Description
A Brief History of Public Policy Since the New Deal traces the development of national domestic policy from the Great Depression through the early Trump years. A chronological look that illuminates the cumulative effects of policy change, the book also focuses on themes such as the interplay of ideas, events, politics, and people; models such as incrementalism, multiple streams, and punctuated equilibrium; the importance of foreign policy issues to the development of domestic policy; and features including the importance of problem definition and the “law of unanticipated consequences.” Following the narrative, each chapter includes a summary of seven key policy areas: economic policy, social welfare, civil rights, environmental and education policy, moral/cultural issues, and federalism. The material is organized by eras identified by presidencies and by whether the era represented a burst of policymaking, made possible because key inputs of ideas, events, politics, and people aligned for change, or a rough equilibrium. Although presidencies are used to define eras, the role of all the institutions are given their due.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Public Policy Since the New Deal
Chapter One: The New Deal
Chapter Two: The Truman-Eisenhower Equilibrium
Chapter Three: The New Frontier/Great Society
Chapter Four: The Nixon-Ford-carter Equilibrium
Chapter Five: The Reagan Revolution
Chapter Six: The Bush-Clinton Equilibrium
Chapter Seven: George W. Bush and the Republican Non-breakout
Chapter Eight: New Directions in the Wake of the Great Recession?
The Obama and Trump “Transformations”
Conclusion
Product details
| Published | Sep 10 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 248 |
| ISBN | 9781538128282 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Illustrations | 10 b/w photos; 2 charts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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