BOX 1
Correspondence - Outgoing
1. Dec. 8, 1953 to Dean Ewing P. Shahan; Feb. 19, 1969 to Prof. W.S. Livingston; July 14, 1970 to Harrry H. Ransom.
Correspondence – Incoming
2. Bhambhri, C. P. ; Biemiller, Andrew J. ; Bryant, Mavis.
3. Edwards, Richard A. ; Henning, John F. ; Livingston, William S. ; Lynch, G. A.
4. Naqqi, S.A.H. ; Parthemos, George S. ; Truman, David ; Ulmer, S. Sidney ; Weiner, Myron.
5. ?, Ruth, letter dated May 19, 2001 with photos.
Academic Career – University of Chicago
6. War Assets Administration materials, 1946.
7. Statement of Academic Freedom, Oct. 1949; Special Alumni courses, 1951 -1952 with accompanying bibliography.
Academic Career – Vanderbilt University
8. Poltical Science 251 “The Arrow General Impossibility Theorem.”
9. Political Science 336 ( Mr. Dorsey) “ Comparative Study of Public Administation” Spring 1970 – Course description.
10. Political Science 304 (Leiserson ) – assigned reading for Political Theories of Organization – Waldo, Dwight “Developments in Public Administration.”
11. Department of Political Science, Graduate program reading list, 1975.
12. Political Science Course information.
13. Program – Southern Political Science Association, Nov. 7 – 9, 1968; Program – Fifty-seventh Annual meeting – Southern Political Science Association, Nov. 7 – 9, 1985, signed by Manning Dauer.
14. V.O. Key, Jr. – A.Leiserson’s research notes, 1958; Bibliography, 1931 – 1964; “Old V.O.” Student – Faculty Colloquium at Vanderbilt. Jan. 1979.
15. Report of the Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel, 1949.
16. Legal document of petition Faculty appointments, filed April 6, 1951 in the District Court of Appeal of the State of California.
17. University of Delhi, Department of Sociology, Annual Report, 1965 – 66; 1966 – 67; Syllabus for the M.A. Examination in Sociology and University of Delhi, 1969.
18. Panel Discussion American Political Science Association, Sept. 1973.
19. Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, 1995 -96; Obituary of Prof. B. Ahmed, Sept. 14, 1976.
20. American Political Science Association Memorandum on support for Political Science program, 1973; Social Science Research Council – Fellowships and Grants for Training and Research to be offered in 1986 -87; Citizens’ Research Foundation Brochure.
21. Education Budget and Bills.
22. Papers for research.
23. Research notes.
24. Research notes.
25. Research notes.
Academic Career – Vanderbilt University – Photographs
26. Building of Memorial Gymnasium on the Vanderbilt Campus, 1952, # 427 - 447.
27. Building of Memorial Gymnasium on the Vanderbilt Campus, 1952 # 448 - 457.
28. Building of Memorial Gymnasium on the Vanderbilt Campus, 1952 # 464 - 473.
29. Building of Memorial Gymnasium on the Vanderbilt Campus, 1952 # 474 - 486.
30. Building of Memorial Gymnasium on the Vanderbilt Campus, 1952 # 487 - 496.
31. Building of Memorial Gymnasium on the Vanderbilt Campus, 1952 # 497 - 513.
32. Building of Memorial Gymnasium on the Vanderbilt Campus, 1952 # 514 - 523.
33. Building of Memorial Gymnasium on the Vanderbilt Campus, 1952 # 524 - 540.
BOX 2
Writings by Avery Leiserson – Articles and reprints
1.“Political Limitations on Executive Reorganization,” in American Political Science Review, Vol. 41, Feb.1947.
2. “Organized Labor as a Pressure Group” (pp. 108 – 117) in Labor in the American Economy, The Annals,Vol. 274, March 1951.
3. “Organized Labor as a Pressure Group” reprinted from The Annals of the American Academy of Political and and Social Science, Philadelphia, March1951 with accompanying research notes.
4. "The Place of Parties in the Study of Politics” reprinted from The American Political Science Review, Vol. 61, No. 4, December 1957 with accompanying Abstract.
5. “Science and the Public Life” Address at the Southern Political Science Association, November 11, 1966.
6. “India’s Political Culture and the State of its Political Science” November 1968, typescript.
7. “India’s Political Culture and the State of its Political Science” November 1968, multiple copies of the typescript.
8. “Charles Merriam, Max Weber, and the Search for Synthesis in Political
Science” reprinted from The American Political Science Review, Vol. LXIX,
No. 1, March 1975.
Writings by Avery Leiserson – Reviews
10. Review of American Labor from Defense to Reconversion by Joel Seidman in Journal of Politics, May 1954.11. Review of Regulating Business by Independent Commission by Marver H. Bernstein, 1955.
12. Review of The Development of the Social Security Act by Edwin E.Witte, 1962.
13. Review of “The Politics of Science: Science Politics, Science Policy, Policy Science – The Whole Thing” in Polity, Vol. VI, No. 1 / Fall 1973.
14. Review of Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politics by David Beetham, in American Political Science Review, 1974.
15. Reviews of Avery Leiserson’s book Parties and Politics: An Institutional and Behavioral Approach, 1958 by Ralph K. Huitt in Political Science Quarterly, 1959 and by Austin Ranney in Midwest Journal of Political Science, Feb. 1959 and James C. Davies in American Political Science Review, Sept. 1959.
Writings by others – articles and reprints
16. Adler, Kenneth P. and Bobrow, Davis “Interest and Influence in Foreign
Affairs” reprinted from The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. XX, No. 1, Spring 1956 with attached letter dated April 25, 1956.
17. Ahmed, Aqueil “Science as a Management Problem” in Economic and Political Weekly, Aug. 3, 1968 ; Ahmed, Aqueil “Progress in the Science of Science with Special Reference to India” Center for the Study of Social and Cultural Change, University of North Dakota, May 1969.
18. Almond, Gabriel A. “Psychology, Numbers, and Political Science: Merriam’s Prophecy Fulflled and Unfulfilled” an address at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1974.
19. Anderson, Charles W. “ The Political Economy of Charles E. Lindblom” an essay in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 72 ; Ashmore, Harry S. “The Strange Case of Kim Dae-Jung” a dialogue discussion paper presented in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 1974.
20. Bass, Harold F., Jr. “Change and Democratization in One-Party Systems” in The Midsouth Political Science Journal, Vol. 12, Autumn, 1991 ; Baumann, Fred “The University and the State: the Proper Role of Government in Higher Education” in Measure, No. 41, Feb. 1977 ; Bawa, Vasant Kumar “Changing Indian Attitudes Towards the Developing Political and Economic Situation in Asia” address given to Nashville Committee on Foreign Relations,Sept. 29, 1970 ; Birkby, Robert H. “Politics of Accommodation: The Origin of the Supremacy Clause” reprinted from the Western Political Quarterly, March, 1966.
21. Boorman, Howard L. “Western Biographies and Chinese Realities” a paper given at the American Historical Association meeting in New York, December 30, 1968; Boorman, Howard L. and Scott A. Boorman “Strategy and National Psychology in China” reprinted from the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, Vol. 370, March 1967 ; Boulware, L.R. “ Politics …The Businessman’s Biggest Job in 1958” address before the Annual Meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, May 21, 1958.
22. Brodie, Bernard “Some Strategic Implications of the Nuclear Revolution,” Institute of International Studies, University of Utah.
23. Campbell, Angus; Gurin, Gerald, Miller, Warren E. “ Television’s Campaign Audiences” Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, March 10, 1953.
24. Chandidas, R. “The Fourth General Elections Madhya Pradesh: A Case Study” reprinted from Economic and Political Weekly, Special Number, August 1967.
25. Cole, Kenneth C. “The Theory of Democracy in the West: What Kind of Democracy Shall We Profess?” reproduced from the Proceedings of the Institute of World Affairs, Vol. XXXII, 1957.
26. Cook, Thomas I “The Political System: The Stubborn Search for a Science of Politics” reprinted from the Journal of Philosophy, March 1953 ; Cornelius, William G. “The County Unit System of Georgia: Facts and Prospects” reprinted from The Western Political Quarterly, December 1961.
27. Cosman, Bernard “An Overview of Southern Republicanism” prepared for delivery at the 1964 Southern Political Science Association in Durham, North Carolina, Nov.12 - 14, 1964 ; Cox, Edward F. “The Measurement of Party Strength” reprinted from The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 4, December 1960.
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