The author describes how political and social whims can have disastrous effects on existing, effective programs for developmentally disabled, institutionalized persons, as illustrated in cutoffs for funding of a behavior modification team which used parent assistants as volunteers. (CL)

Comments on events in Chile and Algiers; short homage to Neruda. (SK)

This article argues that educational systems tend to legitimate existing political hierarchies and elite control. (Author)

Public Speech has been lacking in Germany because neither the political nor the intellectual atmosphere has been favorable to free, full, and open discussion. (Author)

A study of three forces creating a unified state. (MM)

Author, a Texas State Representative, discusses the implications of the 26th amendment. (MB)

Discusses the experiences of Philadelphia's former school superintendent, Mark Shedd. (JF)

This essay is based on the discussion of the paper by S. Cafiero, previously appearing in this journal. The author wants to underline that some of the same themes which appeared in the discussion of Italian community development projects appear to come back when problems of administrative decentralization are discussed today. (Editor/RY)

Most superintendents eschew political activity, but when highly mobile superintendents were compared with those less mobile, it was found that mobile superintendents were more likely to be politically active. (Author)

The Republican party, political action committees, and the electronic media will play increasingly dominant roles in the political process over the next few decades. No dramatic changes are in store for government and politics in the United States in the foreseeable future. (AM)