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Association News 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 Massachusetts 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 Harvard University, 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 Politics 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 Woodrow Wilson 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 United States 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 Yale University 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 social science 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 comparative politics 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; Elinor Ostrom, 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 Sidney Verba 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 433 1973 ANNUAL MEETING 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.