The American Impasse

by Minkenberg, Michael; Dittgen, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780822956129
• ISBN10: 0822956128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

For forty years, the political energies of the United States were absorbed by the American-Soviet rivalry. These contributors argue that, with the demise of communism, American politics and policy met the challenge of the new global order with alarming slowness and inflexibility. These essays provide an analytic and rather unflattering snapshot of U.S. foreign policy at a time of rapid change.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
American Impasse: The Ideological Dimension at Era's End	1	(14)
Theodore J. Lowi
PART I Polity: The Institutions of Government
The Post-Cold War President	15	(18)
Bert A. Rockman
U.S. Executive Branch Politics in a Changing World	33	(25)
Joel D. Aberbach
Stability and Change in the Post-Cold War Congress	58	(18)
James A. Thurber
President and Congress: From Divided Government to Post-Cold War Gridlock?	76	(20)
Tobias Durr
Federalism, Recent Foreign Policy, and the Present Plight of the System	96	(29)
David B. Walker
PART II Politics: Political Ideologies and the Party
The End of Conservatism? Public Opinion and the American Electorate in the 1990s	125	(32)
Michael Minkenberg
The American Parties after the Cold War: A Comparative Perspective	157	(20)
Peter Losche
PART III Policies: Challenges and Responses
The Domestic and International Sources of U.S. Deficits	177	(21)
Paul E. Peterson
Social Welfare: Policy Dynamics Emerging from State-Federal Government Interaction	198	(17)
Adrienne Heritier
Ideological Continuities and Discontinuities in American Public Education: Parameters of a New Consensus	215	(23)
Heinz-Dieter Meyer
The Foreign Policy Impasse: In Search of a New Doctrine	238	(26)
Herbert Dittgen
American Trade Policy after the End of the Cold War	264	(34)
Andreas Falke
U.S. Immigration Policy after the Cold War	298	(25)
Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Contributors	323	(4)
Index	327