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Public evaluations of the presidential nomination process
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1989-12)
The evaluation of presidential nomination reforms has been the topic of elite discussion and debate, with little attention paid to popular evaluations. Public attitudes toward a number of reforms to the presidential ...
New Perspectives on Value Change
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1985)
This article responds to two central questions about value change that are raised by other articles in this volume: (1) Are political cleavages in Western society gradually being transformed from the traditional pattern ...
A Continuous-Outcome Expected Utility Theory of War
(Sage Publications, 1985)
A continuous-outcome expected utility model is presented that generalizes the expected utility theory of Bueno de Mesquita. An examination of the more general model uncovers several unstated assumptions within and produces ...
Firing the Unproductive Employee: Will Civil Service Reform Make a Difference?
(Sage Publications, 1982)
Civil service reform included a set of changes intended to facilitate the firing of consistently un productive employees. This article describes the background and logic of these changes, reviews the status of their ...
The Church, Social Consciousness, and Protest?
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1986)
This article examines the relationship between participation in the Catholic Church and the consciousness and protest behavior of the most strategic sector of the Peruvian labor force. It explores two ideal models of church ...
Social Identity and Mass Politics in Spain
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, 1988)
Social identities based on class, religion, and region underpin political cleavages in Spain. This article examines the salience of divisions based on these identities and estimates changes in the conflict-potential of the ...
Congressional campaign effects on candidate recognition and evaluation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Agathon Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1980-03)
To date, most congressional scholars have relied upon a standard model of American electoral behavior developed in the presidential setting. This research extends our knowledge of Congressmen's incumbency advantages and ...
Party identification and party closeness in comparative perspective
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Agathon Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-09)
The present analysis uses data from 1974 and 1981 U. S. cross sections, which incorporate a panel, to compare the standard NES measure of party identification (ID) with a measure of partisanship derived from a party closeness ...