In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 108, Heft 1, S. 158-160
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 99, Heft 4, S. 637-655
Die bundesstaatlichen Gliederungen der Demokratischen Partei in den Vereinigten Staaten haben ihren Einfluß auf die Nominierung des Präsidentschaftskandidaten weitgehend verloren, als sie zwischen 1968 und 1972 mit den Reformvorschlägen der McGovern-Fraser-Kommission konfrontiert wurden. Dem Machtverlust liegen im Kern jedoch zwei langfristige Entwicklungen zugrunde: die Nationalisierung der Legislative in den 30er Jahren und die Aufwertung des Systems der Primaries bei der Kandidatenauswahl. Die Auswirkungen dieses Prozesses finden sich bei beiden großen amerikanischen Parteien, beide befinden sich institutionell in einer Phase des Übergangs. (SWP-Hld)
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 86, Heft 4, S. 697-699
A discipline, at least to the initiated, is known more by the questions it asks than by the answers that it provides. For questions indicate goals or aspirations that answers may not reach. At certain periods, however, a field of knowledge may be more conspicuously characterized by the controversies that occur among those who work in it. When these take the form of debates over the adequacy of particular answers, as determined by agreed, even though sometimes imprecise, criteria of assessment, they are unlikely to be highly prominent, except for the immediate participants. When, on the other hand, such controversies extend to the standing of the questions asked and place in dispute the means of appraising answers, it becomes obvious to all that something is happening that has implications for the entire field. Clearly the discipline is undergoing redefinition or at least an attempt at redefinition that may sharply alter its meaning.
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 75, Heft 4, S. 591-593
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 74, Heft 4, S. 481-497