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THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE IF CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSES OF US INTERSTATE POLICIES VARIATIONS ARE ADEQUATE FOR EXPLAINING THE DYNAMIC POLICY PROCESS. TWO MODELS ARE DEVELOPED OF COMPETITIVE THREAT TAND ECONOMIC RESOURCES. TIME SERIES ANAZYSIS PRODUCES SERVERAL DIFFERENCE OF SUBSTANTIVE INTEREST, SUGGESTING IT TO BE MORE APPROPRIATE IN MOST CASES THAN CROSS-STATE ANALYSIS.

EXAMINATION OF 'PROGRESSIVISM' AMONG STATES REVEALS THAT STATES ARE NOT UNILATERALLY 'PROGRESSIVE' IN ALL POLICY AREAS. A STATE'S EXPENDITURES FOR EDUCATION ARE INDEPENDENT OF A STATE'S WELFARE SPENDING; INNOVATION IN ONE AREA IS INDEPENDENT OF INNOVATION IN OTHER AREAS; INNOVASPENDING IN THAT AREA.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ESSAY IS TO CONSIDER THE PROBABLE IMPACT OF ISSUES RELATED TO ETHNIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY ON DEMOCRATIZATION IN ESTONIA, LATVIA, AND LITHUANIA. PARTICULAR ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO THE DEMOGRAPHIC MAKE-UP OF THE BALTIC STATES, WHICH ARE HOME TO A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF SLAVS (MOSTLY RUSSIANS BUT ALSO BELARUSIANS, POLES, AND UKRAINIANS), AND TO THOSE FACTORS WHICH AFFECT HOW THESE SLAVS AND THE MAJORITY BALTS: (1) IDENTIFY THEMSELVES; AND (2) IDENTIFY WITH THE NEW STATES IN WHICH THEY FIND THEMSELVES. THE KEY QUESTION IS THE DEGREE TO WHICH CIVIC DEMOCRACY CAN PROSPER IN A NEWLY EMERGING MULTI-ETHNIC STATE. THE ANSWER IS IMPORTANT NOT ONLY FOR THE BALTIC STATES BUT ALSO FOR THE OTHER NEW MULTINATIONAL STATES THAT HAVE EMERGED FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE PAST FEW YEARS.

Discusses the economic origins of industrial policy and describes the development and testing of an impact model for two measures of economic distress for the 1982 to 1986 period. Conclusions are drawn concerning the complicated early impact of state industrial policy. (Abstract amended)