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Political scientists continue to describe judicial structure in terms of organization charts and formal rules. Attention is focused almost exclusively on the Supreme Court. The judiciary is described as outside the group struggle, above and apart from the accommodation process of interest groups. This procedure is inadequate. The judiciary should be viewed in terms of the larger political and social context. A political science of public law can be developed by studying the judiciary as a facet in the group struggle and by relating the activities of judges to that of other groups. E. Scott.

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Some ways in which PO analysis & PO as a variable fit into H. D. Lasswell's scheme. He proposes a series of Basic Data Surveys at each level of gov embracing all phases of the decision-making process & incorporating 7 variables for each phase: participants, perspectives, arenas, base values, strategies, outcomes, & effects. Variables affecting the use of PO in decision making include personal characteristics of decision makers & their inclinations to use PO, the stage in the decision-making process, status of the situation as a crisis or noncrisis. Alternative instit'al settings for the systematic study of PO & pol'al sci are discussed. U's act more as legitimators than innovators. Because their clientele desire immediate practical applications & because their bur'tic structures are decentralized, U's are often conservative. Lasswell proposes a revitalized professional assoc of pol'al sci'ts & the creation of advanced centers for pol'al sci that would provide context & intellectual integration. Though prospects for such instit's are not promising such centers will have to occur within the existing U framework in the foreseeable future. D. Davis (Modified).

Speech delivered by Howard Bennett of the National Education Program at the 1960 Pepperdine College Freedom Forum. ; x1960