How Public Policy Became War

by David Davenport, Gordon Lloyd

Overview

President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal is widely understood as a turning point in American history. Roosevelt’s decisions of 1933 reset the balance of power away from Congress and the states toward a strong executive branch. They shifted the federal government away from the Founders’ vision of deliberation and moderation toward war and action. Modern-day presidents have declared war on everything from poverty and drugs to crime and terror. Exploring the consequences of these ill-defined (and never-ending) wars, this book calls for a re-examination of this destructive approach to governance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817922641
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Edition description:	None
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David Davenport is a research fellow specializing in international law and treaties, constitutional federalism, and American politics and law. From 1985 to 2000 he was the president of Pepperdine University. Gordon Lloyd is a senior fellow at the Ashbrook Center, and the Dockson Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He serves on the National Advisory Council for the Walter and Lenore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center through the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 The War Metaphor in Public Policy 5

2 How Public Policy Became "Action, and Action Now" 25

The New Deal

3 How Public Policy Became War and Emergency 57

The Modern Presidency

4 What Public Policy Was Supposed to Be 93

Deliberation at the Founding

5 How to Manage the War Metaphor in Public Policy 121

The Way Forward

About the Authors 158

Index 159