Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era. Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American politics in the last half century has been the rise of the Right Considers the achievements and frustrations of each administration, from Nixon to Obama, in its assessment of contemporary U.S. politics Features authorship by an expert scholar in the field who takes a thematic rather than a partisan approach to recent American politics 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 INDICE: List of Illustrations .Preface .Introduction: 1968 The End of an Era .1 The Politics of Cynicism, 1968 1974 .The Southern Strategy and the Shaping of a New Majority .Conservatism as Reform .The Politics of War and Detente .Watergate and Its Aftermath .2 The Futility of Moderation, 1974 1976 .The Politics of Forgiveness .President as Political Prisoner .Detente Derailed .3 Dashed Hopes, 1976 – 1980 .Fractured Majority .Threading the Needle .The Abandonment of Idealism .4 Dogma and (More) Disappointment, 1980 1988 .The Rise of the Right–wing .Reaganomics .Culture Wars and Party Politics .Reagan?s World .5 Squandering the Inheritance, 1988 – 1992 .Succession by Hardball .The Bills Come Due .New World (Dis)Order .6 The Deepening Divide, 1992 2000 .The Illusion of Liberal Revival .The Politics of Triangulation .Quest for a Post–Cold War Foreign Policy .Crises of the Clinton Presidency .7 The Politics of Polarization, 2000 2008 .Ultimate Deadlock: Bush v. Gore .The Politics of Anti–terrorism .Invented Mandate .The U.S. vs. the World .8 The Politics of Red and Blue, since 2008 .The Politics of Hope .Government by Dysfunction .Politics as Trench Warfare .Conclusion: Deadlock and Disillusionment .Bibliographical Essay .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-93434-0
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés