Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency

Erscheinungsjahr 1990
ISBN: 978-0-8018-3922-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Now that the front page belongs to George Bush, what are analysts saying about Ronald Reagan? And how will the Reagan legacy shape policy and politics into the next century? Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency offers the latest thinking of nineteen leading president-watchers. Edited by Larry Berman, the volume appraises the administration's policies and initiatives and speculates about what the Reagan years will mean to the future.

Robert Pastor describes Reagan's failure in Latin America and the problems that remain for Bush. Condoleezza Rice examines the unexpected transformation of relations with the Soviets. Walter Murphy looks at Reagan's far-reaching impact on the courts. Additional discussions of congressional relations, tax policy, electoral politics, the institution of the presidency—and an insightful Afterword by Richard Neustadt—make this a challenging and comprehensive look at the "Reagan Revolution."

No president since F.D.R. so redefined the parameters of political debate in America. Yet for all his popular success, Reagan's lasting influence is far from clear. What will his legacy mean to future generations? Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency is a fascinating preview from the scholars who will find the history in the Reagan years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berman, Larry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part I. The Legacy of the Reagan Years
Chapter 1. Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency
Chapter 2. Thinking about the Reagan Years
Part II. Foreign Policy
Chapter 3. The Centrality of Central America
Chapter 4. The Middle East
Chapter 5. U.S.-Soviet Relations
Part III. Economic and Fiscal Policy
Chapter 6. Constitutional Principles and Economic Policy
Chapter 7. Ideology and Economic Policy
Chapter 8. Reagan's Tax Policy
Part IV. Institutional Change
Chapter 9. From Nixon's Problem to Reagan's Achievement: The Federal Executive Reexamined
Chapter 10. The Presidency after Reagan: Don't Change It—Make It Work
Chapter 11. Reagan's Judicial Strategy
Part V. Electoral and Congressional Relations
Chapter 12. After the Reagan Revolution: A Postelectoral Politics?
Chapter 13. The Ruptured Legacy: Presidental-Congressional Relations in Historical Perspective
Chapter 14. Meager Patrimony: The Reagan Era and Rpublican Representation in Congress
Part VI. Postscript
Chapter 15. Looking Back: Meanings and Puzzles
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berman, Larry
Larry Berman is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Among his books are Lyndon Johnson's War, Planning a Tragedy, and The New American Presidency.