The unsustainable American state / edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King.
| Other author | Jacobs, Lawrence R. |
| Other author | King, Desmond S. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xiii, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009010328 |
| ISBN | 9780195392135 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195392132 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195392142 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195392140 (pbk. : alk. paper) |