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Private Lives and Public Careers Bruce Buchanan, Ronald Elving and Sanford Levinson

1988 Annual Meeting Preview Chatham House Checklist Box One, Chatham, NJ 07928 Telephone: (201) 635-2059 * Arian: Politics in Israel it Ball: Modern Politics and Government 4ed * Cannon and O'Brien: Views from the Bench * Dalton: Citizen Politics in Western * Dogan and Pelassy: How to Compare Nations * Dolbeare: American Political Thought * Dolbeare: at Risk rev ed * Dragnich et al.: Politics and Government 2ed •sir Fry: Masters of Public Administration it Godwin: Direct Marketing of Politics * Goodsell: The Case for Bureaucracy 2ed •sir Hancock: West Germany •sir Hancock et al.: Politics in Western Europe ~k Hershey: Running for Office it Hinckley: The Symbolic Presidency * Hood: Tools of Government * Jacobs et al.: Comparative Politics * Jones: The Reagan Legacy * Kaufman: Time, Chance, and Organizations * King: The State in Modern Society it Lynn &. Wildavsky: Public Administration * McFarland: Common Cause * Meehan: The Thinking Game: A Guide to Effective Study * Orren and Polsby: Media and Momentum: New Hampshire * Peters: American Public Policy 2ed •sir Rose: The Post-Modern Presidency * Sartori: The Theory of Democracy Revisited * Savas: Privatization: The Key to Better Government * Wilson: Business and Politics * Published it Forthcoming On your request for exam copies, please state course title, present text, and enrollment on your letterhead and send it to Edward Artinian, publisher, Chatham House Publishers, Inc., Box One, Chatham, New Jersey 07928 or telephone (201) 635-2059. Table of Contents

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Letters 247 V Editor's Corner 248 Private Lives and Public Careers 250 Sizing Up Candidates Bruce Buchanan 250 Candidates, the Need to Know and the Press Ronald D. Elving 257 Public Lives and the Limits of Privacy Sanford Levinson 263 Features 269 Strategy on the Campaign Trail in Iowa Henry E. Brady 269 Reflections on the New Hampshire Primary .. Theodore Rueter 273 Does Approval Voting Elect the Lowest Common Denominator? Steven J. Brams & Peter C. Fishburn 277 The Profession 285 The Politics of Curriculum Reform Susan Webb Hammond 285 Part-Time Faculty in Political Science: Stepchildren of the Profession Nancy £. McGlen & Meredith Reid Sarkees 293 People in Political Science 299 Activities and Appointments 299 Awards 303 In Memoriam . 305 Association News 309 Washington Restaurants: From Politics to Ethnic Cuisine 309 Congressional FeHows to Hold Alumni Dinner 312 Zaferos Named Poynter Fellow 313 Kohn Awarded Joan Shorenstein Barone Congressional Fellowship 313 Placement Service Set for Meeting 314 APSA Offers Free Child Care 314

Spring 1988 241 Departmental Services Program Sponsors Workshop for Chairs . 314 Judith Shklar Nominated President-Elect Gosnell Is Longest Continuous APSA . 314 Member Jean Walen Organized Sections Welcome . 315 Members Kay Sterling APSA Political Science Software Review . 317 Project APSA Selects Black American and . 319 Chicano/Latino Fellows Polsby Assembles 1989 Annual Meeting . 319 Program Committee . 321 Announcements 325 Research and Training Support 336 Foreign Student Travel Grants . 336 Upcoming Conferences and Calls for Papers 340 National Political Science Associations 346 International Political Science 357 •n^* President Arias of Costa Rica Christian Anglade . . 357 Gazette 360 Annual Business Meeting Rules . 360 APSA Constitution and Bylaws . 365 APSA Publications List . 377 Index of Quarterly Features . . . 380 Preliminary Program for the 1988 Annual Meeting 381

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Officers Council

President 1986-88 Kenneth N. Waltz Robert H. Bates University of California, Berkeley Duke University David W. Brady President-Elect Lucian W. Pye Massachusetts Institute of Technology Demetrios Caraley Barnard College, Columbia University Vice Presidents Francis M. Carney University of California, Riverside University of California, San Diego Margaret P. Karns Walter Murphy University of Dayton Princeton University David Morgan Barbara Sinclair University of Liverpool University of California, Riverside Mitchell F. Rice Secretary Louisiana State University James E. Anderson Robert M. Rosenzweig Texas A&M University Association of American Universities

Treasurer 1987-89 Nancy H. Zingale William I. Bacchus College of St. Thomas Department of State Donald Kinder Executive Director Catherine E. Rudder Program Chairs John A. Ferejohn Stanford University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Stephen D. Krasner Margaret E. Scranton Stanford University University of Arkansas, Little Rock Managing Editor, APSR Mary Shanley Samuel C. Patterson Vassar College Ohio State University Richard A. Watson University of Missouri, Columbia Aristide Zolberg New School for Social Research

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Frank J. Goodnow Walter J. Shepard Charles S. Hyneman Francis W. Coker Carl J. Friedrich Frederick N. Judson Arthur N. Holcombe C. Herman Pritchett James Bryce Thomas Reed Powell David B. Truman A. Lawrence Lowell Clarence A. Dykstra Gabriel A. Almond Charles Grove Haines Robert A. Dahl Simeon E. Baldwin Robert C. Brooks Frederic A. Ogg W. W. Willoughby William Anderson Karl W. Deutsch John Basset Moore Robert E. Cushman Robert E. Lane Ernest Freund Leonard D. White Heinz Eulau John Gaus Robert E. Ward Walter F. Dodd Avery Leiserson Arthur W. Macmahon Austin Ranney Paul W. Reinsch Henry R. Spencer James MacGregor Burns Leo S. Rowe Samuel H. Beer William A. Dunning James K. Pollock John C. Wahlke Harry A. Garfield Peter H. Odegard Leon D. Epstein James W. Garner Luther Gulick Warren E. Miller Pendleton Herring Charles E. Lindblom Charles E. Merriam Ralph J. Bunche Charles A. Beard Charles McKinley William H. Riker William Bennett Munro Harold D. Lasswell Philip E. Converse Jessee S. Reeves E. E. Schattschneider Richard F. Fenno, Jr. John A. Fairlie V. O. Key, Jr. Aaron B. Wildavsky Benjamin F. Shambaugh R. Taylor Cole Samuel P. Huntington Edward S. Corwin Carl B. Swisher William F. Willoughby Emmette S. Redford kidor Loeb

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