Nine rules are given for effective state government/academe relations: know the institution; know the state power structure; understand the current situation; maintain rapport with key officials; match institutional representatives with officials; lobby cooperatively with other groups; thank others appropriately; avoid bad-mouthing; and maintain…

Efforts of members of the Michigan higher education community to defeat a substantial 1980 tax-cut bill, Proposal D, before the state's voters were successful. The history and strategy of the campaign are described, including a coalition of 150 groups that raised funds and advertised their cause throughout the state. (MSE)

It is contended that future prospects for higher education are brighter than many anticipate. Political inertia acts to keep public spending near previous levels, and even during "down periods" educational resources seldom decline. (Author/PHR)

Examines two questions: What general consequences would follow from requiring state and local governments to recognize unions of public employees and to bargain collectively with them? What particular consequences would flow from administering this system through the national government? (Author/IRT)

Data from current interviews with New Left activists of the 1960s in Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United States indicate that the ambivalence of the movement was an expression of the relations of a specific generation of learners to the deterioration of the condition of intellectual labor in society. (JMF)

Examines the extent and nature of social bias in the recruitment of school board members. Concludes that board members of both races tend to have family origins that are generally of higher socioeconomic status than those of the corresponding adult public, and that they have achieved more upward social mobility than their respective general adult…

The research reported here examines the socialization of Indian children and adolescents toward family planning. Taken into account are socioeconomic, political, and religious influences on the attitudes of the subjects studied. (Author/EB)

Results of interviews indicate that government mandates have required administrators to gather data greater in scope and depth than previously required. But these data and the information they provide cannot be used because other circumstances such as declining enrollment and scarcity of resources have undercut the administrator's authority.…

Compared and described in this paper are past and present social and political factors which affect the composition, status, and cohesion of urban communities. (EB)

Relates the advance and development of political science in Yugoslavia to the process of democratization and self-management. Maintains that political science in socialist societies should continue to be critical but should also apply principles of Marxist analysis to social phenomena. (DB)

Reveals that collective bargaining is controlled primarily by various political forces rather than by the actual exchange at the negotiating table. Political forces also partially control the relationship between the principal negotiators and set the limits within which they can bargain, thus largely determining the decisions made. (Author/IRT)

Examines how politics and technology are changing the ways in which information is produced, stored, communicated, processed and used; and concludes that, in this new context of changing information resources, the basic political questions--who gets what, when, how--need to be redefined. (CWM)

Outlines the forces that have drastically limited the management power of principals and concludes that its decline can be arrested if principals and central office leaders take enlightened and vigorous action, with firm support from the board of education. (Author/IRT)

National patterns of power and control in higher education are key determinants of the conceptions of academic excellence and equality that prevail in particular systems. This paper examines five countries with predominantly state-controlled systems of higher education--West Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, and Japan--and two with mixed control…

The former president of Bennington College suggests that instead of coming to terms with any of the real issues confronting higher education, professors (and others) spend most of their time waging symbolic power struggles which prevent anyone from making decisions. A re-examination of basic commitments is advocated. (LBH)