American politics and public policy: seven case studies

The president : should direct national election replace the electoral college system? / by Allan P. Sindler

The Congress : budget battles of 1981 / by Steven S. Smith

The bureaucracy : an aborted regulation / by Robert Reinhold

The courts : abortion and the courts / by Austin Sarat

Political parties : another machine withers away

for better? for worse? / by Gerald M. Pomper, Rodney Forth, and Maureen W. Moakley

Domestic policy : resolving the oil pricing issue / by Bruce I. Oppenheimer

Defense policy : arms development and arms control / by Paul N. Stockton.