Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-391) and index.
Actors and events -- Constitutional abdication -- Coercion -- Miscalculation -- Ideological collusion -- Collective alignment: three processes -- Diffusion -- The production of consent -- Vacillations, convergence -- The consistency of inconsistency -- The event as statement -- Appendixes: A. Counts and accounts -- B.A two-pronged model of alignment