世纪之交的中国美国史研究——中国美国史研究会第九届年会暨学术讨论会综述

1999年10月28日至30日,中国美国史研究会在南京召开了第九届年会暨学术讨论会。这次会议由南京国际关系学院主办,中国社会科学院世界历史研究所和美国研究所、外交学院、商务印书馆、美国赖特大学和宾州印第安那大学等28个单位的六十多名代表参加了会议,收到论五十多篇。会议除讨论通过中国美国史研究会新章程并选举新一届理事会及其他领导机构外,就美国史的各个方面进行了大会交流和小组研讨。     

American Regulatory Policy: Factors Affecting Trends Over the Past Century

This article examines American regulatory policy over the past century and the factors that have affected its development. Among the trends analyzed are the movement away from independent regulatory commissions, the larger role played by the institutional presidency vis-a-vis the Congress in the regulatory arena, and the growing resistance of states and localities to national government regulation and "unfunded mandates."     

Taubeneck's Laws: Third Parties in American Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century

Third parties were a persistent and important aspect of American politics after the Civil War and have been as well a continuing focus of scholarly interest. This article discusses both the history and the historiography of the most prominent third party by examining the attitudes and actions of Herman E. Taubeneck, the national chairman of the People's or Populist Party. Taubeneck drew from his participation in and study of American politics to formulate a set of laws that he believed defined the creation, organization, direction, and success of third parties in the American political context. His analysis remarkably foreshadowed the ways in which modern scholars, drawing from several different disciplinary perspectives and methodologies, have only recently begun to explain and clarify the complex course of Populism. But Taubeneck's incomplete application of his own principles helped to disrupt and destroy the Populist Party itself.