1. Editor's note

   • Heinz Eulau

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 6

2. A logistic diffusion model of political mobilization

   • Jesse F. Marquette

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 30

3. Gratuitous language in appellate cases involving gay people: “Queer bating” from the bench

   • Lawrence Goldyn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 48

4. Black electoral power, white resistance, and legislative behavior

   • Gary H. Brooks
   • William Claggett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 68

5. The mass media and changes in adolescents' political knowledge during an election cycle

   • M. Margaret Conway
   • David Ahern
   • Mikel L. Wyckoff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 80