The future of political science: 100 perspectives/ Gary King, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Norman Nie, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. The United States: A Different Democracy, Arend Lijphart -- 2. Taking Portraits or Group Photos?, Russell Dalton -- 3. Why Political Theorists Should Think More Carefully About Leadership, Nannerl O. Keohane -- 4. The Leadership Gap, Mark A. Peterson -- 5. Instrumental Value of Elite Memories on Past Violence during the Emergence of a New State: Slovenian Experience, Anton Kramberger, Ana Barbic and Katja Boh -- 6. Politicians are People, too, Philip Edward Jones -- 7 . Elite Tough Talk and the Tides of History, Henry E. Brady -- 8. Representation as a Field of Study, Barry C. Burden -- 9. Political Science: What Should We Know?, David Butler -- 10. Dynamic Categories and the Context of Power, Jane Junn -- 11. Politics as Learning, Hugh Heclo -- 12. Rounding Up the Activists, Kent Jennings -- 13. The Troubling Persistence of Injustice, Michael L. Frazer -- 14. Making a Name for Oneself, Harvey Mansfield -- 15. Political Variation across Contexts, Michael Jones-Correa -- 16. Homo Politicus is Not an Island, Claudine Gay -- 17. The Sociological Bases of Political Preferences and Behavior, Casey A. Klofstad -- 18. Community Social Capital, Kristi Andersen -- 19. Tuned In, But Dropped Out, Carole Jean Uhlaner -- 20. Cognition, Emotion and Selectivity in Political Communication in a Multi-Facetted World, Rational Choice and Political Culture, Robert H. Bates -- 21. Who Wants War?, Ann Sartori -- 22. The Threat to Democracy, Lawrence R. Jacobs -- 23. Nationalist Missions and the Democratic Citizen, Katherine Tate -- 24. Something's Going On Here, but We Don't Know What It Is: Measuring Citizens' Exposure to Politically-Relevant Information in the New Media Environment, Michael X. Delli Carpini -- 25. What We Still Need to Know Why and How People Become Committed Democrats, Philip Oxhorn -- 26. When We Could Do So Much Better: Democratic Commitment and Empirical Political Psychology, by Virginia Sapiro -- 27. Political Science and the Future, James Q. Wilson -- 28. Family Matters, David E. Campbell -- 29. Where do the Premises of Political Choice Come From?, Daniel Carpenter -- 30. Immigration, Partisanship and Electoral Change, Norman H. Nie -- 31. Decisions People Make in Small Groups, John Aldrich -- 32. Why Do (Some) People Acquire Costly Political Knowledge?, Torben Iversen -- 33. A Political View of Political Ideology, John Zaller -- 34. Guess What? Voters are Smart, Gerald Pomper -- 35. Extra! Extra! Extra Info Needed with Survey Reporting, Andrea Louise Campbell -- 36. What Should Journalists and Politicians Know? Beyond the Margin of Error, Morris P. Fiorina -- 37. The Need for Survey Reporting Standards in Political Science, D. Sunshine Hillygus -- 38. The Changing Evidence Base of Political Science Research, Gary King -- 39. FMRI and Public Opinion Research, Ikua Kabashima -- 40. Special Interest Politics, Jeffry A. Frieden -- 41. An Ever Fainter Voice, Jeffrey M. Berry -- 42. Exploring Political Inequality, Benjamin I. Page -- 43. Voice, and Then What?, Larry M. Bartels -- 44. The Impact of Unequal Political Participation on Policy Outcome, Eric Schickler-- 45. Participation Matters, Jan Leighley -- 46. Participatory Distortion ($$) Takes Off!!, Philip Converse --47. The Rashomon World of Money and Politics, Thomas E. Mann -- 48. Does Rising Economic Inequality Matter, Christopher Jencks -- 49. Redistribution without Representation and Representation without Redistribution, James E. Alt -- 50. The Ideological Origins of Redistribution, Eric Nelson -- 51. Reuniting Interests and Values, David C. Leege -- 52. Using Research to Foster Democracy, Ken Stehlik-Berry -- 53. "Moral Convictions, Religion, and Diversity: Our Political Atmosphere, William C. McCready -- 54. Equality and Inclusiveness, Diversity and Conflict, John R. Petrocik -- 55. The End of 'the Protestant Nation', Byron Shafer -- 56. The Political Force of Group Consciousness, Bill Schneider -- 57. Going Global: New challenges and opportunities in research on democratic participation and the civic culture, Pippa Norris -- 58. The Effects of Immigration and Sending Countries Outreach on American Public Opinion and Political Behavior, Rodolfo O. de La Garza -- 59. Exorcising Huntingtonian Specters, Ary Zolberg -- 60. Adding-in Sex Discrimination to Legacies of Wrongdoing, Eileen McDonaugh -- 61. Gender Inequality, Nancy Burns -- 62. Gender Differences as the Basis for a Refoundation of the Social Sciences: The Political Integration of Women: Explaining Women's Slow Advancement into Political Office, Michelle Swers -- 63. Is American Becoming a More Class-Based Society?, Robert Putnam -- 64. The NAACP Nobody Knows, Richard Vallelly -- 65. At the Intersection of Inequalities, Shauna L. Shames -- 66. The Professional Campaign, Ganesh Sitamaran -- 67. What Politicians Actually Can do: A Modest Proposal for Reporting on Campaigns, Daniel Schlozman -- 68. Elections: Five Rules for Commentators, John Mark Hansen -- 69. Negative Ads, Cynical Public?, Arthur Sanders -- 70. Independent Electoral Commissions, Nahomi Ichino -- 71. Watch Out! The Units You are Comparing May Not be What They Used to be!, Philippe C. Schmitter -- 72. Don't Stay Home: The Utility of Area Studies for Political Science Scholarship, by Jorge I. Dominguez-- 73. Can We Really be Happy with the Study of Comparative Government?, Hans Daalder -- 74. The Contingent Flaw of Majoritarian Systems, G. Bingham Powell, Jr. -- 75. Religion and Politics, Goldie Shabad -- 76. Study China!, Roderick MacFarquhar -- 77. Soft Power and the Future of Asia, by Lucian Pye -- 78. The Study of International Law, by Jens Meierhenrich -- 79. The Second Image Reversed Revisited, Robert Keohane -- 80. The Globalization Gap, James Rosenau -- 81. Congress and the Scope of Democracy, Ira Katznelson -- 82. 'Free Association': Traveling Ideas and the Study of Political Equality, Nancy Rosenblum -- 83. To Participate or Deliberate --is that the Question?, Dennis F. Thompson -- 84. Understanding Democracy as a Complex Adaptive System, Louise K.Comfort -- 85. The Public Roots of Private Action: A New Look at Voting Costs, Susan B. Hansen -- 86. On the Free Rider Problem, Jane Mansbridge -- 87. Time and Action in the 21st Century, Anya Bernstein -- 88. The Organizational 'Gap' in Political Science, Joseph LaPalombara -- 89. The Sudden Birth of Sticky Institutions, 1890-1915, Gerald Gamm -- 90. The Emerging Field of Education Policy, Paul Peterson -- 91. American Politics and the Not-So-Benign Neglect of Criminal Justice, Traci Burch -- 92. Law or Politics?, H.W. Perry, Jr. -- 93. What is Public Policy?, Catherine E. Rudder -- 94. Note to Politicians: Forget the Silver Bullet!, Kay Lehman Schlozman -- 95. Rediscovering Complexity and Synthesis, Bear F. Braumoeller -- 96. Why?, Kenneth A. Shepsle -- 97. Path Dependence, Peter A. Hall -- 98. Searching for a Politics of Space, Jennifer Hochschild -- 99. The Question of Relevance, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- 100. Can (Should) Political Science be a Policy Science?, Kenneth Prewitt.