Part 1 The 1990s revisited, Philip John Davies and Frederic A. Waldstein. Part 2 Issues in domestic policy and representation - the challenge of changing exectations: women's issues in American politics, Gillian Peele; environmental policy and politics revisited, Frederic A. Waldstein; US health policy today, Calum Paton; deficit issues in American politics and the appeal of Ross Perot, Steven G. Koven; the media and the message, Christine B. Williams; political parties - celebrating at the millennium?, Philip John Davies. Part 3 Issues in government and governance - the demand for reinvention: reinventing local governance - competing trends in the American experience, Clarence N. Stone and Timothy Ross; American federalism in the 1990s, David B. Walker; federal courts in the political maelstrom, Wayne V. McIntosh; congress and the crisis of legitimacy, Christopher J. Bailey; the presidential context - expectations and challenges, Philip John Davies. Part 4 Issues in the international sphere - America in a redefined world: privatizing Latin America - the US and Latin America at the end of the century, Jack Spence; United States policy in the Middle East, Donald S. Will; from containment to enlargement or isolationism - Clinton and the post-Cold War challenge, Paul Watanabe.
