Pub Date : 1972-12-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297202500402
R. Davidson, G. Parker
T IS a truism that politicial systems, if they are to survive, must convince their relevant publics that they are effective and legitimate. Change produces crises of legitimacy, from which no polity is entirely immune. Although the legitimacy of political institutions in the United States has sometimes been taken for granted, it is clear that it has undergone periodic crises. It is thus appropriate that political scientists have begun to turn their attention to the level of public support for political institutions. Support has been described as a "summary variable" that constitutes a major linkage between the political system and its environment. Survival of a political system depends upon the maintenance of attitudes favorable to, and supportive of, its values and institutions. Fluctuations in support may stress the system in several different ways:
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Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300209
David E. Smith
N THE ANNALS of Canadian politics the first year of Canada's second century, July 1, 1967, to July 1, 1968, will surely be recorded as momentous. Events for these twelve months seem likely to determine the direction of Canadian federalism, indeed its very existence. At no time in its history has public debate on the goals and structure of the union been so stimulated. This is in marked contrast to the euphoric atmosphere of self-satisfaction with which centennial year, 1967, began.
{"title":"Recent Trends in Canadian Politics","authors":"David E. Smith","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300209","url":null,"abstract":"N THE ANNALS of Canadian politics the first year of Canada's second century, July 1, 1967, to July 1, 1968, will surely be recorded as momentous. Events for these twelve months seem likely to determine the direction of Canadian federalism, indeed its very existence. At no time in its history has public debate on the goals and structure of the union been so stimulated. This is in marked contrast to the euphoric atmosphere of self-satisfaction with which centennial year, 1967, began.","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"2016 1","pages":"348 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86131625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300221
T. P. Trombetas
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Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300212
F. Wormuth
Both the legal order (the courts) and the political order (the party system) have failed us. Neither has permitted a challenge to the Vietnam war. Opposition has therefore expressed itself outside these institutions. Apparently in the hope that if the most prominent opponents of the war were penalized the rest would be silenced, the Department of Justice on January 5, 1968, obtained an indictment of the venerable pediatrician, Dr. Spock, the Yale chaplain, William Coffin, Jr. an
{"title":"Book Reviews : The Trial of Dr. Spock. By JESSICA MITFORD. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Pp. xii, 272. $5.95.)","authors":"F. Wormuth","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300212","url":null,"abstract":"Both the legal order (the courts) and the political order (the party system) have failed us. Neither has permitted a challenge to the Vietnam war. Opposition has therefore expressed itself outside these institutions. Apparently in the hope that if the most prominent opponents of the war were penalized the rest would be silenced, the Department of Justice on January 5, 1968, obtained an indictment of the venerable pediatrician, Dr. Spock, the Yale chaplain, William Coffin, Jr. an","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"79 1","pages":"412 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74846580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300214
Andrew Tuttle
{"title":"Book Reviews : The Treaty Trap: A History of the Performance of Political Treaties by the United States and European Nations. By LAURENCE W. BEILENSON. (Washington D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1969. Pp. 344. $7.00.)","authors":"Andrew Tuttle","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"413 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85663914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300227
J. F. Copper
{"title":"Book Reviews : The Cultural Revolution in China. By JOAN ROBINSON. (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969. Pp. 151. $1.25.)","authors":"J. F. Copper","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"7 1","pages":"432 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85992363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300206
A. Fiellin
THE INFORMAL structuring of interactions and influence within formal organizations is generally recognized as having profound consequences for institutional integration and functioning. Manifestly or latently, informal structures serve as supplements to and sometimes substitutes for formally prescribed role interactions, sometimes facilitating, sometimes impeding the realization of organizational goals. Students of legislatures have seriously begun to incorporate systematically the relevant concepts and data into their attempts at explanation. David Truman, probably more than anyone else, stimulated conceptualization and research on legislatures using this orientation. In 1951, he articulated the general perspective as follows:
{"title":"The Group Life of a State Delegation in the House of Representatives","authors":"A. Fiellin","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300206","url":null,"abstract":"THE INFORMAL structuring of interactions and influence within formal organizations is generally recognized as having profound consequences for institutional integration and functioning. Manifestly or latently, informal structures serve as supplements to and sometimes substitutes for formally prescribed role interactions, sometimes facilitating, sometimes impeding the realization of organizational goals. Students of legislatures have seriously begun to incorporate systematically the relevant concepts and data into their attempts at explanation. David Truman, probably more than anyone else, stimulated conceptualization and research on legislatures using this orientation. In 1951, he articulated the general perspective as follows:","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"161 4 1","pages":"305 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90932370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300207
C. W. Wiggins, William L. Turk
as state and local politics, make only casual references to state chairmen, or no observations at all.2 With a few exceptions, the literature on the politics of specific geographical regions are equally without information about these party leaders.3 This study represents a limited attempt to fill this gap in the literature of political parties. Three general aspects of state chairmen are examined. First, the backgrounds and characteristics of chairmen are examined to provide a general picture of the types of individuals who occupy these positions. Second, the roles of state chairmen are analyzed in order to ascertain the relative importance of the various tasks normally assumed to be played by them. Third, and finally, an analysis of the motivations of chairmen will be undertaken, focusing upon those motives which are of some importance in explaining why state chairmen are active
{"title":"State Party Chairmen: a Profile","authors":"C. W. Wiggins, William L. Turk","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300207","url":null,"abstract":"as state and local politics, make only casual references to state chairmen, or no observations at all.2 With a few exceptions, the literature on the politics of specific geographical regions are equally without information about these party leaders.3 This study represents a limited attempt to fill this gap in the literature of political parties. Three general aspects of state chairmen are examined. First, the backgrounds and characteristics of chairmen are examined to provide a general picture of the types of individuals who occupy these positions. Second, the roles of state chairmen are analyzed in order to ascertain the relative importance of the various tasks normally assumed to be played by them. Third, and finally, an analysis of the motivations of chairmen will be undertaken, focusing upon those motives which are of some importance in explaining why state chairmen are active","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"37 1","pages":"321 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90704189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300215
E. Miles
{"title":"Book Reviews : European Advanced Technology. A Programme for Integration. By CHRISTO- PHER LAYTON. (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; New York: Humani ties Press, 1969. Pp. 287.)","authors":"E. Miles","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"47 1","pages":"414 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83134711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1970-06-01DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300205
J. H. Staples
N HIS ARTICLE, "An Analysis of Public Policies in Cities," Froman states, "If policies are to be taken out of the 'problem-oriented,' 'case study,' and often 'normative' framework in which they are now found and raised to the level of scientific inquiry, then policy categories must be developed and related to other phenomena."' That statement epitomizes the research goal of this study: to provide a glimpse into the nature and complexity of urban renewal in the 1950's by examining selected projects in a systematic, comparative manner. In other words, this study of twenty-two cities, which started urban renewal programs under the original Housing Act of 1949, is an attempt to take urban renewal out of the "problem-oriented," "case study," and "normative" framework and to put it in a comparative framework which enables various urban renewal projects to be investigated simultaneously. While only seven of the thirty-eight projects that were examined in this study had been completed on December 31, 1959,2 and while most of the projects were approximately 65 percent finished on that date, using the last federal expenditure as a crude index of project completion,3 this study seemed worthwhile for two primary reasons. First, if "policy categories must be developed and related to other phenomena," as Froman suggests, then the use of demographic, economic, and political data from the United States Censuses and The Municipal Yearbooks seems most appropriate. Second, the 1950 Housing Census (Block Statistics) and the 1960 Census of Housing (City Blocks) provide excellent comparative data sources. Indeed, it is ironic that most analysts of urban renewal have conducted "problemoriented," "case study," and "normative" investigations rather than aggregate data
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