Howard L. Reiter, in Public Opinion Quarterly (FallNan-Voter 1979), Elsevier North Holland, 52 Van-
derbilt Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
There has been a steady decline in the proportion of eligible voters who cast their ballots in U.S. presidential elections-down from 62.8 per- cent of the electorate in 1960 to 54.4 percent in 1976. Alienation due to the Vietnam War, the recent enfranchisement of 18-to-20-year-olds, and the growing numbers of eligible voters 70 years of age and older have all...
Herman L. Gilster, in Air B/~I University Review (Sept .-Oct. 1979), Gov- zj<?*feg~ ernment Printing Office, Washington,
D.C. 20402.
Sending bombers against Germany in World War I1 and North Vietnam in 1965-68, U.S. strategists failed to reckon with a disciplined foe's ability to keep his economy going despite major damage. In each case, writes Herman L. Gilster, a Boeing analyst, the defenders had the time and resources to adjust.
When heavy allied bombing began in 1943, Hitler's Germany...
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tington, head of Harvard's Center for International Affairs.
However, he notes, the polls show a cleavage between mass public opinion, which now favors a stronger U.S. stand against Moscow, and the "more ambivalent" views of leaders in government, business, jour- nalism, and academia. This cleavage makes it unlikely that a "harder foreign policy line" will be quick to emerge in Washington, although both the Carter administration and i...
Steven I. Levine,
China 1l;1,7t3/e in Diplomatic History (Fall 1979),
Scholarly Resources, Inc., 104 Greenhill
Ave., Wilmington, Del. 19805.
Many historians have described as "naive," or worse, the unsuccessful efforts of General George C. Marshall to bring China's rival Nationalists and Communists into a coalition government after World War 11. How-ever, says Levine, an American University historian, the famed Mar- shall mission was not a total fiasco.
When he sent Marshall to Chungking...
nonextremists in both parties. He actually obtained a temporary cease-fire and a tentative agreement on a coalition regime before fierce fighting broke out in Manchuria in late 1946 as both sides tried to exploit the Russians' departure.
Thus, the 13-month Marshall mission failed to avert civil war and Mao's triumph in 1949. But, in Levine's view, the United States and the Soviets behaved circumspectly with regard to China. It did not become an issue between them. And Marshall's diplomatic apprenticeship...
Richard The Brighter Side B. Freeman and James L. Medoff, in The of Unions Public Interest (Fall 1979), P.O. BOX 542,
Old Chelsea, New York, N.Y. 1001 1.
Organized labor has come in for increasing criticism in the United States~evenas the percentage of workers in private industry who are unionized declines. The attacks, particularly from management wor- ried about declining productivity and from minority groups calling for "affirmative action," are not entirely justified, according to...
Richard The Brighter Side B. Freeman and James L. Medoff, in The of Unions Public Interest (Fall 1979), P.O. BOX 542,
Old Chelsea, New York, N.Y. 1001 1.
Organized labor has come in for increasing criticism in the United States~evenas the percentage of workers in private industry who are unionized declines. The attacks, particularly from management wor- ried about declining productivity and from minority groups calling for "affirmative action," are not entirely justified, according to...
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lems" that underlay contemporary means of producing and distribut- ing goods throughout society. Medieval economists, for example, were "largely preoccupied with the question of whether the pursuit of mar- ket objectives . . .would bring men into spiritual danger." The mercan- tilists explored the relationship "between the pursuit of private gain through foreign trade and the national security." And classical econo- mists (e.g.,...
BsAasAren't Enough "Through the Academic Gateway" by
Bernard C. Watson, in Change (Oct. 19791,
NBW Tower, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10807.
In 1976, 1 million black Americans were enrolled in colleges and uni- versities-more than double the number enrolled in 1970. But such gains, argues Watson, a Temple University vice president, are over- rated as signs of black progress toward equality with whites.
For one thing, blacks are still vastly "underrepresented" in certain academic...
Elizabeth Douvan, Joseph Veroff, Matters and Richard Kulka, in Economic Outlook
USA (Summer 1979), Survey Research
Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box
1248, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106.
Americans' attitudes toward marriage, parenthood, and work have changed considerably over the last 20 years but not nearly so much as alarmists fear. So concludes a University of Michigan research team that surveyed 2,400 American adults in 1976 and compared its findings with those of an identical survey conducted...