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  • Displacing Democracy

    Economic Segregation in America

    by Amy Widestrom ...
    Series series American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
    In recent decades, economically disadvantaged Americans have become more residentially segregated from other communities: they are increasingly likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods that are spatially isolated with few civic resources. Low-income citizens are also less likely to be politically engaged, a trend that is most glaring in terms of voter turnout. Examining neighborhoods in ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Key States, High Stakes

    Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections

    by Charles S. Bullock III, Charles S. Bullock III, Dante J. Scala, Daniel C. Reed, Amy Widestrom, Christopher Dennis, Susan A. MacManus, David J. Bonanza, Mary L. Moss, Joel Turner, Scott Lasley0, Stanley P. Berard1, M Jean Kingston2, Robert Rupp3, Costas Panagopoulos4, Joseph D. Giammo5, Michael A. Maggiotto6, Raymond H. Scheele7, Janna L. Deitz8, Edward Anegon9, David Nice0, Diana Evans1, Geoffrey Peterson2, Andrew Dowdle3, Ted G. Jelen4 ...
    The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the potential to transform the composition of congress and set the stage for the nation's politics for ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Displacing Democracy

    Economic Segregation in America

    by Amy Widestrom ...
    Series series American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
    In recent decades, economically disadvantaged Americans have become more residentially segregated from other communities: they are increasingly likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods that are spatially isolated with few civic resources. Low-income citizens are also less likely to be politically engaged, a trend that is most glaring in terms of voter turnout. Examining neighborhoods in ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

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    A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven’t. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current ... Read more

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  • The Conscience of a Liberal

    by Paul Krugman ...
    "The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of BooksIn this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

    The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

    by Lee Drutman ...
    American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party system is breaking our democracy, and driving us all crazy. Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge ... Read more

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  • The Age of Austerity

    How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics

    by Thomas Byrne Edsall ...
    One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every ... Read more

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  • Counterrevolution

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    by Melinda Cooper ...
    Series Book 8 - Near Futures
    A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policyAt the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over soaring public debt burdens, while central bankers wring their hands at the slightest sign of ... Read more

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  • Democracy in America?

    What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It

    by Benjamin I. Page, Martin Gilens ...
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  • The Middle Out

    The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity

    by Michael Tomasky ...
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  • Excluded

    How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

    by Richard D Kahlenberg ...
    An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about itThe last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism.While ... Read more

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  • Unequal Democracy

    The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

    by Larry M. Bartels ...
    Series series Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
    An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes ... Read more

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