Compare and contrast the presidential administrations since Reagan on economics. Discuss the use of federal funding and mandates (funded or unfunded) in these administrations. Be sure to identify each of the administrations as either a decentralizing or a centralizing agent, and provide an example consistent with your response for each.
What will be an ideal response?
Discuss the attempts at decentralization in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, including reductions in federal support. Students should highlight the recession of the early 1990s and the resulting shift in the economy from state to federal focus. Students should also discuss the attempts to limit unfunded mandates in the 1990s and how the use of mandates have been increasing. Clinton was a decentralizing, while George W. Bush was a centralizing force. Clinton passed welfare reform in 1996; Bush involved the federal government in No Child Left Behind and established another federal agency to add to the bureaucracy. Bush also increased federal involvement in law enforcement and health issues. Obama has expanded the increased centralization of the George W. Bush administration. The Stimulus Package and Affordable Care Act greatly expanded role of, and control exercised, by the federal government.
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What will be an ideal response?