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Four models of the way in which premarital cohabitation may affect marital quality are examined using interview data from a national probability sample of married persons. The idea that cohabitation improves mate selection and marital training is rejected. Cohabitation is negatively related to marital interaction and positively related to marital disagreement, proneness to divorce, and the probability of divorce in nonminority populations. No evidence is found that the accelerated marriage model explains these findings. Some support is found for the explanation that some of those who cohabit are poor marriage risks before they marry. No support is found for the idea that cohabitation itself causes a decline in marital quality, but this argument cannot be rejected with confidence, given the data at hand.

THE AUTHORS OBSERVE THAT THE BRITISH ELECTORATE HAS PERSISTENTLY REACTED AGAINST GOVERNMENTS WHICH HAVE PRESIDED OVER, AND CONSEQUENTLY HAVE BEEN AS RESPONSIBLE FOR, A DRAMATIC WORSENING OF THE CLIMATE OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. THE ELECTIONS OF PRIME MINISTERS BALDWIN AND THATCHER IN 1926 AND 1979, RESPECTIVELY, ARE ANALYZED AND COMPARED WITH RESPECT TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: ARE THERE MAJOR SIMILARITIES IN THE GENERAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRATEGIES OF THE BALDWIN AND THATCHER GOVERNMENTS? CAN THE CONSERVATIVE DEFEAT BE ATTRIBUTED IN ANY WAY TO THE EVENTS OF 1926? ARE THERE SIMILARITIES IN THE POST-STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS OF BOTH PERIODS?