Social democratic America / / Lane Kenworthy.

• Author: Kenworthy, Lane.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford [England] : : Oxford University Press,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Despite our nation's great affluence, too many Americans can't make ends meet. Too many have no health insurance or inadequate insurance. Too few have seen their boat lifted when the economic tide rises. We all know that this is wrong. Social Democratic America explains how we can do better. Lane Kenworthy convincingly argues that we can improve economic security, expand opportunity, and ensure rising living standards for all by moving toward social democracy. In a good society, Kenworthy asserts, when the country prospers, everyone should prosper. But since the late 1970s, even as the economy

Table of Contents

Toward the good society : an American path -- What's the problem? -- How can we fix it? -- Objections and alternatives -- Can it happen? -- America's social democratic future acknowledgments.