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Introduction to Public Policy Since the New Deal -- The New Deal -- The Truman-Eisenhower Equilibrium -- The New Frontier/Great Society -- The Nixon-Ford-Carter Equilibrium -- The Reagan Revolution -- The Bush-Clinton Equilibrium -- George W. Bush and the Republican Non-Breakout -- New Directions in the Wake of the Great Recession? -- The Obama and Trump "Transformations."

January 1, 1948 -- The Contenders -- Divided Democrats, Divided Republicans -- The Conventions Name Their Candidates -- Truman Defeats Dewey -- A Democratic Sweep -- Interpretations and Legacies -- Appendix A: 1948 Republican Primary Results -- Appendix B: Harry S. Truman Nomination Acceptance Speech, July 15, 1948 -- Appendix C: 1948 Presidential General Election Results -- Appendix D: Harry S. Truman Inaugural Address, January 20, 1949

Midterm elections and checks and balances in the American system -- State midterm elections -- Midterm elections as the vanguard of change: 1. Realignment and the elections of 1894 and 1930. 2. More preparatory midterms -- The calibrating elections : midterm thermidor -- The dogs that did not bark : exceptions that shaped history -- Normal midterms -- Conclusion

The Democrats' strategy for the future / by Elaine Kamarck -- A new direction for the parties? / by Timothy Roemer -- The Republicans' strategy for the future / by Andrew E. Busch -- The parties and campaign finance / by Michael J. Malbin -- The future of party organization / by Nelson W. Polsby -- Cultural issues and the future of the American party system / by William G. Mayer

Crisis of confidence -- The candidates : a crowded field -- The race for the nominations : the defeat of the liberals, the victory of the sunbelt -- The general election : the Gipper wins one -- Congressional and state elections : a Republican tide -- The return of confidence and the transformation of American politics.

"Conservative domination of American life may or may not be ending, but among some circles, nostalgia for Ronald Reagan will likely linger. Busch's compact, celebratory account reminds readers how the Right came to power in the first place."-The Historian "A very good, comprehensive, useful book on the 1980 election."-Reviews in American History "The 1980 election remade not only American politics and American government, but America itself. That is Andrew Busch's striking argument. And his graceful narrative does a fine job of telling us just how it happened."-Claremont Review of Books "An illuminating investigation of this key contest, which brought Reagan and the Republican Party's conservative wing to power. Busch offers an admiring but fair appraisal of Reagan's victory over a hapless Jimmy Carter. . . . [He] succeeds admirably in providing an election analysis that is concise and informative."-ForeWord Magazine "An exciting new review of America's march into the new age of Ronald Reagan."-Washington Times.

This article explores the efforts of Dallas businessmen, especially the leadership of Texas Instruments (TI), to build a science and research sector to facilitate new types of capital accumulation for Dallas and North Texas in the 1960s. The creation of the Graduate Center of the Southwest (GRCSW), and its subsequent transformation into the public University of Texas at Dallas in 1969, offers new perspectives on science and research, urban growth strategies, and the relationship between business and government in the postwar Sunbelt. TI leaders envisioned the center as a way to become more competitive in the microelectronics industry and also to direct urban growth and, ultimately, create a city and region that better reflected the private, growth-oriented interests of the Dallas business community. However, when the center began to falter economically in the mid-1960s, TI leaders sought out the state to take it over and transform it into a science and technology graduate school branch of the University of Texas system (UT). The exchange, although mutually beneficial, demonstrates how powerful businesses coopted the resources of the state to further their own ends.