Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Richard Himelfarb
I. The New Democrat Perspective
Chapter 1 – A New Democratic Party? Bill Clinton As a Public Philosopher and Party Leader (pp. 3-18)
Stephen K. Medvic (Franklin & Marshall College, Department of Government, Lancaster, PA, US)
Chapter 2 – Complex Man, Complex Legacy (pp. 19-20)
Elaine C. Kamarck (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US)
II. Domestic Economic Policy
Chapter 3 – President Clinton‘s Economic Policy and Approach to Decision-Making (pp. 23-30)
Robert E. Rubin (Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY, US)
III. Trade Policy
Chapter 4 – Adapting to a Changing Global Economy (pp. 33-38)
Mickey Kantor (Partner, Mayer Brown, Washington, D.C., US)
IV. Antitrust and Business Regulation
Chapter 5 – Antitrust and Business Regulation: The Clinton Administration‘s ―New Democrat Approach to Antitrust Policy (pp. 41-52)
Larry Bumgardner (Pepperdine University, Graziadio School of Business and Management, Weslake Village, CA, US)
V. Science and Technology Policy
Chapter 6 – Information Technology and the Clinton Administration: Proactive Leadership in Turbulent Times (pp. 53-62)
Laura Lally (Department of Information Technology, Hofstra University, NY, US)
VI. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Chapter 7 – The First Black President‖? Bill Clinton and Civil Rights (pp. 65-74)
Peter B. Levy (Department of History and Political Science, York College, York, PA, US)
Chapter 8 – President Clinton‘s Outreach to African Americans (pp. 75-78)
Ben Johnson (Assistant to the President, and Director of The President’s Initiative on One America)
VII. Gun Control
Chapter 9 – Clinton and Gun Control: Boon or Bane? (pp. 81-92)
Robert J. Spitzer (Department of Political Science, SUNY Cortland, NY, US)
VIII. Welfare Reform
Chapter 10 – Welfare Reform: Is the Past Prologue? (pp. 95-100)
Peter Edelman (Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., US)
Chapter 11 – What Third Way? Clinton, New Democrats and Social Policy Reform (pp. 101-112)
Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan (Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan Campus, Saskatoon, SK, Canada)
Chapter 12 – What Clinton Actually Did in Welfare Reform (pp. 113-116)
Lawrence M. Mead (Department of Politics, New York University, NY, US)
Chapter 13 – Ending Welfare As We Know It Was Clinton‘s Idea (pp. 117-120)
Bruce Reed (Office of the Vice President, The White House, Washington, DC, US)
IX. Health Care Reform
Chapter 14 – False Promises: Lessons from Three Health Care Reform Catastrophes (pp. 123-140)
Richard Himelfarb (Department of Political Science, Hofstra University, NY, US)
Chapter 15 – The Politics of Universal Health Insurance: Understanding the Clinton Administration‘s Troubled Effort at Comprehensive Reform (pp. 141-154)
Theodore R. Marmor (Department of Public Policy and Management & Department of Political Science, Yale University, CT, US)
Chapter 16 – The New Democrats ―Got It Wrong (pp. 155-158)
Bruce C. Vladeck (Senior Adviser, Nexera Inc., New York, NY, US)
Chapter 17 – Clinton Made Health Care a Presidential Issue (pp. 159-162)
Chris Jennings (Jennings Policy Strategies, Washington, D.C., US)
X. Education Policy
Chapter 18 – Clinton‘s Leadership Role in Education (pp. 165-170)
Richard W. Riley (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Washington, DC, US)
XI. The Environment
Chapter 19 – President William Jefferson Clinton‘s Environmental Executive Orders (pp. 173-184)
Graham G. Dodds (Political Science Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
About the Contributors
Index