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Item Details
| Title:
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THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
GENESIS OF PRESIDENT CLINTON'S PLAN FOR HEALTH SECURITY |
| By: |
Jacob S. Hacker |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£33.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691044236 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691044231 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 1996 |
| Series: |
Princeton Studies in American Politics |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Drawing on records of President Clinton's 1992 election campaign and interviews with key policy players, this text analyzes political theories on agenda setting, investigates how managed competition became the President's reform framework, and shows how issues and policies emerge. |
| Synopsis: |
During the 1992 presidential campaign, health care reform became a hot issue, paving the way for one of the most important yet ill-fated social policy initiatives in American history: Bill Clinton's 1993 proposal for comprehensive coverage under "managed competition." Here Jacob Hacker not only investigates for the first time how managed competition became the president's reform framework, but also illuminates how issues and policies emerge. He follows Clinton's policy ideas from their initial formulation by policy experts through their endorsement by medical industry leaders and politicians to their inclusion--in a new and unexpected form--in the proposal itself. Throughout he explores key questions: Why did health reform become a national issue in the 1990s? Why did Clinton choose managed competition over more familiar options during the 1992 presidential campaign? What effect did this have on the fate of his proposal?Drawing on records of the President's task force, interviews with a wide range of key policy players, and many other sources, Hacker locates his analysis within the context of current political theories on agenda setting. He concludes that Clinton chose managed competition partly because advocates inside and outside the campaign convinced him that it represented a unique middle road to health care reform. This conviction, Hacker maintains, blinded the president and his allies to the political risks of the approach and hindered the development of an effective strategy for enacting it. |
| Illustrations: |
9 line illus. 2 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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