Sentences with phrase «reagan revolution»

After voting overwhelmingly Democrat from Reconstruction until the mid-eighties, the state began to turn hard right during the Reagan revolution.

The key contribution of the Reagan Revolution was cast aside rotting relic of New Deal hegemony.

We have witnessed, since about 1980 and the «Reagan Revolution», the emasculation of every key government regulating body.

And that's sort of what the Reagan Revolution was all about: «getting government off our backs.»

Highly influential in his heyday, and ranked among America's most innovative modern artists, whose works were emblematic of the 60s Hippie culture, Indiana faded in the late 70s due to the rise of postmodernism as well as the Reagan Revolution.

It will undoubtedly be a surprise to many, as it was to me, that Sweden, a country with one of the most developed systems of government - provided social services, was swept up in the Reagan revolution.

Vineland, published in 1990 after 17 years of near - silence from the author, takes place in California during the rising Reagan Revolution.

He said that Mr. Cuomo, facing a conservative, under - funded rival in Republican Rob Astorino, was all that stood between progressives and a possible Reagan revolution - like redux: «This election is about the last gasp of trickle - down economics,» he charged.

But Hayek's liberty - defending politics, if not the particulars of his economic theories, grew to prominence with the rise of Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and the Reagan Revolution.

A former civil rights activist and outspoken opponent of U. S. involvement in Vietnam, he has been greatly disturbed by the success of the Reagan revolution and the values, especially that of privatism, that it has fostered.

Ironically, although the faculty fell very much in line with this philosophy (or appeared to), the ultra-conservative student body wasn't having any of it, especially in the middle of the Reagan revolution.

In the early 1960s, Podhoretz was moving Commentary sharply to the left; a decade later he was turning it into the leading voice of what would become the neoconservatism that helped prepare the way for the Reagan Revolution.

Since Southern Baptists abandoned native son Jimmy Carter and joined the Reagan revolution in 1980, they have become an increasingly important part of those values - voters who have made the Republicans, at least for now, the majority party in American political life.

Ronald Reagan's great biographer Steven F. Hayward courts charges of heresy by arguing that the Reagan Revolution was in some measure a failure, that its strategy of reining in the welfare state by «starving the beast» of revenues simply made it easier for us to enjoy the benefits....

Not exact matches

He is the author of The Triumph of Politics: Why Reagan's Revolution Failed and the soon - to - be released The Great Deformation: How Crony Capitalism Corrupts Free Markets and Democracy.

In one seminal essay from the»80s, Britton views with dismay the neo-liberal economic revolution of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and prophesies glumly:

Reagan's timely challenge ignited the sparks of rebellion that led to the revolution that ended the Soviet era.