From Gray Panther to National Nanny: The Kidvid Crusade and the Eclipse of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 1977–1980
This article chronicles the FTC's proposal to significantly limit children's advertising in 1977, a controversial episode for advertisers and corporate America alike that has come to be known as the “kidvid crusade.” As a comprehensive political economic analysis, this article relies on dozens of trade press articles, archival sources, government documents, and oral histories. In 1978, the U.S. Congress launched a retaliatory attack on the FTC; failing to renew the FTC's funding, it shut down the agency for the first and only time in U.S. history. The kidvid crusade is a lens through which to understand the broader political and economic shift toward neoliberalism in the coming years and, indeed, portended the rise of deregulation and new forms of corporate public relations in the political sphere.
The FTC Improvement Act
There is little doubt that Sections 202, 205 and 206 of the FTC Improvement Act 1 provide the FTC with vast new powers.
Women's Political Voice: How Women are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics
Preface: The Puzzle of the Feminist Capital Acknowledgments Part I: Women's Political Voice in the Academy and the Community 1. Women's Political Voice in Political Science: The Women's Movement Challenges Conventional Wisdom in the Academy 2. Women's Political Life in Santa Clara County: A Favorable Climate for Women's Political Activism Part II: Women and Mass Politics 3. Political Mobilization: Women's Shift from Individual to Group Consciousness and Activity 4. Political Participation: Women's Civic Activity in Communities and the State Part III: Women and Elite Politics 5. Political Recruitment: Women's Distinctive Path to Public Office 6. Policy Preferences and Political Style: Female Officials as Liberal Feminist Problem Solvers Part IV: Women and Elite-Mass Interaction 7. Agenda Setting: Women Bring New Issues to Public Attention 8. Political Coalitions: The Hard Work of Sisterhood Notes Index