Walter Dean Burnham, in Welfare Stale The Washington Ra'iav of Strategic and

International Studies (July 1978), Trans-
action Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers

University, New Brunswick, NJ. 08903.
The specter of "ungovernability" has come to haunt Western politi-
cians and intellectuals in the 1970s.
Today's predicament in the United States, Britain, Italy, and other
Western countries is ultimately the by-product of severe strains in ad-
vanced capitalist societies, says Burnham, an M...