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Volume 30 - September 1997

Contents

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News

  • Introducing Instructional Technology to International Relations

  • Richard J. Harknett, Craig T. Cobane
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    02 September 2013, pp. 496-500
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  • Death, Where Is Thy Sting? The Senate as a Ponce (de Leon) Scheme

  • A Wuffle, Thomas Brunell, William Koetzle
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    02 September 2013, pp. 58-59

  • Maltzman, Sigelman and Binder (1996), in what we regard as monumental work, have reinvigorated the study of death in office. But their data analysis is incomplete. First, they fail to project realistically the trends in actual and expected congressional deaths illustrated in Figure 1 of their paper. Second, like many congressional scholars, they do not pay sufficient attention to the Senate. We provide new evidence that the U.S. Senate may offer the solution to mankind's oldest quest, the fountain of youth (Gilgamesh n.d.; de Leon 1460–1521).

    Table 1 presents data on the proportion of U.S. Senators who died in office, by decade, from 1910 to 1990 (CQ 1995).

    We plotted the senatorial mortality rate data reported in Table 1 versus year (for data grouped by decade) as shown in Figure 1.

    The r2 for the regression of mortality rates on time is an astonishingly large .87. Rarely have we seen such a clear time trend. Senators are increasingly not dying in office.

    However, as our colleague, Bernard Grofman, pointed out to us (personal communication, April 2, 1995), projecting this equation past 1990 would give us negative estimates of mortality rates as early as the year 2000. Given the strength of our empirical results and the scholarly commitment we share with Gelman and King (1990) to investigating incumbency effects without a priori bias, we do not reject the idea of revenants out of hand.

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Mainstreaming Gender Research into the Classroom

  • Women and Gender in European Politics Courses: Exploring the Scandinavian Welfare States

  • Leslie C. Eliason
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    02 September 2013, pp. 198-199
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  • The Record of American Democracy, 1984–1990

  • Gary King, Bradley Palmquist
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    02 September 2013, pp. 746-747
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  • Beyond the Chalkboard: Multimedia Sources For Instruction in Political Science

  • Carl J. Luna, Joe Mac McKenzie
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    02 September 2013, pp. 60-68
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Mainstreaming Gender Research into the Classroom

  • Women and Party Politics in Western Europe

  • Joni Lovenduski
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    02 September 2013, pp. 200-202
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  • Crosscutting the Subfields: Learning from Our Colleagues

  • Stephen L. Wasby
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    02 September 2013, pp. 747-751
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  • Coalition Theory in Praxis: A Comparative Politics Simulation of the Cabinet Formation Process

  • Juliet Kaarbo, Jeffrey S. Lantis
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    02 September 2013, pp. 501-506
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  • Beyond Bosnia: Contextualizing the Politics of Southeastern Europe

  • Charles King
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    02 September 2013, pp. 507-510
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  • Integrating Women into the Study of European Politics

  • Sonja Elison
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    02 September 2013, pp. 202-204
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  • Using “Capitol Hill” CD ROM To Teach Undergraduate Political Science Courses

  • Cynthia Opheim, W.B. Stouffer
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    02 September 2013, pp. 68-70
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  • The Future of Our Discipline: The Status of Doctoral Students in Political Science

  • Julie Dolan, Martha E. Kropf, Karen O'Connor, Marni Ezra
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    02 September 2013, pp. 751-756
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Mainstreaming Gender Research into the Classroom

  • Integrating Gender Into the Political Science Curriculum: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Opportunities

  • Christine Di Stefano
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    02 September 2013, pp. 204-206
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  • Teaching Democratic Theory Democratically

  • Mark Mattern
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    02 September 2013, pp. 510-515
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  • Activities and Appointments

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    02 September 2013, pp. 757-760
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  • The Interactive Journal: Creating A Learning Space

  • Dean Hammer
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    02 September 2013, pp. 70-73
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