Examines factors within newspaper organizations that affect how hard reporters work in covering campaigns: (1) the influence of organizational structure and (2) the journalist's concept of professionalism. (PD)

The author considers the educational systems of several socialist or communist countries and previews the nature of mathematics education in these states. (MP)

Longitudinal data from a national sample of students ages 9, 13, and 17 are used to study the levels of political knowledge and participation among American youth. Changes in these levels from 1969 to 1975 are examined. (Author/MC) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Change) (Interpretation).

The relative calm of the 1970s is contrasted with the activism of the 1960s in American universities. Some explanations for the current lack of political concern on campus are offered, including the lack of clearly threatening foreign policy issues, economic problems, and disillusionment with past politics. (JMF)

Suggests that declines in newspaper penetration, lessened competition, or shifts toward getting news from television weakens people's understanding about partisan candidates. (RL)

An analysis of the content of "The New York Times" and "The Chicago Tribune" with regard to two issues involving executive vs congressional power indicates the extent to which dominant political values bias newspaper coverage. (GT)

Between 1965 and 1974, the Chicano Movement identified itself and gained some measure of political power. In so doing, it developed a binary divergence, an internal split between its continuing need for identity and its continuing need for political power. The relationship between these two will determine the future of Chicano thought. (Author/NQ)

A leadership typology is developed which describes the relationship of Black leadership styles to the Black masses. The role that such leadership plays in the political integration of Blacks as an ethnic group is analyzed. Four authority types are discussed: traditional brokerage, cultural nationalist, religious nationalist, and faddist…

Discusses attitudes of educators, administrators, and concerned citizens in the United States and West Germany towards civic education. Educational trends in the two countries are compared and suggestions are presented for developing a reflective and critical political intelligence among young people. (Author/DB)

The paper discusses how the two prominent Latin American writers approach the historical material of their national pasts, Mexico and Peru, and attempt to use that material for the creation of a national ideology. In confronting the future with a new national identity, Mariategui's myth of agrarian communism and Paz's version of invisible history…

Investigates three propositions: that important political learning occurs during childhood and adolescence, that such learning is shaped by socializing agents, and that early political learning tends to persist and/or to exert an impact on later political learning and behavior. Discusses an analysis of data concerning adolescent and adult…

Examines the hypothesis that college has a substantial effect on political interest, awareness, and knowledge by comparing college students with a control group of noncollege cohorts. Finds that the effect of the passage of four years increases the awareness and knowledge of youth regardless of whether or not those years are spent in college.…

Intention was to see if tendencies toward political and cultural radicalism could be identified as two separate dimensions of radicalism among adolescents and to study family characteristics which might explain a tendency toward radicalism. (Author/RK)

Attempts to discover if there was a significant relationship between the clothing behavior of two different groups of college males (identified as conservative dressers and hippie dressers) and their social-political beliefs. (Author/RK)

Asks whether the United States is about to join the Roman Empire as a historical lesson of inevitable rise and fall. The government, economic and industrial leaders, and social scientists are examined. (Editor/RK)