The extraordinary swings in the scope and content of the policy agenda during the first Clinton administration revealed a fundamental partisan divide over the social role of the federal government. This book argues that the recent conflicts over social policy represent key elements in strategies that parties designed in an attempt to consolidate their hold over the federal government. Long frustrated by divided government, each party exceeded its electoral mandate in hopes of enacting major policy reforms aimed to shift politics in their direction for the foreseeable future.
The book...
The extraordinary swings in the scope and content of the policy agenda during the first Clinton administration revealed a fundamental partisan divi...
The mission of the "Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects" series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.
Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional resilience, explaining how resilience can be promoted--or impeded--by regional characteristics and public policies.
The authors illuminate how the walls that now segment metropolitan regions across...
The mission of the "Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects" series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectivenes...
