The Republican Party and the War on Poverty : : 1964–1981 / / Mark Mclay.

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• VerfasserIn: Mclay, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on the American Presidency : NPAP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Reassesses how presidents from Lyndon Johnson to Ronald Reagan dealt with the politics of the War on PovertyTraces the evolution of the modern Republican party through its approach to povertyExamines the roots of Republican opposition to antipoverty legislation, giving an insight into contemporary debates over public policyGrounded in substantial archival research undertaken across the United States, including the presidential libraries of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Ronald W. ReaganDraws on the public and private papers of leading Republicans from different geographical regions and ideological factionsUses political science tools such as public and private polling data, poverty and crime statistics, demographic studies, election analyses, and the presidential tapes of Lyndon Johnson and Richard NixonEngages with and contributes to history and political science, supplemented by insights from sociological research on antipoverty programmesMark Mclay examines the part the Republican Party played in shaping and eventually curtailing President Johnson’s War on Poverty. Republican politicians and presidents consistently influenced how the ‘war’ was fought, before President Reagan symbolically ended the effort with his social welfare cuts in 1981.Drawing on original archives of Republican politicians across the United States, the author sheds light on the important dynamic that existed between the Republican Party, Congress and the White House throughout those years, and provides a fresh perspective on the Republican Party and their presidents during a period that witnessed its rise from its nadir in 1964 to becoming the ascendant force in US politics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A familiar trap: the ‘Party of Privilege’ and the War on Poverty, 1964 -- 2. A path to relevance: the Republican crusade against the War on Poverty, 1965 –66 -- 3. Order or justice? Republicans and the ‘urban crisis’, 1966–67 -- 4. The choice and the echo: poverty politics and the 1968 campaign -- 5. The crossroads: Nixon’s early years, 1969–70 -- 6. The conservative turn: Nixon, Ford, and the beginning of the end, 1971–76 -- 7. The end? Poverty politics and the ‘Reagan Revolution’, 1977 –81 -- Epilogue: Poverty won? Republicans and poverty, 1982–2018 -- Bibliography -- Index