Studies and the Political Organizations and Parties sections of the American Political Science Association, Maisel is the general editor ofIPolitical Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia/Iand ofIJews in American Politics/I; he is editor ofIThe Parties Respond: Changes in American Parties and Campaigning/I, now in its fourth edition with Westview, co-author ofIParties and Elections in America/I, also now in its fourth edition, and author or co-author of dozens of journal articles and book chapters./Div  (less)

by the National Science Foundation and Duke University. A Howard University Ph.D., her primary research interests are in racial minority group politics, particularly inter-minority political and social competition, and urban politics, especially public policy and urban crime. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including theIJournal of Politics/I,IAmerican Political Science Review/I,IUrban Affairs Review/I, andIAmerican Politics Quarterly/I. Westview Press has published the fourth edition of her bookI“Can We All Get Along? Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics/I, co-authored with Joseph Stewart, Jr. (2005). She is a past vice president of the American Political Science Association, a past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, served as Program Co-Chair for the 1993 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, served as Program Chair for the 1999 annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, served as Vice President of the Midwest Political Science Association, recently served as Vice President and 2002 Program Chair of the Southern Political Science Association, and recently completed her term as a Vice President and Program Co-Chair of the 2003 International Political Science Association World Congress which was held in Durban, South Africa in the summer of 2003. She is currently president of the Southern Political Science Association.BJoseph Stewart, Jr./B(Ph.D., University of Houston, 1977) is Chair of the Political Science Department at Clemson University. His research interests span civil rights policies, racial and ethnic politics, public policy, and educat@JÂ? (õÃÿ¾Û€  (less)

likely to be written on the subject.br—Jay Culbertbr,iThe World Economy/i/p p. . .the political-economic-historical Bible for [US trade policy].br—J. David Richardson, Syracuse University/p pThis is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the most influential and widely read analysis of the US trade policymaking system./p pAwarded the American Political Science Association's Glady Kammerer award for the best book on US national policy, iAmerican Trade Politics/i examines how the US policymaking process enabled the United States to reduce its own import barriers and lead the world toward a more open trading regime. Since the 1970s, enormous political changes, compounded by unprecedented US trade deficits, have brought institutional erosion and some backsliding on trade policy./p pThis second edition summarizes the latest trade policy controversies and congressional activism with fresh material on such matters as the omnibus trade legislation of 1988 and the 1991 debate over fast track authority for negotiations with Mexico toward a North American Free Trade Agreement./p  (less)