Contemporary Black sociologists are more liberal and more politicized than their predecessors. They argue that major differences exist between themselves and their white colleagues and they emphasize norms, theories, and methods different from those of traditional sociology. (Author/MJL)

Explores options for delivering on some of the promises of the Great Society, with the intent of inquiring into the possibility of retaining the best of the public sector's goals and combining them with the private sector's system of operating incentives. Also reviews criteria for the existence and operation of a public sector in the face of…

Outlines the components of the networks supporting school finance reform (increasing spending to increase equity) and supporting spending or tax limitations. Discusses areas of conflict between the two networks. Available from Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Dept. 541, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. (IRT)

Political groups, social movements, and organizational influences are sources of values which influence an evaluation study. Value positions can help define and delineate an evaluation problem but, if the values influencing the results are not explicit, the evaluative research may be viewed as something other than it actually is. (BW)

Illuminates some of the factors that control the quality of textbooks--state adoption procedures, veto groups in influential states, and constraints within the publishing industry. (IRT)

Reviews writings of philosopher Martin Buber with regard to his position on the power of education to bring about a revolution from within society against political force and the concentration of authority. Buber believed that the objective of education was to educate individuals to authentic social consciousness and political purpose. (Author/DB)

The purpose of the research reported here was to expand upon past studies of attitudes toward business in a student population. Objectives were to extend the Ward and Reale study to investigate whether or not certain personality traits also influence students' attitudes toward business. (Author)

Discusses the appropriateness of Richard Nixon's staging a ceremony to nominate Gerald Ford as vice-president following Spiro Agnew's resignation, in terms of generic transference (superimposing an established rhetorical form onto an unprecedented rhetorical situation). The ceremony reaffirmed American values and temporarily suspended growing…

The National Institute of Education's (NIE) history demonstrates that the relevant criteria for characterizing budgeting as incremental are not the predictability and stability of appropriations but the conditions of complexity, limited information, multiple factors, and imperfect agreement on ends; NIE's appropriations were dominated by political…

A look at board members and the issues concerning boards of education as seen in the early days of the "Journal." (IRT)

The relation of a book to its public is always a matter of interest. Considers Alexis de Tocqueville's classic, "Democracy in America", and the American intellectual scene, as it has been known since about 1940. (Author/RK)

The nature of the budgetary process is strongly influenced by the structural character of university decision-making, which is primarily political despite the use of quasi-bureaucratic devices such as formula budgeting. (Author)

Interviews with 485 local officials in Poland showed that both elected and appointed officials strongly preferred principled reasoning for ethical decision making. Gender and attitude toward the change from Communism made a difference in preferred modes of ethical reasoning. (SK)

Governance education, an on-the-job learning framework that uses the political context to stimulate group action, enables city council members to frame actual policies after resolving difficulties, while diffusing political tensions. (SK)