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This book examines the current and historical dimensions of relations between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, focusing on the complex economic issues that make the two countries interdependent and on the resulting policy implications. The contributors analyze the reasons for increasingly problematic relations between the United States and West Germany, arguing that the situation is exacerbated by the inadequate understanding Americans often have of the changing nature of society, politics, and culture in West Germany.

An interview with Jean Leca, president of the French political science association. Leca discusses the genesis & development of contemporary French political science, key postwar events that shaped the emergence of this community, 1980s-era reforms in research & teaching, & the significance of internationalization & comparative politics for the field today. K. Coddon

Just teach and teach and teach until your mind grows dull and your creativity vanishes and you become an automaton saying the same dull things over and over to endless waves of innocent students…The reason you teach and you teach and you teach is that this is a very clever way of running a college on the cheap while giving a false appearance of genuine education.

28 x 22 cm. leaflet, 1 page. Graduate Students in Political Science call on President Terrell to negotiate in good fait with the strikers, and announce their support for any instructors who might be sanctioned by the University for supporting the strike, citing academic freedom.

AbstractRecent accounts of American politics focus heavily on urban–rural gaps in political behavior. Rural politics research is growing but may be stymied by difficulties defining and measuring which Americans qualify as "rural." We discuss theoretical and empirical challenges to studying rurality. Much existing research has been inattentive to conceptualization and measurement of rural geography. We focus on improving estimation of different notions of rurality and provide a new dataset on urban–rural measurement of U.S. state legislative districts. We scrutinize construct validity and measurement in two studies of rural politics. First, we replicate Flavin and Franko (2020,Political Behavior, 845–864) to demonstrate empirical results may be sensitive to measurement of rural residents. Second, we use Mummolo and Nall's (2017,The Journal of Politics, 45–59) survey data to show rural self-identification is not well-captured with objective, place-based classifications, suggesting a rethinking of theoretical and empirical accounts of rural identity. We conclude with strategies for operationalizing rurality using readily available tools.

This article argues that scholars overestimate the ability of a methodologically 'pluralistic' political science to gain impact in policymaking, which in Britain is increasingly 'positivist', privileging quantitative evidence. This 'relevance gap' between pluralistic political science and positivistic policymaking means that political scientists are disadvantaged in achieving 'impact' compared to disciplines like behavioural economics. The article proposes two solutions to bridge this 'gap': improving the 'accessibility' of research and stimulating 'interaction' between researchers and policymakers through methodological workshops.

This article reviews Giovanni Sartori's contribution to contemporary political science. Sartori, who has just turned eighty, re-founded Italian political science & taught a generation of political scientists. He has made important contributions on democracy, party systems, & on political & constitutional engineering, & has written many significant methodological articles. Conceptual clarity, analytical rigour, methodological awareness, & interest in theory-building have allowed Sartori to become one of the most prominent political scientists of the 20th century.