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American political science review
Electoral Studtes (1983). Z:l, 89-93
Guide to Journal Articles Edited by Bo SARLVIK (Abstracts
R. Abramson
prepared
by DAVID BROUGHTON, University
ofEssex)
John H.
‘The Decline Electoral Participation America’, 1982, pp. Since 1960 has declined presidential elections since 1966 off-year congressional This analysis the SRC-CPS surveys suggests decline may from the impact of attitudinal trends-the of party and declining about government (lower feelings ‘external’ political
American
Review, 76:3,
Heidrun Abromeit, und Alternativbewegung. zur Weiterentwicklung Parteiensystems der Politische Vierteljahresschrijt, July 1982, 178-98. Since mid-seventies the German party has shown of declining This trend not limited the Federal It corresponds ‘dealignment’ in and ‘breaking mould’ in the trend from legitimacy experienced by parties as as the systems. J.
Anagnoson,
‘Federal
Agencies
and Election Campaigns’, 1982, pp. 547-61. This article examines the relationship between federal grant agencies and congressional election campaigns. Analyses of the number of grants per congressional district and the processing time of projects announced during election periods indicate that agency grant announcements during election campaigns were subject to considerable political manipulation but that these projects for the most part would have been announced anyway. Journal of Political Science, 2613, August
David Brady with Joseph Stewart Jnr., ‘Congressional Party Realignment and Transformations of Public Policy in Three Realignment Eras’, American Journal of Political Science, 2612, May 1982, pp. 333-60. This study focuses on the relationship between cross-cutting issues, electoral realignments, the US House and public policy changes during the Civil War, 1890s and New Deal realignments. The comparative approach permits the author to distinguish important differences between realignments. The Civil War and 1890s realignments were more polarized than that of the New Deal. Courtney
Brown,
‘The Nazi Vote: A National
Ecological Study’, American
Political Science
Review, 7612, June 1982, pp. 285-302.
The author assesses the commonly accepted explanations of the rise of Weimar Republic. He concludes that much previous work identifying bourgeoisie as the major contributor to the Nazi vote is misleading, and received important levels of support from Protestant peasants, the Catholic new voters.
the Nazi vote in the the Protestant petty that the Nazis in fact petty bourgeoisie, and
Gregory A. Caldeira and Samuel C. Patterson, ‘Contextual Influences in Participation in US State Legislative Elections’, Legislative Studies Quurterly, 7:3, August 1982, pp. 359~81. Participation in the election of US state legislators varies significantly across legislative districts. This paper analyses participation rates in state legislative elections in Iowa and California in 1978.
Guide to Journal Articles Edited by Bo SARLVIK (Abstracts
R. Abramson
prepared
by DAVID BROUGHTON, University
ofEssex)
John H.
‘The Decline Electoral Participation America’, 1982, pp. Since 1960 has declined presidential elections since 1966 off-year congressional This analysis the SRC-CPS surveys suggests decline may from the impact of attitudinal trends-the of party and declining about government (lower feelings ‘external’ political
American
Review, 76:3,
Heidrun Abromeit, und Alternativbewegung. zur Weiterentwicklung Parteiensystems der Politische Vierteljahresschrijt, July 1982, 178-98. Since mid-seventies the German party has shown of declining This trend not limited the Federal It corresponds ‘dealignment’ in and ‘breaking mould’ in the trend from legitimacy experienced by parties as as the systems. J.
Anagnoson,
‘Federal
Agencies
and Election Campaigns’, 1982, pp. 547-61. This article examines the relationship between federal grant agencies and congressional election campaigns. Analyses of the number of grants per congressional district and the processing time of projects announced during election periods indicate that agency grant announcements during election campaigns were subject to considerable political manipulation but that these projects for the most part would have been announced anyway. Journal of Political Science, 2613, August
David Brady with Joseph Stewart Jnr., ‘Congressional Party Realignment and Transformations of Public Policy in Three Realignment Eras’, American Journal of Political Science, 2612, May 1982, pp. 333-60. This study focuses on the relationship between cross-cutting issues, electoral realignments, the US House and public policy changes during the Civil War, 1890s and New Deal realignments. The comparative approach permits the author to distinguish important differences between realignments. The Civil War and 1890s realignments were more polarized than that of the New Deal. Courtney
Brown,
‘The Nazi Vote: A National
Ecological Study’, American
Political Science
Review, 7612, June 1982, pp. 285-302.
The author assesses the commonly accepted explanations of the rise of Weimar Republic. He concludes that much previous work identifying bourgeoisie as the major contributor to the Nazi vote is misleading, and received important levels of support from Protestant peasants, the Catholic new voters.
the Nazi vote in the the Protestant petty that the Nazis in fact petty bourgeoisie, and
Gregory A. Caldeira and Samuel C. Patterson, ‘Contextual Influences in Participation in US State Legislative Elections’, Legislative Studies Quurterly, 7:3, August 1982, pp. 359~81. Participation in the election of US state legislators varies significantly across legislative districts. This paper analyses participation rates in state legislative elections in Iowa and California in 1978.