Broken Contract?
Subtitle: Changing Relationships Between Americans and Their Government (Transforming American Politics)
Publisher: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780813322629
Subjects: Political science & theory; c 1980 to c 1990; United States; Political Sociology; U.S. Practical Politics; Politics/International Relations; USA; Political culture; Legitimacy of governments; Political participation
First sentence: On January 20, 1993, with Bill Clinton sworn in as our forty-second president and the Democrats assuming control of both elected branches of government, it seemed possible to believe that the era of gridlock was over and that maybe-just maybe-Washington's political class would respond to the message of urgency and concern sent by voters when they cast their ballots two-and-a-half months earlier.