This book contains some of the newest, most exciting ideas now percolating among political scientists, from hallway conversations to conference room discussions. To spur future research, enrich classroom teaching, and direct non-specialist attention to cutting-edge ideas, a distinguished group of authors from various parts of this sprawling and pluralistic discipline has each contributed a brief essay about a single novel or insufficiently appreciated idea on some aspect of political science. The one hundred essays are concise, no more than a few pages apiece, and informal. While the contributions are highly diverse, readers can find unexpected connections across the volume, tracing echoes as well as diametrically opposed points of view. This book offers compelling points of departure for everyone who is concerned about political science -- whether as a scholar, teacher, student, or interested reader.

Gary King is David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. Kay Lehman Schlozman is J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Norman H. Nie is Research Professor of Political Science at Standford University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
"An Introduction to the Future of Political Science"	p. xiii
"The United States: A Different Democracy"	p. 1
"Taking Portraits or Group Photos?"	p. 4
"Why Political Theorists Should Think More Carefully about Leadership"	p. 6
"The Leadership Gap"	p. 9
"Instrumental Value of Elite Memories on Past Violence during the Emergence of a New State: Slovenian Experience"	p. 12
"Politicians Are People Too"	p. 16
"Elite Tough Talk and the Tides of History"	p. 19
"Representation as a Field of Study"	p. 22
"Political Science: What Should We Know?"	p. 24
"Dynamic Categories and the Context of Power"	p. 25
"Politics as Learning"	p. 28
"Rounding Up the Activists"	p. 29
"The Troubling Persistence of Injustice"	p. 31
"Making a Name for Oneself"	p. 33
"Political Variation across Contexts"	p. 35
"Homo Politics Is Not an Island"	p. 38
"The Sociological Bases of Political Preferences and Behavior"	p. 40
"Community Social Capital"	p. 42
"Tuned In, but Dropped Out"	p. 44
"Cognition, Emotion, and Selectivity in Political Communication in a Multi-Faceted World: Rational Choice and Political Culture"	p. 46
"Who Wants War?"	p. 47
"The Threat to Democracy"	p. 49
"Nationalist Missions and the Democratic Citizen"	p. 52
"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"	p. 54
"What We Still Need to Know: Why and How People Become Committed Democrats"	p. 56
"When We Could Do So Much Better: Democratic Commitment and Empirical Political Psychology"	p. 59
"Political Science and the Future"	p. 61
"Family Matters"	p. 64
"Where Do the Premises of Political Choice Come From?"	p. 67
"Immigration, Partisanship, and Electoral Change"	p. 70
"Decisions People Make in Small Groups"	p. 73
"Why Do (Some) People Acquire Costly Political Knowledge?"	p. 75
"A Political View of Political Ideology"	p. 78
"Guess What? Voters are Smart"	p. 82
"Extra! Extra! Extra Info Needed with Survey Reporting"	p. 85
"What Should Journalists and Politicians Know? Beyond the Margin of Error"	p. 86
"The Need for Survey Reporting Standards in Political Science"	p. 88
"The Changing Evidence Base of Social Science Research"	p. 91
"FMRI and Public Opinion Research"	p. 94
"Special Interest Politics"	p. 96
"An Ever Fainter Voice"	p. 98
"Exploring Political Inequality"	p. 101
"Voice, and Then What?"	p. 104
"The Impact of Unequal Political Participation on Policy Outcomes"	p. 106
"Participation Matters"	p. 108
"Participatory Distortion ($$) Takes Off!!"	p. 110
"The Rashomon World of Money and Politics"	p. 112
"Does Rising Economic Inequality Matter?"	p. 115
"Redistribution without Representation and Representation without Redistribution"	p. 118
"The Ideological Origins of Redistribution"	p. 121
"Reuniting Interests and Values"	p. 123
"Using Research to Foster Democracy"	p. 126
"Moral Convictions, Religion, and Diversity: Our Political Atmosphere"	p. 129
"Equality and Inclusiveness, Diversity and Conflict"	p. 132
"The End of 'the Protestant Nation'"	p. 135
"Religion and Politics: A Solemn High Warning: The Political Force of Group Consciousness"	p. 137
"Going Global: New Challenges and Opportunities in Research on Democratic Participation and the Civic Culture"	p. 140
"The Effects of Immigration and Sending Countries' Outreach on American Public Opinion and Political Behavior"	p. 143
"Exorcising Huntingtonian Specters"	p. 145
"Adding in Sex Discrimination to Legacies of Wrongdoing"	p. 147
"Gender Inequality"	p. 151
"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"	p. 154
"Is America Becoming a More Class-Based Society?"	p. 157
"The NAACP Nobody Knows"	p. 159
"At the Intersection of Inequalities"	p. 162
"The Professional Campaign"	p. 165
"What Politicians Actually Can Do: A Modest Proposal for Reporting on Campaigns"	p. 167
"Elections: Five Rules for Commentators"	p. 169
"Negative Ads-Cynical Public?"	p. 172
"Independent Electoral Commissions"	p. 174
"Watch Out! The Units You Are Comparing May Not Be What They Used To Be"	p. 176
"Don't Stay Home: The Utility of Area Studies for Political Science Scholarship"	p. 180
"Can We Really be Happy with the Study of Comparative Government?"	p. 183
"The Contingent Flaw of Majoritarian Systems"	p. 185
"Religion and Politics"	p. 187
"Study China!"	p. 190
"Soft Power and the Future of Asia"	p. 191
"The Study of International Law"	p. 193
"The 'Second Image Reversed' Revisited"	p. 196
"The Globalization Gap"	p. 199
"Congress and the Scope of Democracy"	p. 200
"'Free Association': Traveling Ideas and the Study of Political Equality"	p. 203
"To Participate or Deliberate-Is that the Question?"	p. 207
"Understanding Democracy as a Complex Adaptive System"	p. 210
"The Public Roots of Private Action: A New Look at Voting Costs"	p. 213
"One the Free Rider Problem"	p. 216
"Time and Action in the Twenty-First Century"	p. 219
"The Organization 'Gap' in Political Science"	p. 221
"The Sudden Birth of Sticky Institutions, 1890-1915"	p. 224
"The Emerging Field of Education Policy"	p. 227
"American Politics and the Not-So-Benign Neglect of Criminal Justice"	p. 230
"Law or Politics?"	p. 232
"What is Public Policy?"	p. 235
"Note to Politicians: Forget the Silver Bullet!"	p. 238
"Rediscovering Complexity and Synthesis"	p. 241
"Why?"	p. 244
"Path Dependence"	p. 246
"Searching for a Politics of Space"	p. 249
"The Question of Relevance"	p. 252
"Can (Should) Political Science be a Policy Science?"	p. 255
Appendix: Contributors	p. 258
Selected Books by Sidney Verba and Co-Authors	p. 272
Selected Material about Sidney Verba	p. 273
Index	p. 274
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