Electoral Democracy during Wartime: The 2004 U.S. Election

The U.S. election of 2004 affords an opportunity to investigate how wartime affects presidential voting. The conventional wisdom is that wartime presidents always get reelected, but previous studies have not examined how citizens' attitudes on the war affect their voting. The papers in this special issue investigate this process, looking at how attitudes on the Iraq War, the larger War on Terrorism, and the so-called cultural war affected attitudes toward the presidential candidates and voting. The studies use a wide variety of datasets and survey questions, showing that the different aspects of the war resonate with different voters and that some of the effects of wartime are indirect through increasing the salience of leadership in the election. Wartime presidents do not get reelected automatically; they have had success in reelection because of how they use the war to build an image that can get them reelected.

简析民主革命时期党对民主集中制的理解和运用

作为马克思主义政党根本组织原则和组织制度的"民主集中制"由列宁首先明确提出.在列宁时代,民主集中制的"民主"和"集中"在不同的环境中就有侧重.中国共产党新民主主义革命时期在接受和运用这一根本组织原则和根本组织制度时,承接了列宁"民主集中制"观点的秉性,并把它发展成党内决策和领导方法.