Party coalitions in the 1980s

1.Background and issues:Introduction /David S. Broder

party coalitions and the 1980 election /Seymour Martin Lipset

The two-party system: a personal reflection /S.I. Hayakawa

2.The party systems:Party coalitions and the search for modern values: 1820-1970 /Richard Jensen

Coalition and party transformations in the 1890s /Paul Kleppner

Party coalitions in the early twentieth century /Jerome M. Clubb

The shifting party coalitions -from the 1930s to the 1970s /Everett Carll Ladd

3.Contemporary politics:Coalition and faction in American politics: an institutional view /Nelson W. Polsby

Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives /William Schneider

4.The 1980 campaign:The Republican strategy and its electoral consequences /Richard B. Wirthlin

The Democratic strategy and its electoral consequences /Patrick H. Caddell

5.Realignment in the 1980 election:Catholics and the Democrats: estrangement but not desertion /E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Jewish political shift? erosion, yes; conversion, no /Alam M. Fisher

Decay in regional party coalitions: 1952-1980 /Martin P. Wattenberg, Arthur H. Miller

6.The future of American politics:Developing a "grand coalition" /John B. Anderson

Toward confrontation? /Walter Dean Burnham

The prospects for Reaganomics /Michael Harrington

More independent presidential candidacies? /Howard Phillips

The new American majority /Norman Podhoretz

The Republican prospects /Richard M. Scammon

7.Conclusion:The American party system: concluding observations /Seymour Martin Lipset.