Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiii, 208 pages; 24 cm

Subject

1. Social scientists in government > United States
2. Policy scientists > United States
3. Political consultants > United States
4. Government consultants > United States
5. Presidents > United States > Staff
6. Presidents > United States > Decision making

Contents

1. Introduction: Talking Presidents -- 1. Helping Presidents Talk: The Basic Model -- Who Shapes the Action? -- Who Shapes the Action? The Presidential Policy Process Writ Large -- The Intervening Elites: Political Self-Starters -- The Intervening Elites: Resourceful Administrators -- The Intervening Elites: Ambivalent Academics -- Challenges and Constraints: Outriders -- Challenges and Constraints: Gatekeepers -- 2. The Glory Years Begin -- The Coming of Age of the Social Sciences -- The Sketchy Heritage -- The Academic Advisory Committee of 1959 -- The Republicans Respond -- Transition Breakthrough -- Policy in Camelot -- 3. Flood Tide: Experts and the Great Society -- Coping with the Legacy -- Kingpins of the Great Society -- The Process Rationalized -- One Bridge Too Far -- Coonskins on the Wall -- 4. Cracks in the System -- The Nixon Transition -- The Campaign Ritual: Cambridge Perseveres -- Institutionalizing the Experts -- Rockefeller to the Rescue -- Big Names and Little Deeds -- Disciplining the Policy Process -- The Ford Interregnum -- Experts in Limbo -- 5. The System Disassembles -- Carter and a Conventional Beginning -- Short Circuit: Jordan vs. Watson -- The Domestic Policy Staff: The Triumph of Lawyering -- Bootlegging New Policy: Two Last Flings -- The Policy President: All by Himself -- 6. Takeover: The Reagan Recess -- The Quick Consensus -- Second Thoughts on the Consensus -- Experts at Work: Supply-Side Made Simple -- Experts at Work: The New New Federalism -- Experts at Work: The Triumph of Urban Enterprise -- The Revolution on Hold -- 7. The New Order -- The University Disassembles -- New and Hostile Horizons -- The Rise of the Think Tanks -- The Future of Policy Experts.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-198) and index.