Lester M. Salamon Knihy

"Examines the private nonprofit sector and the tax-exempt institutions that make up this sector providing important services and benefits to all Americans, with histories behind different institutions and the forces and developments that have buffeted them and what they have done to retain their resilience"--Provided by publisher.

The authors of this conference volume discuss the effect of the Reagan administration on America's politics and its governing institutions and processes. Chapters describe and evaluate the effect it has had in areas such as political philosophy, public opinion, Congress, the Executive Office of the President, and the civil service. Provides broad and varied insights by some of the most astute students of American government into the operation of the Reagan presidency and into its larger significance for American political life.