Clintonomics: How Bill Clinton Reengineered the Reagan Revolution

With a presidency marked by rancorous, sometimes crippling bipartisanship that twice brought Congress to a standstill, Bill Clinton elicited strong feelings in.
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Godwin, chief international officer at California State University at Sacramento, contends that the conventional wisdom about Mr. Clinton as an unprincipled triangulator with few firm convictions is erroneous.

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To make his case, the author analyzes the Clinton presidency while also synthesizing the philosophical principles that shaped Mr. The result is a well-researched, though flatly written, book that will have limited appeal beyond the policy-wonk crowd.

One can only imagine what a lively book on the subject someone such as Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman or Daniel Gross of Slate and Newsweek might have produced. It would be more accurate to say that Mr. Clinton sought to achieve progressive ends using both liberal and conservative tools and wanted to smooth out the uncompassionate parts of conservatism.

Clinton was liberal on civil rights issues and cut his teeth politically opposing the Vietnam War, his approach to governing never came purely from the playbook of traditional Democrats.

He was always much more willing to decentralize decision-making, listen to the concerns of the business community and anger traditional Democratic interest groups than most leaders of his party. Although he raised taxes as president and tried to increase the role of government in health care the latter ironically was something that President George W. Bush would accomplish he often clashed with his base on welfare reform, education issues and his efforts to revamp the federal bureaucracy.

Conservatives, by contrast, saw Mr. Clinton as a traditional tax-and-spender who only veered right occasionally out of political expediency rather than principle.

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Though many insisted Bill Clinton's politics were polar opposite of Ronald Reagan's, and Clinton himself declared Clintonomics to be the antidote to Reaganomics, political scientist Jack Godwin argues otherwise. His book Clintonomics explores the intriguing idea that Clinton's governing philosophy was the logical extension of the Reagan Revolution, and provides compelling evidence of how Clinton transformed classic conservative ideas, such as welfare reform, into his own hybrid, Third-Way policies.

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