| Subject: [EL] Fwd: The Forum -- New Issue |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 10/14/2010, 11:34 AM |
| To: Election Law |
| Subject: | The Forum -- New Issue |
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| Date: | Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:03:51 -0700 (PDT) |
| From: | Byron Shafer <mm-11185-6506596@bepress.com> |
| Reply-To: | Byron Shafer <mm-11185-6506596@bepress.com> |
| To: | Rick.Hasen@lls.edu |
| October 14, 2010 |
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This Issue of The Forum pays special attention to the theme of "Political Science and Practical Politics". John Petrocik and Frederick Steeper reveal what practitioners know that political scientists do not. The tension between politics and political science as lived by those who practice them is addressed by Burdette Loomis on the private lives of politicians and by Jennifer Murtazashvili on the conscious disconnect between academic and military life. Jeffrey Biggs talks about congressional fellows who have 'gone practical' as a result of their experience; Rhodes Cook offers an autobiographical view of attending to political science but not living inside it; and Kenneth Mayer visits the tensions from living on both sides of the line as an expert witness. Seth Masket laments the electoral barriers, and Jacob Hacker the institutional barriers, that lead to disconnection, while Rogan Kersh notes the very practical tensions in jumping those barriers. Henry Farrell and John Sides salute blogging as a way to reconnect, while Matthew Grossman offers an array of programmatic means to do so. Hans Noel closes the circle by noting the things that political scientists know but practitioners do not. There is also a mid-term election coming, so Steven Schier traces the fortunes of the Obama Administration to date, while Carl Klarner projects outcomes in Congress and in the states, with a special eye on the next round of congressional redistricting. Three reviews complete this issue of The Forum, with Andrei Markovits on Peter Baldwin, The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike; David Mayhew on William Claggett and Byron Shafer, The American Public Mind: the Issue Structure of Mass Politics in the Postwar United States, and Sheldon Pollack on Brian Balogh, A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America. ArticlesThe Politics Missed by Political Science John R. Petrocik and Frederick T. Steeper Fiction, Facts, and Truth: The Personal Lives of Political Figures Burdett A. Loomis Armed with Practice: Learning to Engage with the Military Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili Whether and Whither an Applied Career Track for Doctoral Political Scientists Jeffrey R. Biggs and Veronica Jones Political Science and Practical Politics: A Journalist’s Journey Rhodes Cook Is Political Science Relevant? Ask an Expert Witness Kenneth R. Mayer Seth E. Masket Healing the Rift between Political Science and Practical Politics Jacob S. Hacker Political Science and Practical Politics Rogan Kersh Building a Political Science Public Sphere with Blogs Henry Farrell and John Sides Political Science at the State University in the State Capital Matt Grossmann Ten Things Political Scientists Know that You Don’t Hans Noel Steven E. Schier Forecasting Control of State Governments and Redistricting Authority After the 2010 Elections Carl Klarner ReviewsAndrei S. Markovits David R. Mayhew Review of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America Sheldon D. Pollack About this journalA first in political science, The Forum is the sole venue where professional political scientists analyze and comment on contemporary American politics, with peer-reviewed articles that are relevant and accessible to a wide audience. Topics include parties, elections, the news media, Congress, the Presidency, American foreign policy, and American politics in comparative perspective. The journal is edited by Byron Shafer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Ray La Raja (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); its editorial board includes many of the top figures in American political science. Articles have been featured on NPR and are discussed frequently on blogs around the Web. With timely and topical pieces that tend to be longer than newspaper columns but shorter than orthodox journal articles, The Forum bridges the gap between academic political science and real-world politics. The Forum is indexed in America: History and Life (ABC-CLIO), Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, IBSS, PAIS International, Scopus, Social Science Citation Index (Thomson/ISI), and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. |
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Jason Engle
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