Reform Attitudes Research Articles

Antitrust reform: Predatory practices and the competitive process

This article has suggested that the general theory of predatory practices is seriously flawed. Predatory behavior cannot be logically distinguished from benign competitive behavior either by intent or by any price-cost rules. Price reductions, selective or otherwise, and various nonprice rivalrous strategies (such as advertising and innovation) are all part and parcel of a competitive market process. This process serves an important social purpose: it serves to discover the products and services that consumers prefer, and the business organizations that can provide those products and services. Antitrust regulation of this process is based on inappropriate equilibrium theorizing, and it serves only to inhibit the discovery of consumer preferences and the flow of resources from less efficient suppliers to more efficient suppliers. Thus, the legal restriction or prohibition of any competitive practice is inappropriate and appears contrary to the newer antitrust reform attitudes.

Party Reform Attitudes among Delegates to the 1972 Republican National Convention

Party Reform Attitudes among Delegates to the 1972 Republican National Convention

Status Quo and Reform Attitudes of Backlands High School Students of Dominant Class Parents in Brazil, Chile and Mexico

Status Quo and Reform Attitudes of Backlands High School Students of Dominant Class Parents in Brazil, Chile and Mexico

Status Quo and Reform Attitudes of Backlands High School Students of Dominant Class Parents in Brazil, Chile and Mexico1

Status Quo and Reform Attitudes of Backlands High School Students of Dominant Class Parents in Brazil, Chile and Mexico1

Reformation Attitudes toward Allegory and the Song of Songs

Common generalizations about Reformation attitudes toward allegory are based on polemical denunciations by reformers of medieval “dialectical” exegesis. But Reformation definitions of the senses of Scripture are basically in accord with the definitions of medieval theologians. The reformers' attempts to draw a radical distinction between typology and allegory never succeeded and Reformation commentaries continued to allegorize, as demonstrated in the numerous Protestant commentaries on the Song of Songs. The crucial difference between medieval and Protestant spirituality in the Song commentaries lies not in their attitude toward allegory but in their conception of the nuptial metaphor, wherein human love symbolizes the love between God and man. Some Protestant commentators deny there is any reference to carnal love at all; those that do not, regard the metaphor as too dangerous for explication. Generally, they see that the aptness of the metaphor lies in the moral, domestic virtues of the marriage contract. In contrast, the mystical tradition of the Song, epitomized in Bernard, sees that the metaphor's aptness lies precisely in the passionate nature of the sexual union: it is the union of two in one flesh that is the most perfect symbol of the love of God.

The Amateur Democrat Revisited

Previous articleNext article No AccessResearch NotesThe Amateur Democrat RevisitedDan Nimmo and Robert L. SavageDan Nimmo Search for more articles by this author and Robert L. Savage Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Polity Volume 5, Number 2Winter 1972 The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3234081 Views: 3Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1972 PolityPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article: Thomas H. Roback Party Reform Attitudes among Delegates to the 1972 Republican National Convention, Polity 8, no.11 (Nov 2016): 173–186.https://doi.org/10.2307/3234354 Thomas H. Roback Amateurs and Professionals: Delegates to the 1972 Republican National Convention, The Journal of Politics 37, no.22 (Oct 2015): 436–468.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381600041232

Perry Miller's Rehabilitation of the Puritans: A Critique

In the era between the Civil War and the Depression the mythical character called the “American Mind” was troubled. All was well during the day when prosperity and success faced him at every turn, but at night he would sometimes dream of his childhood and awake feeling strangely uneasy. His analyst explained that this tension was the product of latent guilt feelings and suggested for therapy that he read himself to sleep with recent studies of the oppressive effects of Puritanism on young national minds. Turning to these works, the “American Mind” found that the analyst had been quite right. The source of the guilt feelings, he discovered, was an irrational phase of his development called the Reformation. This phase had been dominant when he lived in New England (he since had moved to the Midwest), but he was assured that the latest scholarship had discovered its influence to be harsh, grotesque, superstitious, narrowminded, illiberal, and worst of all intolerant.1 The problem was, one expert informed him, that this era “was unleavened by the spirit of the Renaissance.” Another observed that the Reformation attitudes were a “subtle poison” flowing thorugh the veins of the entire social organism. Still another implied that the “splendor of the Renaissance” had been delayed three hundred years by Reformation intolerance. Convinced that the open-mindedness of the Renaissance was healthier than the irrational bigotry of the Reformation, the “American Mind” of this era began to feel easier about his past. He resolved to tolerate everyone, except of course his more conservative enemies whom he damned as “Puritan.”