Myth of the Presidential Mandate
Robert A. Dahl argues the provocative thesis that policy mandates claimed by successfully elected presidents are largely myths used to subvert the democratic process.

The Reagan Strategy of Containment
Fareed Zakaria evaluates the Reagan administration's strategy of containment. Looking at the administration's conception of interests, threats, and resources, he concludes that the Reagan strategy of containment was simple and successful.

The 'New' New Deal: FDR and American Liberalism, 1937-1945
John W. Jeffries traces the development during Franklin D. Roosevelt's second and third terms of a new New Deal. He argues that this new liberal program, based on Keynesian economic analysis and aiming at a full-employment economy of abundance, marked a significant redirection of New Deal liberalism and shaped the postwar liberal agenda.

President Carter and the Press: Perspectives from White House Communications Advisers
Mark J. Rozell examines President Jimmy Carter's press image problem from the perspectives of the former president's own communications advisers. These advisers' candid assessments reveal that Carter's negative press image grew primarily from his failure to focus White House efforts on public relations and that this failure made difficult the achievement of many policy goals that Carter valued.

Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect
David P. Forsythe traces U.S. foreign policy on human rights since 1945, ultimately suggesting that internationally recognized human rights have something to teach America about its domestic as well as its foreign policy.

Liberal Democracy in Africa
Robert Fatton, Jr. analyzes the problems confronting the emergence of liberal democracy in Africa. He concludes that the current economic and political crises besieging the continent are more favorable to the accentuation of existing authoritarianism than to the development of liberal democracies.

The Economics of Aparthied, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr.
Reviewed by Crawford Young

The Hierarchy of States: Reform and Resistance in the International Order, Ian Clark
Reviewed by Inis L. Claude, Jr.

The Politics of Development: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Asia, Robert A. Scalapino
Reviewed by Mary Brown Bullock

The Comparative History of Public Policy, Francis G. Castles
Reviewed by Hugh Heclo

Henry Kissinger and the American Approach to Foreign Policy, Gregory D. Cleva
Reviewed by Robert L. Beisner

State, Market and Social Regulation: New Perspectives on Italy, Peter Lange and Mario Regini
Reviewed by Joseph LaPalombara

Israel, Egypt, and the Palestinians: From Camp David to Intifada, Ann Mosely Lesch and Mark Tessler
Reviewed by Naomi Weinberger

Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam, William Colby and James McCargar
Reviewed by Lloyd C. Gardner

Intergovernmental Relations in the American Administrative State, Jesse Burkhead and David Welborn
Reviewed by Donald F. Kettl

The Transformation of the U.S. Senate, Barbara Sinclair
Reviewed by Joseph Cooper

Regulation and the Reagan Era: Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest, Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle
Reviewed by Paul L. Posner

The People's Religion: American Faith in the 90's, George Gallup, Jr. and Jim Castelli
Reviewed by Andrew Greeley

Congress, the President, and Public Policy, Michael L. Mezey
Reviewed by Eric M. Uslaner

Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies, Joseph V. Montville
Reviewed by Lewis A. Coser

The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World, Roy Allison
Reviewed by Zalmay Khalilzad

The Truman Presidency, Michael J. Lacey
Reviewed by Herbert S. Parmet

Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO 1945-1985, William Preston, Jr., Edward S. Herman and Herbert I. Schiller
Reviewed by Donald J. Puchala

The U.S.-Turkish-NATO Middle East Connection: How the Truman Doctrine and Turkey's NATO Entry Contained the Soviets in the Middle East, George McGhee
Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan

Between Lausanne and Geneva: International Conferences and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Abraham Ben-Zvi
Reviewed by William B. Quandt

Tribune of the People: The Minnesota Legislature and Its Leadership, Royce Hanson, Charles Backstrom and Patrick McCormack
Reviewed by Gerald Benjamin

Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in Europe: The Stockholm Conference, Carl C. Krehbiel
Reviewed by Philip Gordon

Roosevelt and Hitler: Prelude to War, Robert Edwin Herzstein
Reviewed by David M. Kennedy

Conflicts Unending: The United States and Regional Disputes, Richard N. Haass
Reviewed by John Spanier

Friends and Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy, George J. Borjas
Reviewed by Eli Ginzberg

Development Aid and Human Rights, Katarina Tomasevski
Reviewed by David P. Forsythe

Intervention and Underdevelopment, Jon V. Kofas
Reviewed by Harry J. Psomiades

Red Revolution: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement, Gregg R. Jones
Reviewed by John Bresnan