The politics of major policy reform in postwar America / edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Virginia ; Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenkins, Jeffery A., editor.

Milkis, Sidney M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--United States.

Political planning.

Policy sciences.

United States.

Policy sciences--United States.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Political science.

Physical Description:

ix, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"The Politics of Major Policy Reform in Postwar America examines the politics of recent landmark policy in areas such as homeland security, civil rights, health care, immigration, and trade, and it does so within a broad theoretical and historical context. By considering the politics of major programmatic reforms in the United States since the Second World War - specifically, courses of action aimed at dealing with perceived public problems - a group of distinguished scholars sheds light not only on significant efforts to ameliorate widely recognized ills in domestic and foreign affairs but also on systemic developments in American politics and government. In sum, this volume provides a comprehensive understanding of how major policy breakthroughs are achieved, stifled, or compromised in a political system conventionally understood as resistant to major change. Jeffery A. Jenkins is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Faculty Associate in the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. He has published more than thirty articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Studies in American Political Development. He is also the author (with Charles Stewart III) of Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government (2013) and the editor (with Eric M. Patashnik) of Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking (2012)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the rise of a policy state? / Jeffery A. Jenkins and Sidney Milkis

The long 1950s as a policy era / David R. Mayhew

Litigation and reform / Sean Farhang

Courts and agencies in the American civil rights state / R. Shep Melnick

The politics of labor policy reform / Dorian T. Warren

Teachers unions and American education reform : the power of vested interests / Terry M. Moe

Progressive federalism and the contested implementation of Obama's health reform / Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol

Federalism and the politics of immigration reform / Carol M. Swain and Virginia M. Yetter

Trade politics and reform / Judith Goldstein

The politics of intelligence reform / Richard H. Immerman

Follow the leader : major changes to homeland security and terrorism policy / Jennifer L. Merolla and Paul Pulido

Conclusion : Madison upside-down : the policy roots of our polarized politics / Paul Pierson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107034983

1107034981

9781107668485

1107668484

OCLC:

873902588

Publisher Number:

99960746436

40024266331

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