Volume 34, Number 5 · March 26, 1987
The Political Impasse
By Thomas Byrne Edsall
Political Parties in the American Mold
by Leon D. Epstein
University of Wisconsin Press, 440 pp., $27.50
The Paradox of Mass Politics: Knowledge and Opinion in the American Electorate
by W. Russell Neuman
Harvard University Press, 241 pp., $12.50 (paper)
Two years ago, after President Reagan's 1984 landslide, Republican strategists saw the 1988 presidential election as an opportunity to solidify the GOP's substantial gains in their long campaign to make the country Republican. The 1986 election and the Iran–contra scandal have not only severely damaged those expectations; they have revealed weaknesses in both political parties and in their leadership, leaving a tangled prospect for the next few years.
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