Word: lowis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accident that the defense complex is very solicitous of "individual freedoms," no accident that Ronald Reagan, in private an unparalleled chum of every special interest, is in public a protector of the common man against, "pervasive government power." Huntington, discussing political reforms introduced by the progressives, quotes historian Ted Lowi: "The perpetual bane of the reformer's existence is the ease with which the party leaders adapt new structures to the old purposes...
...consensus among political experts is that he may in the short run because the country tends to rally round a President in a crisis, even a crisis that he has caused. But on reflection the voters are likely to conclude that once again Carter has failed. Said Theodore Lowi, a political science professor at Cornell: "History has proved that presidential support always improves following a major foreign policy event. But such support will not be long-lasting...