Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of specific policy proposals for the incoming national administration on every major domestic and international topic, written specifically for the book by a leading thinker and activist in the field. These chapters set forth a fundamental, badly needed "mandate for change" to reinvigorate government and rethink the role of markets and civil society. Each one includes an essay supporting the proposed policies and a resource list of relevant organizations, websites, and readings. It is perfect for public policy courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Contributions by: Catherine Albisa, Robert Alvarez, Sarah Anderson, Nan Aron, Dean Baker, Phyllis Bennis, Angela Glover Blackwell, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Robert L. Borosage, Kate Bronfenbrenner, John Cavanagh, Oscar Chacón, Chuck Collins, Stuart Comstock-Gay, Charlie Cray, Sheila Crowley, Martha F. Davis, Karen Dolan, Peter Edelman, Carroll L. Estes, John Feffer, Bill Fletcher, Maria Foscarinis, Kim Gandy, Jaime Grant, Mark Greenberg, Jim Harkness, Chester Hartman, Chester Hartman, Farrah Hassen, Simon Heller, Alan W. Houseman, Tomás R. Jiménez, Former Congresswoman Barbara B. Kennelly, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Saul Landau, Erik Leaver, Nicole Lee, Gerald LeMelle, Ben Lilliston, Bart Lubow, Eric Mann, Ben Manski, Marc Mauer, Patrice McDermott, Dedrick Muhammad, Douglas W. Nelson, Miriam Pemberton, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Frances Fox Piven, Sam Pizzigati, Ron Pollack, William Quigley, Miles S. Rapoport, Marcus Raskin, Janet Redman, Michael A. Replogle, Jon Rynn, Rebecca Sawyer, Daniel Scheer, Ben Scott, Rinku Sen, Amy Shannon, Cynthia Soohoo, Nancy Starnes, Betsy Taylor, Sanho Tree, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Dorian Warren, Emira Woods, Daphne Wysham
