The Reagan Presidency, Growing Inequality, and the American Dream
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6329927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John W Sloan (University of Houston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-386 |
| Publication date | 1997-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1997.tb00028.x |
| OpenAlex | W2039963383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
For reasons that are not entirely clear, indices of inequality in the United States have increased since the 1970s. Evidence indicates that the policies of the Reagan administration were not the original cause of this inequality, but it does suggest that they contributed to that trend. This essay concludes that the political skills of the Reagan presidency, combined with the residual effects of the Democratic party's failure in the late 1970s, meant that Reagan was relatively immune to liberal attacks about growing inequality
Democracy · Development economics · Dream · Economic history · Economics · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Reagan administration · Sociology · American History and Culture · Economic Theory and Institutions · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Psychology · Public Administration
Necrocapital legal violence
Has the McKinney Act Helped to Create a Universal Definition of Homelessness
Public Policy, Income Distribution, and Class Warfare
Global economic crises, environmental-resource scarcity and wealth concentration
Outer space commercialization and its ethical challenges to international law and policy
Income inequality and the growth of redistributive spending in the United States (US) states
Anomalies in red and blue
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |