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The Philosophy of History -- The Changing Faces of History -- The Thorny Thickets of History -- What Drives the Engine of History? -- The Great Man and Ideas as Prime Movers -- How to Turn History into Science -- The Culture Process and Its Determinants -- Are There Laws of History? -- Proposed Laws of Culture.

Describes the Political Science Department's assessment activities for the academic year 2010-2011. ; The Political Science Department's annual assessment report to the College for the Office of Academic Assessment. The report details the use of the department's Progressive Direct Assessment (PDA) model to assess ten samples of final exams or final papers from the following courses: Political Science 371, Political Science 471C and Political Science 471D. Two members of the assessment committee were asked to read the samples and score them following the department's assessment rubric. The department also participated in the Simplifying Assessment Across the University Pilot Program which asks departments to assess signature assignments from gateway and capstone courses.

The article is based on an understanding that everything in society — including language — is political, at least potentially. For that reason, language must be seen (and analyzed) as a political phenomenon. Language is one of the decisive 'nation building' factors among others — sometimes cross-cutting other potentially defining factors. In its identity-building capacity, language is inclusive and exclusive at the very same time. Language has to be seen as one of the most important social (and: therefore political) cleavages. As more and more societies are confronted with 'multiculturalism' expressed in a multi-linguistic reality, politics have to come to terms with diversity in different ways.

Cover title. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Bibliography: p. 185-187. ; The Greeks: The republic of Plato.--Rome: organisation and empire.--The middle ages: the influence of Christianity.--The reformation: Hobbes and the divine right of kings.--Rousseau: the general will.--The problem of sovereignty: John Austin.--Modern theories of the state: state-sovereignty and associations within the state. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Bibliography: p. 185-187. ; The Greeks: The republic of Plato.--Rome: organisation and empire.--The middle ages: the influence of Christianity.--The reformation: Hobbes and the divine right of kings.--Rousseau: the general will.--The problem of sovereignty: John Austin.--Modern theories of the state: state-sovereignty and associations within the state. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The methodological problems of research on judicial behavior are examined through a review of the existing research in this area. Four components of methodology are examined: research design; data sources & generation procedures; operationalization & measurement of concepts; & statistical methods & measures. Judicial behavior is understood to have a primary focus on the explanation of the behavior of individual decisionmakers, but also includes decision making within or by groups of decisionmakers & by courts. 147 References. Modified HA.

CRITICS OF RESPONSIBLE POLITICAL PARTIES OFTEN POINT TO THE SORRY EXPERIENCE OF POLICYMAKING BY THE NATIONAL PARTIES, BUT THESE CRITICISMS ARE BASED UPON RATHER LIMITED EXAMINATIONS OF ACTUAL POLICYMAKING EFFORTS BY THE PARTIES. A MORE CAREFUL REVIEW OF THE POLICYMAKING EFFORTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE FROM 1956 TO 1960 AND OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE FORM 1976 TO 1980 SHOWS THAT THEY WERE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN IS USUALLY THOUGHT. THESE PAST SUCCESSES SUGGEST THE POTENTIAL FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE PARTY LEADERS TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC POLICY.

The purposes of this paper are in general two. Officially, it is to open a discussion on what the contents and sequence of three‐ and four‐year political science courses should be. Incidentally, however, I wish to argue for some measure of broad uniformity—though by no means for identity of content or treatment—in the Australian universities in the fields and in the sequence of fields to be covered in at any rate the first two years' political science courses.