Philip A. Daniels, in The World Today (Aug.-Sept. 19871, The Royal In-stitute of International Affairs, 10 St. James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE, United Kingdom.
When the Italian Communist Party (PCI) won 34.4 percent of the national vote in 1976, its highest percentage since the founding of the post-World War I1 republic in 1946, the Communists seemed on the verge of full participation in government. Since that peak, however, the party's trade union support has weakened, and fewer young people are...
public agencies and private institutions
"Dealing With Drugs: Consequences of Government Control."
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 177 Post St., San Francisco, Calif. 94108. 385 pp.
$40.00.
Editor: Ronald Hamowy
The continuing "war on drugs" is the most expensive prohibition effort in American history. In Fiscal Year 1983, for example, $836.3 million was budgeted for drug law enforcement; in contrast, enforcing the first 10 years of Prohibition cost U.S. t...
Stephen Hess, in The Brookings Re- view (Summer 1987), 1775 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
In 1888, Oxford law professor James Bryce, author of The American Commonwealth, accused American voters of accepting "mediocrity" in their presidential candidates. Powerful political organizations, he wrote, only supported candidates from large states since "the objective was win-ning, not governing." Today, "political parties are in decline," argues Hess, a...
relying increasingly on "enhanced bureaucratic structures," and "legal accountability mechanisms."
The Challenger exploded, Romzek and Dubnick argue, not because
such "mechanisms" failed, but because, for a technology-oriented agency
like NASA, they are inappropriate altogether.
Pulpit Power? "An Experimental Study of the Influence of Reli-gious Elites on Public Opinion" Bruce Mc- ~eownand James M. ~aison,in Political Com- munication and Persuasion (Vol....