Georgia A. Persons is professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the current editor of the National Political Science Review.

• SYMPOSIUM: THE POLITICS OF THE BLACK NATION A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE; Introduction to the Symposium: The Politics of the Black Nation Revisited; The Politics of the Black Nation: Significance and Context of the Book; In the Mirror of Time: Unbound Interests and the New Black Leadership: A Retrospective Critique of Essay I: Centrifugal Influences on Black Politics; Clientage, Opposition, and Withdrawal: Three Forms of External Politics: A Reexamination of Essay II; Revisiting Black Nationalist Politics: An Assessment of Essay III: Politics as a Collective Psychiatry: A Critique of Withdrawal; Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Comments on Essay IV: Toward Black Regrouping; Toward Black Regrouping: Comments on Essay V: The Next Five Years: I. Morale and Objective Capacity; Politics and Organizational Options: Comments on Essay VI: The Next Five Years: II. Organizational Options; Modifying Political Tactics: Comments on Essay VII: The Next Five Years: III. Modifying Political Tactics; AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICS IN CONSTANCY AND CHANGE; Erasing Racial Justice, or How Liberals Became Black; The Micro-World of the Black Activist: An Examination During the Ebb Tide of a Social Movement; Rating Black Leaders; African American Voting Behavior, President Clinton's Scandal, and the 1998 Election: The Search for New Variables; Black No More: Race Construction and the 2000 Census; Presidential Advocacy of Welfare Reform: From Roosevelt to Clinton; Crime Fighting and the Exclusionary Rule: Barna Talk on Giving the Police More Leeway to Gather Evidence in Criminal Cases; Black Organizational Development and the Black Student Leadership Network; REFLECTIONS; African American Public Opinion and the Pre-Scientific Polls: The Literacy Digest Magazine's Straw-Vote Presidential Polls, 1916-1936; Review Essay; America as a New World Power: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era; Book Reviews; Michael H. Armacost. Friends or Rivals? The Insider's Account of U. S.-Japan Relations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), xiv + 271 pp.; ISBN 0-231-10488-X (cloth).; Kathleen L. Barber, ed. Proportional Representation and Election Reform in Ohio (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995), xi + 383 pp.; ISBN 0-8142-0660-3 (cloth)/0-8142-066101 (paper).; Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen, eds. Freedom of Religion and Belief: A World Report (New York: Routledge, 1998), xxxii + 475 pp.; ISBN 0-415-15978-4.; Davis Howard Davis. American Environmental Politics (Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1998), xiii + 257 pp.; ISBN 0-8304-1518-1 (paper); Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.), ix + 375 pp.; ISBN 0-8061-3062-8 (paper).; Keith Fitzgerald. The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and National Identity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), xii + 285 pp.; ISBN 0-8047-2485-7 (cloth).; Anthony Giddens. Politics, Sociology and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), viii + 304 pp.; ISBN 0-8047-2622-1 (cloth)/0-8047-2624-8 (paper).; Charles Wesley Harris. Congress and the Governance of the Nation’s Capital: The Conflict of Federal and Local Interests (Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 1995), xvii + 294 pp.; ISBN 0-87840-563 (cloth)/0-87840-564~X (paper).; Lane Kenworthy. In Search of National Economic Success: Balancing Competition and Cooperation (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995), xii + 274 pp; ISBN O-8039-7161-3 (paper).; Seymour Martin Lipset. American Exceptionalilsm: A Double-Edge Sword (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), 352 pp.; ISBN 0-393-03725-8 (cloth).; Burdett A. Loomis. The Contemporary Congress, 2nd ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), xiii + 209 pp.; ISBN 0-312-17636-8 (cloth).; Marcus D. Pohlmann and Michael P. Kirby. Racial Politics at the Crossroads: Memphis Elects Dr. W.W. Herenton (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996), xi + 269 pp.; ISBN 0-87049-926-2 (paper).; Wilbur C. Rich. Black Mayors and School Politics: The Failure of Reform in Detroit, Gary, and Newark (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996), xiii + 221 pp.; ISBN 0-8153-2340-9 (paper).; Hanes Walton, Jr. African American Power and Politics: The Political Context Variable . (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), xxxvii + 475 pp.; ISBN 0-231-10418-9 (cloth)/0-231-10419-7 (paper).; Invitation to the Scholarly Community

Georgia A. Persons is professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the current editor of the National Political Science Review.

• SYMPOSIUM: THE POLITICS OF THE BLACK NATION A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE; Introduction to the Symposium: The Politics of the Black Nation Revisited; The Politics of the Black Nation: Significance and Context of the Book; In the Mirror of Time: Unbound Interests and the New Black Leadership: A Retrospective Critique of Essay I: Centrifugal Influences on Black Politics; Clientage, Opposition, and Withdrawal: Three Forms of External Politics: A Reexamination of Essay II; Revisiting Black Nationalist Politics: An Assessment of Essay III: Politics as a Collective Psychiatry: A Critique of Withdrawal; Looking Backward While Moving Forward: Comments on Essay IV: Toward Black Regrouping; Toward Black Regrouping: Comments on Essay V: The Next Five Years: I. Morale and Objective Capacity; Politics and Organizational Options: Comments on Essay VI: The Next Five Years: II. Organizational Options; Modifying Political Tactics: Comments on Essay VII: The Next Five Years: III. Modifying Political Tactics; AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICS IN CONSTANCY AND CHANGE; Erasing Racial Justice, or How Liberals Became Black; The Micro-World of the Black Activist: An Examination During the Ebb Tide of a Social Movement; Rating Black Leaders; African American Voting Behavior, President Clinton's Scandal, and the 1998 Election: The Search for New Variables; Black No More: Race Construction and the 2000 Census; Presidential Advocacy of Welfare Reform: From Roosevelt to Clinton; Crime Fighting and the Exclusionary Rule: Barna Talk on Giving the Police More Leeway to Gather Evidence in Criminal Cases; Black Organizational Development and the Black Student Leadership Network; REFLECTIONS; African American Public Opinion and the Pre-Scientific Polls: The Literacy Digest Magazine's Straw-Vote Presidential Polls, 1916-1936; Review Essay; America as a New World Power: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era; Book Reviews; Michael H. Armacost. Friends or Rivals? The Insider's Account of U. S.-Japan Relations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), xiv + 271 pp.; ISBN 0-231-10488-X (cloth).; Kathleen L. Barber, ed. Proportional Representation and Election Reform in Ohio (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995), xi + 383 pp.; ISBN 0-8142-0660-3 (cloth)/0-8142-066101 (paper).; Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen, eds. Freedom of Religion and Belief: A World Report (New York: Routledge, 1998), xxxii + 475 pp.; ISBN 0-415-15978-4.; Davis Howard Davis. American Environmental Politics (Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1998), xiii + 257 pp.; ISBN 0-8304-1518-1 (paper); Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.), ix + 375 pp.; ISBN 0-8061-3062-8 (paper).; Keith Fitzgerald. The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and National Identity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), xii + 285 pp.; ISBN 0-8047-2485-7 (cloth).; Anthony Giddens. Politics, Sociology and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), viii + 304 pp.; ISBN 0-8047-2622-1 (cloth)/0-8047-2624-8 (paper).; Charles Wesley Harris. Congress and the Governance of the Nation’s Capital: The Conflict of Federal and Local Interests (Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 1995), xvii + 294 pp.; ISBN 0-87840-563 (cloth)/0-87840-564~X (paper).; Lane Kenworthy. In Search of National Economic Success: Balancing Competition and Cooperation (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995), xii + 274 pp; ISBN O-8039-7161-3 (paper).; Seymour Martin Lipset. American Exceptionalilsm: A Double-Edge Sword (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), 352 pp.; ISBN 0-393-03725-8 (cloth).; Burdett A. Loomis. The Contemporary Congress, 2nd ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), xiii + 209 pp.; ISBN 0-312-17636-8 (cloth).; Marcus D. Pohlmann and Michael P. Kirby. Racial Politics at the Crossroads: Memphis Elects Dr. W.W. Herenton (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996), xi + 269 pp.; ISBN 0-87049-926-2 (paper).; Wilbur C. Rich. Black Mayors and School Politics: The Failure of Reform in Detroit, Gary, and Newark (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996), xiii + 221 pp.; ISBN 0-8153-2340-9 (paper).; Hanes Walton, Jr. African American Power and Politics: The Political Context Variable . (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), xxxvii + 475 pp.; ISBN 0-231-10418-9 (cloth)/0-231-10419-7 (paper).; Invitation to the Scholarly Community