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Each issue has distinctive title. ; Description based on: Politics of 1992 (1990) ; Consists of special issues or separately published monographs accompanying Political quarterly. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The macro & micro hypotheses of electoral participation as presented by A. Blais & R. K. Carty ("Does Proportional Representation Foster Voter Turnout?," European Journal of Political Research, 1990, 18, 2, Mar, 167-181) & M. L. Crepaz (see SA 38:4/90V8111) are examined against data for voter turnout in elections from 1945 until 1989 in 24 OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation & Development) nations in T. Mackie's & R. Rose's The International Almanac of Electoral History (New York: Free Press, 1982) & T. Mackie's "Election Data" (European Journal of Political Research, 1983-1989). It is concluded that micro hypotheses are supported, but that macro hypotheses are less easily interpreted because they are not based in any human motivation theories & cannot be extended to national-level generalizations. Reasons for deviancy by the US, Switzerland, Japan, & Ireland should be grounded in the specific political conditions of each country, rather than considered from a macro approach. 2 Tables, 18 References. M. Malas

THE AUTHOR COMPARES MERRIAM'S 'ACTIVIST' EPISTEMOLOGY WITH THE MORE SELF-LIMITING METHODOLOGY OF WEBER WHO, PERHAPS AMONG ALL 20TH CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, STATED MOST EXPLICITLY THE TENSIONS AMONG THE REQUIREMENTS OF ACQUIRING OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT POLITICS AND EXERCISING RESPONSIBILITY IN POLITICAL ACTION. BOTH ARE SEEN AS SHARING COMMON GROUND OF DISBELIEF CONCERNING SCIENCE AND POLITICS.

Resistance movements and political identity -- Between nature and society : resistance in Rousseau's social contract -- Resistance not revolution : species-being and social emancipation in Marx -- Defining community : resistance and constructing public problems in Dewey -- The "incoherence" of resistance : subjectivity and identification in Ranciere

ABSTRACTDespite positive findings, small-group activities continue to lag behind lectures in political science classrooms. This article argues that one barrier to wider adoption of more innovative activities is uncertainty about how to efficiently and fairly create teams that each are heterogeneous and as a set are balanced across relevant characteristics. We first describe recent findings and strategies for creating teams; we then detail our concrete, general approach for incorporating several student characteristics into team creation. We then describe implementations of this approach using freely available software in two undergraduate political science courses—one in American politics and one in political methodology. In these applications and in a variety of simulated data, we demonstrate that teams created using our method are better balanced than those created by randomly allocating students to teams.

Experiencing Citizenship Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Political Science -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Decline of Democratic Faith -- Teaching/Theorizing/ Practicing Democracy: An Activist's Perspective on Service-Learning in Political Science -- The Work of Citizenship and the Problem of Service-Learning -- Examining Pedagogy in the Service-Learning Classroom: Reflections on Integrating Service-Learning Into the Curriculum -- Community Service-Learning as Practice in the Democratic Political Arts -- Service-Learning in the Study of American Public Policy

Philippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering this surprising Sisyphean effort as a lack of rationality, the author examines it as a political activity that produces order and stability.