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Loss of confidence : politics and policy in the 1970s / edited by David Brian Robertson.
- Title
- Loss of confidence : politics and policy in the 1970s / edited by David Brian Robertson.
- Publication
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Robertson, David Brian, 1951-
- Description
- 180 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "As the oil shortages, inflation, and unemployment of the 1970s disrupted American lives and the Watergate scandal rocked the presidency, faith in the future of the nation and its leaders was severely damaged. This volume, which is the product of a unique collaboration of distinguished scholars from history and political science, offers a probing analysis of the causes, processes, and consequences of this erosion of faith in public solutions to our country's problems." "At the beginning of the decade, a confident American public and its leaders still embraced the government activism that was the legacy of the New Deal. But grave doubts about the efficacy of public policy - fueled by Watergate, Vietnam, stagflation, energy crises, and intensely controversial social policies - undermined this public trust as the decade wore on, until by the end tax revolts were breaking out across the country. Describing government as the problem, not the solution, Ronald Reagan broke with tradition to set a political and policy agenda that has become dominant ever since." "These experts from two disciplines bring their special insights to bear in dissecting the key developments of this decade that have transformed American politics in the last quarter of the century."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Issues in policy history ; #8
- Uniform Title
- Issues in policy history ; #8.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "Originally published as a special issue of Journal of policy history (vol. 10, no. 1, 1998)"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Loss of Confidence and Policy Change in the 1970s / David Brian Robertson -- Rising Hegemony of Mass Opinion / Joseph Hinchliffe / Paul J. Quirk -- Remaking Government Institutions in the 1970s: Participatory Democracy and the Triumph of Administrative Politics / Sidney M. Milkis -- Populism, Politics, and Public Policy: 1970s Conservatism / J. David Hoeveler -- False Dawn of Poor Law Reform: Nixon, Carter, and the Quest for a Guaranteed Income / Alice O'Connor -- Exorcising Inflation-Mindedness: The Transformation of Economic Management in the 1970s / John T. Woolley -- Tax Revolts and Political Change / Ballard C. Campbell.
- ISBN
- 0271018453 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98026747^
- OCLC
- 39216322
- SCSB-10865843
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library