[EB] Political Behavior special issues

[Political Behavior]

SPECIAL ISSUE: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

Guest Editor: Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia

Political Behavior invites submissions for a special issue focused
exclusively on Comparative Political Behavior. On the surface, at least,
the 1990s have brought massive electoral change.
Long-established parties of government have disappeared, as in Italy and
Canada. In some places, social democratic and labor parties were moved to
the electoral margin even as, elsewhere, overseas equivalents of Clinton
New Democrats occupy the high ground. Are these changes the culmination of
trends first observed in the early 1970s, the breakdown of cleavage
structures dating back to the 1920s and before, gradual dealignment,
deficit politics, the rise of postmaterialism and of new forms of identity
politics? Or do the changes reflect the collapse of the Cold War system? Or
has less changed than meets the eye?  In this special issue we invite
papers focused on these and other important topics related to the area of
Comparative Political Behavior. Deadline for submissions:  November 31,
1999.

SPECIAL ISSUE: EVALUATING CITIZEN COMPETENCE

Guest Editor: James Kuklinski, University of Illinois

Political Behavior invites submissions for a special issue on Evaluating
Citizen Competence.  The purpose of the papers will be to grapple with the
problem of choosing criteria by which to judge citizen performance.
Converse was the first researcher to explicate precisely what those
criteria should be: ideological understanding, issue constraint, and issue
stability across time.  Since then, authors have offered a variety of
alternative criteria, including full information (an unattainable goal),
the effective use of heuristics, and the ability to connect self interests
and policy alternatives.  Although each of these criteria has served a
purpose, researchers have offered them on an ad hoc basis.  Moreover, at
times the performance criteria and the actual performance itself have not
been fully distinguished.  The special issue will serve as an opportunity
to provide a comprehensive and more fully integrated treatment of the
topic.  Deadline for submissions:  December 31, 1999.


Submissions should be sent to the new Political Behavior address: Diana
Mutz, Department of Political Science, 2140 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH  43210-1373.



Political Behavior
Diana C. Mutz, Editor
Paul S. Martin, Editorial Assistant

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