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Curriculum change in colleges and universities depends in some situations on issues other than the substance or content of the proposed changes.If introduction of courses such as those which incorporate the literature of biopolitics take the interdisciplinary form, the innovator must develop appropriate political strategies and tactics. The particular politics so developed must identify critical environmental constraints, including departmental jurisdiction, the prevailing reward structure within the institution, and relative importance of the formal and informal governance procedures.Most critical in certain relatively small and not particularly "bureaucratized" institutions are the attitude of the institution's president toward academic innovation and the degree of threat posed by the new course to the traditional turf of relevant departments. If presidential and vice presidential support for academic innovation are widely perceived and if departmental concerns are satisfied, much latitude for the persistent academic politician exists.It is entirely possible that a politics which understands and accepts the institution's formal and informal governance procedures is more critical than the content of proposed courses even when the course content is biopolitics.

Sherman Minton was not a great U.S. Supreme Court Justice, but he was far better than the image that scholars have created for him would indicate. Although there are exceptions, scholars generally consider Minton to have been an ineffective Justice who was put on the bench only because he was a crony of President Harry Truman. Indeed, the scholars who periodically provide a list of the "greatest" and "worst" Justices inevitably relegate Minton to the "worst" category. For example, Bernard Schwartz, who classified Minton as one of the ten worst Justices, said Minton "was below mediocrity as a Justice. His opinions, relatively few for his tenure, are less than third- rate, characterized by their cavalier approach to complicated issues." This Article attempts to provide a fairer and more informed assessment of Minton's tenure as a Supreme Court Justice. It first will explore the shortcomings of judicial ranking schemes and then illustrate how the biases in these schemes have resulted in an unfair Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Southeast.

Political roles of women at the national level. Impact of the British parliamentary system and the US presidential system on the ability of women to achieve national legislative seats and cabinet posts.