Jean-Baptiste Reg- nault-in which a tormented son must choose between rescuing his father or his wife and son-presents a rationale for abandoning tradi- tional authority. And, in Jacques-Louis David's Brutus (1789), the Roman leader is shown being forced to execute his traitorous sons, rendered powerless before a genderless abstraction-the state.
Made anxious reformist rumblings, Louis XV and Louis XVI hoped that these classical representations would inspire patriotism and reinforce the monarchy's...
Jim Brooke, in Foreign Policy (Fall 1981), P.O. Box 984, Farmingdale, N.Y 1 1737.
With 119 million people, Brazil is the fifth-largest nation on earth. It has the world's eighth-largest gross national product ($200 billion, up 100 percent since 1970) and ranks as the sixth-largest weapons exporter ($1 billion in 1980), selling light tanks and small missiles. Its modern factories churn out computers for China and turboprop planes for the Ivory Coast. According to Brooke, a Washington Post correspondent,...
John D. Stephens, in Com-
parative Political Studies (July 1981), 275
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In 1976, after 44 years in power, Sweden's Social Democratic Party (SDP) lost to a Central Party coalition-a loss that was narrowly re- peated in 1979.Some scholars suggest that growing affluence has made conservatives of Sweden's blue-collar class, the traditional mainstay of the SDP. It is true that th...
John D. Stephens, in Com-
parative Political Studies (July 1981), 275
South Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
90212.
In 1976, after 44 years in power, Sweden's Social Democratic Party (SDP) lost to a Central Party coalition-a loss that was narrowly re- peated in 1979.Some scholars suggest that growing affluence has made conservatives of Sweden's blue-collar class, the traditional mainstay of the SDP. It is true that th...
1939, Hitler's massive war preparations had created one million new jobs. Employers found themselves at the mercy of laborers, who began changing jobs, on average, once every 12 months. Many employees were simply exploiting their new market value for better pay and benefits. But workers also resented the con- stant harassment from bosses under pressure to meet ambitious Nazi production targets.
Despite police intimidation, strikes became common in Germany after 1935. Nazi archives reveal 192 strikes...
Charles A. Murray, in The Public Interest (Fall 1982), P.O. Box 542, Old Chelsea, New York. N.Y. 10014.
Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," launched in 1964, spurred a sharp 16-year rise in social spending. Yet Murray, former chief scientist of the American Institutes for Research, argues that Washington's new ac- tivism had a perverse result: It brought the gradual spread of American affluence to a "grinding halt."
Thanks chiefly to economic growth, the number of people living...
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one measure, LBJ's War on Poverty was a success. If poverty is calculated counting income, transfer payments, and in-kind benefits (food programs, medical care, housing), the rates were 10.1 percent in 1968,6.2 percent in 1972, and 6.1 percent in 1980. But, says Murray, the goal of the War on Poverty was to help people escape "the dole."
In retrospect, he concludes, economic growth proved to be the only real antidote to poverty. "If the War on Poverty is construed...
Walter Reagan's New Guzzardi, Jr., in Fortune (June 28, 1982),Federalism 541 North Fairbanks Ct., Chicago, 111.
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President Reagan's proposal to turn over major federal programs to the states has been attacked as an attempt to institutionalize "benign ne- glect" of the nation's poor. Guzzardi, a Fortune editor, offers two cheers for Reagan's New Federalism, though he doubts that the states should be given all the responsibility the President intends to assign them.
Today's statehouses...
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I. A. Lewis and William Schneider, in Public Opinion (April-May 1982), % American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 17th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Public opinion pollsters called the 1980 presidential election a "horse race" right up to election day. Yet a "closet Reagan vote" gave the Republican a comfortable 10 percent margin of victory. The public, it appears, concealed its intentions.
Pollsters have been aware of the problem for years,...
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inaccurate answers are simply due to memory lapses.
Moreover, attitudes expressed in polls are not always a reliable indi-
cator of behavior. During the early 1930s, researcher Richard LaPiere
crossed the United States with a Chinese couple to measure discrimina-
tion. Only one of the 251 restaurants and other public facilities they
visited refused them service. Yet when LaPiere later mailed question-
naires to the proprietors, 90 percent stated they...