NSF Budget Summary for Research and Related Activities, FY 1987-1988
(Dollars in Millions)

FY1987
Current

Plan
FY1988
Request

% Change
FY 87/86

Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Engineering
Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
Geosciences
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Scientific, Technological, and International Affairs
Program Development and Management

Research and Related Activities

$ 464
163
257
285
117
44
77

$ 514
205
297
330
143
51
95

11%
26%
16%
16%
23%
17%
24%

$1,406 $1,635 16%

Amounts have been rounded.

John Zaller. Analysis of Information
Items in the 1 985 NES Pilot Study. June,
1986.

Staff memoranda:

John Brehm and Santa Traugott. Similar-
ity and Representativeness of 1 985 Pilot
Half-samples. March 17, 1986.

Santa Traugott. Staff Evaluation of the
Data Collection and Documentation. May
1 9 , 1 9 8 6 . •

National Science Foundation
Increases FY88 Budget Request

Erich Bloch, Director of the National Sci-
ence Foundation (NSF), has announced
that the NSF budget request for FY 1 988
is $1.89 billion, almost 17% above the
FY 1987 appropriation.

Bloch said, "This increase is part of a
national effort to bolster our economic
competitiveness internationally and pre-
serve our lead in science and tech-
nology."

"In addition," he said, "the Administra-
tion is committed to doubling the Foun-
dation's budget over the next five years.
This amounts to increases of 1 4 percent
per year for the next four years following
1988, raising the NSF total budget to
more than $3.2 billion in FY 1 9 9 2 . "

Budget increases for 1988 are widely
distributed among the directorates and
major activities of NSF. The largest in-
creases go to the Engineering Directorate

and to the new Computer and Informa-
tion Science and Engineering Directorate,
both of great importance in helping the
U.S. regain its economic competitive-
ness. Budget figures by directorate are
listed on the chart.

"The 1988 budget is a watershed event
for NSF." Bloch concluded, " I n time of
severe budget constraints it signals clear-
ly the broader understanding of the
importance of strong education and re-
search programs to improvements in
national productivity and our ability to
compete in world markets." •

Announcements

Symposia Published

The following journals offer symposia of
interest to political scientists:

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

"Assessing the U.S. Voting Rights A c t "
(1 6:4) guest edited by Charles L. Cotrell.
Articles include general assessments of
the VRA as well as assessments for
selected states and localities.

"Developments in State Constitutional
L a w " (17:1) guest edited by Mary Cor-
nelia Porter and G. Alan Tarr. Articles
cover general developments in state con-
stitutions and state constitutional law,

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individual rights protection under state
constitutions, state high court activity,
attorneys general as interpreters of state
constitutions, and other matters.

Available: Publius: The Journal of Feder-
alism, c/o Department of Political Sci-
ence, North Texas State University, Den-
ton, TX 7 6 2 0 3 - 5 3 3 8 . $ 1 0 , single issue
( + $1.50 for foreign postage). Make
checks payable to CSF-Publius.

The Review of Politics

"American Constitutional Theory and
Interpretation," Summer 1987.

"German Politics," including articles
related to the 1987 national election in
the Federal Republic of Germany, to be
published in Fall 1987.

Available: The Review of Politics, Notre
Dame, IN 4 6 5 5 6 . $5, single issue;
$ 1 2 . 7 5 , APSA members annual rate. D

Newsletter Summarizes
Proposed Federal Budget

The February 13, 1987 (Vol. VI, No. 3)
issue of COSSA Washington Update
summarizes and analyzes proposed
budgets for social and behavioral science
research in FY 1988. Information is
given separately for each federal depart-
ment and independent agency.

A single copy of the newsletter is free
from: COSSA Washington Update, 1 200
17th Street, NW, Suite 520, Washing-
ton, DC 2 0 0 3 6 . Phone: (202) 887-
6166. •

work Analysis, Contextual and Multilevel
Effects, Artificial Intelligence, Bootstrap
and Jackknife Re-sampling Methods, and
LISREL Models. There will also be work-
shops on methodological application in
the areas of American Electoral Re-
search, Latino Research Issues, Crime
and Criminal Justice, Population Projec-
tion and Estimation, and the Survey of
Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
The eight-week program will be divided
into two four-week terms and offer as
well the standard courses on Linear
Models, Causal Analysis, Time Series,
Mathematical Modeling, and Logit/Log-
Linear Models. For more information,
application and brochures, contact:
ICPSR Summer Program, P.O. Box
1248, Ann Arbor, Ml 4 8 1 0 6 ; (313)
7 6 4 - 8 3 9 2 . D

Department of Education
Seeks Reviewers

The Department of Education is seeking
to enlarge its list of proposal reviewers
for several of its categorical programs,
including the graduate fellowships in Title
IX and various foreign languages and
international area studies programs.
Interested parties should submit a full
c.v. showing subject/area specialization
and expertise to: Richard Naber, Program
Support Branch Chief, Office of Higher
Education Programs, Department of Edu-
cation, 4 0 0 Maryland Avenue, SW (stop
ROB-3, 3 1 0 8 A ) , Washington, DC
20202. •

Summer Program Offered
in Quantitative Methods

The twenty-fifth annual ICPSR Summer
Program in Quantitative Methods of
Social Research will be held in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, June 29 to August 2 1 , 1987.
The Summer Program will feature a num-
ber of special courses and presentations
on such topics as: Structural Equations
w i t h Limited Dependent Variables,
Pooled Time Series Analysis Models, Sta-
tistical Estimation of Formal Models, Net-

Maggiotto to Direct
Southern Association

Michael A. Maggiotto, associate pro-
fessor of government and international
studies at the University of South Caro-
lina, has been named executive director
of the Southern Political Science Asso-
ciation.

The association's more than 3,500 insti-
tutional and individual members world-
wide make it the oldest and largest
regional political science organization in
the United States.

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His appointment means that head-
quarters for the association will move to
USC. The editorial offices of The Journal
of Politics will remain at Emory Univer-
sity. Maggiotto, whose areas of speciali-
zation include American politics, political
behavior and methodology, earned his
bachelor's degree from the State Univer-
sity of New York at Buffalo and his
master's and doctoral degrees in political
science from Indiana University.

He joined the USC faculty in 1982 and
previously taught at the University of
Florida from 1976-82.

He is a member of The Journal of Politics
editorial board and served as assistant
managing editor from 1977-82. He also
has served on the executive council of
the Southern Political Science Associa-
tion. •

British Politics Group
Elects Executive Committee

Editor's Note: In the winter 1987 PS we
stated that the following individuals were
elected to the executive committee of
the Hoover Institution. That was wrong.
They are the new executive committee
members of the British Politics Group.

In a recent election, the following were
chosen for the Executive Committee of
the British Politics Group: James Alt,
David Butler, Leon Epstein, Donley Stud-
lar, and Kenneth Wald. The Committee
elected Ivor Crewe as president. Gerald
Dorfman is acting as executive secretary
while Jorgen Rasmussen is in Scotland
for a year. •

Parliament Recognizes
Hull Professor

MPs, peers, officers of Parliament, jour-
nalists, academics and Hull politics grad-
uates crowded a reception room at the
House of Commons on January 28,
1987, to celebrate the election of Philip
Norton, an expert on Parliament, to a per-
sonal chair.

Speaking on behalf of the Hull University
Politics Graduates, Cliff Grantham paid
tribute to Professor Norton's dedication

Michael A. Maggiotto

to his teaching and students as well as
his scholarship.

Sir Bernard Braine, representing the par-
liamentarians present, declared that Nor-
ton knew more about Parliament than
anybody outside it, "and probably more
about it than most people inside i t . "

Norton spoke of the need for more in-
depth studies of Parliament as opposed
to superficial observations and studies
that divorced Parliament from an appre-
ciation of British political history. •

Program Preserves
U.S. Newspapers

In 1 9 8 2 , the National Endowment for the
Humanities initiated a program to
organize, preserve, and provide access to
U.S. newspapers. Under the U.S. News-
paper Program, the NEH provides funding
to national repositories and to state pro-
jects involving libraries, archives, and his-
torical societies. The Library of Congress
provides technical management for the

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newspaper program, and the Online
Computer Library Center (OCLC) in
Dublin, Ohio, provides facilities for the
bibliographic phase of the program.

In 1982, six national repositories, with
NEH funding, began to catalogue and
enter their newspaper holdings into The
OCLC/CONSER data base. The Library of
Congress also contributed its catalogue
records. To date, eight repositories, as
well as institutions in twenty-four states,
have participated in the U.S. Newspaper
Program.

Participants in the program accept the
responsibility to catalogue newspaper
holdings within their respective states
and territories and to preserve on micro-
film the titles most important for re-
search. They then enter bibliographic
records for originals and microfilms into
the OCLC data base.

The 1985 data base provides extensive
cross-references for variant titles, which
allows users to identify more than
5 0 , 0 0 0 newspapers published in the
United States and its territories, where
the title is held, and which issues are
held. A second edition, which will include
a further 3 5 , 0 0 0 titles, is expected soon.
Indexes to a hard-copy listing allow
access by place of publication (city and
state), publication date (the year in which
the paper began), predominant language
of the paper, and intended audience
(ethnic, political, or religious).

Source: Humanities (Washington, DC:
NEH, January/February 1 987), p. 2 6 . U

Grassroots Peace Directory
Published

The Grassroots Peace Directory is a
computer-based directory of information
on religious and secular groups working
in the areas of peace, disarmament, and
international security. Detailed listings
include phone centacts, issue focus,
method of operation, organizational infor-
mation, and program description. Direc-
tories are updated biannually.

Prices for regional directories vary from
$ 6 . 5 0 to $ 1 6 . 0 0 depending on region.
Mailing labels are also available.

For further information, contact: Grass-
roots Peace Directory, PO Box 2 0 3 ,
Pomfret, CT 0 6 2 5 8 ; phone: (203) 928-
2 6 1 6 . •

Peace Research Compiled

If you are involved in planned, in-
progress, or completed but unpublished
peace-related research that also involves
children and families, you may share your
research with others by sending a one-
page abstract to: Helen Raschke, c/o
Libra Foundation, 3 3 0 8 Kemp Street,
Wichita Falls, TX 7 6 3 0 8 . Also write to
this address for the upcoming compila-
tion, available summer 1 9 8 7 . •

Jimmy Carter Library
Opens to Researchers

The Jimmy Carter Library in Atlanta,
Georgia, officially opened its research
facilities January 2 7 , 1987. More than
six million pages of material documenting
the Carter Administration was opened.

This material includes the Subject and
Name Files of the White House Central
File and significant portions of the papers
of the following White House staff mem-
bers: Jody Powell, Press Secretary to
President Carter; Stuart Eizenstat, Direc-
tor of the Domestic Policy staff; Hugh
Carter, Jr., Director of the Office of
White House Administration; Gerald Raf-
shoon, Director of the White House Com-
munications Office; and Sarah Wedding-
ton, Director of the Office of Women's
Affairs.

Other material opened for research will
include memoranda from White House
staff members advising the President on
national and international policies;
reports to the President; and correspond-
ence between President Carter and na-
tional and world notables on topics rang-
ing from the environment, education, and
mental health to nuclear disarmament
and the exploration of space.

Federal records relating to presidential
commissions and White House confer-
ences have also been opened. These

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include records relating to the National
Commission on Neighborhoods; the
White House Conference on Balanced
National Growth and Economic Develop-
ment; the President's Commission for a
National Agenda for the Eighties; and the
Presidential Commission on Mental
Health. Nearly one million photographs,
hundreds of hours of motion picture film,
and audio and video tapes relating to the
Carter Presidency were opened as well.

The Jimmy Carter Library was dedicated
on October 1 , 1986. It is one of eight
presidential libraries administered by the
National Archives. The library is located
in the Carter Presidential Center on
Copen Hill, along with the former Presi-
dent's office, the Carter Center of Emory
University, and offices of national and
international organizations President
Carter supports.

The Carter Library is open for research
9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through
Friday.

For further information, contact: Jimmy
Carter Library, ( 4 0 4 ) 3 3 1 - 3 9 4 2 . •

Archive Established for
Materials Relating to
Assassination of R. F. Kennedy

Southeastern Massachusetts University
has established this new archive to serve
scholars, journalists, and interested pub-
lics. The faculty has a rich variety of pri-
mary material relevant to history, crim-
inology, journalism, jurisprudence, and
the politics of the 1960s. The collection
contains all or significant portions of the
following files: Superior Court trial ex-
hibits, Los Angeles District Attorney's
Office records, Los Angeles Police
Department investigative records, FBI
records (32,000 pages of newly released
documents), audio and video tapes (600
hours of hearings, media programs, and
interviews), photographs, and magazine
and newspaper clippings. In addition it
contains the papers of journalist Robert
Blair Kaiser (author of the award-winning
book RFK Must Die!), as well as the col-
lections of three private researchers.

The faculty is still acquiring and catalog-
ing data, but is open to scholars.

Inquiries can be directed to the Chair-
person of the Archive: Philip H. Melan-
son, Political Science Department,
Southeastern Massachusetts University,
North Dartmouth, MA 0 2 7 4 7 . •

Women Helped in Finding
Washington Internships

Washington Internships Unlimited offers
counseling to women interested in intern-
ships in Washington. The service encour-
ages women to regard volunteer intern-
ships as a step from homemaking to
working in a paying career. Counseling
includes help in defining goals, locating
internships, and preparing resumes.

For further information, contact WIU,
4 2 6 4 S. 35th Street, Arlington, VA
2 2 2 0 6 . Phone: (703) 998-1 7 4 6 . •

Negative TV Political Ad Tape
Is Available

A 45-minute video tape of historic nega-
tive ads used in campaigns from 1 952 to
1986 is available. This tape is an excel-
lent teaching tool in communication, jour-
nalism, advertising, and political science
classes. The tape is available for $ 2 0 0 .
Four additional video tapes of historic
television ads are also available as pre-
viously announced in PS and vary in price
from $100 to $ 2 0 0 .

The individual, department, or library
ordering one or several tapes provides
blank '/a-inch or %-inch VHS cassette
tapes. If no tape is provided, an additional
$ 1 0 . 0 0 for y2-inch tapes or $ 3 0 . 0 0 for
%-inch tapes will be charged. Order from
L. Patrick Devlin, Department of Speech
Communication, University of Rhode
Island, Kingston, Rl 0 2 8 8 1 - 0 8 1 2 , or
phone (401 ( 7 9 2 - 2 5 5 2 . •

GSS Bibliography Available

The sixth edition of the annotated bib-
liography of papers using the General

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Social Survey is now available through
the Inter-University Consortium for Polit-
ical and Social Research. The bibliogra-
phy contains 1,498 citations of publica-
tions that have used the General Social
Survey in their analyses. Each entry in
the bibliography contains a full citation, a
list of the General Social Surveys used,
the mnemonics used, and a short
abstract. A mnemonic index permits
quick identification of all references using
particular variables of interest.

The cost of the GSS Bibliography is $ 1 2
per copy for individuals from ICPSR mem-
ber institutions and $18 per copy for
those individuals not affiliated with an
ICPSR institution. Inquiries and requests
should be sent to: Member Services,
ICPSR, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, Ml
4 8 1 0 6 ; (313) 7 6 3 - 5 0 1 0 . •

CIS Launches
"Academic Editions"
Product Line

Congressional Information Service, Inc.
(CIS) will introduce a new product line of
subject-specific microfiche collections to
be published under the imprint CIS Aca-
demic Editions. The collections will cover
a wide variety of subjects in the
humanities and the arts, history, history
of science, business, government, poli-
tics, interdisciplinary topics, and biog-
raphy. CIS generally will publish a printed
index or finding aid with each collection
to ensure ease of use.

The first file to be published, a documen-
tary history of the Library of Congress,
will be available in spring 1987. Devel-
oped in cooperation with the Center for
the Book in the Library of Congress, the
collection will chart the development of
the Library from its inception through
1985.

Other collections currently planned for
1 987 include: The Franklin Institute and

the Making of Industrial America, The
Occupation of Japan: U.S. Planning Doc-
uments, 1942-1945, Jesuit Woodstock
Letter and Essays, and Peronista and
Other Argentinian Political Pamphlets.

For further information, contact: Con-
gressional Information Service, 4 5 2 0
East-West H i g h w a y , Suite 8 0 0 ,
Bethesda, MD 2 0 8 1 4 ; phone: (301)
654-1 550 or (800) 6 3 8 - 8 3 8 0 . •

Subscriptions to
Humanities Available

Humanities is the bimonthly magazine of
the National Endowment for the Humani-
ties with an annual subscription rate of
$14. Features include " h o w t o " details
on applying for NEH grants, excerpts
from persuasive proposals, lists of most
recent NEH grants, and names and tele-
phone numbers of staff members who
will help grant applicants.

To subscribe, write to: Humanities,
Room 4 0 9 , 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC 2 0 5 0 6 . •

Guides Help Plan
Study Abroad

The International Educational Exchange
is a nonprofit organization that publishes
guides to studying and teaching abroad.
Research papers are published on foreign
students studying in the United States,
and videotapes are available for loan to
staff members of U.S. colleges and uni-
versities on international exchange
issues. One videotape package is
directed toward Fulbright program
advisers.

For further information, write: Publica-
tions Service, Institute of International
Education, 809 United Nations Plaza,
New York, NY 1 0 0 1 7 . •

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