1. Politics, polls, and poltergeists

   • Leo Bogart

   Feature Article Pages: 8 - 16

2. Strange bedfellows: Ideology, politics, and drug legalization

   • Erich Goode

   Feature Article Pages: 18 - 27

3. Security: The achilles heel of electronic commerce

   • James P. Backhouse

   Feature Article Pages: 28 - 31

4. The nature of civil society

   • John A. Hall

   Feature Article Pages: 32 - 41

5. Making cents: Better city services for less

   • John C. Weicher

   Social Science & Public Policy Pages: 42 - 44

6. Livable cities for the 21^st century

   • Patricia Annez

   Social Science & Public Policy Pages: 45 - 50

7. The vital center: 50 years later

   • Arthur M. Schlesinger

   Profile Pages: 52 - 55

8. From movable print to pay TV

   • Dietrich Ratzke

   Culture and Society Pages: 56 - 60

9. The vertical division of the European welfare state

   • Anton C. Zijderveld

   Society Abroad Pages: 62 - 71

10. Confronting infectious diseases

    • Anne Platt McGinn

    Special Feature Pages: 72 - 83

11. Books in review

    • Lauren Weiner
    • Malham M. Wakin
    • William A. Donohue

    BookReview Pages: 84 - 95

12. Social science and the citizen

    Departments Pages: A2 - A2

13. Letters to the editor

    • Daniel J. Mahoney
    • Stephen R. Graubard
    • Daniel Bell

    Departments Pages: A5 - A6

14. Social science books of the month

    Departments Pages: A84 - A84