The American Impasse
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The American Impasse

U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy After the Cold War

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The American Impasse

U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy After the Cold War

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 D\u00fcrr; Andreas Falke; Adrienne H\u00e9ritier; Peter L\u00f6sche; Theodore J. Lowi; Heinz-Dieter Meyer; Demetrios G. Papademetriou; Paul E. Peterson; Bert A. Rockman; James Thurber; David B. Walker; and the editors.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. American Impasse: The Ideological Dimension at Era's End
  5. Part I - Polity: The Institutions of Government
  6. 2. The Post-Cold War President
  7. 3. U.S. Executive Brance Politics in a Changing World
  8. 4. Stability and Change in the Post-Cold War Congress
  9. 5. President and Congress: From Divided Government to Post-Cold War Gridlock
  10. 6. Federalsim, Recent Foreign Policy, and the Present Plight of the System
  11. Part II - Politics: Political Ideologies and the Party
  12. 7. The End of Conservatism? Public Opinion and the American Electorate in the 1990s
  13. 8. The American Parties after the Cold War: A Comparative Perspective
  14. Part III - Policies: Challenges and Responses
  15. 9. The Domestic and International Sources of U.S. Deficits
  16. 10. Social Welfare: Policy Dynamics Emerging from State-Federal Government Interaction
  17. 11. Ideological Continuities and Discontinuities in American Public Education: Parameters of a New Consensus
  18. 12. The Foreign Policy Impasse: In Search of a New Doctrine
  19. 13. American Trade Policy and the End of the Cold War
  20. 14. U.S. Immigration Policy after the Cold War
  21. Contributors
  22. Index