The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential Leadership / Edition 1

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Overview

Transcending ideological bias, Sloan provides an utterly convincing history of the Reagan Revolution. He reveals Reagan to be a detached and uninformed leader who adopted a supply-side economics that did not work, who championed a conservative ideology that he regularly violated, who accelerated growing inequality without moral qualm, and who avoided hard choices in the mistaken belief that none was necessary. Nonetheless, Sloan lucidly argues, Reagan contributed significantly to the low inflation and revived competitiveness that delivered the remarkable prosperity of the past fifteen years.
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Library Journal
The academic community remains polarized in its assessment of U.S. economic performance during the Reagan years. Sloan political science, Univ. of Houston attempts to evaluate the Left and Right critiques of Reagan's economic legacy and move beyond the polemics to present a balanced evaluation of those contentious years. Sloan discusses the many pluses low inflation, revived competitiveness, increased production and minuses high deficits, a widening income gap, the S & L crisis of the Reagan presidency and concludes that Reagan was a successful political leader whose contribution to the U.S. economy was mixed but positive overall. Reagan's failure to deal with issues of social justice diminishes the claim that he was a "moral leader," but, Sloan argues, his political skill in delivering on his agenda made Reagan a successful president. A valuable addition to the debate on the legacy of the Reagan presidency.--Michael A. Genovese, Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles
Booknews
Sloan (political science, U. of Houston) assesses the views about the US president and his economic policies in light of the impact they have made. Focusing on the debates between conservatives, who hale him as a conservative revolutionary, and liberals, who think of him as Mr. Magoo, he finds that the former give him too much credit and that the latter were wrong in their predictions of gloom. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780700609512
  • Publisher: University Press of Kansas
  • Publication date: 5/28/1999
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 324
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 3.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Contrasting Evaluations of the Reagan Presidency 1
2 Preparing the Stage for Reagan: Carter's Failure as a Political Leader 27
3 Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Movement 53
4 President Reagan's Administrative Formula for Political Success (and a Few Disasters) 79
5 The First Year: Hit the Ground Running 103
6 The Contributions of Tax Policy to Reagan's Political Success 152
7 Unleashing a Disaster: The Reagan Administration's Role in the Savings and Loan Debacle 166
8 The Reagan Administration Copes with Global Interdependence 194
9 Constructing a Conservative Regime for Economic Growth 225
10 The Reagan Presidency, Growing Inequality, and the American Dream 246
11 Conclusion 263
Notes 271
Index 299
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