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..., and censures at American universities that progressive historians have ironically chronicled as a history of the development of academic freedom in the United States. In fact, the early “academic freedom” cases were successful acts of academic repression and, in this context, Charles A. Beard’s resignation...

...Vincent Tirelli Abstract If the fulfillment of American democracy includes a system of higher education that provides equal means of access, opportunity and accommodation for all social classes in society, then we need to better understand how the vastly enlarged use of contingent academic labor...

...Jyl Josephson New Political Science, 2014 Vol. 36,~o. 4, 647-655 Book Reviews Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira, eds, The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014, 400 pp. Everyone seems to believe there is a crisis in higher...

... populations. This article presents an alternative view of academic conservative writers on higher education. Rather than focus on their policy recommendations, it focuses on their perceptions of contemporary higher education, and finds that academic conservatives (as distinct from many conservative...

... priorities. This article describes the entrepreneurial model of academic governance, then shows it in action through a detailed examination of the presidential succession crisis at the University of Virginia. This case study reveals many aspects of the discourse of entrepreneurial governance and illustrates...

... Catnpaign of Acadetnic Labor: Refratning the Politics of Scarcity in Higher Education* Gary Rhoades General Secretary, AAUP Introduction I appreciate the opportunity to speak to your group, the Caucus for a New Political Science. For your group emphasizes the connection between academic scholarship...

...Barbara Ann Scott * Portions of this paper have appeared in Crisis Management in American Higher Education. © Praeger Publishers, 1983. © 1985 Caucus for a New Political Science 1985 Barbara Ann Scott Class Interests and Academic Policy Planning* The first president...

...David Sprintzen © 1981 Caucus for a New Political Science 1981 David Sprintzen Toward A Strategy For Academic Unionism With its decision in the Yeshiva University case (National Labor Relations Board vs. Yeshiva University), the Supreme Court has transfonned the entire context...

...Michael E. Brown © 1979 Caucus for a New Political Science 1979 Michael E. Brown Academ£c Freedom z·n the State's Unz'versz'ty: The Oltman Case as a Problem for Theory and Practz'ce Academic freedom consists in the absence of, or protection from, such restraints or pressures - chiefly...

...Wolf-Dieter Narr © 1979 Caucus for a New Political Science 1979 Wolf-Dieter N arr Academic Freedom 1979: The West German Case Wolf-Dz'eter Narr is a member of the German consultative committee to the Third International Russell Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rzghts in West Germany...

... of not being quite so governed or of not being governed thusly. Similarly, in the latter half of the twentieth century, factions within academic disciplines also rejected their disciplines’ mode of governing and created alternatives. In response to the desire to make political science more relevant and visible...

... us to make a distinctive contribution to the existing academic scholarship concerning Citizens’ Assemblies and prefigurative politics on two grounds. Firstly, Auroville is an intentional community shaped by specific spiritual and self-governance values – an uncommon setting for a Citizens’ Assembly...

... changes needed to stem or reverse the continued enactment of these wider goals. This paper offers that insight: using responses to an original survey administered to faculty at major research universities across the United States in 2008–2009, certain values and beliefs held by academics across many...

...Clyde W. Barrow Abstract During the 1980s, a neoconservative cultural counterrevolution organized in response to the previous two decades of political turmoil and intellectual ferment, which had resulted in the emergence of a strong academic left in American universities. The cultural...

...Joseph M. Schwartz Abstract This article explores why tenured faculty, particularly at major public and private research universities, often have failed to engage in collective resistance to the rise of the neoliberal university and the exploitation of “casualized” academic labor. Thirty years...

... that the research and evaluation methods used to study the process and its participants adhere to the same principles. For the past five years, a team of community-based researchers, academics, and PB participants have designed research questions and instruments, implemented data collection, analyzed and shared...

..., the first academic political scientist in the USA. Because his ideas about prison reform were central to his conceptualization of the discipline as a science of punishment, his theory of the state is an understudied part of the history of mass incarceration. Lieber argued that the state had a moral duty...

... and has contributed to a tenuous landscape for faculty in terms of academic freedom and job security. In particular, we examine a faculty-led response to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. Drawing on participant observation, semi-structured...

...Ron Hayduk; Anthony Pahnke Abstract While there has been an increase in rhetoric and efforts to block expanding voting rights to noncitizens around the United States, there is a relative lack of academic research examining the ideology, political actors, and strategy behind such efforts...

... of contestation after the termination of the Istanbul Convention, and (3) the Boğaziçi University silent protests advocating for academic freedom and democracy. Based on these examples, we first demonstrate how sporadic resistances in Turkey appear as “spatial contestations” through appropriating spaces...