Ronald Lawson, in Journal of Social His- tory (Summer 1980), ~arnk~ie- ello on
University, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213.
In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner told Americans to look to the newly closed frontier for the origins of their national character. More recently, many Australian scholars have viewed the rugged "bushworkers" who manned the vast farms and sheep ranches of the arid Outback during the 19th century as the source of their country's own indigenous ethos-egalitarian, collectivist,...
and the Thesis of Partv Decline" bv Cor-
nelius P. Cotter and john F. ~ibb~,
in Political Science Quarterly (Spring 1980), Ste. 500, 619 West 114 St., New York,
N.Y. 10025.
Though the Democratic and Republican parties appeal to a lower per- centage of voters than in the past, they have, on the national level, become increasingly sophisticated bureaucracies -putting a tighter rein on state and local parties and providing more services to commu- nity loyalists than ever before. So write...
recent federal election laws, persuade a decreasing propor-tion of the voters to identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans.
When Do Voters "Time of Decision and Media Use During the Ford-Carter Campaign" Steven H.
Really Decide? Chaffee and Sun Yuel Choe, in Public Opinion Quarterly (Spring 1980), Sub-scription Dept., Elsevier North Holland, Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, N.Y.
10017.
Are autumn presidential campaigns a waste of time for voters and candidates? Since the 1940s,...
Bernard J. Frieden, in The Public Interest (Spring 1980) Box 542, Old Chelsea, New York, N.Y. 1001 1.
Providing the poor with good quality housing has been a high priority of the federal government since the New Deal era. But a recent federal experiment suggests that low-income people are troubled most high rents. So reports Frieden, a professor of urban studies at MIT.
Beginning in 1973, the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment offered cash payments averaging $75 a month to poor tenants...
James L. Payne, in Polity (Spring
1980), Northwestern Political Science As-
sociation, Whitmore Hall, Amherst, Mass.
01003.
In Congress, there are "show horses" who neglect their legislative duties in their quest for publicity and "work horses" who quietly but effectively pass bills and attend committee meetings. That is the con- clusion of Payne, a Texas A & M political scientist.
Taking 55 membe...
James L. Payne, in Polity (Spring
1980), Northwestern Political Science As-
sociation, Whitmore Hall, Amherst, Mass.
01003.
In Congress, there are "show horses" who neglect their legislative duties in their quest for publicity and "work horses" who quietly but effectively pass bills and attend committee meetings. That is the con- clusion of Payne, a Texas A & M political scientist.
Taking 55 membe...
extension, modern industrial states. Winner suggests that this may be true where nuclear power is concerned. "Soft energy" advocates, on the other hand, contend that solar energy is more compatible with democ- racy: It can be produced economically in small, independent cells, eas- ily constructed from household materials.
FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
"Carter and the Fall of the Shah: The In-
The Indecisive
side Story" bv Michael A. Ledeen and Monarch William H. ~ewis, in...
American diplomats, he leaned heavily on the United States for support and guidance. In late 1978, faced with incipient rebellion and debilitated anticancer drugs, the Shah waffled between violent repression and conciliation. He turned to Washington for direction.
The Carter administration, say the authors, gave him conflicting signals. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski urged the Shah to maintain control at any cost. Cyrus Vance's State Department be- lieved the Shah was doomed and...
Capt. Earl H. Tilford, Jr.,&en Giants in Air University Review (Jan.-Feb. 19801,
Superintendent of Documents, Govern-
ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
20402.
Rescuing downed pilots in Indochina strained the U.S. Air Force's helicopter capabilities to the limit. But the "chopper" force-previ- ously used to fly mercy missions in the United States and pluck as- tronauts from the sea-came through with flying colors.
From 196 1 until 1964, the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service...
J. Robert Schaetzel and H. B. Malmgren, in Foreign Policy of Power (Summer 1980), P.O. Box 984, Farrning- dale. N.Y. 11737.
International summit meetings, which became increasingly popular among Prime Ministers and Presidents in the 1970s, create more prob- lems than they solve, write Schaetzel, a former U.S. Ambassador to the European Economic Community, and Malmgren, former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative.
Since 1976, heads of state from West Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Canada, Great Britain,...