Word: lipset
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Among economists, there was inevitable disagreement over Carter's program to stimulate the economy (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset also found that Carter's "whole folksy approach doesn't send me, but it's not designed to, and does apparently send the average guy. The question is: How long is it before the average guy starts thinking he's being manipulated?" Yet so far, as Dartmouth Government Professor Laurence I. Radway put it, "turning down the heat and doing away with imperial frills" has made "Joe Sixpack satisfied and pleased with Carter...
...make a single error, and I don't think people are particularly attracted to that." Marquette University's Wayne Youngquist lamented that neither came out with anything new, making it "even harder for voters to make up their minds." But Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thought the debate ''will serve to confirm people in their choices. If they haven't made choices, it will probably confirm them in their confusion." University of California Political Scientist Aaron Wildavsky faulted Carter for "overpromising" and noted: "For a second, I thought he was going to promise a cure...
That notion comes out of a survey of 3,500 college teachers by two political scientists, Stanford's Seymour Martin Lipset and the University of Connecticut's Everett C. Ladd Jr. After asking a series of questions about issues and candidates, they conclude that the more conservative faculty members choose U.S. cars (with General Motors autos favored by the most conservative of the conservative). Liberals have a greater tendency to buy foreign models...
...Lipset and Ladd observe in the Chronicle of Higher Education that they cannot apply the same yardstick to the entire population-highly educated voters tend to be much more fixed and consistent than other groups in their beliefs. But, says Lipset, "If I were a Democratic precinct worker and wanted to get people to the polls who are sympathetic to my candidate, I'd pick houses with foreign cars in front...
...logical conclusion of all this is S.M. Lipset's piece, the most bizarre in the collection, which finds a peculiar American streak of moralism at fault in most political conflicts of this century--Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts, Vietnam demonstrators, Daniel Ellsberg and Nixon are examples of the perception of politics as "a struggle between good and evil forces rather than as a series of collective bargaining issues." Hopefully, Lipset writes, the two-party system will absorb and then compromise the moralistic passions of the present-day Left and Right--the worst since the early 20s--as the parties have...