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Title The Reagan legacy : promise and performance / edited by Charles O. Jones.

Imprint Chatham, N.J. : Chatham House Publishers, c1988.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.927 R228Drl 1988    ---  Available
Description x, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Charles O. Jones -- Part One: The political institutions -- 1. The style and organization of the Reagan presidency / Bert A. Rockman -- 2. Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Congress: visible-hand politics / Charles O. Jones -- 3. The Reagan judges: his most enduring legacy? / David M. O'Brien -- 4. Reagan and the bureaucracy: the bequest, the promise, and the legacy / Peter M. Benda, Charles H. Levine -- Part Two: The political processes -- 5. Incomplete realignment: the Reagan legacy for parties and elections / Paul Allen Beck -- 6. The Reagan presidency and American public opinion / James W. Ceaser -- Part Three: The public policies -- 7. Lower taxes, more spending, and budget deficits / Paul E. Peterson, Mark Rom -- 8. Reagan and the world: an "awesome stubbornness" / I.M. Destler -- Part Four: Two perspectives -- 9. The view from Europe / Anthony King, David Sanders -- 10. President Reagan as a political strategist / Aaron Wildavsky.
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989.
Reagan, Ronald -- Political and social views.
Added Author Jones, Charles O.
ISBN 0934540713 : $25.00
9780934540711
0934540705 (pbk.) : $14.95
9780934540704 (pbk.)

 
    
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