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First published in 1987. A biographical look into the character and career of Austen Chamberlain. 'Chamberlain', thought Lord Beaverbrook, 'will be a fascinating subject for a biography.' These pages attempt to justify Beaverbrook's words.

Richard D. Bingham & Laura L. Vertz (see SA 32:1/84N5941) apply block model analysis to identify leadership structures in US political science. However, their starting point is a reputational leadership list derived by Walter B. Roettger ("Strata and Stability: Reputations of American Political Scientists," PS, 1978, 11, winter, 6-13) from a mass survey. It is questionable whether reputational leaders can be theoretically or empirically equated to institutional leaders in this way. Bingham & Vertz also utilize citation behavior, which provides a third possible measure of leadership -- citational leadership. The relations among these three concepts & measures could fruitfully be further explored. In Who's In and Who's Out? An Empirical Question, Richard D. Bingham & Laura L. Vertz (U of Wisconsin, Madison) find value in Dye's suggestions & note further possibilities along the same lines. 5 References. W. H. Stoddard.

Describes the Political Science Department's Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) assessment activities for the academic year 2013-2014. ; The Political Science (B.A.) annual assessment report to the College for the Office of Academic Assessment. The department directly assessed SLOs 1 and 3 (communication and active citizenship) through a random cross-sectional sampling of 15 student essays from five courses over the year, evaluated by a committee of five faculty members. The department also undertook to ???close the loop??? on prior assessment findings by drafting a proposal to update its undergraduate program through the restructuring of its course sequencing and the addition of a new Introduction to Political Science offering, which would serve as a gateway course. Assessment of SLO 1 reveals improvement in written communication between non-capstone and capstone (proseminar) courses; but assessment of SLO 3 (active citizenship: a content knowledge category) shows no improvement in the capstone courses???a finding that is consistent with past assessment results revealing similar weakness in other SLO content areas, and which supports the decision to modify the structure of the program. Lower scores in content knowledge in the senior capstone courses, when compared to student performance in the non-senior seminars, are especially noted, along with a plan to complete the undergraduate program revision in AY 2014-15.

Part I: Polticial Science; 1: Introduction on Method; 2: Definitions and Functions; 3: The Power Hypothesis; 4: Freedom and Authority; 5: Forms of Government: Democracy and Tyrrany; 6: Forms of Government: Aristocracy and Oligarchy; Part II: Political Philosophy; 7: Community, Society, and the Individual; 8: Law and Sovereignty; 9: Concerning Political Ends; Index