Reichard Deadlock and Disillusionment

American Politics since 1968
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-118-93436-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: The American History Series

Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era.
* Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American politics in the last half century has been the "rise of the Right"
* Considers the achievements and frustrations of each administration, from Nixon to Obama, in its assessment of contemporary U.S. politics
* Features authorship by an expert scholar in the field who takes a thematic rather than a partisan approach to recent American politics
* Offers a concise, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date synthesis of the literature in the field and concludes with a comprehensive bibliographical essay, an aid to student research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reichard, Gary W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction: 1968--The End of an Era 1
1 The Politics of Cynicism, 1968-1974 5
The Shaping of a New Majority 7
Conservatism as Reform 16
The Politics of War and Détente 19
Watergate and Its Aftermath 30
2 The Futility of Moderation, 1974-1976 43
The Politics of Forgiveness 44
President as Political Prisoner 48
Détente Derailed 53
3 Dashed Hopes, 1976-1980 60
Fractured Majority 61
Threading the Needle 73
The Abandonment of Idealism 78
4 Dogma and (More) Disappointment, 1980-1988 89
The Rise of the Right 90
Reaganomics 96
Culture Wars and Party Politics 107
Reagan's World 117
5 Squandering the Inheritance, 1988-1992 136
Succession by Hardball 137
The Bills Come Due 144
New World (Dis)Order 153
6 The Deepening Divide, 1992-2000 171
The Illusion of Liberal Revival 172
The Politics of Triangulation 187
Quest for a Post?]Cold War Foreign Policy 200
Crises of the Clinton Presidency 212
7 The Politics of Polarization, 2000-2008 221
Ultimate Deadlock: Bush v. Gore 222
The Politics of Anti?]terrorism 233
Imagined Mandate 248
The Politics of Certitude 262
8 The Politics of Red and Blue, since 2008 277
The Politics of Hope 279
Government by Dysfunction 296
The Politics of Trench Warfare 315
Conclusion: Deadlock and Disillusionment 328
Bibliographical Essay 335
Index 355