Donald F. Kettl is Professor Emeritus and former Dean at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Kettl is the author or editor of 25 books, including Experts in Government: The Deep State from Caligula to Trump and Beyond (2023) and Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems (with William D. Eggers, 2023). He has received six lifetime achievement awards, and three of his books have received national best book awards.

The Right-Wing Idea Factory offers a remarkable history of the transformation of America's right wing-from Reagan's principled conservatism to Trump's transactional quest for power. Kettl reveals both the long roots of Trumpism in America and abroad and the forces that will surely continue to propel it. A preeminent scholar of federalism, policy, and politics, Kettl has woven a bold and persuasive account of how power is wielded in our contemporary American politics.

• Preface 1. A Factory for Power 2. The Grassroots Uprising 3. The New Populists 4. Abortion and the Populist Turnaround 5. Grassroots Power and Racial Politics 6. Policy Oligarchs and Policy Clusters 7. The Global Right-Wing Idea Factory 8. The Death of Traditional Conservatism 9. The Pathology of Power Appendix Notes Index

Donald F. Kettl is Professor Emeritus and former Dean at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Kettl is the author or editor of 25 books, including Experts in Government: The Deep State from Caligula to Trump and Beyond (2023) and Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems (with William D. Eggers, 2023). He has received six lifetime achievement awards, and three of his books have received national best book awards.

The Right-Wing Idea Factory offers a remarkable history of the transformation of America's right wing-from Reagan's principled conservatism to Trump's transactional quest for power. Kettl reveals both the long roots of Trumpism in America and abroad and the forces that will surely continue to propel it. A preeminent scholar of federalism, policy, and politics, Kettl has woven a bold and persuasive account of how power is wielded in our contemporary American politics.

• Preface 1. A Factory for Power 2. The Grassroots Uprising 3. The New Populists 4. Abortion and the Populist Turnaround 5. Grassroots Power and Racial Politics 6. Policy Oligarchs and Policy Clusters 7. The Global Right-Wing Idea Factory 8. The Death of Traditional Conservatism 9. The Pathology of Power Appendix Notes Index

Donald F. Kettl is Professor Emeritus and former Dean at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Kettl is the author or editor of 25 books, including Experts in Government: The Deep State from Caligula to Trump and Beyond (2023) and Bridgebuilders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems (with William D. Eggers, 2023). He has received six lifetime achievement awards, and three of his books have received national best book awards.

The Right-Wing Idea Factory offers a remarkable history of the transformation of America's right wing-from Reagan's principled conservatism to Trump's transactional quest for power. Kettl reveals both the long roots of Trumpism in America and abroad and the forces that will surely continue to propel it. A preeminent scholar of federalism, policy, and politics, Kettl has woven a bold and persuasive account of how power is wielded in our contemporary American politics.

• Preface 1. A Factory for Power 2. The Grassroots Uprising 3. The New Populists 4. Abortion and the Populist Turnaround 5. Grassroots Power and Racial Politics 6. Policy Oligarchs and Policy Clusters 7. The Global Right-Wing Idea Factory 8. The Death of Traditional Conservatism 9. The Pathology of Power Appendix Notes Index