"All people want to talk about these days is the Republican "revolution" in the process and substance of public policy. This collection of essays gives us a framework for assessing the novelty of the `revolution" and, more importantly, for grounding today"s policy developments in the changes in American politics and political philosophy over the past two decades."-Richard A. Brody, Stanford University. "An ambitious, provocative book that develops a powerful argument explaining how and why policy innovation is more characteristic of the American system than gridlock."-Thomas E. Mann, The Brookings Institution. "In this book many of the most distinguished analysts of American public policies and processes offer fresh, challenging, and often illuminating commentaries."-Austin Ranney, University of California, Berkeley