Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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French Political Scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel has described two of the main categories of leaders as dux, literally leader, and rex, literally ruler. Dux is the activist and innovator, often an inspirational type. Rex is the stabilizer or broker or manager...
What to do? Peter Dennis Bathory, co-author with fellow Rutgers Political Scientist Wilson Carey Me Williams of one of the working papers, suggested that "if faith is to be restored in our institutions, it has to be restored in places where people can see positive action occurring." That is, in neighborhoods and cities rather than at the national level...
...pointedly refused to endorse Moynihan, charging that he has not made "affirmative efforts to alter his negative image among some black voters," and polls taken two weeks ago show Moynihan may receive only half the black support usually accorded a Democratic nominee. Kenneth Clark, a prominent black social scientist at the City University of New York, has even gone so far as to endorse Buckley...
...making it "even harder for voters to make up their minds." But Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thought the debate ''will serve to confirm people in their choices. If they haven't made choices, it will probably confirm them in their confusion." University of California Political Scientist Aaron Wildavsky faulted Carter for "overpromising" and noted: "For a second, I thought he was going to promise a cure for cancer...
...scientist who attended the award meeting who is not a laureate and was not asked to sign the statement agreed yesterday that Ford had in fact tried to use the awards "as a political argument" against Carter...