President's Agenda Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Clinton

Name: President's Agenda Domestic Policy Choice from Kennedy to Clinton
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ISBN: 9780801860669

ISBN-10: 0801860660

ISBN-13: 9780801860669

Edition: 3rd 1999

Authors: Paul Light

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In this third edition of The President's Agenda, Paul Light brings his acclaimed study up to date by weighing the successes and failures of the Bush and Clinton presidencies in setting a legislative agenda of domestic issues for Congress. The most noticeable development, according to Light, is the shrinking of the agenda and the absence of fresh new ideas. Explaining the emergence of "the derivative Presidency," he attributes this increasingly limited agenda to the problems associated with the end of the welfare state, the thickening of government, the problems of the budget, the "Reagan effect," and the changing nature of party politics. With Light's latest judgments and insights, The…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



list of tables


preface to the third edition


acknowledgments


introduction



presidents and resources



the opportunities for choice



selecting the issues



the source of ideas



defining the alternatives



selecting the alternatives



presidential priorities



presidential choice



a no win presidency



the Reagan experience



short-term-itis



the derivative presidency


appendixes


bibliography


index