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{"title":"Book Reviews : Essential Works of Chinese Communism. Edited by WINBERG CHAI. (New York: Pica Press, 1970. Paperback edition, Bantam Press, 1970. Pp. xv, 464. $7.00.)","authors":"J. Starr","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"18 1","pages":"428 - 429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86618156","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":"Book Reviews : The Latin Americans. By VÍCTOR ALBA. (New York : Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. Pp. viii, 392. $10.00.)","authors":"Julio A. Fernández","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"2 1","pages":"429 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78769613","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":"Book Reviews : Democratic Process and Administrative Law. By ROBERT S. LORCH. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969. Pp. 255. $8.50.)","authors":"G. Hopper","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300228","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"140 1","pages":"433 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77759239","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":"Prologue To the Study of Justice: Republic 327a-328b","authors":"J. R. Kayser","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"24 23 1","pages":"256 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88699269","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":"Book Reviews : The Story of the Cabinet Office. By R. K. MOSLEY. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Humanities Press, 1969. Pp. 90. $3.00.)","authors":"L. Johnston","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"772 1","pages":"430 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81141535","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":"A Reassessment of Alienation in Karl Marx","authors":"C. Grimes, Charles E. P. Simmons","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300203","url":null,"abstract":"HE TWO CATEGORIES of usage of alienation in contemporary writing appear, according to Bell, to be associated with the ideas of \"estrangement\" and \"reification.\" Fundamentally, \"estrangement\" in the current writing is seen as a socio-psychological condition in which the individual has a feeling of distance or separateness from community and society. He is or feels, Bell says, that he \".. . cannot belong. He is deracinated.\" 1 The other category, \"reification,\" is philosophical in nature but has psychological overtones. For Bell this terms implies that the individual is treated as an object or thing and has, therefore, lost his identity he is depersonalized.2 One need not go far in contemporary social, literary, and political discourse to find numerous examples of writing which would fall into Bell's two categories or, at least, cut across them. In an excellent collection of excerpts from writing in this vein, the Josephsons provide a useful compilation of comment. One finds E. Fromm discussing complete alienation as insanity and proposing that man is helpless before the social forces he creates; P. Lasslett laments the loss of the family as a defense against loneliness; H. Swados describes the conditions of modern factory with the workers appearing as trapped animals; R. Maclver finds the leisure of modern industrial society being misused men do not have the cultivation and skill to enjoy leisure; Ernest van den Haag finds man so unhappy with himself that he must find an image to imitate in order to live with himself; C. W. Mills finds the conditions of mass society giving rise to lack of expression by individuals fewer people expressing opinions than receiving them --and correspondingly fewer opportunities for meaningful activities.3 Also, in the art forms one finds expression of alienation, particularly that aspect which suggests that man is separated from his intimates; this seems to be one of the main themes in what has come to be called the \"theater of the absurd.\" Such expression is research of Sociology, Social Psychology, and Political Science.","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"6 1","pages":"266 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80292811","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":"Book Reviews : Politics in Modern Greece. By KEITH R. LEGG. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969. Pp. vii, 367. $10.00.)","authors":"T. P. Trombetas","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300220","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"23 1","pages":"425 - 426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89783346","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":"Book Reviews : De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews. By RAYMOND ARON. Translated from the French by John Sturrock. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. 157 pp. $5.95.)","authors":"R. Scheinman","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"103 1","pages":"419 - 422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75040799","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":"Political Change in the Chilean Electorate 1952-1964","authors":"Sandra Powell","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300210","url":null,"abstract":"ANY THEORIES of development hypothesize interactive effects of economic, social, and political change. Most empirical analyses of such theories have used nation states as units of analysis. From such studies we have acquired much useful information concerning long-range trends. However, predictions concerning within-nation change over shorter time periods cannot be derived easily from statistical generalizations accounting for political differences between nation states at varying levels of economic development. In this study of Chile, first an attempt was made to relate systemic theories of change to behavioral differences within one nation state; and, second, on the basis of the findings, to make some inferences about change in the Chilean electorate and its probable beheavior in the next presidential election of 1970.","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"9 1","pages":"364 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87659230","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 Role of British Backbenchers in the Modification of Government Policy","authors":"James J. Lynskey","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300208","url":null,"abstract":"ARLIAMENT no longer exists.\"' This charge, angrily thrown forth in the House of Commons by Dame Irene Ward, exemplifies the concern of politicians and scholars alike in recent years over the role of the British legislature. The problem, by no means limited to Great Britain, is that if legislators fail to contribute meaningfully to the decision-making process in a representative democracy, if they are unable to check and modify the decisions of the executive, then the existing political arrangements are clearly inconsistent with the concept of representative government. The British have been especially sensitive to the issue. Many writers claim that Britain's representative chamber, the House of Commons, is involved in the rule-making process in only the most peripheral manner. Such critics argue that the development of a stable two-party system, capable of sending a well-disciplined majority to the House of Commons, has led to a system of government in which the cabinet rules with largely unchecked decision-making powers. The backbenchers, the individual members of Parliament who are part of neither the establishment nor the opposition's shadow government, have, in the view of such critics, lost their raison d'etre. Indeed, backbenchers have been likened to a flock of mindless sheep, ready to be driven routinely through the division lobbies whenever the House is asked to put some matter to a vote.2 The purpose of this paper is to suggest that although there may be some question about the effectiveness of opposition backbenchers in the House of Commons, government backbenchers have influenced government policy more than most observers seem willing to admit. By tradition members of the opposition are granted the role of government critic, but criticism and pressure from the opposition is routine, and the government accepts it as simply a necessary ingredient in the parliamentary game. This is particularly true since the opposition, no matter how intense their feelings on an issue, cannot change the fact that the government with rare exceptions remains secure behind its majority support in the House, and accordingly is little moved by criticism from across the aisle. When the government is confident that its policy is correct, it is indeed unlikely that threats or pleas from the opposition will cause the government to amend that policy. Criticism from backbenchers of the government party, on the other hand, commands special attention in spite of the much discussed party discipline in","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"41 1","pages":"333 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78645033","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}