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  1. the University of Illinois, Urbana

    Robert Weissberg (professor of political science)

  2. the Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, USA

    J. Bowyer Bell (president of International Analysis Center Inc. and senior research associate)

  3. Harvard University, USA

    Peter I. Rose (Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Smith College and visiting scholar)

  4. the University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Susan B. Hansen (associate professor of political science)

  5. Brown University, USA

    Albert F. Wessen (professor of medical science and sociology)

  6. the University of Nebraska, Lincoln

    Keith J. Mueller (associate professor of political science and director of the Government Research Institute)

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  1. James MacGregor Burns
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James MacGregor Burns is professor of political science at Williams College and cochair, with Richard B. Morris, of Project 87, an interdisciplinary effort to promote scholarship in connection with the bicentennial of the Constitution. His books include The Vineyard of Liberty, The Power to Lead,and The Workshop of Democracy: The American Experiment.

He has written many articles and several books on United States politics, including Understanding American Governmentand Politics: A Handbook for Students.

His books include Violence: A Time of Terror How Democractic Societies Respond to Revolutionary Violence,and, forthcoming from Transaction Books, To Play the Game: An Analysis of Sportsand The Gun in Politics: The Analysis of Irish Violence.

His books include Mainstream and Margins: Jews, Blacks, and Other Americansand, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, In Aid to the Tempest Tost,a study of United States refugee policy.

Her publications include The Politics of Taxation: Revenue without Representationand many articles on taxation, state politics, and economic policy. She is working on a comparative study of state industrial development policies, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.

He has written widely on medical sociology and is completing a monograph on migration and health among Tokelauans, members of a small island society in the Pacific.

His interests include health policy and politics, public budgeting, and intergovernmental relations; his work has appeared in Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Urban Affairs, Cornell Journal of Social Relations,and Administration and Policy Journal.

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Burns, J.M., Weissberg, R., Bell, J.B. et al. Books in review. Society 23, 82–95 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02701962

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