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The purpose of this report is to examine, on an international scale, the current trends in political science research.The initial intention was to base the survey on the available information about researches being carried on by institutions, but it soon became apparent that such a survey could not give an adequate picture of current work or trends. In the first place, systematic information about research by institutions was, at the time of writing, available on a comparable basis only for a few countries and areas. In the second place, even if information on research by institutions were available for all countries, an analysis of it would give a very one-sided picture of the main trends in political science research. For it would leave out of account all the work being done by individual scholars, and even groups of scholars, in the ordinary course of their academic work. To single out the work being done by research institutes (whether they are attached to universities or established independently) and to call this "research," would be putting a narrrow interpretation on the word. It is, of course, tempting to do so. It is possible to canvass institutions and compile a comparative register of their researches; it is much more difficult, if not impossible, to compile a register that would list all the significant thinking being done in political science, including the theoretical work being done by individual academic political scientists in all the universities.

Reviews The Kaleidoscope of Science, ed. Edna Ullman Margalit (The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. Volume I. 1986) and The Prism of Science, ed. Edna Ullman Margalit (The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. Volume II. 1986). (JLN)

Professor Emeritus Robert Lynn Savage, 71, of Fayetteville passed
away January 26, 2011. He was born February 26, 1939, in Fort Worth,
Texas. He served in the United States Air Force from 1956 to 1959.
Savage received his BA degree from Tarleton State College in 1963
and his MA degree from the University of Houston, where he served as
a graduate and teaching assistant from 1964 to 1966. He graduated in
1966 with a thesis entitled "Absurdity and the Political System: The
Political Thought of Albert Camus" under the direction of Professor
John Green. Upon graduation, he served as an instructor before he
continued his pursuit of a doctorate in political science from the
University of Missouri–Columbia. He completed his academic work in
1971 with a dissertation entitled "Sociocultural Change and Policy
Values in the American States." His dissertation chair was Professor
Dan Nimmo, with whom Bob maintained a lifelong friendship. Nimmo's
influence shaped Savage's interest in political communication and
behavior and state politics. His first appointment as assistant
professor brought him to Auburn University at Montgomery, where he
worked from 1971 to 1974, when he started his career at the
University of Arkansas in the fall of 1974. He was promoted to
associate professor just three years later in 1977 and to professor
in 1982. He served as interim chair during that year and eventually
as chair of the department from 1989 to 1998. Bob retired in
2001.

Swedish political science has a long pedigree. The Johan Skytte professorship of discourse & politics was established at Uppsala U in 1622, although political science teaching & research did not begin until the 1860s. Today, the discipline is represented at all 10 Swedish universities & at a number of other centers for higher education. Early Swedish political science gravitated toward constitutional law, history, & philosophy. In principle, the discipline today deals with all possible aspects of politics; as far as domestic politics research is concerned, special emphasis has been given to analysis of ideas, local politics, interest organizations, & political parties, as well as public administration & public policy. Contacts with the outside world have been close; different worldwide theories & methods have successively been incorporated. The relations between the discipline & the surrounding Swedish society have also been close & the reputation & visibility of the discipline fairly high. 18 References. Adapted from the source document.

What evidence can be found of political science scholarship on
teaching and learning? What questions are being asked and what
methodologies are being used by political scientists engaged in this
work? This article identifies and discusses six transformative
trends in STL, specific to the discipline of political science. The
most prominent trends are the dramatic increases in: democratic and civic
educationthe use of
technology in the
classroomcurriculum
development and innovation in teaching
strategies. There is also evidence of
the continuing importance of diversity, experimentation with service
learning, and attention to professional development.

AbstractThis article explores what the diversification of British political history might look like. Building on an expanded definition of citizenship and attention to 'ordinary' politics, it suggests several questions which might diversify political history's content and approach. Whom do we count as political actors? Who has access to democratic processes and where does politics happen beyond these processes? To what forms of political thought do we attend? Drawing on examples from my own research on refugees and asylum seekers in modern Britain, and on the wider field of modern British history, I demonstrate the possibilities of diversification as a way to enliven political history's future.

Characterizing various approaches according to "elective affinities" shared in practice, considered is how historical institutionalism defines research agendas & develops explanations. Substantive agendas, temporal arguments (historical process), & attention to context & configuration characterize historical institutionalism; these aspects are detailed to identify distinctive core strategies & discern the advantages & limits of the approach relative to others employed in empirical political science. In conclusion, broad issues of empirical research method & strategies of knowledge cumulation are addressed. J. Zendejas

Custom has decreed that the president of this Association, as almost his final act before leaving his briefly-held office, shall deliver an address to those of his colleagues who are hardy enough to assemble to hear him. In this address he endeavors to give something of his best thought concerning some political question. Thereby he generally contrives, also, to convey to his fellow-members something of a feeling of corporate unity and a sense of professional direction.As my thoughts have turned recently toward the consideration of political science as a whole, as a unified discipline, and as a factor in the government of man, I thought I would discuss with you the question of the rôle of political science in the conduct and preservation of what we now call democratic government.Standing before you a year ago, President Frederic Austin Ogg spoke thoughtfully and with eloquence of American democracy after the war. He directed his remarks in part to the gloomy predictions of various speculative writers who prophesy the end in our age of democracy and constitutional government. With masterly competence, he showed that the modern trend toward strong executive leadership is not at all the same as a drift into dictatorship. In the United States this trend primarily means that the executive office is being developed to fulfil its true function in a democracy that intends to become stronger, more active, and more efficient.