Building Coalitions, Making Policy

The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvMartin A. Levin,Daniel DiSalvo,Martin M. Shapiro,Martin A. (Brandeis University) Levin,Daniel (City College of New York) DiSalvo,University of California at Berkeley) Shapiro, Martin M. (James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law,Martin A Levin,Daniel Disalvo,Martin M Shapiro

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In an age when partisan politics has reached a deafening-and arguably impotent-pitch, how does the real work of politics get done? This book opens the door on backroom politics and gives readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers from three presidential administrations to get past the naysayers and effect real and lasting policy changes. The editors take a comparative approach, offering a thorough overview of policymaking during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, with further discussion of President Obama's successful and failed attempts to build coalitions and get past no. The contributors, a national network of prominent political scientists, reveal the sausage-making of politics and policy. Readers can almost see the political players in the proverbial smoke-filled room, shirtsleeves rolled up and BlackBerrys in hand, developing the strategies and hammering out the compromises designed to hold the party base while winning over independent voters.Combining an insider's perspective with actual case studies, the volume examines the policymaking behind such programs as: No Child Left Behind; tax cuts; Social Security privatization; Medicare prescription drug reform; education and immigration reform; environmental policy; judicial politics; and, national security. Covering all major areas of policymaking, "Building Coalitions, Making Policy" gives instructors in political science, public administration and policy, American government, and American presidential studies plenty of provocative examples for classroom debate.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-07-30
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9781421405094

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Martin A. Levin is a professor of politics at Brandeis University. His latest book is Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics of Regulatory Reform. Daniel DiSalvo is an assistant professor of political science at the City College of New York (CUNY) and author of Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics. Martin M. Shapiro is the James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Law and Politics in the Supreme Court.

Acknowledgments Introduction. Getting Past No: Building Coalitions and Making Policy from Clinton to Bush to ObamaChapter 1. The Electoral Connection and the Dissonant Game of Coalition Building in an Era of Partisan PolicymakingChapter 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 ObamaChapter 5. The Bush Administration and the Politics of Medicare ReformChapter 6. A Solution for All Seasons: The Politics of Tax Reduction in the Bush AdministrationChapter 7. The Bush Administration and the Uses of Judicial PoliticsChapter 8. A Feint to the Center, a Move Backward: Bush's Clear Skies Initiative and the Politics of PolicymakingChapter 9. National Security, the Electoral Connection, and Policy Choice Chapter 10. The Dynamics of Presidential Policy Choice and PromotionChapter 11. Touching the Bases: Parties and Policymaking in the Twenty- First Century Chapter 12. Bush's "Our Crowd"Chapter 13. Politics, Elections, and PolicymakingList of ContributorsIndex

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