The politics of coalition building
Subtitle: the Clinton, Bush, and Obama presidencies
By: edited by Martin A. Levin, Daniel DiSalvo, and Martin M. Shapiro
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781421405087; 9781421405094; 9781421405957
Subjects: Politics and government; Electoral coalitions; Political planning; Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The electoral connection and the dissonant game of coalition building in an era of partisan policymaking / Martin A. Levin and Daniel DiSalvo; title: Why LBJ is smiling: the Bush Administration, "compassionate conservatism," and No Child Left Behind / Frederick Hess; title: Splitting the coalition: the political perils and opportunities of immigration reform / Dan Tichenor; title: Embracing the third rail?: social security politics under Clinton and G.W. Bush / Kent Weaver; title: The Bush Administration and politics of medicare reform / Jonathan Oberlander; title: A solution for all seasons: the politics of tax reduction in the Bush Administration / Tim Conlan and Paul Posner; title: The Bush Administration and the uses of judicial politics / Tom Burke and Nancy Scherer; title: Feign to the center, move backward: Bush's Clear Skies Initiative and the politics of policymaking / David Emer; title: National security, the electoral connection, and policy choice / James Lindsay; title: The dynamics of presidential policy choice and promotion / Daniel Galvin; title: Touching the bases: parties and policymaking in the 21st century / Dan DiSalvo; title: Bush's 'our crowd' / Martin Shapiro; title: Politics, elections and policymaking / David Mayhew.