Guide to the Heinz Eulau Papers

Daniel Hartwig

Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford, California

August 2014

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Overview

Call Number: SC0697

Creator: Eulau, Heinz, 1915-2004.

Title: Heinz Eulau papers

Dates: undated

Physical Description: 42 Linear feet

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Biographical/Historical note

Heinz Eulau (1915-2004), the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, was a major figure in American political science and a leading scholar in the fields of legislative research, political representation and electoral behavior.

He was born in Offenbach, Germany, on October 14, 1915 into a German Jewish family whose wide-ranging lineage he and his brother Frank (“in cooperation with cousins of all sorts”) documented in a book on “The Mishpokhe from Eulau-Jilové: Discovering a Remarkably Unremarkable Jewish Family from Germany” (2001). After immigrating to the United States in 1935, he earned his degrees in political science at the University of California in Berkeley: A.B. 1937, M.A. 1938, PhD 1941. Following engagements at the Library of Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice, and The New Republic, he started his academic career at Antioch College in 1947 and joined in 1957 the Stanford Department of Political Science which he chaired twice, 1969-74 and 1981-84, and from which he retired as the William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, in 1986. He has held visiting appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, and Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

Eulau was president of the American Political Science Association 1971-72; he founded the Legislative Studies Quarterly in 1976, was active in the behavioral sciences division of the National Research Council (1969-73), chairman of the board of overseers of the National Election Studies (1977-84), and associate director of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (1975-78). Awards in his name and honor were created by the American Political Science Association (1986) and the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (2002).

Heinz Eulau is considered one of the founding scholars of what came to be known as the behavioral movement in political science which brought the analytical tools of sociology and psychology to bear on the empirical study of the linkages between individual behavior and political processes. The focus of Eulau’s work was on the patterns and determinants of electoral and legislative behavior and on the politics of political representation. His extensive published work in this area (including Legislative Behavior, 1959; The Behavioral Persuasion in Politics, 1963; Political behavior in America: New Directions, 1966; State Officials and Higher Education [with Harold Quinley and David D. Henry], 1970; Labyrinths of Democracy [with Kenneth Prewitt], 1973; Politics, Self, and Society, 1986) is considered part of the classics of modern political science and has shaped research as well as teaching in the discipline over the past fifty years. He was one of the founders of the influential journal, The American Behavioral Scientist. Many of his students have moved into positions of leadership in the discipline in their own right, including Stanford faculty members Norman Nie and John Ferejohn and Kenneth Prewitt at Columbia, who credit Eulau with directing their early work and with the equally important role of mentoring their entry into the profession.

His 1972 Presidential Address for the American Political Science Association represents one of the discipline’s early reflections on the impact of modern technology and the resulting “skill revolution” on the nature and functioning of political systems. His search for “political processes better adapted to the requirements of a rapidly changing technological society than are participative, representational, and bureaucratic processes alone” led him to the vision of a “consultative commonwealth” where professionalized consultation becomes “the linkage mechanism between democracy and bureaucracy”.

In his later years, Heinz Eulau allowed his impish sense of humor free reign in taking on some of the “fads, foibles and fables” of his colleagues in his 1998 book on “The Politics of Academic Culture”, chapters of which are devoted to such topics as “The Faculty’s Fallacious but Felicitous Faculties, or Nemesis and When Not to Love Thy Colleague as Thyself” or “The Rating, Ranking and Baiting Game, or Don’t Believe All You Read about Yourself Even if True”. The book’s epilogue is entitled “De Mortuis Nil nisi Bonum, or Better Write Your Own Obituary before It Is Too Late” – which Heinz Eulau, forever a man of his word, promptly proceeded to do.

Heinz Eulau’s wife of 58 years, Cleo, passed away shortly after her husband at Stanford Hospital after a long illness. They are survived by their children Peter and Lauren, and three grandchildren. Family, friends, and colleagues gathered for a memorial celebration of the lives of Heinz and Cleo Eulau on March 2, 2004, in Stanford Memorial Church.

Accession ARCH-2004-55 Papers

Box 1, Folder 1

Easton Fest (A33) 1992

Box 1, Folder 2

The Apostacy of David Easton (A33) 1965-1991

Box 1, Folder 3

International Relations (A34) 1972-1978

Box 1, Folder 4

Humawish (A41) 1949

Box 1, Folder 5

Of Bellavior & Institution (A47) 1971

Box 1, Folder 6

The Discipline's Community: The Effects of Method and Market on Research Relevance 1998

Box 1, Folder 7

An Inquiry In Search Of Identity (A48) 1981-1986

Box 1, Folder 8

Illustrations (A50) 1987

Box 1, Folder 9

Teaching Materials (A51) 1959-1986

Box 1, Folder 10

Contextomism (A52) 1967-1984

Box 1, Folder 11

Modes & Discip. Development (A53) 1980

Box 1, Folder 12

Action| Citizen's HIP (A28) 1950-1984

Box 1, Folder

Karps Memoranda (A54) 1958-1978

Box 1, Folder 14

Idea File (A55) Undated

Box 1, Folder 15

Rochester--Contextual Data Follow Up (A56) 1974-1989

Box 1, Folder 16

Munro (A58) 1983

Box 1, Folder 17

Research Grants and Proposals (A59) 1969-1974

Box 1, Folder 18

Public Administration Review (A60) 1967 Jun

Box 1, Folder 19

Pending Book Reviews (A62) 1958-1981

Box 1, Folder 20

Urban-RURM (A64) 1967-1973

Box 1, Folder 21

Notes, Chapter 14 Of Fact (A65) Undated

Box 1, Folder 22

Miller Festschrift--Tom Mann (A67) 1992-1993

Box 1, Folder 23

Correspondence Letter to Heinz (A68) 34480

Box 1, Folder 24

Herzog Paper (A72) 1990-1996

Box 1, Folder 25

Correspondence Cher Lao-Tzu (A70) Undated

Box 1, Folder 26

Lippincott Award (A71) 1985

Box 1, Folder 27

Annotated Notes of Readings Undated

Box 1, Folder 28

Annotated Notes of Readings Undated

Box 1, Folder 29

Annotated Notes of Readings Undated

Box 1, Folder 30

Pluralism (A14) 1990

Box 1, Folder 31

Modern Behavioral Approach (Jerusal) (A63) 1996

Box 1, Folder 32

Excursions into Biology 1977-1987

Box 2, Folder 1

Masters Model of Human Behavior (A26) Undated

Box 2, Folder 2

Various Reflection and Journal pieces by Eulau Undated

Box 2, Folder 3

Socrates Library Search 2002

Box 2, Folder 4

Table of Contents: Radical and Renegades: Vignettes of Twenty-seven Communist Fellow Travelers in the 1930s Undated

Box 2, Folder 5

Dreiser (5) Undated

Box 2, Folder 6

Maverick Fellow Traveler: Eastman Chapter 1 Undated

Box 2, Folder 7

Premature Fellow Traveler: Dell Chapter 2 Undated

Box 2, Folder 8

Elusive Fellow Traveler: Vorse Chapter 3 Undated

Box 2, Folder 9

Part II: A Trio of Troubled Novelists Undated

Box 2, Folder 10

Contrarian Fellow Traveler: Dreiser Chapter 4 Undated

Box 2, Folder 11

Romantic Fellow Traveler: Anderson Chapter 5 Undated

Box 2, Folder 12

Rebellious Fellow Traveler: Dos Passos Chapter 6 Undated

Box 2, Folder 13

Part III: A Trio of Aesthetes Undated

Box 2, Folder 14

Reflective Fellow Traveler: Cowley Chapter 7 Undated

Box 2, Folder 15

Mercurial Fellow Traveler: Josephson Chapter 8 Undated

Box 2, Folder 16

Wayward Fellow Traveler: Burke Chapter 9 Undated

Box 2, Folder 17

Pentient Fellow Traveler: Hicks Chapter 10 Undated

Box 2, Folder 18

Electic Fellow Traveler: Wilson Chapter 12 Undated

Box 2, Folder 19

Library Search Results Undated

Box 2, Folder 20

Correspondent Current Re: Chapter 12 Undated

Box 2, Folder 21

Non-Political Fellow Traveler: Sherwood Anderson Chapter 5 Undated

Box 2, Folder 22

Sherwood Anderson: Slumming Fellow Traveler Chapter 5 Undated

Box 2, Folder 23

Rebellious Fellow Traveler: John Dos Passos Chapter 6 Undated

Box 2, Folder 24

Penitent Fellow Traveler: Granville Hicks Chapter 10 Undated

Box 2, Folder 25