The Reagan and Bush years left us with a troublesome dilemma: how to balance our budget deficit against our social deficit. This book takes up the urgent question of how, in a time of budgetary stringency, we can meet the pent-up demand for spending on our nation's neglected poor, ill, and...

Analyzing the role of business in environmental policy -- Agenda setting -- Framing ANWR -- Business, elections, and the environment -- Policy formulation and adoption: the U.S. Congress -- Deep freeze -- Congress and clean air policy -- Policy implementation in administrative agencies --...

The economics of inequality -- The politics of inequality -- The funding and biases of American politics -- History and reform efforts -- The problem of government -- The need for public financing -- Organizing for democracy

The man and the moment -- The politics of capture -- Continuity and collusion -- Missing a rendezvous with reform -- Crony capitalism -- Obama's loyal opposition -- Political malpractice -- Change we can believe in

"A narrative history of the gains in economic and political equality in the United States starting in the 1870s. Argues that many of these gains have been reversed since the 1960s, and proposes solutions for reversing this downward spiral"--Provided by publisher