When Physicists Volunteer, All Parties Benefit

When Moderate Voters Prefer Extreme Parties:

This work develops and tests a theory of voter choice in parliamentary elections. I demonstrate that voters are concerned with policy outcomes and hence incorporate the way institutions convert votes to policy into their choices. Since policy is often the result of institutionalized multi-party bargaining and thus votes are watered-down by power-sharing, voters often compensate for this waterin...

Doubts mounting about all-volunteer force.

Navy Recruiting in an All - Volunteer Environment

In FY 1972, non-prior service accessions to USN fell below stated requirements. The causes of the FY 1972 Navy recruiting shortfall are analyzed. Productivity of recruiting resources and alternative recruiting strategies are discussed. Data on the draft lottery from January 1970 to August 1972 is used. Recommendations for policy changes and future research are made.

When risk outweighs benefit

In October 2005, a team of US scientists, headed by Jeffery Taubenberger from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Rockville, MD, USA), published the full sequence of the highly virulent strain of influenza virus that caused the Spanish influenza pandemic in the winter of 1918– 1919 and killed up to 50 million people worldwide (Taubenberger et al, 2005). Further work based on the sequenc...

When movements anchor parties: Electoral alignments in American history

In When Movements Anchor Parties, Daniel Schlozman engages a broad swath of American history, discussing the relationship between political parties and social movements from the abolition of slavery to Occupy Wall Street. While this work addresses a wide range of issues across the disciplines of political science, sociology, history, and law, I focus this review on the implications of Schlozman...