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  • Reviewing Political Science on a Local School Board

  • Gerald M. Pomper
  • Journal:
    PS: Political Science & Politics / Volume 24 / Issue 2 / June 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 September 2013, pp. 223-225
    Print publication:
    June 1991
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  • The Politics of Tax Reform

  • Gerald M. Pomper
  • Journal:
    News for Teachers of Political Science / Volume 50 / Summer 1986
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 May 2020, pp. 1-4
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    Summer 1986

  • “No representation without taxation” could easily be the motto of American democracy. Like any other government, the United States cannot operate without taxes, and the politics of taxation reveals the workings of our democratic polity. The current national debate over tax reform offers an unusual opportunity to enliven introductory courses in American government.

  • From Confusion to Clarity: Issues and American Voters, 1956–1968*

  • Gerald M. Pomper
  • Journal:
    American Political Science Review / Volume 66 / Issue 2 / June 1972
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2014, pp. 415-428
    Print publication:
    June 1972

  • Analysis of national election surveys from 1956 to 1968 reveals significant changes in the voters' perceptions of issues and the major parties. There has been a considerable increase in the correlation of party identification and opinion on six major issues, relating to social welfare, racial integration, and foreign aid. Voters are more prone to see a difference between the parties on these issues and are increasingly likely to identify the Democratic party as favorable to federal governmental action. These findings contrast with those of The American Voter and similar studies. The reasons for the changes cannot be found in demographic factors, as tested by controls for age cohorts, education, region, and race. More probably the explanation lies in strictly political factors. A particularly important event was the presidential campaign of 1964, in which ideological differences between the parties were deliberately emphasized. The electorate responded to this campaign by becoming more ideologically aware, and its learning appears to have persisted through the 1968 election. This finding suggests that past conclusions about the low ideological awareness of the electorate were specific to the Eisenhower era, and that the issue content of the vote will vary with the stimuli provided by the general political environment.

  • Factionalism in the 1968 National Conventions: An Extension of Research Findings

  • Gerald M. Pomper
  • Journal:
    / Volume 33 / Issue 3 / August 1971
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 December 2009, pp. 826-830
    Print publication:
    August 1971

  • Five years ago, Munger and Blackhurst published an important article on factional alignments in the national conventions. A replication of their work, using data from the 1968 Democratic and Republican conventions, offers an opportunity to add to our empirical findings. The results of this analysis are also significant in themselves, for they indicate a marked change in the internal structures of the parties.