Abstracts
| Published date | 01 June 1987 |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591298704000201 |
| Date | 01 June 1987 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
ABSTRACTS
FACT,
THEORY.
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DE~10LR,BTIC
THEORY.
By
David
C.
Paris.
Most
current
discussions
of
democratic
theory
stress
the
need
to
be
realistic
and,
more
specifically,
to
take
into
account
the
results
of
empirical
research.
This
essay
examines
the
appeal
to
realism,
in
part
by
exploring
points
of
analogy
and
disanalogy
between
scientific
and
democratic
theory.
A
pragmatic
or
&dquo;problem-solving&dquo;
notion
of
realism
is
sketched
with
suggests
ways
of
avoiding
common
problems
in
linking
empirical
research
and
democratic
theory.
Economic
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PoI>ul.aRrrv:
SOR-1-IN(-.
OuT
THE
EFFECTS.
By
David J.
Lanoue.
,
’
Students
of
economic
voting
have
long
been
puzzled
by
the
relative
uselessness
of
unem-
ployment
(compared
to
inflation)
in
explaining
presidential
popularity
and
voting
behavior
in
the
United
States.
In
this
paper,
I
argue
that
the
jobless
rate
is
an
inadequate
measure
of
the
full
effects
of
unemployment
on
the
economy.
Changes
in
personal
income
levels
are
a
better
indicator
of
the
economic
recessions
and
&dquo;booms&dquo;
generally
associated
with
high
and
low
unemployment.
Using
Box-Jenkins
ARIMA
modeling, ,~ demonstrate
that
income
is
superior
to
unemployment
as
an
em irical
measure
of
ros erit
and
recession.
If
we
specify
income,
rather
than
unemployment,
in
our
models
of presidential
popularity,
we
will
find
that
voters
indeed
react
both
to
changes
in
inflation
rates,
and
to
economic
recessions
and
&dquo;recoveries.&dquo;
THE.
DFMOCRATIC
PARTY
CoBEITK)N
IN
THE
EIGHTIES:
A
REASSESSMENT
OF
LADD’S
OLD
CLASS/
Nimi
CLASS
EXPLBIB:ATIOIB;
or
IN,rRA-PAR-1-N
COIB:FUCT.
By
David
Gopoian,
Derek
Hackett,
Daniel
Parelman,
and
Leo
Perrotta.
This
article
challenges
some
of
the
basic
arguments
made
by
Everett
Ladd
in
Where
Have
All
the
Voters
Gone?
regarding
the
character
of
intra-party
conflict
within
the
Democratic
party’s
s
mass
membership.
Some
major
methodological
problems
wl~add’s
approach
are
reported.
We
analyze
the
Democratic
coalition
from
an
issues-coalition
approach
rather
than
Ladd’s
demographic
group
approach.
Our
findings
suggest that
the
Democrats’
electoral
problems,
to
the
extent
that
they
are
issue-bound
at
all,
stem
from
the
party’s
image
on
foreign
policy
issues
rather
than
on
the
social
issues
emphasized
by
Ladd.
J L’I)ICLBL
REVIEW 01’
AuMtNtSTRYHVE
A<:I:nc:Ila:
DOES THE
TYPE OF
AGENCY
MATTER?
By
Donald
W.
Crowley.
Previous
studies
of
judicial
review
of
administrative
agencies
have
shown
wide
varia-
tions
in
Supreme
Court
support
for
different
agencies
but
have
not
analyzed
whether
Court
support
varies
according
to
agency
type.
This
study
investigates
differences
in
Court
sup-
port
between
economic
and
social
agencies
from
1976
to
1983.
The
analysis
also
focuses
on
whether
the
ideological
direction of
the
agency
decision
affects
the
willingness
of
individual
justices
to
defer
to
agencies.
The
study
finds
that
while
Court
support
for
social
agencies
is
only
slightly
lower
than
its
support
for
economic
agencies,
conservative
justices
show
sig-
nificant
differences
according
to
agency
type.
When
the
ideology
of
the
decision
is
isolated,
both
liberal
and
conservative
justices
show
significant
differences
in
their
patterns
of
sup-
port.
For
the
majority
of
justices
on
the
Court,
agreement
with
the
policy
perspectives
of
the
agency
is
a
more
important
determinate
of
judicial
behavior
than
the
norms
of
judicial
restraint.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL
CONFLICT
OM
ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICY:
THE
A’r’rITUDWAI.
CONNECTION’.
By
William
T.
Gormley,
Jr.
A
questionnaire
survey
of
environmental
regulators
at
the
Ohio
EPA,
the
Wisconsin
DNR,
and
the
U.S.
EPA-Region
V
reveals
both
consensus
and
conflict.
Intergovernmental
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