Universal reference system. International Affairs; an annotated and intensely indexed compilation of significant books, pamphlets and articles… Prepared under the direction of Alfred de Grazia. « Political science, government and public policy series », 1; 2d ed. Princeton, N.J., Princeton Research Publishing 1969, 1206 p.

The recent growth in policy studies curricula in political science departments affords increased opportunities for experimentation with alternative instruction modes. This article describes one innovation found to be appropriate for courses for which the instructor has access to experts in the policy being studied. In this example, community experts in health policy issues were used as resource persons to assist in discussion of specific health policy concerns. Other policy courses should be amenable to this format, including energy, environment, and economic development courses. Even without using community experts, the general format of weekly colloquiums could be replicated for other policy courses.The courses described herein is an upper division/graduate level course in American Health Policy. It is taught for one semester every other year as one of several topical courses in the public policy track within political science.

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Political Science 523 Environmental Politics and Public Policy

Environmental History Review ◽

10.2307/3985025 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 114-124

Author(s):

Robert V. Bartlett

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Political Science ◽

Environmental Politics

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A Note on “Public Policy”

Canadian Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0008423900040506 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 661-664 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert Vaison

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Public Policy ◽

Political Science ◽

Public Administration ◽

Government Policy ◽

Policy Making ◽

The Social ◽

Political Studies ◽

Policy Analysts ◽

Government Body

Normally in political studies the term public policy is construed to encompass the societally binding directives issued by a society's legitimate government. We usually consider government, and only government, as being able to “authoritatively allocate values.” This common conception pervades the literature on government policy-making, so much so that it is hardly questioned by students and practitioners of political science. As this note attempts to demonstrate, some re-thinking seems to be in order. For purposes of analysis in the social sciences, this conceptualization of public policy tends to obscure important realities of modern corporate society and to restrict unnecessarily the study of policy-making. Public policy is held to be public simply and solely because it originates from a duly legitimated government, which in turn is held to have the authority (within specified limits) of formulating and implementing such policy. Public policy is public then, our usual thinking goes, because it is made by a body defined somewhat arbitrarily as “public”: a government or some branch of government. All other policy-making is seen as private; it is not public (and hence to lie essentially beyond the scope of the disciplines of poliitcal science and public administration) because it is duly arrived at by non-governmental bodies. Thus policy analysts lead us to believe that public policy is made only when a government body acts to consider some subject of concern, and that other organizations are not relevant to the study of public policy.

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In His Day: Awareness of Wilson’s Duplicity

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s1537592716001316 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 762-763 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Desmond Jagmohan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Political Science ◽

The United States ◽

Political Scientist ◽

International Affairs ◽

Woodrow Wilson ◽

Princeton University ◽

History Of ◽

Complex Landscape ◽

American Political Science

Woodrow Wilson is the only American political scientist to have served as President of the United States. In the time between his political science Ph.D. (from Johns Hopkins, in 1886) and his tenure as president (1913–21), he also served as president of Princeton University (1902–10) and president of the American Political Science Association (1909–10). Wilson is one of the most revered figures in American political thought and in American political science. The Woodrow Wilson Award is perhaps APSA’s most distinguished award, given annually for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs published in the previous year, and sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at Princeton University.Wilson has also recently become the subject of controversy, on the campus of Princeton University, and in the political culture more generally, in connection with racist statements that he made and the segregationist practices of his administration. A group of Princeton students associated with the “Black Lives Matter” movement has demanded that Wilson’s name be removed from two campus buildings, one of which is the famous Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (see Martha A. Sandweiss, “Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race,” http://www.thenation.com/article/woodrow-wilson-princeton-and-the-complex-landscape-of-race/). Many others have resisted this idea, noting that Wilson is indeed an important figure in the history of twentieth-century liberalism and Progressivism in the United States.A number of colleagues have contacted me suggesting that Perspectives ought to organize a symposium on the Wilson controversy. Although we do not regularly organize symposia around current events, given the valence of the controversy and its connection to issues we have featured in our journal (see especially the September 2015 issue on “The American Politics of Policing and Incarceration”), and given Wilson's importance in the history of our discipline, we have decided to make an exception in this case. We have thus invited a wide range of colleagues whose views on this issue will interest our readers to comment on this controversy. —Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor.

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