Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 345 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195392132
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0195392140
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9780195392135
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9780195392142
Content:
The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, the evolution of the American state has not proceeded apace. The crisis exposed the system's manifold political and economic dysfunctionalities. Featuring a cast of leading scholars working at the intersection of political science and American history, The Unsustainable American State is a historically informed account of the American state's development from the nineteenth century to the present. It focuses in particular on the state-produced
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Contributors; PART I: THE STRAINS OF GOVERNANCE; 1 The Political Crisis of the American State: The Unsustainable State in a Time of Unraveling; 2 Is Inequality a Threat to Democracy?; PART II: FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEGACIES TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORTHODOXY; 3 The Resilient Power of the States across the Long Nineteenth Century: An Inquiry into a Pattern of American Governance; 4 The First New Federalism and the Development of the Modern American State: Patchwork, Reconstitution, or Transition?; 5 The Missing State in Postwar American Political Thought
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PART III: THE MODERN AMERICAN STATE6 No Class War: Economic Inequality and the American Public; 7 Economic Inequality and Political Representation; 8 Promoting Inequality: The Politics of Higher Education Policy in an Era of Conservative Governance; 9 Moving Feminist Activists Inside the American State: The Rise of a State-Movement Intersection and Its Effects on State Policy; 10 From Kanye West to Barack Obama: Black Youth, the State, and Political Alienation; PART IV: THE INHERITED STATE MOVING FORWARD; 11 American State Building: The Theoretical Challenge
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12 A Historian's Reflection on the Unsustainable American State13 Taking Stock; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195392135
Additional Edition:
Print version The Unsustainable American State
Language:
English
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