I: Background and Issues
1: Introduction
2: Party Coalitions and the 1980 Election
3: The Two-Party System: A Personal Reflection
II: The Party Systems
4: Party Coalitions and the Search for Modern Values: 1820-1970
5: Coalitional and Party Transformations in the 1890s
6: Party Coalitions in the Early Twentieth Century
7: The Shifting Party Coalitions -from the 1930s to the 1970s
III: Contemporary Politics
8: Coalition and Faction in American Politics: An Institutional View
9: Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives
IV: The 1980 Campaign
10: The Republican Strategy and Its Electoral Consequences
11: The Democratic Strategy and Its Electoral Consequences
V: Realignment in the 1980 Election
12: Catholics and the Democrats: Estrangement but Not Desertion
13: Jewish Political Shift? Erosion, Yes
Conversion, No*
14: Decay in Regional Party Coalitions: 1952-1980
VI: The Future of American Politics
15: Developing a "Grand Coalition"
16: Toward Confrontation?
17: The Prospects for Reaganomics
18: More Independent Presidential Candidacies?
19: The New American Majority
20: The Republican Prospects
VII: Conclusion
21: The American Party System: Concluding Observations
