‎ Surveys suggest that in the 1970s most political scientists wished they had chosen a ‎different profession, a true tragedy, as Ricci (1984) writes. We discuss the causes of ‎alienation, but also offer data suggesting that the situation had improved markedly by ‎‎1999. We speculate...

This book explores and offers remedies to the culture of political correctness in American higher education. We focus on the problem of liberal political orthodoxy in teaching and scholarship and seek to understand how diversity – of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, but not of...

In their now classic Impossible Jobs in Public Management, Hargrove and Glidewell (1990) ‎argue that public agencies with limited legitimacy, high conflict, low professional authority, and ‎weak "agency myths" have essentially impossible jobs. Leaders of such agencies can do little ‎more...