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United States Foreign Policy: An Appraisal Of Globalism, William O. Peterfi

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Many scholars and citizens agree that recent United States foreign policy has led the country into global involvement, but there is wide disagreement as to the implications of this. In this appraisal of the general concept of globalism the author hopes to show that, no matter how the United States got involved in global politics, it can in a way be justified on the basis of the national interest and that, although there is an urgent need for change in U.S. foreign policy, it cannot now be done on a unilateral basis.

Major Party Politics In A Multi-Party System: The Mapai Party Of Israel, Scott D. Johnston

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This study has concerned itself with the main outlines of the Mapai Party's position and contributions to the Israeli political system. The implications of that position, and the functions the party has performed have been shown to be of very substantial significance for the operating of the system. Suggestive possibilities are raised concerning a comparative examination of other party systems with the Israeli model of multi-party politics and its one major pluralist party, although it will be necessary to keep in mind that the Israeli model may be so unique that such an approach may not prove to be feasible. …

The Dilemma Of A Civil Libertarian: Francis Biddle And The Smith Act, Thomas L. Pahl

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Although society may have good reasons for protecting itself against both sedition and conspiracy, history demonstrates that statutes directed against these offenses are particularly prone to result in the abuse of power. A possibility of just such an abuse in the first application of the Smith Act - the Minneapolis Trotskyite trial of 1941 - led to a consideration of a civil libertarian caught in the cross-pressure of enforcing a law anathema to his professed liberal beliefs. The study showed that, during time of threat, internal or external, our democratic society permits our government officials, in the name of survival, …

A Frame Of Reference For The Study Of American Foreign Policy-Making, Robert E. Cecile

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This study outlines a frame of reference which might be helpful to political scientists in the analysis of foreign policy decision-making. It is part of a larger effort which seeks to learn more about state action in general and American foreign policy decision-making in particular.

The approach which is utilized is one devised by Richard C. Snyder. It has been modified by the author lo suit the purposes and objectives of the present study. Basically, the approach is a conceptual scheme which postulates that state action results from the way identifiable, official decision-makers define the situation of action in order …

Findings On Disarmament, William O. Peterfi

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The author proposes a critical appraisal of current disarmament plans and their implications in present international affairs, especially, the 1964 draft treaties of the United States and the Soviet Union calling for a general and complete disarmament. By comparing and evaluating these two plans, the author hopes to prove his thesis that although disarmament is part of the overall peace effort, the attainment of disarmament will not necessarily establish peace. On the contrary, before any actual and feasible disarmament can be achieved, there must be established a peaceful international climate conducive to a general and complete disarmament.

A Proposal On The Law Of The Sea, Alexander Nadesan

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

There has been no agreement until now on the breadth of the territorial sea. This study proposes a uniform law on the breadth of the territorial sea. The concept of the three-mile limit is reviewed briefly. The question of national security is analyzed and the consequences of extending the breadth of the territorial sea beyond six miles is also discussed.

A Gross Election Data Analysis By Simple Statistical And Stochastic Processes, A. B. Villanueva

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

By statistical analysis correlations were found to exist between voting in certain types of local elections and voting in specific kinds of state elections. But such correlations do not explain the behavior of individuals. By simple stochastic process, the author supports Ulmer's theory that, over a given time sequence, the outcome of an election depends upon the outcomes of preceding elections.

A "Non-Partisan" Legislative Election In Minnesota, Frank J. Kendrick

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Democracy On Trial In Asia, Jooinn Lee

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A study of the feasibility of democracy in the developing nations in Asia. The premise of this study is that the Asian concept of democracy is not tantamount to the Anglo-American counterpart. The various types of democracy that exist in the new nations of Asia today are, in fact, alternative to Western democracy and are hardly democracy at all. Rather, they are authoritarian regimes. The emerging nations of Asia are at the threshold of political modernization, and such contingency can be met by a particular socio-political system. The authoritarian regimes of Asia are such systems in point. The requisites of …

Voter Registration In Minnesota, Winston W. Benson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This is a study of Minnesota's system of permanent voter registration used by 71 municipalities in the state. The commissioner of registration in each of these municipalities was sent a questionnaire on which he indicated his reaction to the effectiveness of the system.

The results indicated that regulations should be changed to provide for the following: (l) spot checks on the accuracy of information given by registrants; (2) notification of previous registration district when a voter registers in a new district; (3) use of permanent registration files in school elections; (4) better communications between county and municipal governments in keeping …

The Internal Challenge To Malaysia, Gordon P. Means

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This paper presents an account of the activities of the major opposition parties in Malaysia. Because Indonesia has tried to utilize some opposition parties to bring about the downfall of the present government of Malaysia, special attention has been given to the impact of Indonesia on the Malaysian political scene.

The Problem Of Membership In International Organization, W. Hartley Clark

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Membership problems plague international organizations of all types. All organizations are in some way exclusive, and there is a hierarchy of acceptable joiner-nations with the European nations leading the list. Each organization appears statistically to have a norm of membership toward which its number tends. If it falls short of the norm, it is under compulsion to expand. If it exceeds the norm, expulsions or boycotts are likely to ensue. The ideal condition of an organization, therefore, is "normal" membership, not necessarily "total" inclusion of all nations legally admissable. More is to be lost by too large an organization than …

The Politics Of Municipal Reform, A. B. Villanueva

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

When modernization of city government is proposed in a community in which taxes ore going up, administrative authority is fragmented, municipal structure is clumsy, and citizen estimate of the city council is somewhat low, popular attitudes toward municipal reform are favorable. But those persons who have empires to defend and interests to protect in the city hall, will defend the status quo and resist the introduction of proposed innovations. Some may even fight back with all the fury irrational men can have at their command, and thus the reform movement produces strange side effects and unfortunate after effects.

Two Views Of Non-Voting: A Critique, Stephen L. Wasby

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The view that non-voting is bad is contrasted with the view that non-voting can be functional for a political system. Works by Schattschneider and Berelson et al. are examined. Limitations in their arguments are pointed out, particularly the farmer's assertion that non-voters are being manipulated and the letters' emphasis on the short-run aspects of the system. The arguments are related to traditional conceptions of democracy.

Administrative Agencies As Formulators Of Legislative Policy In Minnesota, James A. Seitz

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT - An investigation to determine the significant influence of administrators on the formulation of legislative policy, in the State of Minnesota, during the 1963 Session of the Minnesota Legislature. While it is claimed that not all bills were developed by admnistrators, the hierarchical process of those bills formulated by the bureaucracy ·of slate government deserved special attention. Once personnel developing legislation were identified within each department as being part of the informal process, some selected attitudes of ~dministrators toward their bills and the legislative process were examined through the use of a questionnaire.

Error In The Minnesota Gubernatorial Election Of 1962, Charles H. Backstrom

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT - In the election recount for the governorship of Minnesota in 1962, 1,423 ballots out of 772,994 paper ballots cast (0.18%) were ultimately ruled invalid. Of these, 51.6% were voted for Rolv.aag, the DFL candidate, although 9,981 fewer paper ballots were cast for him than for Andersen, his Republican opponent. Still this was not a sufficiently greater rate of invalidity to cancel Rolvaag's initial lead of 133 vot-es established by a physical recount of all ballots-he had a final plurality of 91. Rolvaag won because more· voters voted for him. Andersen would not have won even if all ballots …

The Status Of Political Theory In The Study Of Politics, Jooinn Lee

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT - A general consensus among political scientists during the last decade seems to indicate that political science as a discipline will have a brighter future if it is guided by an approach that is behaviorally relevant; political theory is the least significant field of political science because it is least relevant to a behavioral treatment of the discipline. In this study, the author challenges such behavioral contempt for political theory by presenting his vindications of the importance and value of political theory. Furthermore, he attempts to locate political theory in a proper and legitimate place in the study of …

Readership Of News About Politics In The Minneapolis Star And Tribune, 1950-1960, William L. Hathaway

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The management of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, since World War II. has commissioned yearly studies of the newspapers' readers to learn how much attention was paid to the newspapers' content. An exploratory study was conducted of the data from the surveys made between 1950 and 1960 to measure the general levels of attention paid to news about politics, and to examine the variation of attention over time. Readers' preferences among several kinds of political news content were also noted.

A Totalitarianism That Is Slow To Wither: The Program Of The Communist Party In Two Years' Perspective, G. Theodore Mitau

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Despite Khrushchev's stress on "peaceful coexistence," on greater attention to consumer needs, and on certain "democratizing" reforms in the party apparatus and legal system of the state - concepts that had found their institutional expression in the program of the Party at the 22nd Congress - significant totalitarian elements in Soviet ideology and in the power monopoly of the party remained basically unchanged. That these elements cannot be ignored in any realistic appraisal of Soviet developments and intentions was again dramatically underscored by the manner of Khrushchev's removal in October of 1964. Ideology and program perform a central role in …

On Political Obligation And Civil Disobedience, Mulford Q. Sibley

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The problems of political obligation and civil disobedience have recently been reemphasized in the civil rights struggle, in student demonstrations of various kinds, and in direct act ion connected with the peace movement. At the same time, men like the late President Kennedy have seemed to say that deliberate disobedience of law could never be countenanced.

In the light of controversies such as these, the present paper explores the disquietude about 'legitimacy of political rule in the Western political tradition; restates and evaluates several of the views that seek to give an account of political obligation; and formulates a possible …

The Effect Of Perception On Reactions To Reapportionment, Truman David Wood

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A port of the legislative reapportionment conflict in Minnesota was a product of distorted perceptions by political actors such as the Minnesota Form Bureau . The Bureau's reaction to the Governor's Commission on Legislative Reapportionment was o result of the impact of the Bureau's ideology on its perception of the political system. The resultant failure of the Form Bureau President to serve on the Governor's Commission denied that organization access to on important step in the decision-making process concerning legislative reapportionment.

Constitutional Change In A Long-Depressed Community: A Case Study Of Duluth, Minnesota, Daniel J. Elazar

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Duluth, a "boom and bust" city with a marginal economy, has a unique position outside the mainstream of American life that adds a different dimension lo the understanding of community politics. Settlement patterns have contributed to the development of separate "business" and "labor" subcommunities that are substantially alienated from and hostile to one another and have rarely been able to cooperate in any civic endeavor. Operating within the framework of a political system caricaturing that of Minnesota as a whole, the two subcommunities reversed the pattern of local concern found in other cities; labor became the progressive force in local …

Ideal And Practice In A State Constitution: The Case Of Minnesota, Millard L. Gieske

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Minnesota badly needs a revised constitution that generally and broadly defines and distributes powers, responsibilities and rights, and sets up a general frame of government. While this might be accomplished through the amendment process, it has been painfully slow and up to now inadequate to meet 'the needs for modern, flexible and responsive state government. A constitutional convention may still be the best and most practical way of achieving needed revisions.

One Minute To Midnight: The Problems Of Order In Latin America, Harold Lieberman

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

An attempt to describe in broad strokes some of the many problems facing Latin America. While many of these problems are not new, attitudes toward them have changed; the revolution of rising expectations" is very much in evidence. Perhaps the most important complicating factor is the unprecedented rate of population growth, highest in the world, which aggravates the already acute problems of housing, education and urbanization. Economic development is handicapped by inflation, dependence upon single exports, lack of capital, and resistance to basic changes in the social and economic structure. The United States should encourage necessary change and support the …

The Senate And Senator Joseph R. Mccarthy, Frank J. Kendrick

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A study of the United States Senate's reaction to the activities of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, of Wisconsin, based on the premise that the Senate, operating under its present rules of procedure, is both incapable of and unwilling to deal with demagogues within its midst. The nature of the censure that was reluctantly imposed upon Senator McCarthy was for only the most trivial offenses, lending support to the author's premise.

"Cosmopolitans" And "Locals" In Contemporary Community Politics, Daniel J. Elazar, Douglas St. Angelo

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Numerous products of recent social science research have revealed the reemergence of what seems to be a traditional pattern in American history, the lack of class consciousness in the political behavior of most Americans (Banfield 1961, Coleman 1957, Rogoff 1951: 406- 420, Rogoff 1953: 347-357, Warner, et al. , 1949).1 While this lack of class consciousness by no means precludes the more subtle influences of socio-economic class on matters political, it does limit the usefulness of the accepted class divisions developed by sociologists and anthropologists in the 1930's and 1940's in understanding the patterns of community politics (Lynd 1937, Parsons …

The Child-Benefit Theory: A Method Of Circumventing The Wall Of Separation Doctrine, Thomas L. Pahl

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This paper examines two concepts in American constitutional history: the child-benefit theory and the doctrine of separation of church and state. Both concepts concern the position of the private school in American society. Neither expression is found in the original Constitution nor in any of its twenty-three amendments. Nowhere in that august document are found the following words: schools, educations, federal aid, compulsory education, textbooks, transportation, etc. Thus the present controversy concerning education bas been caused by an omission, intended or otherwise, on the part of the framers of the Constitution and has been developed due to judicial interpretation. Here, …

The Court Of Justice Of The European Communities: A Novel Judicial Institution, Werner Feld

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

There is little question that the potential implications of the Common Market for America and for Europe have stimulated more discussions in the United States during the last twelve months than any other topic, with the possible exception of Cuba. Yet, while these discussions have ranged far and wide and have covered intensely most aspects of the European Economic Community- the technical name for the Common Market-one of its institutions, the Court of Justice of the European Communities, has received largely only peripheral treatment.1 However, this judicial institution deserves greater consideration and scrutiny because over the years it has assumed …

The Politics Of Integration In Europe, W. Hartley Clark

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Western Democracy In East Asia, John Kie-Chiang Oh

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.