1. Editor's note

   • Heinz Eulau

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 6

2. Party strategies, world demand, and unemployment in Britain and the United States, 1947–1983

   • James E. Alt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 36

3. Consistency in policy thinking

   • Paul Allen Beck
   • Suzanne Parker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 56

4. The decline of partisanship in the United States: A reexamination of the neutrality hypothesis

   • Stephen C. Craig

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 78

5. The vice-presidential succession effect: Individual or situational basis?

   • Dean Keith Simonton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 99

6. Voter turnout in presidential primaries: A cross-sectional examination

   • Patrick J. Kenney
   • Tom W. Rice

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 112