In The New Politics of Public Policy, Marc Landy and Martin Levin
bring together a group of leading experts to challenge the view of
the Bush-Reagan era as one characterised by policy gridlock. They
demonstrate that there were a surprising number of impressive
policy outcomes and that many were not in the least "conservative."
The number and scope of these innovations, they argue, refute the
conventional wisdom that the policy process in those years was
biased against change, dominated by obstructionary interests, and
characterised by incrementalism. The authors examine the most
important arenas of modem domestic policy reform - health,
entitlements, environment, and taxation as well as the changes that
have taken place in the key policy-making institutions of Congress,
the executive branch, the states, and the courts. They provide
in-depth investigations of the 1986 and 1990 immigration Reforrn
Acts, the 1986 Tax Reform Act, Aid to Children with Special Needs,
the Superfund, and the Clean Air Act. They show how changes in
Congressional structure affect the representation of interests,
deliberation, and the resolution of conflict and how these effects,
in turn, influence the passage of legislation. They explain how the
replacement of on-budget funding by mandates requiring others to
pay has made it easier to enact expensive laws and regulations.
Most importantly, they demonstrate that a new politics of public
policy has emerged - one characterised by a competition for novel
ideas, a lowering of the legitimacy barrier regarding governmental
intervention, and a broader understanding of rights.
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