Governing America: The Revival of Political History Book

Acknowledgments ix

Governing America: An Introduction 1

Part I: Thinking about the Field 9

One: Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time 11

Two: Clio's Lost Tribe: Public Policy History Since 1978 41

Three: History and Political Science: Together Again? 60

Four: Rethinking the History of American Conservatism 68

Five: What Political Science Can Learn from the New Political History 90

Part II: Paying for Government: Taxes, Money, and Fiscal Restraint 105

Six: The Uneasy Relationship: Democracy, Taxation, and State-Building Since the New Deal 107

Seven: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal: Fiscal Conservatism and the Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1938 124

Eight: "Where Is the Money Coming From?" The Reconstruction of Social Security Finance 153

Nine: Paying for Medicare: Benefits, Budgets, and Wilbur Mills's Policy Legacy 168

Part III: The Rules of the Game: The Politics of Process 193

Ten: Seeds of Cynicism: The Struggle Over Campaign Finance, 1956-1974 195

Eleven: Bridging State and Society: The Origins of 1970s Congressional Reform 221

Twelve: Without Restraint: Scandal and Politics in America 232

Thirteen: Seizing Power: Conservatives and Congress Since the 1970s 259

Fourteen: How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Presidential Power 290

Part IV: Politics and Policy: The Case of National Security 307

Fifteen: Congress and the Politics of Troop Withdrawal, 1966-1973 309

Sixteen: Detente and Domestic Politics 321

Seventeen: Conservatives, Carter, and the Politics of National Security 335

Notes 351

Index 399