Popular distrust and the entrenchment of government by
professionals lie at the root of America's most pressing political
problems. How did U.S. politics get to this point? Contemporary
American politics got much of its shape from the transformations
brought about from the 1950s to the 1980s. Presidential and
congressional behavior, voting behavior, public opinion, public
policy and federalism were all reconfigured during that time and
many of those changes persist to this day and structure the
political environment in the early twenty-first century. Throughout
American history, parties have been a reliable instrument for
translating majority preferences into public policy. From the 1950s
to the 1980s, a gradual antiparty realignment, alongside the growth
of professional government, produced a new American political
system of remarkable durability - and remarkable dysfunction. It is
a system that is paradoxically stable despite witnessing frequent
shifts in party control of the institutions of government at the
state and national level. Schier and Eberly's system-level view of
American politics demonstrates the disconnect between an
increasingly polarized and partisan elite and an increasingly
disaffected mass public.
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