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Donkey Work : Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974-1994 /

"What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s? Most political histories assume that the latter third of the twentieth century belongs to the American conservative movement. But narratives of conservative triumph and liberal disintegration cannot account for the policy failures that con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Andelic, Patrick Kieron, 1987- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "We came here to take the Bastille" : the midterm elections of 1974 and the Watergate babies
  • "The last election means the buck stops here" : the Democratic Congress struggles with Ford, 1975-1976
  • Peanuts : the early frustrations of the Carter years, 1976-1978
  • Persona non Carter : the Democratic party searches for an alternative, 1978-1980
  • Marauders at the gates : the Democratic Congress defends the new deal state, 1981-1984
  • "Reaganism with a human face" : the rise of the neoliberals, 1980-1992
  • Epilogue : 1994-the end of the permanent Democratic Congress.