dozens of polls which they could ignore at little or no risk to their political future." That is what the British- born president of Louis Harris and Asso- ciates, Humphrey Taylor, writes in The Pub- lic Perspective (Jan.-Feb. 1990).
While they might not be rash enough to say so, virtually all British MPs would agree with Edmund Burke that "your representative owes you not his industry only but his judg- ment; and he betrays you, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."...
a two percentage point increase in the unemployment rate. Why do lotteries in- crease crime? Mikesell and Pirog-Good speculate that they may stimulate a taste for risk-taking or feelings of envy. They don't really know. But they do believe that when it comes to legalized gambling, the only sure bet is increased crime.
Presidents "The Pel"is of Presidentialism" Juan J. Linz, in Journal of Democracy (Jan. 1990), 1101 15th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.and Parliaments 20005.
The democratic re...
Graham E. Fuller, in For-eim Policy (Spring 1990), 2400 N St. N.W. Washington, D.C.
The rebirth of Central Europe has dis- tracted attention from another rebirth of great importance: that of Central Asia.
Fuller, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, believes that the 50 million Muslims of Soviet Central Asia "will soon be reentering the broader Muslim world, creating an entire new calculus of Muslim power and regional blocs." Genuine au- tonomy for the Soviet Central Asian R...
Daniel Hirsch and William G. Mathews, The Bulletin of the Atomic Sci-
About Spies entists (Jan.-Feb. 1990), 6042 S. Kimbark Ave., Chicago, 111. 60637, and "The Limits of Manipulation: How the United States Didn't Topple Sukamo" H.W. Brands, in The Journal of American History (Dec. 1989), 112 N. Bryan St., Bloomington, Ind. 47401.
Time for some spy revisionism. One of the most dramatic espionage capers of the century never happened-and one of its most famous spies probably did more harm...
left-wing junior officers to eliminate conservative generalsÃ?â??1'Ameri can officials remained in doubt as to who Suharto was," writes Brands. He argues that Washington could not have engi- neered the coup: Declassified cables and memos show that the Americans never really knew what was going on in Jakarta. As late as October 13, for example, Secre- tary of State Dean Rusk noted: "We are not
at all clear as to who is calling the shots within the military." He instructed...
Robert B. Reich, in The Haward Business Review (Jan.-Feb. 1990), Boston, Mass. 02163.
"Across the United States, you can hear calls for us to revitalize our national com- petitiveness," writes Robert Reich, of Har- vard's Kennedy School of Government. "But wait-who is 'us'?" Is it the Ameri- can-owned and -managed firm that does most of its manufacturing overseas? Or is it, say, the Dutch-owned firm that does much of its research and development (R&D) and manufacturing in...
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The sale of Radio City Music Hall to a Japanese firm last fall seemed to symbolize a "Jap-anese invasion." But of the fi61 billion foreigners invested in the United States in 1989, only $13 billion came from Japan. Meanwhile, Americans invested $32 billion abroad.
terests ahead of corporate interests. (One caveat: Foreign firms that exist to serve na- tional interests, such as Airbus Industrie, should not enjoy equal treatment in the United States.)...
James Q. Wilson, in Commentary (Feb. 1990), 165 E. 65th St., New York, N.Y. The War on Drugs 10022.
Most Americans probably don't remember the nation's last war on drugs. We won it.
Wilson remembers it well. In 1972, he was appointed chairman of President Richard M. Nixon's National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention, charged with drawing up a strategy to combat what was at that time the nation's leading drug scourge: heroin. (Today, he is a political scientist at UCLA.) Then, as now, s...
James Q. Wilson, in Commentary (Feb. 1990), 165 E. 65th St., New York, N.Y. The War on Drugs 10022.
Most Americans probably don't remember the nation's last war on drugs. We won it.
Wilson remembers it well. In 1972, he was appointed chairman of President Richard M. Nixon's National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention, charged with drawing up a strategy to combat what was at that time the nation's leading drug scourge: heroin. (Today, he is a political scientist at UCLA.) Then, as now,...
his 5,000 subjects show that those who com- plain about feeling harassed do in fact spend more hours at work than the aver- age person does. But they also spend more time caring for their children and bathing and grooming themselves. They devote more time to watching and participating in sports, and they spend more time on organizational activities (except church- going). They spend much less time in front of the television, and somewhat less time sleeping, eating, or visiting friends.
Demographics...