Evaluates the influence of sport in the formation of mass perceptions within international relations. (Author/RK)

Places emphasis on the role of the National Council for American Education and Allen Zoll in the early 1950s. (IRT)

Describes a research paper assignment on "The Language of Politics" which involved students in analyzing the language of the 1976 presidential debates. (DD)

There is a need to learn how communications shape the cultural and political assumptions of the world, suggests this former assistant secretary of state. Mass media is exercising more and more power in defining the emerging world political system. (LBH)

Participants of the second semiannual meeting of the Arizona Mexican American Political Conference, held in Tucson on September 24, 1977, discussed the Mexican American influence and involvement in local, state, and national politics. (NQ)

Reports that the World Congress of Psychiatry voted to condemn the Soviet Union for the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes. (SL)

Outlines six ways in which educational finance is more fragmented and filled with conflict than it was fifteen years ago, and looks at the differences and relationships between the traditional school finance community and the new advocates of reform. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the destructive aspects of reorganization that must take place if change is to be successful. The 1970-71 reorganization of the U.S. Post Office Department is used as a model. (Author)

This article looks at labor agencies in various economic and political settings and compares them with the U. S. Department of Labor. (JOW)

Analyzes the economic and political responses to the Great Depression of the 1930s in Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Britain. States that economic policies had little direct effect on the survivability of governments during the 1930s. Concludes that processes of national consensus formation determined the survival or…

Identifies the developing nations of the Pacific Rim to be the Philippines, Indonesia, and 21 small states such as Fiji and Papua, New Guinea. Discusses the political and economic factors which both hinder and aid the governments of these nations. Contends that the region's tremendous potential is unrealized because of economic underdevelopment…

Relates political candidates' television advertising to voters' emotional reactions and voting behavior. Suggests that television campaign advertising elicits emotion along three continua: pleasure-displeasure, arousal-nonarousal, and dominance-submissiveness. Suggests that emotional response to such advertising is systematically related to voting…

The article focuses on ways to determine the appropriate target for a request in advocacy efforts for gifted education. Following an overview of state education governance structure and interrelationships, the process of political mapping is outlined and ideas offered regarding use of the results to create an advocacy strategy. (CL)

In public administration courses, administrative theory is usually taught from a managerial perspective--raising questions about organizations from the perspective of the public manager. This perspective is incomplete and needs to be supplemented with a political perspective--asking questions from the viewpoint of the polity as a whole. (RM)