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- catalog abstract "Nearly ten years ago Stanley B. Greenberg was the first observer to identify the depth of the middle class's disaffection with the two political parties, which today we take for granted. In Middle Class Dreams, Greenberg reveals how our nation has found itself in a political environment where voters are poised to shoot first and ask questions later. He examines how the two major parties have historically wooed the middle class - sometimes successfully, sometimes not - and how the traditional party strategies have imploded during the past thirty years. In a powerful analysis he shows how Democratic support for "the little guy" became identified in the 1960s and 1970s with welfare for the "undeserving poor," eroding the middle-class majority who had supported Kennedy and Johnson; likewise, in the 1980s, Republican belief in free-market prosperity deteriorated into an endorsement for greed, breaking the back of the Reagan-Bush majority. These dual betrayals, Greenberg argues, set the stage for the middle class's abandonment of the traditional party system in 1992. Drawing on original polling data, Greenberg lays out the pitfalls facing both major parties if they fail to recognize the new rules of political life, including the role played by the followers of Ross Perot, loyal to neither party and suspicious of both. He is brutally honest about the challenges facing the Democrats and the Republicans, and he backs up his arguments with the raw data he has gleaned from focus groups coast to coast.".
- catalog contributor b6686960.
- catalog coverage "Macomb County (Mich.) Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1993-2001.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-326) and index.".
- catalog description "Nearly ten years ago Stanley B. Greenberg was the first observer to identify the depth of the middle class's disaffection with the two political parties, which today we take for granted. In Middle Class Dreams, Greenberg reveals how our nation has found itself in a political environment where voters are poised to shoot first and ask questions later. He examines how the two major parties have historically wooed the middle class - sometimes successfully, sometimes not - and how the traditional party strategies have imploded during the past thirty years. In a powerful analysis he shows how Democratic support for "the little guy" became identified in the 1960s and 1970s with welfare for the "undeserving poor," eroding the middle-class majority who had supported Kennedy and Johnson; likewise, in the 1980s, Republican belief in free-market prosperity deteriorated into an endorsement for greed, breaking the back of the Reagan-Bush majority. These dual betrayals, Greenberg argues, set the stage for the middle class's abandonment of the traditional party system in 1992. Drawing on original polling data, Greenberg lays out the pitfalls facing both major parties if they fail to recognize the new rules of political life, including the role played by the followers of Ross Perot, loyal to neither party and suspicious of both. He is brutally honest about the challenges facing the Democrats and the Republicans, and he backs up his arguments with the raw data he has gleaned from focus groups coast to coast.".
- catalog description "The crash -- Macomb county in the American mind -- The great-party eras -- Failed renewal: the great society -- Failed renewal: the reagan revolution -- The end of growth -- The Clinton solution -- The battle for macomb -- The perot dissolution -- New contract.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 338 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Middle class dreams.".
- catalog identifier "0812923456 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Middle class dreams.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Times Books,".
- catalog relation "Middle class dreams.".
- catalog spatial "Macomb County (Mich.) Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Michigan Macomb County".
- catalog spatial "Michigan Macomb County.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1993-2001.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "320.973 20".
- catalog subject "Clinton, Bill, 1946-".
- catalog subject "E885 .G74 1995".
- catalog subject "Middle class Michigan Macomb County Political activity.".
- catalog subject "Middle class Political activity Michigan Macomb County.".
- catalog subject "Middle class Political activity United States.".
- catalog subject "Middle class United States Political activity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The crash -- Macomb county in the American mind -- The great-party eras -- Failed renewal: the great society -- Failed renewal: the reagan revolution -- The end of growth -- The Clinton solution -- The battle for macomb -- The perot dissolution -- New contract.".
- catalog title "Middle class dreams : the politics and power of the new American majority / Stanley B. Greenberg.".
- catalog type "text".