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A Testing Time for the US Political System - Nigel Bowles: The Government and Politics of the United States, London, Macmillan, 1993, 414 pp., £42.50. - Iwan W. Morgan: Beyond the Liberal Consensus: A Political History of the United States Since 1965, London, Hurst, 1994, hardback £30.00, paperback £11.95. - Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, Bruce Cain and B. Guy Peters (eds): Developments in American Politics 2, Macmillan, 1994, 416 pp., hardback £40.00, paperback £12.99.

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David McKay
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Government and Opposition , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , 01 October 1995 , pp. 554 - 558
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1 For a discussion of this point see in particular James L. Sundquist, ‘Needed: A Political Theory for the New Era of Coalition Government in the United States’, Political Science Quarterly, 102, 1988, 613–35; also his Constitutional Reform and Effective Government, Washington DC, Brookings, 1987.

2 See in particular Barbara Hinckley, Less than Meets the Eye: Foreign Policy Making and the Myth of the Assertive Congress, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1994; David R. Mayhew, Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946–1900, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991; Paul E. Peterson and Jay P. Greene, ‘Why Executive-Legislative Conflict in the United States is Dwindling,’ British Journal of Political Science, 24, 1994, pp. 33–55.