This book is a practical and realistic blueprint for change in the U.S. government. The contributors, a bi-partisan group of government leaders and academics, draw on their wide-ranging experience within Congress, the White House, and the bureaucracy.

Other Titles Published by Westview Press in Cooperation with The Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The System CAN Work: The Trade Act of 1979 -- Congress and the Legislative Veto: Choices Since the Chadha Decision -- The Many Faces of Congressional Budgeting -- The War Powers Resolution: A Continuing Constitutional Struggle -- Congress: Defense and the Foreign Policy Process -- Foreign Policy Making on the Hill -- Interest Groups and Lobbying -- Steering Committee Report: Policy Paper on Legislative-Executive Reform

Robert E. Hunter is director of European studies at CSIS and a contributing editor of The Washington Quarterly.

Wayne L. Berman, a Washington lobbyist with the firm of Berman, Bergner, and Boyette, Inc., codirects CSIS's programs on Executive-Legislative Relations and National Elections Reform.

John F. Kennedy is staff director of the Commission on National Elections and is assistant director of CSIS's European Studies Program.