The New American politics: reflections on political change and the Clinton administration

Abstract

Part 1 Continuity and change in American politics - is the Clinton Presidency new wine?, Bryan D. Jones. Part 2 Parties in the American context: changes in elections and the party system - 1992 in historical perspective, William G. Mayer campaigning through the media - was 1992 really different?, Shanto Iyengar and Sharmaine Vidanage the 1992 election and minority politics - a perspective, Rodney Hero the politicization of gender, Barbara Norrander interest groups and political change, Frank R. Baumgartner and Jeffrey C. Talbert. Part 3 Political institutions and political change: the return to unified party control under Clinton - how much of a difference in law-making?, David R. Mayhew political change in the States - another example of unintended consequences?, Morris P. Fiorina committed majorities and policy change in the US Supreme Court, Lawrence Baum the federal executive equilibrium and change, Bert A. Rockman. Part 4 The policy process: foreign policy, the end of the Cold War, and the 1992 election, William R. Thompson issue expansion in the early Clinton administration - health care and deficit reduction, B.D. Jones and Billy Hall cities, political representation, and the dynamics of American federalism, Dennis Judd the evolution of environmentalism - from elitism to participatory democracy?, James P. Lester and W. Douglas Costain the new American politics - reflections on the early 1990s, Lawrence C. Dodd.