Introduction: the legacy of the Bush years / Gillian Peele ... [et al.]
A new political agenda? / Gillian Peele
The electoral system and the lessons of 2008 / Bruce E. Cain
Political parties and the new partisanship / Alan Ware
Interest groups / Dorie E. Apollonio
The media / Jonathan Parker
The presidency / Jon Roper
The supreme court / Paul Martin
American federalism in the twenty-first century / Tim Conlan
Environmental politics and policy / Christopher J. Bailey
The American economy in crisis / George A. (Sandy) Mackenzie
American social policy: the possibilities for reform / B. Guy Peters
American foreign policy in the 2010s / Timothy Lynch
The American Constitution at the end of the Bush presidency / Louis Fisher
American immigration policy and politics: an enduring controversy / James F. Hollifield.