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Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
I
From Gloom to Euphoria 3
PART
I THE ISSUES
II
For the Unemployed Jobs An Activist Fiscal Policy 13
Fiscal
Orthodoxy The First Test 15
Fiscal
Orthodoxy The Second Test 20
The
Partisan Conflict Hardens 29
Economics
Versus Politics 34
Fiscal
Activism Prevails 40
III
For the Unemployed Jobs Structural Measures 57
The
Area Redevelopment Deadlock 60
Other
Measures Take Form 73
Kennedy
Breaks the Deadlock 83
The
Appalachian Experiment 97
The
Public Works and Economic Development Act 105
IV
For the Poor Opportunity 111
Failure
and Ferment 114
The
War Is Declared 134
V
For the Young Schools 155
Years
of Frustration 156
Year
of Consensus The National Defense Education Act 173
More
Years of Frustration 180
The
Education Crisis Reaches College 195
Education
Becomes a National Responsibility 205
VI
For Minorities Equal Rights 221
The
First Civil Rights Act Historic Breakthrough 222
The
Second Civil Rights Act Victory for Moderation 238
VI
For Minorities Equal Rights continued
The
Rejection of Moderation 250
Campaign
Promises and Legislative Priorities 254
Birmingham
and the Third Civil Rights Act 259
Selma
and the Fourth Civil Rights Act 271
Black
Power and the Bill That Failed 275
Beyond
Opportunity to Achievement 283
VII
For the Old Health Care 287
Groping
for Position 291
The
Rise of a National Issue 296
The
Struggle for Consensus 308
VIII
For All a Better Outdoor Environment 322
The
Dispute over the Federal Role 323
The
Acceptance of Federal Responsibility 345
Beauty
for America 361
PART
II THE INSTITUTIONS
IX
Ideas and Parties 385
Democratic
Initiative 389
Republican
Response 415
X
Ideas and Elections 430
The
1953-54 Recession and the Democratic Resurgence 431
Public
Response to Activism 441
Public
Response to the Republican Appeal 452
The
Issues and the Elections 1958 and 1960 456
The
Kennedy Mandate 466
XI
Ideas and Laws 471
The
Democratic Program Blocked 473
The
Democratic Program Unblocked 481
Development
of New Measures 489
Ebbing
of the Tide 496
XII
Toward More Responsive Government 506
Congressional
Reform 512
Party
Realignment 523
The
Agenda of Activism 536
INDEX
541
TABLES
1
Party Initiative and Response Major Legislative Measures 1953-60 390
TABLES
continued
2
Adherence of Democratic Senators to Activist Bloc 1957-60 398
3
Process of Adoption by Democratic Party of Major
Legislative
Proposals in Its 1960 Program 412
4
Switches in Voting Preference November 1952-March 1954
in
Relation to Issues 435
5
Switches in Voting Preference November 1952-November 1954
in
Relation to Issues 440
6
Majority Responses to Congressional Constituency Polls on
Federal
Aid for School Construction 1953-60 445
7
Response to Repeated Polls of Congressional Constituencies on
Federal
Aid for School Construction 1956-60 447
8
Support for Federal Aid for School Construction and for Teacher
Salaries
as Shown in Congressional Constituency Polls 1960 448
9
Majority Responses to Congressional Constituency Polls
on
Medicare 1958-60 451
10
Switches in Voting Preference 1956-58 461
11
Voters Confidence in Parties Handling of Important Problems 1959 464
12
Switches in Voting Preference 1956-60 467
13
Disposition of Major Democratic Party Measures by the
Eighty-seventh
Congress 1961-62 475
14
Majority Responses to Congressional Constituency Polls on
Domestic
Legislative Measures 1961-63 487
15
Restoration of Two-Party Politics in Republican
States
after the Civil War 525
16
Restoration of Two-Party Politics in Republican States
after
the Party Realignment of 1896 527
17
Growth in Number of Republicans Elected to the
House
of Representatives from the South 1950-66 530
18
Restoration of Two-Party Politics in Border States
after
the Civil War 531
FIGURES
1
Trends in Unemployment Fear of Increased Unemployment and
Disapproval
of Eisenhower Performance 1953-55 432
2
Prosperity and Peace Images of the Democratic and
Republican
Parties 1957-60 457
3
Relation of the Peace and Prosperity Issues to Preference for
Democrats
for Congress 1956-60 459
