The Question of Privacy in Public Policy: An Analysis of the Reagan-Bush Era

This study examines the role of privacy in American political thought, specifically, the rise, implementation, and consequences of the conservative social policies of the Reagan-Bush era as they relate to the question of privacy. In particular, the work focuses on some of the high-profile social issues of that period: the War on Drugs, so-called family values, abortion, sexuality, and discrimination. Sadofsky concludes that privacy-invasive public policies such as were initiated in the Reagan-Bush years are expensive, defy the Constitution, and actually cause dysfunctional social behavior. He also suggests that social behavior in the 1960s did much to create a wave of intolerance in the 1980s, and that progressivism requires a return to the morality of tolerance.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Sadofsky, David
Published: 07/30/1993
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN: 9780275943004
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d