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An examination of the philosophical att's behind Latin Amer demographic policies; first published in Spanish in El Trimestre Economico (Mexico) Jul-Sep 1964 & to be included in J. A. Kahl, ASPECTOS HUMANOS DE LA INDUSTRIALIZACION EN AMERICA LATINA (Human Aspects of Industrialization of Latin America, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economical 1965). Traditional att's which hinder the adoption of modern demographic policies include: a nat'list belief that more pop means more power; Catholic opposition to birth control; a hope that ED automatically reduces the birth rate; a naive exaltation of the poor who love children & cannot have too many of them; excessive neo-Malthusianism that can be easily refuted. Against these att's it is argued that: (1) aggregate statistics are misleading;. (2) production of goods increases much faster than job opportunities; (3) excess supply of workers lowers wage rates; (4) the people hardest hit by large fam's are the poor; (5) poor people, esp in Ur areas, usually prefer smaller fam's; & (6) reliance on 'automatic' reduction in fertility is risky & entails high costs. It is concluded that the chief obstacle to a general introduction of birth control lies not in the att's of the poor but in the outdated traditional att's of the elites. I. Langnas.

THE NOTION OF DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM HAS ALWAYS HAD TO BE REINTERPRETED BY ITS USERS ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS THEY PERCEIVED IN DIFFERENT PHASES OF CLASS STRUGGLE. WITH THE GROWING COMPLEXITY OF SOCIALIST COUNTRIES AND THE DIFFUSION OF SOCIALISM SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THE DIVERGENCE BETWEEN THE ORIGINAL THEORIES OF MEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM AND ITS PRACTICE HAS MARKEDLY CHANGED.

REVIEWS SOME OF THE APPROACHES TO STUDYING ELITE BEHAVIOR IN CHINA WHICH HAVE BEEN USED. AMONG THESE APPROACHES ARE THE "PALACE COUP" APPROACH, "RED VS. EXPERT APPROACH, AND "MILITARY-PARTY-BUREAUCRAT STRUGGLE" APPROACH. SUGGESTS, HOWEVER, THAT BEST MODEL WOULD BE A HEURISTIC ONE LINKING BACKGROUND AND CAREER LINE WITH STAGES OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A POLITICAL SYSTEM.