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Deadlock and Disillusionment


Deadlock and Disillusionment

American Politics since 1968
The American History Series 1. Aufl.

von: Gary W. Reichard

22,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 22.02.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781118934371
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 384

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<p><b><i>Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968</i> is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era.</b></p> <ul> <li>Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American politics in the last half century has been the "rise of the Right"</li> <li>Considers the achievements and frustrations of each administration, from Nixon to Obama, in its assessment of contemporary U.S. politics</li> <li>Features authorship by an expert scholar in the field who takes a thematic rather than a partisan approach to recent American politics</li> <li>Offers a concise, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date synthesis of the literature in the field and concludes with a comprehensive bibliographical essay, an aid to student research</li> </ul>
<p>List of Illustrations vii</p> <p>Preface ix</p> <p>Introduction: 1968—The End of an Era 1</p> <p><b>1 The Politics of Cynicism, 1968–1974 5</b></p> <p>The Shaping of a New Majority 7</p> <p>Conservatism as Reform 16</p> <p>The Politics of War and Détente 19</p> <p>Watergate and Its Aftermath 30</p> <p><b>2 The Futility of Moderation, 1974–1976 43</b></p> <p>The Politics of Forgiveness 44</p> <p>President as Political Prisoner 48</p> <p>Détente Derailed 53</p> <p><b>3 Dashed Hopes, 1976–1980 60</b></p> <p>Fractured Majority 61</p> <p>Threading the Needle 73</p> <p>The Abandonment of Idealism 78</p> <p><b>4 Dogma and (More) Disappointment, 1980–1988 89</b></p> <p>The Rise of the Right 90</p> <p>Reaganomics 96</p> <p>Culture Wars and Party Politics 107</p> <p>Reagan's World 117</p> <p><b>5 Squandering the Inheritance, 1988–1992 136</b></p> <p>Succession by Hardball 137</p> <p>The Bills Come Due 144</p> <p>New World (Dis)Order 153</p> <p><b>6 The Deepening Divide, 1992–2000 171</b></p> <p>The Illusion of Liberal Revival 172</p> <p>The Politics of Triangulation 187</p> <p>Quest for a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy 200</p> <p>Crises of the Clinton Presidency 212</p> <p><b>7 The Politics of Polarization, 2000–2008 221</b></p> <p>Ultimate Deadlock: Bush v. Gore 222</p> <p>The Politics of Anti-terrorism 233</p> <p>Imagined Mandate 248</p> <p>The Politics of Certitude 262</p> <p><b>8 The Politics of Red and Blue, since 2008 277</b></p> <p>The Politics of Hope 279</p> <p>Government by Dysfunction 296</p> <p>The Politics of Trench Warfare 315</p> <p>Conclusion: Deadlock and Disillusionment 328</p> <p>Bibliographical Essay 335</p> <p>Index 355</p>
<p><b>Gary W. Reichard</b> is Provost / Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. In addition to teaching post-World War II United States history at the college level, Reichard has taught the history of American political parties and the history of American immigration and ethnicity. He is the author of <i>The Reaffirmation of Republicanism: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Eighty-third Congress and Politics as Usual: The Age of Truman and Eisenhower </i>(2nd Ed.), and is a former member of the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians.</p>
Polarization, divisiveness, and dysfunction are defining features of early 21st-century American politics—with no apparent end in sight. How did we get here? <i>Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968</i> explores the politics and policy debates, from the Nixon administration to the waning days of the Obama presidency, that have shaped the present-day political landscape. Rejecting the conventional wisdom that the recent political era has been characterized by the rise and primacy of the political right, in this latest volume in the distinguished American History Series, Gary Reichard shows how recent decades have been characterized by a hardening deadlock between the parties and increasing disillusionment in the electorate. Initial chapters take us from Nixon’s cynical "Southern strategy" and the emergent Republican majority, to the Watergate scandal and its aftermath, up through the abandonment of idealism in the late 1970s. Themes explored in the decade of the ’80s include the rise of the right-wing politics, culture wars, and Reaganomics—followed by a look at the very real costs of “trickle down” economics. Reichard then traces the deepening divide of the final decade of the twentieth century by exploring such issues as the illusion of a liberal revival, the quest for a post-Cold War foreign policy, and the crises of the Clinton presidency. Coverage of the polarizing politics of the early years of the new millennium includes the divisive resolution of <i>Bush</i> vs. <i>Gore</i> and partisan battles over the war on terrorism. The concluding chapter explores partisanship since 2008 by looking at the politics of hope, government by dysfunction, and the trench warfare that is contemporary politics. Timely and thought-provoking, <i>Deadlock and Disillusionment</i> offers illuminating insights into the roots and evolution of the near permanent state of gridlock that has come to define America’s contemporary political era.

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