." One way Carter proposed to strengthen the family was by requiring all plans for new federal programs-from housing to tax reform-to contain "family impact statements" similar to the "environmental impact statements" demanded by the En- vironmental Protection Agency.
Little has come of that campaign pledge, largely because no one knows how precisely to measure the effects on families of current federal programs, let alone those that do not yet exist. Moreover, the idea...
the 18th century, com- monplace among the bourgeoisie of northern Europe. Change came later to the lower classes.
The exploitation of child labor dur- ing the Industrial Revolution was, suggests Aries, an anachronistic con- tinuation of medieva practice.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Carl Degler picks up the story in the mid- 18th century, where Aries leaves off, and brings it to this side of the Atlantic in At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolu- tion to the Present...
public agencies and private institutions
"Coal-Bridge to the Future."
Report of the World Coal Study. Ballinger Publishing Co., 17 Dunster St., Cam-
bridge, Mass. 02138.247 pp. $12.50
Author: Carroll L.Wilson et al.
A study involving researchers from 16
nations and headed MIT economist
Carroll L. Wilson indicates that the
world economy can continue steady
growth for the next 20 years -pro-
vided that annual global coal output
reaches 11.2 billion metric tons, more...
In 1908, a German librarian discov- conquest. He also dared to chastize ered an extraordinary document his Spanish overlords and to seek a while leafing through manuscripts at bargain-cleverly, proudly-for the the Royal Copenhagen Library. autonomy of his fellow South Ameri-
How El Primer Nueva Cr6nica y can Indians. Buen Gubierno (The First New Perhaps Don Felipe Huaman Poma Chronicle and Good Government) de Ayala had entrusted his richly came to rest in Denmark, no one illustrated letter to...
H. G. Wells:
Utopia and Doomsday
Novelist, short-story writer, historian, twice-defeated Socialist candidate for England's Parliament, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) said he would "rather be called a journalist than an artist." All of his work, fiction as well as nonfiction, has a sense of journalis- tic immediacy about it. Best known for his science fiction (The War of the Worlds,The Time Machine), Wells was a prophet who saw both war and technological progress in advance. Here Frank D. Mc...
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...