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A new annual which charts the course of America in 12 critical areas, giving readers a solid basis of information on which to compare trends year after year and to make reasoned judgements about where the US is and ought to be heading.
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出版社周刊评论
Calling the first year of the Clinton administration ``a profound disappointment'' for progressives, a group of policy scholars associated with the Institute for Policy Studies offer useful advice in 15 essays. While some of the book is already dated--and most essays aren't long enough to be solid and nuanced--there is much trenchant criticism. Robert Borosage argues for much greater cuts in military spending, and Marcus Raskin calls for a transformation of the ``national security state,'' ending, for instance, the covert operations of the CIA. Barry Commoner proposes both realistic environmental steps like federal procurement of electric cars and more ambitious actions like restructuring of the chemical industry to reduce the production of hazardous waste. Other analysts tackle issues such as poverty, gender, race and community. In a stimulating roundtable discussion, Clinton pollster Stanley Greenberg argues that critics should give the president more than a year to deliver. Caplan is the New York director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting; Feffer is the author of Shock Waves: Eastern Europe After the Revolutions. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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This volume critiques the first year of the Clinton administration and prescribes an array of actions for White House operatives in the remaining three years of their term. The work was written by a group of policy experts under the sponsorship of the Institute of Policy Studies, a progressive think tank based in Washington, D.C. Chapters focus on each of 14 important areas where analysts compare what they believe has been done with what they urge should be done. Topics include such issues prominent in national debate as national security, employment, taxation, environment, and health care. Additional chapters deal with issues too frequently neglected nowadays in more public discourse, such as the disenfranchised, democratic reform, and race and gender concerns. Each chapter tends to be part analysis and part polemic. Yet the work throughout tends to be easily readable, written for a general audience rather than experts in each field, an unusual characteristic for such tracts. Overall, the book is stimulating and thought provoking. It definitely is a welcome and much needed addition to the literature. Highly recommended for general readers undergraduate students. R. E. Dewhirst; Northwest Missouri State University
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
This look at the first months of the Clinton administration, published in cooperation with the Institute for Policy Studies, is the first of an annual series. The collection of 14 essays written by such authorities as Barry Commoner and Ralph Nader evaluates the administration's record in key policy areas as it relates to the institute's progressive philosophy. The report card they present is strongly critical of the administration's inability to follow through on the promise of change offered throughout the 1992 campaign, with little allowance for the uncooperative Congress Clinton has thus far had to confront. Perhaps future editions will offer more balance. Excellent graphs and charts clarify spending and demographic points. Recommended for strong political science collections.-- Jill Ortner, SILS, Univ. at Buffalo, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
Foreword | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
1 Challenges of A New Era | p. 12 |
World Economy | |
2 Forging A Global New Deal | p. 29 |
Foreign Policy | |
3 Promoting Democratic Stability | p. 46 |
National Defense | |
4 Meeting Real Security Needs | p. 63 |
National Security | |
5 Dismantling The National Security State | p. 78 |
Domestic Economy | |
6 Investing in Our Future | p. 88 |
Employment | |
7 Creating Decent Work | p. 102 |
Taxation | |
8 Sharing The Burden | p. 121 |
Environment | |
9 Achieving Sustainability | p. 134 |
Health Care | |
10 Providing Comprehensive Coverage | p. 151 |
The Disenfranchised | |
11 Eliminating Poverty | p. 166 |
Race | |
12 Ensuring a True Multiculturalism | p. 184 |
Gender | |
13 Guaranteeing Real Equality | p. 200 |
Communities | |
14 Building Authority Responsibility, and Capacity | p. 214 |
Democratic Reform | |
15 Restoring Democratic Principles | p. 234 |
Roundtable Progressive Reform And the ""Clinton Moment"" | p. 250 |
Notes | p. 267 |
About the Book and Editors | p. 285 |
About the Contributors | p. 287 |
Index | p. 289 |