Pt. I. Politics and society. 1. The Bush nation and the Gore nation / Michael Barone ; 2. The search for a new center / Byron E. Shafer
Pt. II. Elite strategists and mass publics. 3. The invisible primary and the hidden campaign / James A. Barnes ; 4. Dynamics of the 2000 campaign: preliminary soundings / Richard Johnston, Michael G. Hagen, Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Pt. III. Governmental institutions. 5. The presidential transition into a fifty-fifty government, and beyond / Charles O. Jones ; 6. The U.S. Congress in 2001: representation and process / David R. Mayhew ; 7. Judicial activism, 1950-2 / Martin M. Shapiro
Pt. IV. Afterword. 8. How divided is America? / William Schneider.
