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The article presents the discussion on interest group and social movement scholars have been attuned to the tendency of political organizations. Topics include scholarship by political scientists drawing on Black feminist theory radically rethinks this dyadic relationship between power and resources; and meanings associated with a group, and state recognition of group demands.

Information about the visitors to the U.S. is presented. It cites that visitors to the country have documented their travels to inform the rest of the world the good and bad perceptions. It highlights the classification of visitor's perceptions of the country, and the works of political scientists, sociologists, and trade unionists who visited the nation. The image of the U.S. as it appeared in European novels is discussed.

Chapter 19 of the book "Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds," edited by Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway is presented. It provides a path for black women's studies in political science by drawing on black feminist theory to review approaches used by trained political scientists in measuring the simultaneous effects of race and gender. It suggests for political scientists to design survey items that will capture oppression as experienced by African-American women.

Chapter Nine of the book "Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchange Since 1880," edited by Robert Adcock, Mark Bevir, and Shannon C. Stimson is presented. It states that the Behavioral Moverment of the 1950s and 1960s plays an important role in shaping the disciplines of most American political scientists. They share a common belief on the intellectual transformation of their visions into behavioral eras despite some disagreements on interpretation of the movement's character or merit.

The article lists the research participants of the East-West Center's project called the "Internal Conflicts and State-Building Challenges in Asia" which include Muthiah Alagappa, Morten Pedersen, and Marc Askew.

Chapter Four of the book "The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences," by Ian Shapiro is presented. It highlights the debates concerning the nature of several philosophical concepts including freedom, justice and law. It explains that political theorists have the tendency to think in gross concepts which cause them to reduce the actual relational claims to claims about one or another of the components of the relation.

Chapter Five of the book "The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences," by Ian Shapiro is presented. It explores the differences between method- and theory-drivenness and problem-drivenness approaches and their implications on the study for politics. The author emphasizes the significant role of political theorists in scrutinizing the accepted accounts of political reality.

This article focuses on the irresponsibility of American social scientists. Bernard Crick and C. Wright Mills, both being the U.S. sociologist have written books alleging that those who dominate American social science are misguided and profoundly irresponsible. In his book The American Science of Politics' Crick focuses on the political scientists. In The Sociological Imagination, Mills argues more generally, but his special targets are the sociologists. Both men have written with unaccustomed nerve and boldness in these academic dog days of excessive caution and excessive jargon. The reasons both give for their dim view of American social science are often the same or similar. But there are important disagreements as well. The two authors also deplore the way in which American social scientists neglect history. But in this connection one senses that Crick and Mills actually disagree about the uses to which history ought to be put Crick seems to view history as a basic source of those intimations which can alone enable us to understand a given society and which alone points direction to political effort. This analysis makes it clear that though Mills believes that theory is important in large part because it is a weapon in the arsenal of the radical social critic - he does not regard any kind of theory as useful.

Presents an article on the legacy of Afro-American political scientist Mack Henry Jones. Responsibilities of the students trained by Jones; Belief of Jones on scientific method; Problems faced by black political scientists.

This article focuses on the relationship between civilians and the military. Civil-military relations have many dimensions and can be viewed from different perspectives. Those dimensions include relationships in the spheres of power and politics, economics and media, science and technology, culture and history. For an appropriate understanding of the evolution of civil-military relations through the centuries, one has to scrutinize the records of history, the ideas of philosophers, insights of poets, and folk wisdom. Only in the twentieth century did political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and economists attempt to study the relationship between the military and society with the theoretical and empirical tools of social science.

The article offers information on topics related to political theorist Ernesto Laclau and political scientist Chantal Mouffe. Topics mentioned include their use of psychoanalytic, literary theoretical, and semiotic concepts and techniques in political analysis, the book "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics," and their views on marxism.

Chapter 8 of the book "The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics," by John Dunn is presented. It focuses on the reasons of the disability of the modern republic. One reason cited was the lack of understanding on the part of both the citizens and politicians as studied by political scientists. To fully grasp the situation, the aspects to be understood are the historical, ethical and practical aspects.

The sources cited within this book are presented including "A Discipline Divided: Schools and Sects in Political Science," by Gabriel Almond and "The Economic Basis of Politics," by Charles Beard and "The Vital South," by Earl Black and Merle Black.

Chapter 10 of the second part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It summarizes Key's life and work as a quintessential political scientist and the development of political science in the U.S. during the 20th century. It discusses how prominent universities began to hire established political scientists and how these scientists met and formed the American Political Science Association (APSA). It mentions how Key became one of the intellectual leaders within this discipline.

Chapter 9 of the second part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It discusses the role of Key as a political journalist and commentator. It mentions his later endeavors as he was asked from time to time to comment on the political world, his advice on political leaders particularly his role on President John F. Kennedy's commission to study presidential campaign financing.

Chapter 8 of the second part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It discusses the role of Key as a consultant for the college department of Alfred A. Knopf publishing company as he was also responsible for the promotion of the company's publication. It also shows few of his advice and recommendations to his publishing partner Roger Shugg and on Morgenthau's manuscript on international relations.

Chapter 6 of the second part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It discusses the activities of Key as a leader and critic of political science discipline after World War II. It explores Key's promotion of new research techniques and his encouragement with young political scientists in their careers. It also mentions how he was often consulted by organizations such as the American Political Science Association (APSA).

Chapter 5 of the second part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It discusses the effort of Key in advancing political knowledge where he published several books that guide other political scientists such as "American State Politics: An Introduction" and "A Primer of Statistics for Political Scientists." It also mentions his consultation from his friends about his series of articles on electoral processes in the U.S.

Chapter 4 of the first part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It explores the progress of the southern politics project under Key's leadership as well as the Harvard and Yale universities' offering of the standard academic visiting appointment to Key which he had declined. It also discusses his decision to leave John Hopkins University to accept Cowles Chair at Yale University.

Chapter 3 of first part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It discusses how Professor Roscoe Martin was able to convince Key to head the study of the electoral process in the southern U.S. through the help of some important people including Key's college professor, Isaiah Bowman. It also mentions Key's plan of conducting the research and his selection of his staff as well as the start of his research.

Chapter 2 of first part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It discusses the developments in the career of Key including his academic appointment as an assistant professor in the political science department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland while being involved in administrative research and reporting in Washington. It mentions how his experience working in government influence on the subject of public administration that he taught in the university.

Chapter 1 of first part of the book "V. O. Key, Jr." is presented. It discusses V. O. Key's family history and places of origin back in mid-19th century where he grew up in Bronte, Texas. It also explores how Key's experiences as child, his education at McMurry Academy and how he developed an interest in political science.

The article offers a brief summary of the life and work of V. O. Key, a quintessential political scientist in the U.S. Key was considered a leader among political scientists who also was known for his various research. It is believed that his life offers a virtual blueprint for conducting a career in political science the right way by emphasizing plenty of hard work.

This article presents the reflections of the author on being a philosopher. There was a time when the author felt embarrassed when he was asked how he became a philosopher. Apparently because it would imply that he just assumed the identity of a philosopher. He felt uncomfortable when people talk about him as a political scientist, under the pretext that his reflections bear mainly upon social and political facts. Generally speaking, it has been always important for him to specify that his endeavours did not pertain to the so-called human sciences. And he admits that being classified among the philosophers was not easy for him to take.

The article reports on social scientists their literary work. Understanding political phenomena of transient interest is one of the principal responsibilities of the social scientist. In a way true of no other twentieth-century polity but the U.S., Japan's pantheonic greatness, its canonicity, offers an unrivalled occasion for the political scientist to test his mental resources to the fullest in the pursuit of a transcendent classicism. Here, as nowhere else, will be found the intellectual glory that, would rise higher hereafter. This moment must be seized. Confronted by a god-sent opportunity to escape the grip of the merely immanent, the political scientist has been tempted to let this privileged hour elude him. The obstacles to a Japanese apotheosis are not confined to the cultural sphere. There are deep sources of scientific hesitation. Among the more important are textual positivism and historicism. No less than positivist philosophy and science, the positivist approach to the reading and generation of political texts of classical stature conspires also against extending recognition to post-war Japan.

Chapter 5 of the book "Dilemmas in Liberal Democratic Thought Since Max Weber," is presented. It discusses Leo Strauss', a 20th century German-born Jewish American political philosopher, argument that the Weberian inquirer who follows the maxim of separating facts and values appears to do so in the name of a non-evaluating objectivity, which is directly opposed to the richer conception of objectivity, rooted in common sense, as classical political philosophy had developed it. Weber is a 19th century German political economist and sociologist.

The article focuses on how societies change in relation to the advancements and changes in the left politics. It states that social scientists and theorists cannot predict the occurrence of political breakthrough and its impact of a renewed left politics. It says that the renewed left provides opportunities for socialist ideas to have new applications, according to the claims by the British political scientist Christopher Pierson over postmodernism.

Presents the author's presidential address during the 1992 convention of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, an organization in the United States. Achievements during his term; Committees founded; Issues outside the organization; Role in shaping public policy.

The chapter discusses the sovereignty of the consumers in his role as a citizen. The social will may be most truly realized when the greatest measure of sovereignty is vested in consumers. The consumer is sovereign when he has not delegated to political institutions for authoritarian use the power which he can exercise socially through his power to demand. Consumers' sovereignty, the most important form of social coercion, has been overlooked or misunderstood by political scientists. It is also the stimulus to which productive effort is a response.

Focuses on the works of several political scientists and writers influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud. Application of psychology in politics by editor and author Walter Lippmann; Discussion of political philosophy under the teachings of George Orwell; Views on the writings of Hannah Arendt.

The article profiles French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist Raymond Aron. He received a doctorate in the philosophy of history from the École Normale Supérieure in 1930, and he begun to teach French culture in Germany because he believed in the reconciliation between France and Germany. In 1947, Aron became an influential columnist for Le Figaro, a position he held for thirty years until he joined L'Express, where he wrote a political column up to his death.

The 1980s and 1990s posed great challenges to governments in Latin America and Africa. Deep economic crisis and significantly heightened pressure for political reform severely taxed their capacity to manage economic and political tasks. In fact, the era was a critical moment in which existing state–economy and state–society relations were challenged and, at times, redefined. This book is about the significance of these challenges and redefinitions for the capacities – institutional, technical, administrative, and political – that states in Latin America and Africa require if they are to encourage economic development and provide effective governance for their societies. It explores the roles that political leaders and institutions played in a decade-long drama of crisis and change. There is little question that this period will be remembered as an era of crisis for countries in Latin America and Africa. An economic crisis, often rooted in development policies adopted in prior decades and greatly increased prices for oil in the 1970s, was precipitated in the early 1980s by a series of external shocks, principal among which were a sharp rise in real interest rates, a rapid decline in the availability of international credit, and a sharp fall in international commodity prices. As a consequence, external terms of trade became highly unfavorable for many developing countries, budget deficits escalated, and foreign debt burdens became unmanageable. International conditions as well as domestic policies explain these problems. The impact of such conditions on developing country economies was extensive and often extreme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a brief summary of V. O. Key's various works and roles during the period of his life when he operated at the very height of the discipline of political science. It started with the completion of "Southern Politics," a study of the electoral processes in the Southern U.S. in 1949, his move to Yale University, then to Harvard and his premature death in 1963. It features Key's scholarly productions such as periodicals, books and research.

This article pays tribute to Donald T. Campbell, who died in 1996 and his contributions to the philosophy, epistemology and methodology of the policy sciences.

A profile of Nigerian political scientist and activist Claude Ake is presented.

Presents a quotation related to social sciences by U.S. political scientist Sigmund Neumann.

Presents a quotation related to the social sciences by U.S. political scientist and educator A. Lawrence Lowell.

Presents a collection of quotations related to the social sciences by U.S. political scientist Charles E. Lindblom.

Presents a quotation related to the social sciences by Russian-born U.S. political scientist and journalist Max Learner.

Presents a collection of quotations related to the social sciences by British political scientist Harold J. Laski.

Presents a quotation related to the social sciences by U.S. political scientist Harold D. Lasswell and U.S. philosopher Abraham Kaplan.

Presents a collection of quotations related to the social sciences by U.S. political scientist Harold D. Lasswell.