamaged the American standard of livingand suggests how this trend can be re-versed.

• MINDS AT WARNuclear Reality and the InnerConflicts of Defense PolicymakersSTEVEN KULLA psychologist and arms policy analyst of-fers a penetrating look at U.S. and Sovietdefense strategists.

• THE OTHER JEWSThe Sephardim TodayDANIEL J. ELAZARThe first comprehensive history of theSephardim and their resurgence both in Is-rael and throughout the Jewish world.

• RENDEZVOUS WITHREALITYThe American Economyafter ReaganMURRAY WEIDENBAUMThe first chairman of Reagan's Council ofEconomic Advisers offers a specific, even-handed policy agenda to address the dif-ficult economic choices of the post-Reaganera.

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