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Price cites the 1980 effort of California Governor Jerry Brown as an example. "An exgovernor like Reagan could get away for that length of time, but Jerry Brown found it very difficult. The process takes people away from experience in governing." Arthur Maas, professor of Government, uses the example of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who "had many qualities that just didn't come out, while the strengths of Reagan did." Like Wilson, Maas notes, "a convention method might give more attention to those qualities"--which he identifies as integrity, leadership and the capacity to organize a good staff...
...years has been toward direct democracy, it'd be very hard to rationalize going back to what people would call 'smoke-filled rooms.'" But Mansfield says, "It needs to be explained to people that there's a correlation between the mediocre choices we have now, and the primary process...
...Mansfield, the year in which the nominating process worked most effectively was 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were "two high-caliber candidates chosen by high-level party officials, not primaries." Wilson agrees, adding that it and the 1948 Truman-Dewey contest "were elections in which both parties picked their strongest candidates," thanks to the influence of party officials...
Your article on the growing row over "peer review" implied that the academic community was overwhelmingly in favor of secret deliberations regarding faculty hirings and promotions. In fact, a good many academics would welcome a more open evaluation process. The prevalence of cronyism and prejudice in faculty advancement has diminished in recent years, but the only way to stamp it out entirely is to make these peer-review deliberations open to those with a legitimate involvement...
Despite a post-election rescue attempt by Carter, the Senate still may end up pulling the plug on a negotiating process that is at least as important to the U.S. as it is to the Soviet Union...