Marc K. Landy is professor of political science at Boston College and a senior fellow of the Gordon Public Policy Center at Brandeis University.

"Leading political scientists [argue that] national politicians, far from being gridlocked, have acted with alacrity to implement fundamental and often surprising reforms in fields as diverse as education, immigration, and tax reform. In some of these areas the powerful lobbyists have been, literally, banished from the Congressional committee rooms, confounding most text books on American politics. This is an important book, which teaches the value of ideas in the post-utilitarian world of modern America. Political Studies

• Part I. IntroductionChapter 1. Of Interests and Values: The New Politics and the New Political SciencePart II. Adversarial Legalism and the Rights RevolutionChapter 2. Separation of Powers and the Strategy of Rights: The Expansion of Special EducationChapter 3. The Politics of Rapid Legal Change: Immigration Policy in the 1980sChapter 4. Adversarial Legalism and American GovernmentPart III. Taxing and SpendingChapter 5. Policy Models and Political Change: Insights from the Passage of Tax ReformChapter 6. The Politics of the Entitlement ProcessChapter 7. Elusive Community: Democracy, Deliberation, and the Reconstruction of Health PolicyPart IV. Regulation and DeregulationChapter 8. The New Politics of Environmental PolicyChapter 9. Policy making in the Contemporary Congress: Three Dimensions of PerformancePart V. ConclusionChapter 10. New Politics, New Elites, Old PublicsChapter 11. Two-Tier Politics and the Problem of Public PolicyChapter 12. The new Politics of Public PolicyNotesList of ContirbutorsIndex

Marc K. Landy is professor of political science at Boston College and a senior fellow of the Gordon Public Policy Center at Brandeis University.

"Leading political scientists [argue that] national politicians, far from being gridlocked, have acted with alacrity to implement fundamental and often surprising reforms in fields as diverse as education, immigration, and tax reform. In some of these areas the powerful lobbyists have been, literally, banished from the Congressional committee rooms, confounding most text books on American politics. This is an important book, which teaches the value of ideas in the post-utilitarian world of modern America. Political Studies

• Part I. IntroductionChapter 1. Of Interests and Values: The New Politics and the New Political SciencePart II. Adversarial Legalism and the Rights RevolutionChapter 2. Separation of Powers and the Strategy of Rights: The Expansion of Special EducationChapter 3. The Politics of Rapid Legal Change: Immigration Policy in the 1980sChapter 4. Adversarial Legalism and American GovernmentPart III. Taxing and SpendingChapter 5. Policy Models and Political Change: Insights from the Passage of Tax ReformChapter 6. The Politics of the Entitlement ProcessChapter 7. Elusive Community: Democracy, Deliberation, and the Reconstruction of Health PolicyPart IV. Regulation and DeregulationChapter 8. The New Politics of Environmental PolicyChapter 9. Policy making in the Contemporary Congress: Three Dimensions of PerformancePart V. ConclusionChapter 10. New Politics, New Elites, Old PublicsChapter 11. Two-Tier Politics and the Problem of Public PolicyChapter 12. The new Politics of Public PolicyNotesList of ContirbutorsIndex