Developments in American Politics Author:Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, Bruce Cain The 1980s saw American politics in an unusual state of ferment marked by ideological debate about the proper scope of government, new popular demands on the political process, and doubts about the adaptability of the political parties - and even the basic constitutional arrangements - to new conditions. — Written by a team of leading specialists ... more »and carefully edited into a coherent and consistently accessible text, Developments in American Politics is designed to provide a comprehensive analysis of the changing character of American political life in the 1990s. American politics is presented as an interplay between government institutions confronted by the demands of a highly heterogeneous society undergoing rapid technological, social, cultural and demographic change. The result is a politics which is at once relatively stable in its broad configuration but subject
to rapid ideological and policy change.
The book provides wide-ranging coverage of political change, the political
system, key areas of public policy and of major current issues like the budget deficit and immigration reform, concluding with a chapter setting recent patterns of divided government in a theoretical and historical framework.« less