Table of Contents

Preface; A.King - Contributors - The Separated Presidency: Making it Work in Contemporary Politics; C.O.Jones - Political Change and the Character of the Contemporary Congress; N.W.Polsby - The Supreme Court from Early Burger to Early Rehnquist; M.Shapiro - Political Parties: Declining, Stabilizing or Resurging?; J.W.Ceaser - From a Partisan to a Candidate-Centered Electorate; M.P.Wattenberg - Broadcasting, Narrowcasting, and Politics; A.Ranney - The Paradox of Interest Groups in Washington: More Groups, Less Clout; R.H.Salisbury - Federalism: The Great 'Composition'; R.P.Nathan - A World of Difference: The Public Philosophies and Political Behaviours of Rival American Cultures; A.Wildavsky - The American Polity in the 1990s; A.King - Notes - Index