This book describes the nature of change in the American political system, focusing on continuity and change in governing institutions. It explores the Democratic Party moving to diversify symbolically by examining the role of minorities in the 1992 election and the early Clinton years.

Forthcoming Titles -- Continuity and Change in American Politics -- The Politics of Policy Change -- Changes in Elections and the Party System: 1992 in Historical Perspective -- Campaigning Through the Media: Was 1992 Really Different? -- The 1992 Elections and "Minority" Politics: A Perspective -- The Politicization of Gender -- Interest Groups and Political Change -- Political Institutions and Political Change -- The Return to Unified Party Control Under Clinton: How Much of a Difference in Lawmaking? -- Political Change in the States: Another Example of Unintended Consequences? -- Committed Majorities and Policy Change in the U.S. Supreme Court -- The Federal Executive: Equilibrium and Change -- The Policy Process -- Foreign Policy, the End of the Cold War, and the 1992 Election -- Issue Expansion in the Early Clinton Administration: Health Care and Deficit Reduction -- Cities, Political Representation, and the Dynamics of American Federalism -- The Evolution of Environmentalism: From Elitism to Participatory Democracy? -- The New American Politics: Reflections on the Early 1990s