Preface

Part I
American Institutions and Culture

1 The Political System
Nelson W. Polsby

2 Bureaucracy
Donald F. Kettl

3 The Legal System
Lawrence M. Friedman

4 The Economic System
Benjamin M. Friedman

5 Federalism
Martha Derthick

6 Political Culture
Jack Citrin

7 The Media
S. Robert Lichter

8 Popular Culture
Martha Bayles

9 The Military
Eliot Cohen

10 Religion
Robert Wuthnow

Part II
American Public Policies

11 The Family
Linda J. Waite and Melissa J. K. Howe

12 Immigration
Peter H. Schuck

13 Black Americans
Orlando Patterson

14 Education
Paul E. Peterson

15 Health Care
David Cutler and Patricia Keenan

16 Criminal Justice
James Q. Wilson

17 Inequality, Economic Mobility, and Social Policy
Gary Burtless and Ron Haskins

18 Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Sector
Arthur C. Brooks

19 Drug Policy
Jonathan P. Caulkins and Mark A. R. Kleiman

Part III
A Larger Perspective

20 A Canvas, Not a Country: How Europe Sees America
Josef Joffe

21 Looking Back
Peter H. Schuck and James Q. Wilson

Notes

Contributors

Index