ABOUT THIS BOOK

The end of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the USSR produced strikingly little enthusiasm in the United States. The political energy absorbed for forty years by American-Soviet relations left America no triumphant, but reflective, turning inward with a general sense of national decline. American politics and policy have met the rapid changes in the new global order with alarming slowness and inflexibility.
In this book, fourteen leading political scientists ask two basic questions. What effect did the cold war have on American institutions and politics? And how will American politics evolve now? The first section of the volume focuses on institutions-the presidency, Congress, federalism. The second explores politics-ideologies, public opinion, and the American party system. The third section tackles important policy areas: the budget, social issues, education, foreign policy, trade, and immigration.

Contributors: Joel D. Aberbach; Tobias Dürr; Andreas Falke; Adrienne Héritier; Peter Lösche; Theodore J. Lowi; Heinz-Dieter Meyer; Demetrios G. Papademetriou; Paul E. Peterson; Bert A. Rockman; James Thurber; David B. Walker; and the editors.

REVIEWS

“It is unusual for an edited book to hang together as cohesively as this one does . . . The real contribution of this book lies in its variety of perspectives on the same theme, and in the unity of the result.”
—Mary E. Stuckey

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. American Impasse: The Ideological Dimension at Era's End

4. Stability and Change in the Post-Cold War Congress

Part I - Polity: The Institutions of Government

2. The Post-Cold War President

3. U.S. Executive Brance Politics in a Changing World

5. President and Congress: From Divided Government to Post-Cold War Gridlock

6. Federalsim, Recent Foreign Policy, and the Present Plight of the System

Part II - Politics: Political Ideologies and the Party

7. The End of Conservatism? Public Opinion and the American Electorate in the 1990s

8. The American Parties after the Cold War: A Comparative Perspective

Part III - Policies: Challenges and Responses

9. The Domestic and International Sources of U.S. Deficits

10. Social Welfare: Policy Dynamics Emerging from State-Federal Government Interaction

11. Ideological Continuities and Discontinuities in American Public Education: Parameters of a New Consensus

12. The Foreign Policy Impasse: In Search of a New Doctrine

13. American Trade Policy and the End of the Cold War

14. U.S. Immigration Policy after the Cold War

Contributors

Index

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