To examine the congruency between voters' personal agendas and the perceived agendas of candidates, 160 college students interviewed repeatedly during the 1980 presidential campaign were asked to rate both the importance they assigned and the importance they felt each candidate assigned to eight major campaign issues. The influence of the election…

Based on a case study of the formulation and enactment of the Education Amendments of 1972, an analysis of the federal policy-making process for higher education is presented to provide the academic community a realistic perspective on federal action. Includes discussion of the policy arena, sources of policy options, and pluralistic…

Research designed to determine the influence of persons, organizations, and ideas on the curriculum of eight New Zealand teachers' colleges is provided. (DE)

Describes the political process that resulted in passage of a comprehensive state school aid equalization formula by the 1974 New Mexico legislature. Compares New Mexico's experience with various findings and concepts from the educational literature, particularly Berke's study of successful finance reform efforts. (JG)

Develops analytically the concept of a subcommunity, develops the concept of a subcommunity's political influence, tests the application of these concepts with data collected from four low-income subcommunities, and analyzes and explores the possible relationships of environmental and school characteristics on the political influence of…

Considering the family as an important agent of political socialization, the influence of parents on their children and the sources of parents' views are examined. Three-generational data on political party identification, drawn from a national survey of high school seniors, their parents, and their grandparents, is analyzed. (Author/ND)

The issue contains the second group of four studies exploring current relations between trade unions and political parties in Western Europe; all eight studies were originally prepared for a 1973 symposium at Cornell University. In an overview of the studies, the author cites a widening gap between unions and parties. (Author/AJ)

France's three major trade union federations, which do not encompass all organized French workers, espouse quite different styles of relations with political parties. The author relates these to the three main traditions of French trade-unionism: the communist-leninist, the social democratic, and the syndicalist models, but finds them changing.…

Three phases mark the instruction of indigenous languages since the precolonial period. Nigeria has more than 200 native languages, and the problems of instruction involve national language policy, the capabilities of the languages to cope with modern life, lack of prepared teachers, lack of understanding of language structures, teaching…

In Italy, the tensions of the past decade have attenuated the divisions between the rival labor movements, the political system remains highly fragmented, but the trade unions are increasingly engaged in joint industrial and political activities. Their cooperation may even result eventually in the unification of the major labor federations.…

The balance of power inside the dominant socialist and Catholic blocs in Belgium, which were once incontestably led by the political elites, has been shifting toward the trade unions. Regionalism has fragmented the political system far more than the industrial relations system; the unions' political influence will continue in importance. (Author)

The postwar realignment of union-party relations in Switzerland severed old formal ties but left some important links undisturbed; practical and effective cooperation on legislative items supports current informal union-party alliances. Major current problems include the unions' demand for codetermination in industry and the huge numbers of…