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Biography of Grant Notley, leader of Alberta's New Democratic Party from 1968 to 1984.
Politicians --- Hommes politiques --- Statesmen --- Notley, Grant, --- Alberta New Democratic Party --- Alberta New Democrats --- New Democratic Party (Alta.) --- History. --- Histoire. --- Alberta --- Government of Alberta --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Since 1971 --- Biography/Political Science/Alberta Politics.
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Azoulay delineates the central themes and determining factors of the party's development during the 1950s and early 1960s. The CCF/NDP had to contend with not only a booming postwar economy and a very popular premier but also a Cold War-induced phobia toward the Left and serious intraparty divisions. Despite this the party slowly recovered, led by a core of dedicated activists and employing an array of strategies, including the much-publicized transformation of the CCF into the NDP in the early 1960s. The author counters allegations that the CCF/NDP opportunistically abandoned its essential qualities (such as its socialist ideology or democratic structure) for the sake of electoral gain and that organized labour played a leading role in the party in these years, contributing to the dilution of the movement. Although the party sought new alliances among the province's less privileged groups, especially organized labour, it did so cautiously and even hesitantly, always conscious of the need to preserve its basic identity.
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. --- New Democratic Party of Ontario --- Nouveau parti démocratique de l'Ontario --- Ontario New Democrats --- Nouveau parti démocratique --- Ontario New Democratic Party --- NDP --- N.D.P. --- N.P.D. --- NPD --- History. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy. --- Public administration
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Secular Socialists is a comprehensive history of the NDP in Ontario - and its predecessor, the CCF - from its beginnings in the early 1930s to the contemporary period. It is also a provocative analysis of the survival of the CCF/NDP in the ideologically hostile environment of Ontario. Morley considers the party structure, the ideological forces that have shaped the party platform, the relationship between the caucus and the party executive and membership, the membership and ordinary conventions, and such factional disputes as the expulsion of Communists and the Waffle affair.
New Democratic Party of Ontario. --- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. --- Nouveau parti démocratique de l'Ontario --- Ontario New Democrats --- Nouveau parti démocratique --- Ontario New Democratic Party --- NDP --- N.D.P. --- N.P.D. --- NPD --- Ontario --- Politics and government. --- HISTORY / Canada / General.
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"Today, the word “neoliberal” is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism’s policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism.In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul chronicles the rise of what he terms “supply-side liberalism,” a powerful and enduring orientation toward politics and the economy, race and poverty, that united local chambers of commerce, liberal policymakers and economists, and urban and rural economic planners. Beginning in the late 1930s, New Dealers tied expansive aspirations for social and, later, racial progress to a variety of economic development initiatives. In communities across the country, otherwise conservative business elites administered liberal public works, urban redevelopment, and housing programs. But by binding national visions of progress to the local interests of capital, liberals often entrenched the very inequalities of power and opportunity they imagined their programs solving.When President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty—which prioritized direct partnerships with poor and racially marginalized citizens—businesspeople, Republicans, and soon, a rising generation of New Democrats sought to rein in its seeming excesses by reinventing and redeploying many of the policy tools and commitments pioneered on liberalism’s supply side: public-private partnerships, market-oriented solutions, fiscal “realism,” and, above all, subsidies for business-led growth now promised to blunt, and perhaps ultimately replace, programs for poor and marginalized Americans.In this wide-ranging book, Brent Cebul illuminates the often-overlooked structures of governance, markets, and public debt through which America’s warring political ideologies have been expressed and transformed. From Washington, D.C. to the declining Rustbelt and emerging Sunbelt and back again, Illusions of Progress reveals the centrality of public and private forms of profit that have defined the enduring boundaries of American politics, opportunity, and inequality— in an era of liberal ascendance and an age of neoliberal retrenchment." -- Publisher's description.
Capitalism --- Poverty --- Cleveland Ohio. --- New Deal. --- New Democrats. --- Rome Georgia. --- activist. --- austerity politics. --- civil rights. --- federalism. --- fiscal conservatism. --- growth. --- inequality. --- liberalism. --- markets. --- municipal debt. --- neoliberalism. --- political history. --- poverty. --- privatization. --- public-private partnerships. --- race. --- rustbelt. --- sunbelt. --- supply side. --- war on poverty. --- United States --- Economic policy --- Politics and government
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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.
Health care reform --- Managed care plans (Medical care) --- United States --- Politics and government --- American Medical Association (AMA). --- American Prospect. --- Bergthold, Linda. --- Brookings Institution. --- Carville, James. --- Consumers Union. --- Daschle, Tom. --- Enthoven, Alain. --- Garamendi plan. --- Greenberg, Stan. --- Heritage Foundation. --- Johnson, Lyndon. --- Kennedy, Ted. --- Kingdon, John. --- Mayhew, David. --- Mitchell, George. --- New Democrats. --- Thorpe, Kenneth. --- Wofford, Harris. --- elite opinion. --- focusing events. --- inflation, medical. --- iron triangles. --- leadership: congressional. --- organized anarchies. --- payroll taxes. --- rationalizing politics. --- self-insurance health plans. --- utilization review.
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