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A uniquely balanced look at the Great Society and its aftermath, this work describes and evaluates America's key social policy initiatives from Presidents Johnson to Reagan.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Book One. Background 1. Themes and Premises The Great Society in 1984: Relic or Reality? / Robert Wood 17 Is New Federalism the Wave of the Future? / William Schamabra 24 2. The Macroeconomic Context The Evolution of Economic Policy / Barry Bosworth 32 Tax Reform from 1964 to 1984-A Brief Retrospective / Joseph Pechman 42 Book Two. Problems, Policies, Programs, and Evaluation 1. The Discovery of Poverty Poverty in the United States / Paul Ylvisaker 51 War on Poverty: Assumptions, History, and Results / Bernard Gifford 60 2. The Programmatic Legacy Did the Great Society and Subsequent Initiatives Work? / Sar Levitan and Clifford Johnson 73 Creating Jobs for Americans: From MDTA to Industrial Policy / Peter Edelman 91 Six Welfare Questions Still Searching for Answers / Henry Aaron 105 Random Reflections on the Great Society's Politics and Health Care Programs After Twenty Years / Wilbur Cohen 113 3. Restructuring the Urban Environment Revitalizing the Cities: From Great Expectations to a New Realism / Marshall Kaplan 121 Downtown Shopping Malls and the New Public-Private Strategy / Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn 130 4. Use and Misuse of Information Observations on the Role of the Media in Covering the War on Poverty / Ian Menzies 148 The Role of the Media in Shaping Public Policy: The Myth of Power and the Power of Myth / Charles Green 152 Social Science and the Great Society / Richard Nathan 163 5. The Impact on the Structure of Governance Fiscal Federalism in the 1980s: Dismantling or Rationalizing the Great Society / Robert Reischauer 179 The Nature and Systemic Impact of "Creative Federalism" / David Walker 197 The Great Society and the Growth of "Juridicial Federalism"-Protecting Civil Rights and Welfare / David Rosenbloom 208 Conclusion-Great Society, Past, Present, and Possible Future 216 Notes 229 Index 247 Contributors 253


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822305897
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 662 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822305895
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jun 1986
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Twenty Years of U.S. Social Policy


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