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The Caucus for a New Political Science was first founded in 1967 as a caucus, and then a formal section, within the American Political Science Association (APSA). APSA is the official professional organization of political scientists in the United States, with over 15,000 members worldwide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.apsanet.org/content_5748.cfm )〕 CNPS’ membership rolls at present indicate between 425-475 members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.apsanet.org/sectioncounts.cfm )〕 The Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) emerged to challenge the principal of neutrality contained in the APSA by-laws and to encourage political activism among those in the profession. Critics and supporters have characterized the mission of the CNPS as explicitly political and left in its orientation. Critics have charged that CNPS was responsible for negatively affecting the APSA in 1968 and 1969 with the challenge to association’s commitment to political neutrality on public issues of the day. It is generally observed that CNPS was the first section of its kind within APSA and opened the door for the formal recognition by APSA of a variety of sections dedicated to more explicitly engaged scholarship. Among those groups and caucuses that subsequently sought and gained formal section recognition within APSA are: Women & Politics; Race & Ethnicity; Sexuality and Politics as well as affiliated groups such as the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender group and The Labor Project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.apsanet.org/content_5748.cfm )〕 The official mission of CNPS is “to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world.” (apsa website) In 1971, the group incorporated as the Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) as a non-profit educational organization. The group’s official name within APSA is “New Political Science”. The non-profit entity owns and operates the peer-reviewed journal ''New Political Science'': a journal of politics and culture, published by the Taylor & Francis Group. The non-profit also sponsors public addresses by prominent progressive public intellectuals including Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Frances Fox Piven, Lani Guinier, John Conyers, Barney Frank, Rashid Khalidi, former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, and Michael Parenti. The CNPS has also issued political positions outside of APSA as a signatory on several national campaigns defending intellectuals and artists experiencing public criticism and controversy such as Tony Kushner, Rashid Khalidi and Frances Fox Piven. == Philosophical Origins == Established at the 1967 meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the stated goal of New Political Science was to provide alternative views to the behavioralist school of thought that dominated APSA. The CNPS sought to end official APSA restrictions on resolutions on public matters, as well as the institutional practice of not sponsoring forums where members might analyze and debate such matters as the Vietnam War. Two political science professors and APSA members led the campaign and then founding of the Caucus. H. Mark Roelofs, from New York University, and Christian Bay from the University of Alberta are credited with forming the ideological basis of the organization. Bay was a prominent scholar, best known for his book ''The Structure of Freedom'' which presented a critique of systems analysis and the prioritizing of abstract concepts over the practical needs of society. The catalyst for Roelofs and Bay's formal break with APSA emerged after several resolutions (many involving the Vietnam War and other public policy issues) were officially rejected or tabled by the APSA executive committee at the 1967 annual meeting in Chicago. At the time, active discussion and the taking of a position by APSA on the Vietnam War were forbidden under Article II of APSA’s constitution. The constitution stated that the association would “not commit its members on questions of public policy nor take positions not immediately concerned with its direct purpose.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caucus for a New Political Science」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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