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Data on Dissertations in Foreign and Comparative Government by World Area: 1965-1972

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank*
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University of Pittsburgh
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One component of a survey of Western European studies in the United States being conducted by the Council of European Studies in cooperation with the Institute of International Studies of the U.S. Office of Education is a study of dissertations completed in the social sciences in recent years with special emphasis on those in the area of Western European Studies. The full study, to be published early next year, seeks to identify the actual and potential resources in the American academic community with a goal to increasing our understanding of contemporary European society and politics and securing better insights into the ways in which these resources might be more effectively mobilized to support training and research programs.

The data on dissertations completed with special emphasis on those in the fields of foreign and comparative government by world area is presented here because of its general interest and as a complimntary piece to the data presented in this issue by Walfred Peterson.

Type
On Dissertations
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , Fall 1972 , pp. 429 - 431
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1972

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1 This note represents a very small part of a large body of data collected for the Council for European Studies—U.S. Otfice of Education survey of European Studies. Robin Jones directed the project in its initial stages, Deborah Duncan handled the Political Science data, and Eileen Kirley worked out the tables.

2 Data is taken from the American Political Science Association's lists of completed dissertations, published annually in the Review, 1965 to 1968 and in PS, 1968–1972.

3 About 20% of the NDEA Title VI centers produced dissertations (in Political Science) in 1965–66. After 1967–68, the figure rises to the low 30s.

4 A number of dissertations with a definite area focus are listed by the APSA under the international Organization, Politics, and Law sub-field, and would increase all of these totals slightly. The proportional increase in Western European dissertations would be somewhat greater than the average increase, though a substantial number of these dissertations deal with US-European or intra-European relations. We will cover this more fully in the final report.

5 Professor Lambert's study has been sponsored jointly by the ESRC and the Institute of International Studies of the U.S. Office of Education. It will be available shortly.

6 Data is taken from the American Historial Association's lists of completed dissertations.