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

By David Baggins

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275943003
• ISBN13: 9780275943004
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"