The article presents a summary and analysis of four models for building societies in schools--the Micro-Society, the Mini-Society, the Micro-Community, and the Micro-City. The economic, political, and social aspects of each model are discussed in detail. (Author)

Viewing all students as potential voters, the author asserts the need for including political education in school curricula and suggests the viability, as well as form, of its inclusion. (JH)

This essay describes and analyzes the ways in which the different Iraqi regimes have provided, unsuccessfully, for the education of its largest minority group, the Kurds. An effort will be made to assess the extent of the integration of the Kurdish minority into the mainstream of the Iraqi society. (Author)

Suggests that while the availability of television in a community affects the dissemination of political information, it is family politicization that is at the root of the causal chain to political interest, media use, and political information. (TO)

This paper is a review of the existing sytem of self-management and its development in Yugoslav universities. The Belgrade University serves as an example of this self-management which is an expression of the social and political aims of the country. (JH)

Considers the government's use of the schools in North Korea and its instructional programs as a means of political indoctrination that aims at shaping and remolding North Korean youth into communists. (Author/RK)

Economics has a paramount and overriding role in achieving the aims and objectives of high quality black studies programs. (DM)

The relationship between class and voting has been described using concepts such as class voting, political distinctiveness of classes, class distinctiveness of parties, and class solidarity. A model is developed to analyze under what conditions the index of class voting is affected by different ways of classifying occupational groups. (Author/JB)

Passage of the 26th Amendment gave young adults the right to vote. This study attempts to further student understanding of the electoral process by presenting a method for analyzing spatial voting patterns. The spatial emphasis adds another dimension to the temporal and behavioral-structural approaches in studying the American electoral system.…

Project 18 is a course developed to encourage student involvement in the political system. It attempts to teach the importance of an active, concerned citizenry for the democratic process. (Author)

Article examines the impact of a number of socio-political variables and the political environment -- the national political opinion climate -- on the party choice of university students using data from 1,006 questionnaires completed by first year University of New Brunswick students. (Author)

The research reported here explores the development of diffuse support among adolescents for those types of political authorities who have a high degree of public contact. Findings indicate respondents from three social levels have relatively optimistic expectations about treatment and with few exceptions, recall fair treatment. (JB)

Outlines some general principles of the Marxist Theory of Literary Criticism for scholars and teachers. (RB)