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Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies. He was an inveterate letter-writer and his huge correspondence, with his diplomatic dispatches and other official writing, is a unique original source, providing a detailed and vivid picture of the eighteenth-century European elite with all its extravagance and scandalous behaviour but, even more importantly, it is an account of an Enlightenment struggle against the increasingly outdated clerical and feudal rule in Sicily. Caracciolo was an abrasive and combative official and politician and vigorous scion of the Enlightenment. In this book, Angus Campbell provides a detailed portrait of Caracciolo and of the political, social, economic, legal and cultural context in which he lived and worked. In doing so, he provides a unique vantage point on the European diplomatic culture of the eighteenth century. Angus Campbell is an independent researcher, translator and writer

There is a growing demand throughout the world for soc data which can only be provided by res org's specifically developed to meet these needs. This requires recruiting specialized personnel & the creation of org'al structures designed to support the conduct of large-scale res programs. Such org's typically develop a hierarchy of status, authority & responsibility which is rather unlike the situation most academic res'ers are familiar with. Problems of recruitment, training, & assessment of personnel at various levels have a special character as do managerial & admin'ive policies. In view of the growing volume of res done in org'al settings of this kind it is important that increasing attention be given to the development of those conditions of org'al life which are most satisfying to the member sci'ts & most conducive to res productivity. AA.

In a note to the editor of ABS, the director of the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center remarks on some of the successes and the few failures of the 1960 polls, in comparison with previous years' experience; he suggests that some of the pollsters still have some fences to mend.

Since its establishment at the U of Michigan in 1946, the Survey Res Center has accumulated a large file of interviews, IBM cards, tabulations & other res materials drawn from sample surveys covering a wide range of econ, pol'al, psychol'al & sociol'al problems. The Center is pleased to have its archives used by qualified scholars interested in secondary analysis of these data. Inquiries regarding the availability of data & the conditions of their use should be addressed to the Director of the Survey Res Center. AA.

Using survey data collected from personal interviews with nat'l samples of US adults living in private households, the behavior of voters in the presidential elections of 1948, 1952 & 1956 was studied; the 1956 panel was reinterviewed in 1958 regarding their congressional voting. The data thus collected support a theory that high-stimulus elections presenting exciting candidates, important foreign & domestic issues, & electoral concern over party performance can move individuals of low party identification to the polls, bringing a surge of partisan votes. In a low-stimulus election these peripheral voters drop out, reducing the X vote & reducing the proportion of the vote previously received by the party advantaged in the preceding election. These peripheral voters differ signif'ly from the core of regular voters only in their sensitivity to pol'al stimulation Fluctuations in turnout & partisanship derive from a combination of short-term pol'al forces, superimposed on the underlying level of pol'al interest & on the long-term psychol'al attachments of the electorate. The theory is further supported with an analysis of ticket-splitting. The independent & peripheral voters are responsible for the surge-decline pattern while a core of partisan, pol'ally-involved voters contribute stable party strengths through straight-ticket voting. The one deviation from the surge-decline pattern in the last 100 yrs which occurred in 1932, can be interpreted as a mass redistribution of party loyalties resulting in a realignment of partisan strengths. AA.