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The unsustainable American state

Title
The unsustainable American state [electronic resource] / edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Jacobs, Lawrence R.
  • King, Desmond S.
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 345 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Unsustainable American state (Online)
Subject
  • Equality > United States
  • State governments > United States
  • United States > Politics and government
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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.
LCCN
2009010328
OCLC
ssj0000344131
Title
The unsustainable American state [electronic resource] / edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Jacobs, Lawrence R.
King, Desmond S.
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