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If the US has been behind Western European countries in the field of pol'al sci, it is probably because the American scene has been less favorable for the development of Machiavellian interpretation of pol'al phenomena. To cite a distinction drawn by Mosca, American researchers have had a better understanding of the sci of gov than of the art of gov. This inadequacy helps to explain a certain backwardness in the study of pol'al ecology: thus the Tableau Politique de la France de l'Ouest, of A. Siegfried did not receive the attention in the US that it deserved. On the other hand, a sociol of elites & of bur'cy has developed in the wake of Michels. Also the study of international relations has been a stimulus to progress recently in pol'al sociol. The autonomy of admin'tive sci is also recent. In this connection, US pol'al concepts as well as pol'al practices tend toward the exclusion of all pol'al influence & toward the study of admin as a whole which is self explanatory. It is only since the end of WWII that public administration has been studied within the vaster complex of soc & pol'al forces. Actual studies are being conducted on a large scale which includes even soc psychol & anthrop. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.

Only a small fraction of the soc & human sci's can be treated in the same way as is legitimate for the whole of the natural sci's. These -`spear-heads' cut across the traditional boundaries between disciplines. A new division is suggested for `arts & letters', which do not covet the sci'fic label, the soc sci's which are in the position of clients of the natural sci's, & the human sci's which are disciples of the natural sci's. Such a division would avoid the danger of giving any one society a priveleged status & allow the proposed study to set out frankly the real divergences between the soc & humanistic disciplines at present, rather than reflecting traditional R, misleading cleavages. HA.