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9780878408672

Seeking the Center: Politics and Policymaking at the New Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780878408672

  • ISBN10:

    0878408673

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr
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Summary

A successor to Martin A. Levin and Marc K. Landy's influential The New Politics of Public Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), this book will be vital reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science and public policy, as well as a resource for scholars in both fields. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Martin A. Levin is a professor of politics at Brandeis University Marc Landy is a professor of political science at Boston College Martin Shapiro is the James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vi
Preface vii
PART I Introduction 1(32)
Durability and Change
3(30)
Martin A. Levin
Marc K. Landy
PART II Taxing and Spending 33(78)
Budgeting More, Deciding Less
35(19)
Eric M. Patashnik
From Expansion to Austerity: The New Politics of Taxing and Spending
54(27)
Paul Pierson
Four Pathways of Power: Probing the Political Dynamics of Federal Tax Policy in the Turbulent 1980s and 1990s
81(30)
David R. Beam
Timothy J. Conlan
PART III Rights Policies 111(80)
Immigration Reform Redux
113(19)
Peter H. Schuck
Republican Efforts to End Affirmative Action: Walking a Fine Line
132(40)
John David Skrentny
On the Resilience of Rights
172(19)
Thomas F. Burke
PART IV Social Welfare Policy 191(120)
The Evolving Old Politics of Social Security
193(22)
Martha Derthick
The Politics of Rights Retraction: Welfare Reform from Entitlement to Block Grant
215(24)
Steven M. Teles
Timothy S. Prinz
The New Politics of the Working Poor
239(25)
Christopher Howard
Dead on Arrival? New Politics, Old Politics, and the Case of National Health Reform
264(28)
Cathie Jo Martin
The New Politics of the Census
292(19)
Peter Skerry
PART V Foreign Trade 311(26)
The Postwar Liberal Trade Regime: Resilience under Pressure
313(24)
David Vogel
PART VI Durability and Change 337(102)
Much Huffing and Puffing, Little Change
339(11)
David R. Mayhew
Bill Clinton and the Politics of Divided Democracy
350(31)
Sidney M. Milkis
Two-Tier Politics Revisited
381(20)
Wilson Carey McWilliams
Exit ``Equality,'' Enter ``Fairness''
401(24)
Eugene Bardach
The Politics and Policy of the Regulated Market, Efficiency-Constrained Welfare State
425(14)
Martin Shapiro
Contributors 439(4)
Index 443

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