Can Clinton Govern?: Richard E. Neustadt On the Shoals, Nearing the Rocks: Walter Dean Burnham Two Views from Pennsylvania Ave.: Walter F. Mondale The 1994 Solution: James MacGregor Burns In Search of a Governing Party: Richard M. Valelly Give the Man a Chance: Jim Wright CAN CLINTON GOVERN? R ichard E. N eustadt T he […]
Politics
A Constitutional Litmus Test
Justice may be blind, but in appointing justices Clinton needs to be far-sighted.
The Political Court
After a decade of court-packing, now is no time to pretend the courts are apolitical.
Damaged Goods: Before Reinventing Government, Clinton Needs to Repair It
T he debris of Reaganism is scattered across Bill Clinton’s domestic agenda: Environmentalism may be slow to take hold at the Interior Department because friends of industry have “burrowed in” to the bureaucracy. Sound industrial policy will call for better information than the Commerce Department and Federal Trade Commission have to offer. Crafting welfare reform […]
The Politics of Repudiation 1992: Edging Toward Upheaval
Not a major realignment, but ominous rumblings.
Whose Body Politic?
The boundaries between public and private are murkier than ever.
The Limits of Teledemocracy
Some uses of the electronic media could enrich politics. Most recent proposals, however, are video games at best and Bonapartism at worst.
Passion, Memory, and Politics, 1992
F rom its founding nearly three years ago, The American Prospect has sought to help reconstruct a plausible and persuasive liberalism. This issue’s cluster of articles concerned with a public investment strategy for economic growth exemplifies that purpose: substantive, detailed thinking about how to solve the nation’s problems, rather than symbolic gestures. Yet, as this […]
Divided They Govern
Divided government isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.

