Reviews
A welcome addition to a public policy course or a course on presidential leadership, and practitioners can learn from it too.
An outstanding collection of essays from a respected group of scholars, this book offers valuable insights on contemporary American politics—in particular, how partisan polarization has affected the policymaking process.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Getting Past No: Building Coalitions and Making Policy from Clinton to Bush to Obama
Chapter 1. The Electoral Connection and the Dissonant Game of Coalition Building in an
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Getting Past No: Building Coalitions and Making Policy from Clinton to Bush to Obama
Chapter 1. The Electoral Connection and the Dissonant Game of Coalition Building in an Era of Partisan Policymaking
Chapter 2. Why LBJ Is Smiling: The Bush Administration, "Compassionate Conservatism," and No Child Left Behind
Chapter 3. Splitting the Coalition: The Political Perils and Opportunities of Immigration Reform
Chapter 4. Embracing the Third Rail? Social Security Politics from Clinton to Obama
Chapter 5. The Bush Administration and the Politics of Medicare Reform
Chapter 6. A Solution for All Seasons: The Politics of Tax Reduction in the Bush Administration
Chapter 7. The Bush Administration and the Uses of Judicial Politics
Chapter 8. A Feint to the Center, a Move Backward: Bush's Clear Skies Initiative and the Politics of Policymaking
Chapter 9. National Security, the Electoral Connection, and Policy Choice
Chapter 10. The Dynamics of Presidential Policy Choice and Promotion
Chapter 11. Touching the Bases: Parties and Policymaking in the Twenty- First Century
Chapter 12. Bush's "Our Crowd"
Chapter 13. Politics, Elections, and Policymaking
List of Contributors
Index