Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: executive committee

2000-02-13 Thread Michael Hoover
> And don't omit the $8 million that the U.S. spent--in part, thru the CIA, for the > trucker's strike and other mischief. Remember Kissinger's comment that if the > Chilean people were so "irresponsible" as to choose a socialist government in a > free election, appropriate measures would have to

Re: Re: Re: Re: executive committee

2000-02-11 Thread Joel Blau
And don't omit the $8 million that the U.S. spent--in part, thru the CIA, for the trucker's strike and other mischief. Remember Kissinger's comment that if the Chilean people were so "irresponsible" as to choose a socialist government in a free election, appropriate measures would have to be taken

Re: Re: Re: executive committee

2000-02-11 Thread Michael Hoover
> if the working class is well organized and class conscious (as in > Chile in 1970), not only may the legislature but the executive may be > subordinated to non-bourgeois forces. > The problem, of course, is that in the Chilean case, the repressive > component of the state (the armed forces) s

RE: Re: RE: executive committee

2000-02-11 Thread Max Sawicky
I used a median voter model for my dissertation. The R-squares were beyond belief. I was more worried about them being too good than the contrary. In models "median voter" is represented by median income, which clearly could be influential for reasons outside the voting process. mbs -Orig

RE: RE: Re: RE: executive committee

2000-02-11 Thread Nathan Newman
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Max Sawicky > I used a median voter model for my dissertation. > The R-squares were beyond belief. I was more > worried about them being too good than the > contrary. Do tell Max. What was your dis