POLITICAL SCIENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 10

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The new Professor of Political

Science at Victoria University College, Dr. Leslie Lipson, is an investigating professor and a writing professor. Political science can be studied in an armchair, and it can also be investigated in the field of human activity. In England Dr. Lipson was engaged by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research to obtain information on the geographical distribution of the industrial population. In the United States he made inquiries from coast to coast, and has recently completed a book on American government. From these studies of the Old World and

the New World he comes to a still newer world which represents a pocket edition of problems of the other two worlds; and he is reported as holding the opinion that this newer world, New Zealand, "being smaller, is more suitable for experiments in social legislation." The experiments are already in progress, and Dr. Lipson, will certainly not lack raw material. He can start off with the problem of whether a local body's anxiety about a building line in a public thoroughfare represents, as Mr. Savage insinuates, a deep-laid scheme to sabotage Social Security. Many similar complexes, logical and psychological, crop up daily, and a detached or semi-detached view of them would be . interesting, but whether they come strictly under the heading of political science is another question. . ,