Seeking the Center

Martin A. Levin is a professor of politics at Brandeis University. He is coauthor of After the Cure: Managing AIDs and Other Public Health Crises (University Press of Kansas, 2000). Marc Landy is a professor of political science at Boston College. He is coauthor of Presidential Greatness (University Press of Kansas, 2000). Martin Shapiro is the James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law. He is the author of Who Guards the Guardians: Judicial Control of Administration (University of Georgia Press, 1988).

• Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Durability and ChangeMartin A. Levin and Marc K. LandyPart II: Taxing and Spending2. Budgeting More, Deciding LessEric M. Patashnik3. From Expansion to Austerity: The New Politics of Taxing and SpendingPaul Pierson4. Four Pathways of Power: Probing the Political Dynamics of Federal Tax Policy in the in the Turbulent 1980s and 1990sDavid R. Beam and Timothy J. ConlanPart III: Rights Policies 5. Immigration Reform ReduxPeter H. Schuck6. Republican Efforts to End Affirmative Action: Walking a Fine LineJohn David Skrentny7. On the Resilience of RightsThomas F. BurkePart IV: Social Welfare Policy8. The Evolving Old Politics of Social SecurityMartha Derthick9. The Politics of Rights Retraction: Welfare Reform from Entitlement to Block GrantSteven M. Teles, Brandeis UniversityTimothy S. Prinz10. The New Politics of the Working PoorChristopher Howard11. Dead on Arrival? New Politics, Old Politics, and the Case of National Health ReformCathie Jo Martin12. The New Politics of the CensusPeter SkerryPart V: Foreign Trade13. The Postwar Liberal Trade Regime: Resilience under PressureDavid VogelPart VI: Durability and Change14. Much Huffing and Puffing, Little ChangeDavid R. Mayhew15. Bill Clinton and the Politics of Divided DemocracySidney M. Milkis16. Two-Tier Politics RevisitedWilson Carey McWilliams17. Exit "Equality," Enter "Fairness"Eugene Bardach18. The Politics and Policy of the Regulated Market, Efficiency- Constrained Welfare StateMartin Shapiro