Books by Jacob S. Hacker

Investigates how managed competition became the Bill Clinton's reform framework, but also illuminates how issues and policies emerge. This book follows Clinton's policy ideas from their initial formulation by policy experts through their endorsement by medical industry leaders and politicians to their inclusion in the proposal itself.

Suggesting that the Republicans who run American government have defied the normal laws of political gravity, this book tells the story of a deliberative process restricted and distorted by party chieftains, of unresponsive power brokers subverting the popular will, and of legislation written and deliberately designed to mute popular discontent.