在过去三十年中，政治制度和行为的巨大变化突显了美国政治的动态性质，政治科学家面临着一个新的紧迫的思想议程。战后早期学者的开创性工作，为当代学术奠定了坚实的经验基础，但没有考虑美国政治如何改变或认识到使根本变革不可避免的力量。在重新评估这些经典研究所促成的静态解释时，政治学家现在正在研究导致变革的潜在动力。
《改变美国政治》汇集了论述变革四个密切相关方面的文本和专著。第一个问题是记录和解释美国政治在制度、过程、行为和决策方面的最新变化。第二是重新解释经典研究和理论，为战后政治提供更准确的视角。该系列着眼于历史变化，以确定美国政治独特时代内部和整个时代政治变革的反复模式。最后，或许也是最重要的一点，该系列提出了新的理论和解释，解释了工作中的动态过程，从而阐明了当代政治的方向。所有这些书都集中在美国政治行为以及我们研究和理解其许多方面的方式的变革这一中心主题上。
Broken Contract?: Changing Relationships Between Americans And Their Government
Dramatic changes in political institutions and behavior over the past three decades have underscored the dynamic nature of American politics, confronting political scientists with a new and pressing intellectual agenda. The pioneering work of early postwar scholars, while laying a firm empirical foundation for contemporary scholarship, failed to consider how American politics might change or recognize the forces that would make fundamental change inevitable. In reassessing the static interpretations fostered by these classic studies, political scientists are now examining the underlying dynamics that generate transformational change.
Transforming American Politics brings together texts and monographs that address four closely related aspects of change. A first concern is documenting and explaining recent changes in American politics—in institutions, processes, behavior, and policymaking. A second is reinterpreting classic studies and theories to provide a more accurate perspective on postwar politics. The series looks at historical change to identify recurring patterns of political transformation within and across the distinctive eras of American politics. Last and perhaps most important, the series presents new theories and interpretations that explain the dynamic processes at work and thus clarify the direction of contemporary politics. All of the books focus on the central theme of transformation—transformation in both the conduct of American politics and in the way we study and understand its many aspects.
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