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The New  American  Political System, edited by Anthony King, describes          V  -.
and  assesses the profound changes  in the American  political system            0  Z
that have taken  place since the inauguration of John F. Kennedy   in           I  M
1961.  The  imperial presidency gave  way  to a presidency  that was
much  more  constrained. Power  in Congress  became  even  more  dis-                      Z
persed than before. The  old politics of pressure groups was replaced          0   '1
by a new, more  intricate politics of issue networks. The decline of
America's  political parties continued. So did the decline of the New
Deal coalition in the electorate. These developments, and others, are         U)
discussed in this volume by a number of America's most  distinguished
political scientists: Samuel H. Beer, Fred I. Greenstein, Hugh Heclo,         U    -
Samuel  C. Patterson, Martin  Shapiro, Austin Ranney,  Jeane J. Kirk-            -4  .
patrick, Richard A. Brody, and Leon  D. Epstein. In the final chapter,         M  0
Anthony   King  argues  that the  American  political system is now                        P0
atomized, with  profound consequences  for the conduct of American                       Z
political leadership.
     Anthony   King, an  adjunct scholar at the American   Enterprise                    0
Institute and author of the AEI volume  Britain Says  Yes: The  1975
Referendum   on the Common Market, is professor of government at                         M
the University of Essex in England. He comments   on elections for the
British Broadcasting Corporation  and the London  Observer  and  was                     (D
until recently editor of the British Journal of Political Science.              a
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8447-3315-9
ISBN-10: 0-8447-3315-6
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