ABSTRACT
It is my particular honor to have been appointed editor of the National Political Science Review for volumes 4–6 (1992–94). Lucius J. Barker, my colleague of many years, has been brilliantly successful as the founding editor. It is sufficient challenge to maintain the high and independent intellectual standard that he has established. No major changes of policy or practice are contemplated. As before, the first requirement is careful scholarship, but no particular methodological or theoretical orthodoxy is to be enforced. If it is political science, the NPSR is interested. As there is a special history, however, some additional comments may be helpful. The National Political Science Review has been, and continues to be, particularly open to research about the political relations of African-descended groups, especially in the United States.
