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  Title

  The United States since 1980

  Author

  Baker, Dean.  

  Publisher:

  Cambridge University Press,

  Pub date:

  2007.

  Pages:

  1 online resource (290 pages)

  ISBN:

  9780511273155

  Copy info:

  1 copy for Website.
  

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  The United States since 1980
  Baker, Dean.
  

  Personal Author:

  Baker, Dean.

  Title:

  The United States since 1980.

  Published/Produced:

  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  Published/Produced:

  ©2007.

  Physical descrip:

  1 online resource (290 pages)

  Content Type:

  text

  Media Type:

  computer

  Carrier type:

  online resource

  Series:

  (The World Since 1980)

  Contents:

  Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Turning Away: The United States Breaks Ranks -- Changing the Ground Rules and Tilting the Field -- The United States and the Other Rich Countries: 1980 and 2005 -- Trends in Wage Inequality -- Unionization Rates -- Noneconomic Measures of Well-Being -- Productivity, Employment, and Output -- Labor, Leisure, and the Environment -- The United States Goes Its Own Way -- APPENDIX: Redistributing Income Upward: Freeing Some Trade, Protecting Some Workers -- Freeing Some Trade, Protecting Some Workers -- Immigration and the Supply of Labor -- Labor-Management Policies -- Federal Reserve Board Policy -- Industry Deregulation and the Minimum Wage -- Tax and Transfer Policy -- 2 Setting the Scene: The United States in 1980 -- The End of the Postwar Golden Age -- The United States and the World in the Post-Vietnam Era -- The Economic Crisis of 1979-1980 -- 3 The Reagan Revolution: Running to the Right -- The 1980 Election -- The General Election -- The Reagan Economic Agenda in Action -- Reagan and the Unions -- The Federal Reserve Board and Inflation -- Social Welfare Protections -- Reagan and Social Policy -- Environmental Policies in the Reagan Years -- Reagan and the World -- The United States and Central America -- The Middle East -- Terrorism and Grenada -- Politics in the Reagan Era -- Tax and Spending Policy in the Later Reagan Years -- 4 The Reagan Revolution Becomes Institutionalized -- U.S.-Soviet Relations in the Late Reagan Years -- The 1988 Presidential Campaign -- The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe -- The Winding Down of Conflicts in Central America -- The First Iraq War -- The Collapse of the Soviet Union -- Trouble at Home -- The Battle over the Supreme Court -- The Rodney King Incident.

  Contents Note:

  The 1992 Election -- The Early Clinton Years -- The Battle over NAFTA -- Striking Out on Health Care -- 5 The Republican Tidal Wave and the Clinton Boom -- Clinton and the Republican Congress: Triangulation -- The 1996 Election -- The Clinton Boom Takes Off -- Politics in the Second Clinton Administration -- The Impeachment Scandal -- Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years -- The War over Kosovo -- The 2000 Election -- The Long Florida Count -- 6 The Bush Administration and the War on Terrorism -- The September 11 Attack -- The War in Iraq -- The Buildup -- The War -- The Economy in the Bush Years -- The Buildup to the 2004 Election -- President Bush's Second Term -- The Drive to Privatize Social Security -- The Rest of the Second-Term Agenda -- 7 The United States in 2005: The Impact of the Last Quarter Century -- Demographics -- The Status of Women -- The Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities -- The Status of Gay-Lesbian Rights -- Trends in Religious Practices -- The Media in the Internet Age -- Major Trends in Health -- America and the World -- Epilogue: Different Directions, Missed Opportunities -- Bibliography -- Index.

  Access restriction:

  Purchased with a license for unlimited simultaneous UFV users.

  Abstract:

  This book, first published in 2007, describes the sharp right turn the US has taken following Ronald Reagan's election in 1980.

  Local note:

  Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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  Subject term:

  United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.

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