Description
This is a sweeping narrative of American domestic public policy—its triumphs, struggles, and failures over the past 120 years. In a larger sense, it is a reflection on how the United States has grown and matured, faced challenges and opportunities, and how its federal leaders and policymakers have responded or failed to confront pressing problems. Moreover, American Public Policy addresses the hurdles and challenges that still lie ahead.
Four critical questions are posed and answered. First, what were the most significant adversities endured by the American people? Second, what were the landmark domestic policies crafted by the president, enacted by Congress, or issued in Supreme Court decisions? Third, what did they fail to do? Finally, how well have federal policymakers met the key challenges facing America: income inequality, racism, financial crises, terrorist attacks, climate change, gun violence, and other pressures? And what do we still need to do?
This book reaches out to students of public policy, American government, US history, and contemporary affairs, as well as to citizens, journalists, and policy practitioners.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Chapter 1 The Progressive Era Begins: 1901-1912
Chapter 2 Success and Backlash of Progressive Policy: 1913-1920
Chapter 3 The Return to "Normalcy" and the Onset of the Depression: 1921-1932
Chapter 4 The New Deal: 1933-1941
PART TWO: THE WAR YEARS, POST-WAR AND MODERN AMERICA
Chapter 5 War, Recovery and Readjustment: 1941-1952
Chapter 6 America at Midcentury: 1953-1960
Chapter 7 The New Frontier and Great Society: 1961-1968
Chapter 8 Watergate, Distrust and Malaise: 1969-1980
PART THREE: POLARIZATION, GROWING INEQUALITY, AND DIFFICULT CHOICES
Chapter 9 Conversative Dominance: 1981-1992
Chapter 10 Coming Into the Twenty-first Century: 1993-2000
Chapter 11 Vulnerable America: 2001-2008
Chapter 12 Polarized America: 2009-2016
Chapter 13 Democracy Challenged: 2017-2022
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