Skocpol, Theda. Boomerang : : Clinton's health security effort and the turn against government in U.S. politics / [electronic resource] / Theda Skocpol.. — 1st ed.. — New York : : W.W. Norton & Co.,, c1996.. — xvii, 230 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-217) and index.



Анотація:
Health reform, a popular issue that Bill Clinton and the Democrats skillfully featured in the 1992 campaign, became the spearpoint of the most concerted attack on government in recent American history. One year after it had been introduced to acclaim from almost all quarters, Clinton's compromise plan lay in political wreckage. In this incisive account, a prize-winning Harvard social scientist draws on contemporary documents, media coverage, and confidential White House strategy memos to offer deep insights into the changing terrain of U.S. politics and public policy. President Clinton and his closest advisers thought they had found an ideal "middle way" between excessive government regulation end the play of free market forces in their plan to extend health care coverage to all Americans, not foreseeing that they were creating an ideal target for their political enemies. By 1994 the conservatives needed a cause to attract middle-class voters and unite widespread groups in opposition to the federal government and an already weakened Democratic party. The Health Security bill, as Theda Skocpol discloses, inadvertently became a perfect foil for antigovernment mobilization. Its enemies found it easy to distort while its supporters failed to marshal their forces at a critical time.

ISBN: 0393039706 9780393039702

LCCN: 95039074

Nat. Bib. No.: GB96-54475

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 9608993 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Health care reform--United States.
Social security--History.--United States
Health Care Reform--United States.
Politics--United States.
Social Security--history--United States.
PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
HEALTH SERVICES
SOCIAL SECURITY
SOCIAL POLICY
POLITICAL CONDITIONS
UNITED STATES
Gesundheitspolitik
Geschichte 1992-1994.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social policy--1993-
United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.
USA

Subjects--Index Terms: Health services Policies Of Government United States

LC Class. No.: RA395.A3 / S56 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1/0973

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 1996 F-186 WA 540 AA1 / S52b 1996