1. Letters from readers

   • Michael Kleiner
   • Roger L. Hofeldt

   Department Pages: 2 - 2

2. Social science and the citizen

   Departments Pages: 3 - 3

3. Paperwork control

   • Ida R. Hoos

   Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 5 - 8

4. Red tape is here to stay

   • Herbert Kaufman

   Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 9 - 10

5. Statistics and knowledge

   • Judith Innes deNeufville

   Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 10 - 12

6. The democratization of research

   • Leonard D. Goodstein
   • Jeanette Treat Goodstein

   Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 12 - 13

7. Centralizing and limiting information

   • Vernon W. Ruttan

   Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 13 - 14

8. Capturing the paper tiger

   • T. Harrell Allen

   Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 14 - 16

9. Swatting flies with small elephants

   • Arnold J. Meltsner

   Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 16 - 19

10. Determining when data is worth gathering

    • Stuart S. Nagel

    Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 20 - 23

11. More of the same drug

    • Annmarie Hauck Walsh

    Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 23 - 23

12. Keeping it all under control

    • Patrick W. Kennedy

    Controversies: Paperwork Control Pages: 24 - 24

13. Was nixon tough? Dilemmas of american statecraft

    • Aaron Wildavsky

    The Post-Imperial Presidency Pages: 25 - 35

14. Carter tries on the world for size

    • Vincent Davis

    The Post-Imperial Presidency Pages: 36 - 42

15. Citizen participation in the presidential process

    • Richard Rose

    The Post-Imperial Presidency Pages: 43 - 48

16. A call for a politics of institutions, not men

    • Martin A. Levin

    The Post-Imperial Presidency Pages: 49 - 56

17. An imperiled presidency?

    • Thomas E. Cronin

    The Post-Imperial Presidency Pages: 57 - 64

18. Cycles of congressional power

    • Lawrence C. Dodd

    The Post-Imperial Presidency Pages: 65 - 68

19. Law-abiding one-man armies

    • Lawrence K. Northwood
    • Richard Westgard
    • Charles E. Barb

    Special Feature Pages: 69 - 74

20. How the other half still lives

    • Mariana Vega

    Photo Essay Pages: 75 - 78

21. Social science books of the month

    Announcement Pages: 79 - 79

22. Paradigmatics

    • W. W. Rostow
    • Gerald M. Pomper
    • Dorothy Nelkin

    BookReview Pages: 79 - 94