The study provides a picture of Norwegian party-union relations today and suggests several observations about the impact of socioeconomic factors on the development of labor's strategy. (MW)

Author suggested that realizing human potential can only be accomplished by calling on all the human race, including women, for its achievement. (Author/RK)

The need for a council on science and technology to advise the President of the United States is explored. The role and functioning of a science advisory committee are discussed, and three proposals offered to the House Science and Astronautics Committee are detailed. (DT)

The effect of subunit power on resource allocation decisions in one university is examined. Measures of departmental power in a university are found to be significantly related to the proportion of the budget received, even after statistically controlling for such universalistic bases of allocation as work load of the department, national rank,…

The purpose of the conference of journalists and social scientists "Covering the '76 Elections: A Dialogue..." was to provide an opportunity to discuss academic research on elections and to expose the social science community to the thinking and concerns of journalists. This monograph contains the conference keynote address by Henry F. Graff; five…

Article discussed the use of television broadcasting with regard to the political process, the legislators involved, and the techniques associated with television presentation. (RK)

Identified as a "transliteration" of J. L. Lafitau's "Les Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquain" (1724), this article offers data on the political structure of the Iroquois government when at its height of power in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. (JC)

The article describes the context of Chicano political life, empirically tests the validity of the description through an analysis of Chicano and Anglo voting patterns in El Paso (Texas), and discusses the implications of the findings presented. (NQ)

A study was conducted to compare "Time" and "Newsweek" magazines' fairness and coverage in the various presidential campaigns of the three Kennedy brothers. Researchers examined every story the two magazines published about John Kennedy's primary campaign, beginning January 1, 1960, and ending with his nomination at the…

Thomas Jefferson considered the founding of the University of Virginia one of the most important accomplishments of his life. So revered is Jefferson today that one might assume that Virginia legislators enthusiastically supported his suggestions for the founding of the university. Rather, his suggestions were resisted and it was necessary for him…

This paper reports on the impact of the Rural Income Maintenance Experiment on participation in the electoral process. Paradigms of the left and of the right predict dramatically different consequences of universal income supplement, the left wing seeing such a program as essential for minimal democratic processes while the right sees in universal…

A conference of African scholars was held in the United States in 1979 to develop a consensus and a statement about the direction that African language teaching and learning should take in this decade. African languages are among the so-called "less-commonly taught languages," and funding for their teaching and study has come from…

An examination of the role of journalists in the political process suggests that although there has been some reflective analysis by journalists on the potentially distorting consequences of routine news procedures, most journalists seem reluctant to acknowledge any such distortion. An analysis of the media coverage of two political scenarios (the…