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| Dimensions: 5.75'' x 8.75'' |
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| 348 pages |
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AEI Press
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| Publication Date: May 1990 |
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| Paperback |
| ISBN: 0-8447-3710-0 |
| Price: $ 16.50 |
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Everything is new in this second version of AEI's all-time bestseller, which brings coverage of the vital trends in American political life up to the present. This volume includes chapters by distinguished new contributors--James W. Ceaser on political parties, Charles O. Jones on the presidency, Richard P. Nathan on Congress, Robert H. Salisbury on interest groups, Martin P. Wattenberg on the electorate, and Aaron Wildavsky on rival cultures. Martin Shapiro gives his insights into the Supreme Court, and Austin Ranney discusses broadcasting and new politics.
Anthony King is a professor of government at Essex University.
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Preface
Contributors
- The Separated Presidency--Making It Work in Contemporary Politics
- Political Change and the Character of the Contemporary Congress
- The Supreme Court from Early Burger to Early Rehnquist
- Political Parties--Declining, Stabilizing, or Resurging?
- From a Partisan to a Candidate-Centered Electorate
- Broadcasting, Narrowcasting, and Politics
- The Paradox of Interest Groups in Washington
- Federalism--The Great "Composition"
- A World of Difference--The Public Philosophies and Political Behaviors of Rival American Cultures
- The American Polity in the 1990s
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