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Presimetrics: How Democratic and Republican Administrations Measure Up on the Issues We Care About
Mike Kimel
The authors cut through party bias to present the quantifiable facts about how modern presidents have performed on critical national issues
Politicians and the media spend a lot of time telling Americans how the presidents and their administrations are performing, but this analysis always skews along party lines. In Presimetrics, Kimel and Kanell take a fresh look at modern politics by gathering data from numerous government sources in order to compare and rank presidential performance on critical issues, from employment and health care to taxes and family values. The results frequently defy expectations:
• Reagan, godfather of neoconservatives, increased the federal workforce more than any president since LBJ
• Clinton, a hero to Democrats, cut funding for the NEA by a larger percentage than any other president
• Nixon/Ford outperformed all administrations on Democratic issues like Federal spending on social programs
The lively text clearly explains how various policies of each administration affect the data, and fascinating information graphics lend even greater depth to the discussion, showing at a glance how multiple administrations stack up.
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2 reviews from Economics blogs:
- Angry Bear 10 May 10:
... by Steve Roth, asymptosisCross-posted at Asymptosis. com. Thanks to yeoman's work by Larry Bartels, Mike Kimel, and a host of others, we've seen that over many decades, the American economy has performed far bsetter, by almost any measure, under Democratic presidents. Larry Bartels' key graph mapping income growth by quintile, 1948-2005 (from page 33 of Unequal Democracy) is perhaps the best demonstration of that. Even the rich get richer, faster, under Democratic presidents. The poor and the middle class get far richer: All those findings came as a surprise to me when I first saw the data. I'd pretty much accepted the Republican 'party of growth' party line, after hearing it repeated thousands of times over several decades. ... - Angry Bear 09 Mar 10:
... for Yves Smith, and I wish her well. But I was wondering. . . what can one do to make one's book more likely to do well? Obviously, with a book coming out later this year - in August - its something I have an interest in knowing. (The book is already for sale at some online locations. Here's the Amazon link to the book. As an FYI, given how little the bio of me is, there's a surprising amount that's incorrect. ) The book is - we think - a bit unique. We looked at a how a large number of issues - from abortion to crime to the economy - evolved over the length over each administration from ...
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