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WORK IN THE FIELD OF COMPUTER METHODS
 
Computer Programs and Multimedia Applications 
 CROSSTABS: A Computer Program for American Government (Versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0),
with Philip Schrodt and David Wrobel, 1987, 1989, 1995. Macintosh and IBM-compatible. Winner of 1987 Educom Award for Distinguished Software.
IDEAlog: A Computer Program for Analyzing Political Values(Versions 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 3.0),
with Dennis Hartman and Jerry Goldman, 1987, 1989, 1995, and 1997. Macintosh and IBM compatible. Winner of 1992 Software Award--Course Instruction Category, American Political Science Association.
Videopaths to American Government.
With William Parod, Macintosh Hypercard Stack, 1990.
CD-ROM version of Challenge of Democracy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. Cross-platform for Macintosh and IBM-compatibles. With Jeffrey Berry and Jerry Goldman.
 
Books  
Cumulative Index to the American Political Science Review, Volumes 1-57: 1900 1963 .
Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1964. This was one of the first computer-generated indices to bibliographies. Selected as an Outstanding Reference Book for 1964 by the American Library Association.
Data Processing: Applications to Political Research.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1965. Second edition, 1969. This is the complete text of a 300+ page book that describes, in detail, computing in the era of punchcards and mainframes. Although fully machine-readable, it contains a hundred or more illustrations, which makes it a big file--about 40 mb. Be warned.
Information Retrieval: Applications to Political Science .
Indianapolis: Bobb-Merrill Company, 1968.
Cumulative Index to the American Political Science Review, Volumes 1-62, 1900 1968 .
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1969.
Cumulative Index to the American Political Science Review, Volumes 63-89: 1969 1995.
Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1996. (With Richard Powell and Kristin Stehouwer)
 
Monographs  
Users' Guide to the Intersocietal Information Center .
Evanston: Northwestern University, Council for Intersocietal Studies, 1970. (Edited with William Klecka).
CROSSTABS: Student Workbook for American Government.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1987. (With Philip A. Schrodt)
CROSSTABS: Student Workbook for American Government, 2nd Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1989. (With Philip A. Schrodt)
CROSSTABS: Student Workbook for American Government, 3rd Edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1995. (With David Wrobel)
 
Articles and Book Chapters  
"Advances in Information Retrieval in the Social Sciences,"
Parts I and II, two special issues of The American Behavioral Scientist, 10 (January and February, 1967). (Editor)
"Keyword Indexes for the Behavioral Sciences,"
American Behavioral Scientist (June, 1964), 55-58.
"TRIAL--A Computer Technique for Retrieving Information from Abstracts of Literature,"
Behavioral Science, 11 (November, 1966), 480-486 (with William H. Tetzlaff).
"Selective Dissemination of Information--A Progress Report from Northwestern University,"
American Behavioral Scientist, 10 (January, 1967), 24-29 (with Gary Rader).
"Political Research with Miracode--A 16mm. Microfilm Information Retrieval System,"
Social Science Information, 6 (April-June, 1967), 169-181. Reprinted in NMA Journal, 1 (Winter, 1968), 41-47.
"Cumulative Index to the Midwest Journal of Political Science-Volumes 1-10, 1957 1966,"
Midwest Journal of Political Science, 11 (May, 1967), 225-255 (with Neal E. Cutler).
"Computer Applications in Political Science,"
AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Volume 31, Fall Joint Computer Conference. Washington: Thompson Book Company, 1967. Pp. 339-345. Reprinted in part as "Some Computer Applications in Political Science," Computers and the Humanities, 2 (September, 1967), 2-6. Also reprinted in Information Systems--Current Developments and Future Expansion. Montvale, N.J.: AFIPS Press, 1970. Pp. 15-28.
"Index to the Proceedings of the 1968 Meeting of the American Political Science Association."
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1968. (On microfilm).
A Microfilm and Computer System for Analyzing Comparative Politics Literature,"
in George Gerbner et al. (Eds.), The Analysis of Communication Content. New York: Wiley, 1969. Pp. 407 435.
"A Microfilm Information Retrieval System for Newspaper Librarie,"
Special Libraries, 61 (January, 1970), 33-47 (With David Gordon).
"Online Searches of Social Science Data Sets: The RIQS System and ICPSR Data,"
SIG SOC Bulletin, 13 (1, part 1), 1981. (With Ann Janda).
"A Computer for Home and Office: The Kaypro II,"
Political Science Micro Review, 1, #3 (1983), 36 41.
"Personalizing Perfect Writer ,"
Social Science Micro Review, 2 (February, 1984), 78-80.
"Computers in Teaching Social Science in American Universities: A Survey, Critique, and Example,"
European Political Data Newsletter (June, 1988), 51-56.
"Multimedia in Political Science: Sobering Lessons from a Teaching Experiment,"
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia. 1 (1992), 341-354.
"Elementary Statistics for Political Research,"
in W. Philips Shively and John Freeman (eds.) Introductory Methodology: Political Science Course Syllabi Collection, Washington: American Political Science Association, 1992.
"Teaching Research Methods: The Best Job in the Department,"
Political Science Educator, 3 (February, 1997), p. 6. Reprinted in Political Methodologist, 10 (2001), p. 6-7.
 
Book Reviews  
Ralph Bisco (ed.).
Data Bases, Computers and the Social Sciences (New York: Wiley, 1970)
in The American Political Science Review 65 (September, 1971), pp. 785-786.
 
Papers and Addresses  
"Computer Applications to Abstraction, Storage, and Recovery of Propositions from Political Science Literature,"
paper delivered at the American Political Science Association, Chicago. (With Lester W. Milbrath)
"Information Retrieval: Applications to Bibliographies on International and Comparative Politics,"
paper delivered at the Computers and the Policy Making Community Institute, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California, April, 4-15, 1966.
"Analysis of Qualitative Materials,"
paper delivered at a Conference on Computer applications to Social Inquiry, Warsaw, Poland, June 29 and July 7, 1974.
"Cross-National Data for Social Research: 50 Studies in the ICPSR Archives,"
paper delivered at the US/Soviet Symposium on Social Science Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 4-7, 1980.
"Issues of Compatibility in the Decentralized Production of Entries for a Computerized Glossary,"
A Working Paper for the ISSC/COCTA Roundtable on the "INTERCOCTA" Project, Caracas, Venezuela, June 26-30, 1983.
"Computers in Teaching Social Science in American Universities: A Survey, Critique, and Example,"
paper delivered at the Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Planning Session on The Use of Computers in Teaching Political Science, Rimini, Italy, April 5-10, 1988.
"Would You Care to See Our Menus? Teaching SPSSx on a Mainframe Computer,"
paper delivered at the SPSS User Exchange, June 23, 1988, Chicago Hilton Hotel and Towers.
"Computers and MORE Help in Lectures,"
paper delivered at the Emerging Technologies Conference, sponsored by Apple Computer and the Association of American Publishers, New York, November 15, 1991.
"Teaching Research Methods: The Best Job in the Department,"
Remarks at the Roundtable on Teaching, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 19, 1996.
"Surfers Anonymous: Sobering Findings for Technology in Teaching,"
Keynote Address, Stepping into the 21st Century, Instructional Technology Workshop for Political Science Educators, Illinois State University, June 14, 1996.
"Newspapers in Bytes and Bits: Limitations of Electronic Databases for Content Analysis,"
paper delivered at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association," Boston, Massachusetts. (With James Snider)