{"title":"Comment","authors":"R. King","doi":"10.1177/1532673X9101900409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X9101900409","url":null,"abstract":"Like most political scientists, I am an inveterate vote-counter. The question on the floor is whether the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA) should be thought in some sense to be a watershed act, launching a new era of American tax politics and policy. Beyond the arguments intrinsic to each article, beyond their separate and important contributions to our understanding of TRA and the factors that led to its enactment, there is a common issue at stake about which there is considerable disagreement. Three of the authors vote yes for watershed, although in different ways and for different reasons. For Catherine Rudder, TRA is representative of the new tax politics of divided party government. For Dennis Ippolito, TRA is indicative of the new fiscal policy of insufficient constraints. For Cathie Martin, TRA foreshadows the new political-economics of industrial transformation. To be fair, none of these authors take an emphatic position. All hesitate to predict the future based on","PeriodicalId":80433,"journal":{"name":"American politics quarterly","volume":"49 1","pages":"494 - 504"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1532673X9101900409","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65461273","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}
{"title":"Congressional Elections in 1978","authors":"L. Sandy Maisel","doi":"10.1177/1532673X8100900102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X8100900102","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines two aspects of the 1978 congressional elections. The major task undertaken involves an analysis of the type and amount of electoral competition in each of the 435 districts. How often were there contested primaries and/or contested general elections? How competitive were these contests? In addition the article looks at the new members of the 96th Congress. The electoral process provides for recruitment of new House members. What can be said about the motives and characteristics of those recruited? While acknowledging that many questions remain unanswered, more attention must be devoted to the role of parties and to electoral rules as each has important implications for congressional recruitment.","PeriodicalId":80433,"journal":{"name":"American politics quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":"23 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1532673X8100900102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65458752","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}
{"title":"The Nature of Elite Support for Elections","authors":"Chong Lim Kim","doi":"10.1177/1532673X7400200204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X7400200204","url":null,"abstract":"The most significant characteristic of political democracy is the election of key governmental personnel. In both normative and empirical theories, the institution of elections has been treated as a central feature of the democratic process. I Elections are considered important in the democratic process because they are devices for selecting leaders and legitimizing the regime, means of giving the citizens the direct and indirect control over government, channels for the expression of public choices, and links between officials and the voting public through which influence is exchanged.2 Therefore, the extent to which elections are supported by the mass public and elite groups is a critical factor for democratic stability, and the erosion of such support is likely to strain the functioning of democratic process. The purpose of this paper is, first, to examine the level of support that an elite group, legislative candidates, manifests for","PeriodicalId":80433,"journal":{"name":"American politics quarterly","volume":"2 1","pages":"205 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1532673X7400200204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65456056","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}