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Study on Campaign Finance and Expen- The 1973 Annual Meeting ditures; and an Expression of Opposition to the Texas Teachers' Certification Stan- The 1973 Annual Meeting of the Ameri- dards Policy. The resolution on Student can Political Science Association was held Representation failed to secure a one- at the Jung-Braniff Place Hotel, New third vote of those present and voting in Orleans, Louisiana, from September 4-8. order to secure a place on the mail ballot Lucian Pye, of the Insti- and was defeated. The Presiding Officer tute of Technology, served as Program ruled the Resolution on Professional Eth- Chairman. Official registration was 2,084 ics of Political Scientists in High Office with 730 participants in panels. Many unconstitutional and was upheld in his Association committees also met and held ruling by a majority of those present and open sessions to inform members of their voting. The sponsor of the resolution on efforts and invite suggestions for future Investigation of Aspects of Dr. Henry A. activities. Other significant events at the Kissinger's Public Conduct withdrew his Annual Meeting included the Annual resolution when it was presented for ac- Business Meeting; the 1973 Annual Meet- tion. The resolution on Establishment of a ing New Orleans Jazz Concert; an address Study on Campaign Finance and Expendi- by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller; the tures failed to secure the necessary one- Presidential Address of Robert E. Ward third support of those present and voting and the Award Ceremony for outstanding and was defeated. The final resolution on publications and dissertations. Expression of Opposition to the Texas Teachers' Certification Standards Policy The Annual Business Meeting was passed by unanimous consent. A The 1973 Annual Business Meeting was letter to the Editor on the Texas Teach- held on Wednesday, September 5, at 4:00 ers' Certification Policy is published in p.m. The President of the Association, this issue of PS. Minutes of the Annual Robert E. Ward, presided. Items on the Business Meeting will be published in a agenda included five resolutions and nom- forthcoming issue of PS. ination of officers and Council members and their certification by the Election Committee. The 1973 Annual Meeting New Orleans Jazz Concert The five resolutions were on: Student About 650 members and their guests Representation on the APSA Council and attended a New Orleans Jazz Concert at most committees; Professional Ethics of the Grand Ballroom of the Fairmont- Political Scientists in High Office; Investi- Roosevelt Hotel on Wednesday evening, gation of Aspects of Dr. Henry A. Kissin- September 5. The concert featured the ger's Public Conduct; Establishment of a Johnny Wig Band, Pleasant Joe and the Olympia Marching Band. Special thanks for conceiving and developing the jazz concert are due to Fred Greenstein of Princeton University, Martin Shapiro of , and David Cayer of Rutgers University. Appreciation is also expressed to the 126 sponsors of the concert whose backing of the effort provided initial support for the jazz concert.

Address by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller A highlight of the Annual Meeting was an address on Wednesday evening by Gov- ernor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. The Governor, sponsored by a group of political scientists, spoke on "The National Commission on Critical Choices for America." Over 400 people were present for Governor Rockefeller's address.

Presidential Address President Robert E. Ward of Stanford University presented his Presidential Ad- dress, "Culture and the Comparative Study of or The Constipated Avery Leiserson Vanderbilt University, Association President, Dialectic," at the Annual Meeting. It will 1973-74 be published in the REVIEW.

432 PS Fall 1973 Awards thing about American politics at the Six awards recognizing outstanding publi- beginning of the 1970's in particular. cations and dissertations were presented Success has been achieved in both at- at the Annual Meeting awards ceremony. tempts. Their efforts to pursue the theo- The 1973 awards and winners were: retical and empirical implications of sev- eral alternative models make a substantial Foundation Award contribution to the cumulative knowl- edge that political scientists have about Michael Brecher of McGill University general political phenomena. The empiri- received the 1973 Woodrow Wilson Foun- cal methods utilized, the care of their dation Book Award of $1,000 and a analysis, the extent of their sample, and medal for the best book published in the the diversity of their indicators give us a in 1972 in government, very good overview of the factors affect- politics, or international affairs. The ing the participation of American citizens award winning book, THE FOREIGN in national and local affairs during this POLICY SYSTEM OF ISRAEL, was pub- era. For scholars interested in the techni- lished by the Press. Mar- cal aspects of careful public policy analy- ian Irish, the Chairman of the Selection sis, they present an example of how both Committee, in her citation said, "We were imaginative and rigorous looking for a book that was not only in methodology can be brought to bear on itself a scholarly enterprise but also a intriguing and knotty problems of public seminal study, one which made broad policy analysis. One can learn a great deal analytical and theoretical contributions about data analysis by carefully observing to the discipline. THE FOREIGN POLI- the type of in-depth analysis they pursue. CY SYSTEM OF ISRAEL, at the inter- For scholars interested more in the policy section of and inter- implications of current levels of citizen national relations, is an intensive exercise participation, they will find much valu- in policy analysis drawing eclectically and able information and insight into the instrumentally from theories of politics question of who participates and why." and political process . .. [and] represents prodigious personal enterprise, years of Members of the selection committee were independent inquiry and meticulous Richard Neustadt, Harvard University, scholarship at the microlevel of research Chairman; , Indiana Univer- in political science. It focuses on the sity; and James McGregor Burns, Williams behavior of a single actor, a single state: a College. new state, emerging and developing under extraordinary conditions and circumstan- E. E. Schattschneider Award ces, a state strategically located at the center of world politics, Israel in the The E. E. Schattschneider Award for the Middle East. It examines the setting best dissertation completed and accepted (international and national), the psychol- in the general field of American Govern- ogical environment, the images and atti- ment and Politics in 1972 was presented tudes of the policy makers, the process of to Michael Jay Robinson of Catholic policy making, and the impact of the University. His dissertation, "Public Af- process upon the product. It provides an fairs Television and the Growth of Politi- on-going analysis and critique of the cal Malaise: The Case of the SELLING foreign policy system of Israel and at the OF THE PENTAGON," was submitted same time is an important case study of by the Department of Political Science of the interrelations of international and the University of Michigan. Reading from national politics. his citation, Clement Vose, the Chair- man of the selection committee noted The Committee which selected the win- that, Robinson's work, "deals with the ner was composed of Marian Irish, Ameri- place of television journalism in Amer- can University, Chairman; Gabriel A. Al- ican life and the impact of this rela- mond, Stanford University; and Frank tively new medium on the political Sorauf, University of Minnesota. beliefs of Americans. In brief, he re- ports that citizens who rely on this Gladys M. Kammerer Award news source are more inclined than the The Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the non-viewing public to develop a belief best political science publication in the that politics is evil and steadily worsen- field of United States national policy in ing, or that politics only serves the 1972 was awarded to and interests of others. More generally, he Norman H. Nie of Harvard University for reports, much of the public frustration their book, PARTICIPATION IN AMER- with politics during the 1960's is trace- ICA: POLITICAL DEMOCRACY AND able directly to videojoumalism. Dr. Rob- SOCIAL EQUALITY, published by Har- inson's findings are based in part on an per and Row. In presenting the award of imaginative use of survey data and in part $500.00 to Verba and Nie, Elinor Ostrom on a carefully designed and executed representing the selection committee experiment testing reaction to the CBS stated: "Verba and Nie have attempted, documentary, THE SELLING OF THE in their book to say something about the PENTAGON. His use of the controlled processes of politics in general and some- experiment is particularly praiseworthy

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Lucian Pye, Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology and Program L to R: Michael Brecher receives the 1973 Woodrow Wilson Chairman for the 1973 Annual Book Award from Pendleton Herring, President of the Meeting. Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York with Charles O. Jones of the University of Pittsburgh who introduced him at a special Everett C. Ladd, Jr. of the University of session at the Annual Meeting where the Gover- Connecticut at the panel "Political Science as a nor spoke on the Commission on Critical Profession: Data on Faculty, Graduate Students Choices for America and Undergraduate Majors"

L to R: Joel Grossman of the University of Wisconsin presents the 1973 Edward S. Corwin Howard Rosenthal, Carnegie-Mellon University, at the panel Award to Lief Hastings Carter of on Statistical Problems in Political Science. the University of Georgia.

434 PS Fall 1973 Clara Penniman of the University of Wisconsin, Martin Diamond of the University of Northern Madison at the Annual Business Meeting. Illinois at the Annual Business Meeting

Carole W. Parsons of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and Chairperson of L to R: Richard Smoke of University of California, Berkeley, the APSA Committee on the Sta- receives the 1973 Helen Dwight Reid Award from Sophia tus of Women in the Profession at Peterson of West University and a member of the the "Employment of Women Po- 1973 selection committee. litical Scientists" panel.

Jason Mezey, son of Susan and Michael Mezey Joseph Cooper of Rice University presenting his of the University of Hawaii at the Annual paper "Organization Theory and Congressional Meeting Child Care Center Structure"

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L to R: C. Herman Pritchett, University of California, Santa Manning Dauer of the University Barbara, and Chairman of the 1973 Leonard D. White Award of Florida at the Annual Business presents the 1973 award to Douglas T. Yates of Yale Meeting University

Michael Smith of Johns Hopkins University Robert E. Ward of Stanford University and presenting his paper "Social Background and 1973 President of the American Political Sci- Role Perspective of Black Judges" ence Association

Franklin Burdette of the Univer- sity of Maryland visits with Elinor Ostrom of the University of Indiana and a member of Clement E. Vose of Wesleyan the 1973 Gladys M. Kammerer Book Award Committee University during the Annual announcing the 1973 award. Meeting

436 PS Fall 1973 for through his study Dr. Robinson has in showing the relevance of historical demonstrated the value to political analy- cases to current policy problems which sis of this seldom used but powerful are sometimes regarded as unique. Be- mode of inquiry." cause of his impressive contribution in empirical theory-building, and his success- Members of the selection committee were ful implementation of the 'focused com- Clement E. Vose, Wesleyan University, parisons' of the several case studies. Dr. Chairman; Katherine Hinckley, University Smoke has facilitated more rigorous and of Akron; and Joseph Schlesinger, Michi- refined study in the fields of military gan State University. strategy and international affairs." Edward S. Corwin Award Members of the selection committee were The Edward S. Corwin Award for the Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University, Chair- best dissertation in 1972 in public law, man; Sophia Peterson, West Virginia Uni- broadly defined, went to Lief Hastings versity; and Jeremy R. Azrael, University Carter of the University of Georgia for his of Chicago. dissertation, "The Limits of Order: Un- certainty and Adaptation in a District Leonard D. White Award Attorney's Office." It was submitted by The Leonard D. White Award for the best the University of California, Berkeley. In dissertation in the general field of public presenting the award, Joel Grossman of administration, broadly defined, was the University of Wisconsin, Madison, awarded to Douglas T. Yates, Jr. of Yale said, "Most of the research for this University for his dissertation, "Neighbor- dissertation was obtained by Dr. Carter hood Democracy: The Politics and Im- while serving as an observer in the office pacts of Decentralization." The disserta- of a District Attorney in California. From tion was submitted by the Yale Univer- this vantage point the author was able sity Department of Political Science. effectively to capture and relate the stresses and tensions involved in adminis- In presenting the award, Herman Prit- tering the law in that jurisdiction, and the chett of the University of California, ways in which prosecutors adapted to Santa Barbara, noted how particularly inadequate resources and ambiguous poli- grateful he was for the opportunity to cy goals. Although factually limited to participate in the award honoring Leon- the office he studied, Dr. Carter's thesis ard White to whom he owed so much. Of affords a much broader perspective on the award winning dissertation, he said, the role of the prosecutor in American "The author addresses the problem of law and politics. It is a model of careful decentralization as embodied in the cur- and imaginative inquiry." rently popular concept of neighborhood democracy at three levels — analytical, Members of the selection committee were empirical, and theoretical. He explores Joel Grossman, University of Wisconsin, what neighborhood democracy means, Madison, Chairman; George F. Cole, Uni- how it has operated in selected American versity of Connecticut; William Beaney, cities, and the implications of neighbor- University of Denver. hood democracy for political develop- ment and democratic theory. In spite of Helen Dwight Reid Award the widespread acceptance of neighbor- The Helen Dwight Reid Award for the hood democracy, Yates finds that the best dissertation in the field of interna- idea of 'power to the neighborhoods' has tional relations, law and politics in 1971 'shallow roots in American urban his- went to Richard Smoke of the University tory.' Four main justications are urged — of California, Berkeley, for his disserta- psychological, administrative, economic, tion, "Toward the Control of Escalation: and political — and Yates uses these An Historical Analysis." It was submitted justications as a basis for evaluating ex- by the Department of Political Science, perience with neighborhood decentraliza- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. tion in seven case studies. The author Sophia Peterson of West Virginia Univer- finds no easy answers or clearcut verdicts sity presented the award for the commit- in judging the results and impacts of tee and said of the dissertation that it "is decentralization. He does call into ques- based on five case studies of warfare tion the formal, comprehensive model of spanning the 18th and 20th centuries. neighborhood democracy, and he is Through a systematic process of what he doubtful about the political viability of termed, 'focused comparisons,' Dr. neighborhood government. Nevertheless, Smoke was able to analyze the conditions he is convinced that political realities which tended to facilitate or inhibit make the question of neighborhood dem- escalation in the five cases he studied. ocracy not whether but how. The au- Among the fruits of his research is a set thor's analysis is consistently enhanced of questions providing a framework of by the judicious handling of data and the analysis by which to examine war situa- originality of conceptual overlays. Nei- tions and alert the researcher (or policy ther cliches nor polemics, so widely used maker) to the probabilities of escalation. in connection with this topic, deter or In reviewing his dissertation the commit- confuse the author in pursuing his self- tee was impressed by Dr. Smoke's success appointed tasks. Among these tasks are:

437 Association News placing the decentralization movement in MALAYSIA its American political-administrative con- Shaik L. Ismail text; treating the issue informatively and American University imaginatively by drawing on social sci- PAKISTAN ence theory; and offering balanced judg- Zubair Ahmad ment on the advisability and utility of University of Pennsylvania urban structural change. The author con- cludes: it is now necessary to convert Institute of International Education decentralization from a fighting word into a creative public policy." BRAZIL Maria Regina Soares de Lima Members of the selection committee were Vanderbilt University C. Herman Pritchett, University of Cali- COSTA RICA fornia, Santa Barbara, Chairman; Deil Milton Clarke Wright, University of North Carolina, University of Kansas Chapel Hill; and Frank N. Marini, Syra- cuse University. CZECHOSLAVAKIA Pavel Machala Johns Hopkins University Pi Sigma Alpha Award EGYPT The Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best Hoda Moukhtar Zaki paper at the 1972 Annual Meeting was Atlanta University not awarded on the recommendation of ENGLAND the Committee. The members of the Colin MacAndrews Committee were: Donald S. Strong, Uni- Massachusetts Institute of Technology versity of Alabama, Chairman; Lewis C. Keith C. Simmonds Mainzer, University of Massachusetts; and University of Illinois Donald Hanson, University of Utah. FRANCE Jacques Fomerand City University of New York GERMANY Joerg Ueltzhoeffer Stanford University Annual Meeting Visiting Foreign GHANA National Travel Grant Program Agyeman Opoku Atlanta University Under two programs, one sponsored by GREECE the Asia Foundation and one by the Demetrios G. Papademetriou Institute of International Education, thir- University of Maryland ty advanced graduate students in the field of political science from twenty-four na- IRAN tions were awarded travel grants to attend Farid Abolfathi the 1973 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Northwestern University The individuals and nations represented ISRAEL are: David Naveh University of Connecticut Asia Foundation LEBANON HONG KONG Joseph E. Gemayel S. T. Chan American University University of Minnesota NEW ZEALAND INDIA Joseph Bryan Atkinson K. P. Misra Yale University Woodrow Wilson International Center for NIGERIA Scholars Hilary Ikechukinu Iregbulem Anil Baran Ray University of Illinois University of Missouri, Columbia Offiong E. Udofia JAPAN State University of New York, Buffalo Mikio Higa POLAND Ambassadar College Arthur R. Rachwald Hisao Iwashima University of California, Santa Barbara National Defense College SYRIA KOREA Fehmi Saddy Byong Man Ahn American University University of Florida TURKEY Hongkoo Lee Deniz Erden Woodrow Wilson International Center for University of Massachusetts Scholars UGANDA Young C. Zeon Meddi Mugyenyi University of South Dakota Northwestern University

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