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Editorial Statement Matthew Holden, Jr.* Introduction cans were treated as (/"they presented group") politics or as class politics, no analytically interesting questions. with or without the Marxist variant, It is my particular honor to have They surely were not deemed signifi- this treatment left no intellectually been appointed Editor of the Na- cant to central issues of political sci- compelling issues regarding race or tional Political Science Review for ence. That is why Ralph J. Bunche ethnicity. The assumption of the Volumes IV-VI (1992-94). Lucius J. could say, in 1941, that generally in Anglo-centric polity remained an un- Barker, my colleague of many years, political science "there isn't a very disturbed feature of the canon. has been brilliantly successful as the cordial reception for papers dealing The inklings of a "scientific" founding Editor. It is sufficient chal- with the Negro."2 study of politics, notably in the work lenge to maintain the high and in- The explanation probably lies in of Charles E. Merriam, just after dependent intellectual standard that World War I, anticipated by a long Barker has established. No major some combination of social and in- tellectual history. The central intellec- distance what would occur after changes of policy or practice are con- World War II. After World War II, templated. As before, the first re- tual concern of late 19th and early 20th century political science was political scientists came strongly to quirement is careful scholarship, but accept a more self-conscious and no particular methodological or theo- "popular government," restyled "democracy" later on. This political explicit idea of "science" and a more retical orthodoxy is to be enforced. abstract concern with "power." This If it is political science, the NPSR is science studied, more than anything else, the law, philosophy, and history did not alter, however, the central interested. As there is a special his- tendency of political scientists to tory, however, some additional com- of "government," with an acute em- phasis on American institutions, the think of Black-related questions as ments may be helpful. The National peripheral. They could, from the Political Science Review has been, governments of France, Germany, and Great Britain, and international viewpoints held, be understood fully and continues to be, particularly within existing intellectual param- open to research about the political law, with a moderate addition of Asian and colonial government. It eters. Nor did the introduction of a relations of African-descended social science saturated with intel- groups, especially in the United emerged within the Anglo-centric in- lectual problems defined from the States. tellectual tradition that dominated moral problems of Central Europe American scholarship well into the make much difference for a long 20th century. Woodrow Wilson, A. time. The moral and intellectual Lawrence Lowell, Frank J. Goodnow problems of the United States were Note on the and William Bennet Munro may be substantially set aside. Intellectual Background regarded as adequately representative figures in the tradition. The leaders On the basis of published research, of this emergent discipline more or over the past one hundred years, it is less took for granted that the polit- Recent Work fair to say that the discipline of polit- ical community was essentially a ical science, overall, has proceeded as "white" community.3 The big ques- There has been a perceptible shift, if these political relations were tion, instead, was about both the em- especially since about 1960 and cer- exotica. They might be interesting pirical and the normal role of wealth tainly since the effects of the civil possibly to Blacks or to occasional in the polity. Whether understood as rights movement have come into aca- white scholars.' On the whole, the group (later "pressure group" and demic life.4 There is now a book lit- political relations of African Ameri- still later the cooled down "interest erature. There is now emerging a December 1990 613 The Profession periodical literature. The latter, espe- cially, increasingly reflects the CONTENTS—VOLUME I applications of those quantitative methods from the Angus Campbell- Editor's Note 3 Warren Miller-Survey Research Cen- Liberalism and Black Political Thought: The Afro-American Dilemma ter mode to the politics of non-white Stuart Alan Clarke 5 ethnic minorities. The effect is strong Political Movements in American Politics: An Essay on Concept enough that one can note the re- and Analysis markable fact of another journal Robert H. Salisbury 15 carrying last year two such articles in Civil Rights and Liberties in the First Term of the Rehnquist Court: one issue.5 We similarly note the The Quest for Doctrines and Votes emergence of panels at the American Twiley W. Barker and Michael W. Combs 31 Political Science Association on Getting Out the Black Vote: The Party Canvass and the Black Response "Race, Gender and Ethnicity," Michael A. Krassa 58 which suggest the emergence of a Second-Generation Educational Discrimination and White Flight new subfield in the discipline. from Public Schools This shift is important for the Kenneth J. Meier, Joseph Stewart* Jr. and Robert E. England 76 basic intellectual health of the disci- SYMPOSIUM I: The Iran-Contra Affair pline. The National Political Science Doin' the Cincinnati or What Is There About the White House Review is open to disciplined thought That Makes Its Occupants Do Bad Things? and substantial empirical inquiry Theodore J. Lowi 91 about such relationships. Perhaps it The Iran-Contra Hearings and Executive Policymaking will be helpful to suggest broadly Francis E. Rourke 96 some of the possibilities. In the first place, of course, there is the normal Congress on the Defensive: An Hypothesis from the Iran-Contra Problem Mathew Holden, Jr. 100 array of studies that are defined within existing parameters of political The Iran-Contra Affair: Errant Globalism in Action science: Presidency, Congress, public Ernest J. Wilson, III 110 administration, interest groups, state SYMPOSIUM H: Black Americans and the Constitution 6 and local government, and so forth. Executive Authority, Constitutional Interpretation, and Civil Rights Beyond these, it may be worthwhile Barbara Luck Graham 114 to indicate some other possibilities. Civil Rights and the Fragmentation of Government Power Lawrence Baum 121 Some Possibilities for the Time The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Racism: Compromises on the Way to Democracy 1. Ethnic Plurality William J. Daniels 126 BOOK FORUM The National Political Science Review Essays: Jesse Jackson and Presidential Politics Review will encompass not merely African-American politics, but the Black Presidential Strategies and Institutional Constraints political relations of other historical- WilliamE. Nelson, Jr. 133 ly, or presently, subordinated groups Jacksonian Democracy—Black Style: Differing Perspectives and the contexts in which those rela- William Crotty 143 tions have been manifest. The prob- Bibliographic Essays lem is not how sympathetic or un- The Current Literature on Black Politics sympathetic a scholar may be to the Hanes Walton, Jr. 152 claims of African-descended persons. Similarities and Differences: Reflections on Political Science Research It is how to explore the multi-ethnic on Women and Politics dynamic, how to appraise the pros- Liane C. Kosaki 169 pects of the racially-stratified consti- Chicano Politics in the 1980s and Beyond: A Review of the Literature tutional democracy, and how to fore- in the Decade of the Hispanics cast the political consequences of a John A. Garcia 180 market economy characterized by Indians and the Social Contract severe racial inelasticities. The under- Joyotpaul Chaudhuri 190 lying conceptual issues in the multi- ethnic polity go to the question of Book Reviews what is a viable (accurately predic- Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights tive) theory of political integration Reviewed by Lorn S. Foster 201 (and its converse, disintegration). Gender Justice The issue also presents