The unsustainable American state / edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Jacobs, Lawrence R.; King, Desmond S.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 345 p. :; ill.

Table of 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.