Darrell West 
Congress and Economic Policy Making [PDF ebook] 

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Economic policymaking has perpetually been one of the central dilemmas facing Congress, leading to huge budget deficits and disagreements among legislators about spending priorities and tax policies.This book examines congressional decision making on economic policy during the Reagan administration. It looks at legislative actions on Reaganomics, tax reform, and the politics of deficit reduction, and shows the importance of looking not just at the consequences of these decisions but also at the legislative processes that led to them.
Using an "activist-based" approach and previously unexamined data, Darrell West shows that district activists, often more conservative than the public at large, exerted a disproportionate and misleading effect on congressional voting. When this support eventually proved unstable, a more skeptical Congress began to eventually back away from the president's policies. This move had serious consequences for deficit reduction and policy initiation, and also influenced the final shape of the tax reform package adopted in 1986.

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<b>Darrell M. West</b> is vice president and director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 220 ● ISBN 9780822974352 ● File size 11.3 MB ● Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press ● City PIttsburgh ● Country US ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8849934 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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