Interviews with 485 local officials in Poland showed that both elected and appointed officials strongly preferred principled reasoning for ethical decision making. Gender and attitude toward the change from Communism made a difference in preferred modes of ethical reasoning. (SK)

Reports concerns of scholars that the National Endowment for the Humanities is increasing support for many popular programs while decreasing or eliminating support for projects that involve the editing of important scholarly papers. Notes congressional support for the Endowment's current policy including its emphasis on fund raising by grant…

Planning traditionally employs a rational decision model that leaves the planner poorly equipped to deal with constraints of organizational process and governmental politics. To be more effective, the planner must now begin in depth to analyze the procedures related to organizational processes and political bargaining. (Author)

Elite values and role perceptions are analyzed for their impact on the determination of public expenditures. A sample of 51 public school policy-makers in six suburbs confirm that social-class point of view and political ideology are of less significance than formal and informal role constraints and dependence on technical expertise. (JH)

This paper examines the local Commissions on the Status of Women (CSW) groups, whose primary task is to shape a women's agenda for the participation in politics at the community level. CSW's now exist in 150 communities across the United States as official advisory boards to general jurisdiction governments. Five questions are explored in this…

Reviews the politics of education literature for relevance to research on how teachers make decisions about the content of instruction. Argues that such decisions are political in nature and should be the subject of political research. (Author/IRT)

Examines how a professional educational organization such as the American Educational Studies Association can influence the political decision making process in the area of educational issues. (Author/DB)

Examines the impact of politics on curriculum decision-making from a political theory viewpoint. To deal with problems resulting from an authoritative allocation of values in curriculum decisions, the relation between the political system and the school system must be modified to include mutual respect. Includes 11 references. (MLH)

This paper examines the politics and values of the secondary school curriculum in Greece and attempts to find out the influences of cultural tradition and centralized control on curriculum development. In particular, it studies the decision-making process and the politics of educational control, employing some theoretical elements from centralist…

The political foundation of voluntary student financing of campus recreation facilities is examined. By combining Baldridge's Political Decision Making Model with Wildavsky's Clientele Strategy, the "Political Clientele Model" is proposed as a framework to analyze the process of constructing student funded recreational facilities. The…

The workbook is intended as a primer for public and private sector state level advocates for children with disabilities and chronic illnesses. It is designed to give practical guidance on how to intervene effectively in the legislative and executive appropriation and budget processes. The first section examines the role of the partners-in-power:…

A study investigated whether reliance on television rather than on newspapers affected the way people made voting decisions. Specifically, it focused on whether television reliance was associated with greater candidate image evaluation and newspaper reliance with greater issue importance in the prediction of voter preferences. Telephone interviews…

A discussion of client evaluation is presented. One of the initial elements in performing an evaluation is "framing the decision context." In framing this context, the evaluator is faced with several key questions, for example, "Who are the decision makers or decision audiences to whom he will be presenting information?" and "What are the likely…

Examines three models of social science inputs to social policy formulation and argues that they are all inadequate, because they fail to account adequately for the nature of the policy process and the political environment. (Available from NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, P. O. Box 9155, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, VA 22209; $19.00…

This statement responds to the need for all higher education leaders to consider the perspectives of external voices while resisting purely political or ideological agendas. Long-standing and recent external challenges to the traditions of citizen governing boards of colleges and universities make it necessary to distinguish between broad, often…