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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 17, 1963
Research Center Studies Elections, City Finance
By Terry Ostmeyer
(The last of a three part series)
The dissemination of information concerning government institutions is one of the chief tasks of the KU Government Research Center. Research projects conducted during the last two years show the end result of such a task.
The Center has four research projects underway now, and the results have a printing date with a July deadline.
One of these projects concerns a detailed analysis of the operation of the Kansas Legislative Council since 1983. This study is to include all of the facets of effectiveness of the Council.
THIS IS THE same legislative body which voted on May 9 to discontinue the Center's Legislative Internship Program.
Another study is being made on the growth and problems of metropolitan Wyandotte County.
The Center will also report on the results of the 1963 Kansas Legislature. These results will be published in the Citizens Pamphlet. The study will stress the major decisions of the legislature while it was in session earlier this spring.
The fourth research project is a complete analysis of municipal financing in Kansas from 1948-1959. The project includes all third class cities.
THESE PROJECTS are nearing completion now, and the results will be tabulated soon, but the Center's long-range programs continue to grasp the undivided attention of much of the staff.
The largest long-range task is the analysis of the Kansas City municipal elections by John Grumm, associate professor of political science. The elections were held March 26.
Assisting Prof. Grumm are two other political scientists, Howard Neighbor, assistant professor at Park College in Parkville, Mo., and Bernard Bray, research fellow and former KU graduate from Vevay, Ind. This research group started their study by collecting personal views acquired through 1,000 selected Kansas City voters.
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According to Ethan Allen, director of the Center, Prof. Grumm's project will be studied in order to gain new insights into the electoral processes on the local level, and also to obtain significant information on the future of Kansas City politics.
The Center's long-range studies often serve as means to throw some light on its own operations and complexities. The elections are an example and the constitutional revision program is another.
The Center's work on the revision of the Kansas Constitution is under the direction of Walter Sandelius, professor of political science.
Prof. Sandelius was appointed chairman of the revision commission in 1957 by former Governor George Docking. The commission's term was renewed by Governor John Anderson during his first term.
But today, the revision commission is in the middle of an ironic situation — it is doing its work, but it does not actually exist.
The commission expired at the beginning of Gov. Anderson's new term and its renewal was overlooked. The commission has continued its present studies concerning the Kansas Constitution, however.
So, even though it is not official, the commission is still studying the constitution, the professor added.
The Constitutional Revision Commission functions through various sub-committees in the Kansas Legislature and is concerned primarily with the three branches of government—legislative, judicial and executive.
Prof. Sandelius said in the last five years the commission has supplied over 30 research reports to the subcommittees dealing with various aspects of the constitution.
The commission operates under a grant from the Ford Foundation. "This is essentially for the purpose of studying state constitutions generally, and it is only indirectly that we have been able to make use of it for our study in Kansas," Prof. Sandelius said.
Financial support is also obtained from the Kansas Legislative Council. Five members from this council work with the revision commission in many of its studies.
Prof. Sandelius said one of the commission's more significant studies concerned a classification of the amendments of the state constitution.
"There is a great deal of interest in the commission today and I believe we have pointed out the fact of the need for constitutional revision in Kansas," Prof. Sandelius said. "I also believe there is every prospect that interest in this matter will continue and grow."
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