American Behavioral Scientist

Soviet enterprise is directed largely by narrowly trained engineers. Generalized administration is scarcely perceived as a field of knowledge and application. Technical ability is the key to advancement, but administrative skill will probably be increasingly emphasized in response to costly human relations problems in Soviet industry.

A unified, graphic conceptualization of the key variables of political science, sociology and economics is proposed. Pop ulations (defined as reference groups) should be scored on their individuals' efforts and success at achieving power, respect and goods. The resulting distribution profiles can suggest proposi tions about relations among economic, social, and political prac tices. Myths of "demand and expectation" might also be trans lated into quantitative terms suited for comparison with actual distributions.

ESTIMATED NUMBER OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS NOW EMPLOYED IN NON-TEACHING BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCE OCCUPATIONS, AND ESTIMATED ANNUAL TURNOVER AND RE PLACEMENT REQUIREMENTS

For various stated reasons, the parties that are neither religious nor class- or function-based have escaped scholarly attention. These laic-bourgeois parties have been important in themselves and in the meaning that their failure may hold for European democracy. The growing religious split in Euro pean parties also needs study.

A plea for social science to engage in the "invention of in vention" to develop not only new tools of peace, but also new tools of limited war--economic, psychological and military.

In the momentary absence of the editor, the staff had to fill the ensuing space. Having fought to a draw over the num erous excellent, available articles, they made a typical com promise decision, mediocre and satisfying no one, to fill the space with things that would never otherwise appear.

The tides of welfare legislation flow and ebb with the ag ing and younging of electorates. Changes of a few percentage points have important legislative consequences. Prospects are now for a younging of electorates and repercussions against tra ditional "welfare state" ideology, a multi-faceted relation that political scientists might well study.

The creator and editor of a new journal of probable interest to PROD's readers describes its mission and, in so doing, sets forth criteria for comparative social theory.

Though the political scientist may learn much from the politician, the reverse is not the case. Lawyers, economists, and others are more useful to politicians; traditional political science lends experts on detail sometimes. But behaviorism promises to inform the politician and help him control his en vironment, leading to the conviction that behaviorism is the path to an instrumentally potent political science.