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The unsustainable American state /

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 dysfunctionalitie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jacobs, Lawrence R., King, Desmond S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The political crisis of the American state: the unsustainable state in a time of unraveling / Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond King
  • Is inequality a threat to democracy? / John Ferejohn
  • The resilient power of the states across the long nineteenth century: an inquiry into a pattern of American governance / Gary Gerstle
  • The first new federalism and the development of the modern American state: patchwork, reconstitution, or transition? / Kimberley S. Johnson
  • The missing state in postwar American political thought / Desmond King, Marc Stears
  • No class war: economic inequality and the American public / Benjamin I. Page, Lawrence R. Jacobs
  • Economic inequality and political representation / Larry M. Bartels
  • Promoting inequality: the politics of higher education policy in an era of conservative governance / Suzanne Mettler
  • Moving feminist activists inside the American state: the rise of a state-movement intersection and its effects on state policy / Lee Ann Banaszak
  • From Kanye West to Barack Obama: Black youth, the state, and political alienation / Cathy J. Cohen
  • American state building: the theoretical challenge / Desmond King, Robert C. Lieberman
  • A historian's reflection on the unsustainable American state / Lizabeth Cohen
  • Taking stock / Stephen Skowronek.