Examines the history of U.S. political primaries, discusses Democratic Party reforms in the presidential nomination process since 1968, and cites important generalizations about how the process works today. States that the system lessens party leader influence, giving the media power to set public expectations and declare winners and losers. (GEA)

This study assessed a model of the relationship between critical thinking and political participation. Findings indicated that critical thinking has indirect positive effects on orientations toward political participation, that critical thinking positively affects personal control, political efficacy, and democratic attitude, and that personal…

This review of evaluation findings on Dutch government policy successes and failures points to the influence of political culture on policy effectiveness. Public policy goal attainment is more likely when the government acts purposively, on the basis of relevant information, with power, and with integration. (Author/BS)

Noting that one's intellectual experiences presage one's later political commitments, this address explores the political commitments students make when they decide to major in communication studies. (PD)

Profiles Kathleen Brown Rice (sister of California governor Jerry Brown) and her role on the Los Angeles city board of education. (IRT)

Findings indicate that the traditional variables from the literature of political recruitment tend to be more supportive of men rather than women and that the ecological setting is important in determining the recruitment pattern of men and women politicians. (Author)

Compares the ritual of the American presidential nomination acceptance speech to the rhetorical ritual of the Puritan jeremiad to discover both similarities and differences. Examines each as a means of interpreting the meaning of the past and unifying the audience around a shared vision of the future. (JMF)

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)

Various aspects which contribute to the political activities of adult educators are examined: (1) attitudes toward political activity, (2) efforts undertaken to influence legislation and government policy, and (3) methods by which adult educators have organized themselves to increase their role in political decision making involving adult…

Explores both paranoid and non-paranoid political discourse including the nature of the evidence and the extent to which such evidence is distorted. Contends that study results affirm the value of the Hofstadter evidence-inference dichotomy. (MH)

The results of the introduction of politics into education can be a new kind of leadership that pursues educational goals through the acceptable, honorable, democratic processes of this country. (Author/IRT)

An attempt by groups in England during the 1930's to take over and control political education curriculum policy is described. (DE)

This article examines what makes knowledge political in its derivation and uses, and what potential political functions it may serve. Emphasis is placed upon the idea that the consequences of political knowledge for a democracy are neither uniformly beneficent or malevolent; but depend upon how the knowledge is being used and by whom. (DE)