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Book reviewed in this article: Coca Prohibition in Peru: The Historical Debates. Joseph Gagliano. The Coca Boom and Rural Social Change in Bolivia. Harry Sanabria.

LASSWELLT:h e first of our discussants is of the discipline that the rest of the social scientists examine with mixed feelings of respect and envy, namely, economics. Prof. Jan Tinbergen. TINBERGEIN p: ropose not only to give a very brief summary of my paper but to add a few remarks that are inspired by the discussions in these two and a half days. In my paper I trace how, during the last century and a half, both the aims and the means of social economic policies have changed. A number of social objectives have been added to the aims, especially care for the weak and income distribution generally, but other social objectives as well.

The democratisation movement which has been transforming the Central and Eastern European countries had important repercussions on the role and status of the social sciences in these societies. Describes the changes in this respect. (Abstract amended)

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of political science. This list is fully reader-generated. If your
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before publication of the next issue of PS, enter
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attune to new scholarship within the discipline.

This section lists upcoming book publications across the broad field of political science. This list is fully reader generated. If your first-edition book is scheduled for publication in the three months before publication of the next issue of PS, enter the details of publication in the box found at PS's web site: http://www.apsanet.org/section_223.cfm. We hope that spreading word of upcoming work will help keep our members even more attune to new scholarship within the discipline.

This section lists upcoming book publications across the broad field of political science.
This list is fully reader-generated. If your first-edition book is scheduled for publication
in the three months before publication of the next issue of PS, enter the
details of publication in the box found at PS's web site: http://www.apsanet.org/section_223.cfm. We hope that spreading word of upcoming work
will help keep our members even more attune to new scholarship within the discipline.

AbstractPrevious research has documented how political scientists evaluate and rank scholarly journals, but the evaluation and ranking of scholarly book publishers has drawn less attention. In this article, we use data from a survey of 603 American political scientists to generate a ranking of scholarly publishers in political science. We used open-ended questions to ask respondents to identify those scholarly publishers (1) to which they would submit "a very strong book manuscript" in their area of expertise, and (2) that they "read regularly or otherwise rely for the best research" in their area of expertise. Based on these results, we created rankings of scholarly presses based on publication and reading preferences. We find that certain high-profile university presses constitute a clear first tier in American political scientists' preference orderings, followed by a mix of university and commercial presses that represent the second tier and beyond. Moreover, we confirm the validity of our approach by comparing the results of our rankings (based on open-ended questions) with results from previous research based on respondents' evaluations and derived from close-ended lists of scholarly presses. Our results demonstrate that the rankings of scholarly publishers are similar for both approaches. These rankings can be used to guide political scientists as they decide where to send their best book-length work.