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> THIS IS THE HOME PAGE
> OF
> KENNETH JANDA,
>
> PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
>
> CURRICULUM VITAE, PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AS OF MAY 21, 2018
>
> * Résumé This contains the usual information on
> education, appointments, and honors. A short summary at the end
> links to papers and publications on my main fields of activity. The
> links below go directly to the topic areas. Most of the writings,
> particularly the later ones, are downloadable in PDF format.
> * Political Parties Most of my scholarship has
> been on the comparative analysis of political parties across
> nations.
> * American politics Although I'm co-author
> of _The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global
> Politics_ (now in its 14th edition), this is certainly my second
> field now.
> * Computer Applications At the beginning of
> my career, this was my major field. Prior to 1970, most of my books
> and other writings were on this topic.
> * Austria-Hungary and Slavic Immigration
> During retirement, I undertook historical research on
> Austria-Hungary on my wife's Slovak and my Czech ancestors. That led
> to wirting a book, _The Emperor and the Peasant_, articles, and book
> eviews.
> * Miscellaneous Some writings (e.g., on leadership
> and methodology) don't fit the above category. This also reports
> Northwestern University activities and dissertations supervised.
>
> INTERNET WEBSITES OPERATED
>
> * USpolitics.org. This is my personal web
> site for _The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global
> Politics_, which I co-author with Jeffrey Berry, Jerry Goldman,
> Deborah Schidkraut, and Paul Manna. Our text is currnetly in its
> 14th edition, and has been translated into Czech, Hungarian,
> Georgia, Russian, and Korean.
> * PoliTxts "PoliTxts" stands for "Political
> Texts." It is a digital archive providing handy access to all
> Presidential Inaugual Addresses, all State of the Union Addresses
> since 1913, all major political party platforms since 1840,
> presidential debates, and other political textual material.
>
> UNDERGRADUATE COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
>
> * American Government and Politics This is my
> syllabus for 2001, the last time I taught the course. It contains
> reading assignments, paper topics, research material, and
> examination questions. I always taught American politics in a
> comparative framework. Not only did I think that such an approach
> was essential to understanding our political system, but
> Northwestern students seemed to like it.
> * Elementary Statistics for Political Research
> This is my sllabus for my last course, taught in 2001 to about 60
> students. Teaching it the first time in 1964 to undergraduate and
> first-year graduate students, it quickly became my favorite course
> to teach. Because almost no students knew much about the topic, I
> could claim credit for what they learned at the end. Many of my
> undergraduates parlayed their knowledge of statistics to top-level
> jobs in market research, political consulting, the media, and
> government. Most of the graduate students took higher-level courses
> from more qualified instructors and became outstanding
> methodologists, often teaching statistics themselves.
> * Political Parties and Elections This is my 1999
> course syllabus. Even more than in my American government course, I
> stressed the comparative analysis of political parties. I firmly
> believed that no one could understand the nature of party politics
> in America without studying party politics in other countries--and
> not just western democracies. The readings in the course syllabus
> are quite dated now, but I think that the course structure still has
> merit. I also think that the research options can generate ideas for
> more contemporary topics.
> * Electoral Systems Research Seminar Northwestern
> political science majors had to choose from one of several research
> seminars in their junior year. My offering in the Spring of 2001 was
> on comparative electoral systems, with special focus on the enormous
> burden placed on the American voter, who has to choose candidates to
> fill multiple local, state, and national offices in primary and
> general elections every two years. They face a greater burden of
> choice than voters in any country. This course required each student
> to compare the voting systems in each state using general concepts
> from the comparative literature on electoral systems.
>
> SELECTED GRADUATE COURSES
>
> * Fundamentals of Political Analysis I liked to
> teach methodological courses more than substantive courses. This was
> my favorite course for graduate students. It was required in the
> first quarter for all first-year students. This syllabus is for
> 1978, the latest in my files. The course was both an introduction to
> the discipline and to the philosophy of political science. It was
> modeled after _my_ first graduate course at Indiana University in
> 1957, taught by the legendary professor, Charles S. Hyneman (1961-62
> President, American Political Science Association), who had also
> chaired Northwestern's Political Science Department in the early
> 1950s. Although it's an old syllabus, the issues it discusses are
> enduring.
> * Methods-You-Should-Have-Learned in School Workshop
> I retired from teaching in 2002. Observing in
> 2003 that graduate students were missing out on some methodological
> topics, I offered a voluntary series of five workshop sessions on
> content analysis, factor analysis, discriminant analysis, scale
> construction, and canonical correlation. A handful of students
> showed up for each of these five late afternoon weekly session. The
> teaching material is posted here.
>
> OP-ED PUBLICATIONS
>
> * Op-Ed Publications Over the years, I've
> published about two dozen Op-Ed pieces on various topics, many in
> the _Chicago Tribune_, but about half in other newspapers across the
> country. This page provides links to most in PDF format.
>
> ODDS AND ENDS
>
> * New York Ships to Foreign Ports, 1939-1945 My
> brother-in-law, John Mozolak, retired Sergeant First Class, United
> State Army, grew up in New York, fascinated by ships on the East
> Rver. Over the years, he compiled from official records the sailings
> of more than 5,000 ships sailing from New York harbor from 1939 to
> 1945, This web site contains his Microsoft Word files on those
> ships. I'm proud to host his enormous effort on my web site.
> * Favorite URLs I compiled
> these over the years. Many probably no longer work. This is on my
> clean-up list of things to do.
