Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA first step in identifying important themes for historians and political scientists to reconsider in the future after we have some more time to assess this most paradoxical and puzzling presidency. Perspectives on Political Science
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part I. The Legacy of the Reagan Years
Chapter 1. Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency
Chapter 2. Thinking about the Reagan Years
Part II. Foreign Policy
Chapter 3. The Centrality of Central America
Chapter 4. The Middle East
Chapter 5. U.S.-Soviet Relations
Part III. Economic and Fiscal Policy
Chapter 6. Constitutional Principles and Economic Policy
Chapter 7. Ideology and Economic Policy
Chapter 8. Reagan's Tax Policy
Part IV. Institutional Change
Chapter 9. From Nixon's Problem to Reagan's Achievement: The Federal Executive Reexamined
Chapter 10. The Presidency after Reagan: Don't Change It—Make It Work
Chapter 11. Reagan's Judicial Strategy
Part V. Electoral and Congressional Relations
Chapter 12. After the Reagan Revolution: A Postelectoral Politics?
Chapter 13. The Ruptured Legacy: Presidental-Congressional Relations in Historical Perspective
Chapter 14. Meager Patrimony: The Reagan Era and Rpublican Representation in Congress
Part VI. Postscript
Chapter 15. Looking Back: Meanings and Puzzles
Index
