Reagan and the New Deal
Repeal or Replay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12377803 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce L R Smith (Brookings Institution, corresponding author), James D Carroll (0000-0002-9205-1061, Syracuse University) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 04 |
| Pages | 758-767 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096500016681 |
| OpenAlex | W2312407828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
President Reagan's success lies not in the size of federal budget cuts but in that he has been able to make cuts at all. He has a long way to go before the New Deal is repealed or even derailed . The Reagan budget has been viewed as revolutionary, as an unprecedented break in the tradition of modern social policy. According to Russell Baker, “... in the end even the Democrats were agreeable to the death of the New Deal, which took place this week at the Capitol.” Yet this view runs up against the fact that Ronald Reagan cut his political teeth on the New Deal, admired FDR and emulated his political style, was an ardent Democrat and an early labor organizer, and has cast his political appeal to many groups who were raised up by the New Deal to non-poor status. Is the Administration of President Reagan a repeal of the New Deal or a replay? A close look at the budget, and the political context that produced the budget, gives some partial answers. For our purposes, the New Deal is defined as the loose set of principles and policies that has developed from the 1930s to the 1970s and formed the “mainstream” of American domestic politics. For the moment we consider the Great Society to be part of that tradition. President Reagan himself apparently does not share this assumption, viewing the New Deal as having more in common with progressivism than with the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson
Appeal · Context (archaeology · Federal budget · Law and economics · Mainstream · New Deal · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Progressivism · Repeal · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 1983 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |