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Author : W. Elliot Brownlee
Release : 2003-02-13
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Funding the Modern American State, 1941-1995 by : W. Elliot Brownlee
Download or read book Funding the Modern American State, 1941-1995 written by W. Elliot Brownlee. This book was released on 2003-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of US taxation and public finance since 1941.
Author : Lawrence Jacobs
Release : 2009-10-02
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 01X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Unsustainable American State by : Lawrence Jacobs
Download or read book The Unsustainable American State written by Lawrence Jacobs. This book was released on 2009-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity of the American economy and polity has grown at an explosive rate in our era of globalization. Yet as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, the evolution of the American state has not proceeded apace. The crisis exposed the system's manifold political and economic dysfunctionalities. Featuring a cast of leading scholars working at the intersection of political science and American history, The Unsustainable American State is a historically informed account of the American state's development from the nineteenth century to the present. It focuses in particular on the state-produced inequalities and administrative incoherence that became so apparent in the post-1970s era. Collectively, the book offers an unsettling account of the growth of racial and economic inequality, the ossification of the state, the gradual erosion of democracy, and the problems deriving from imperial overreach. Utilizing the framework of sustainability, a concept that is currently informing some of the best work on governance and development, the contributors show how the USA's current trajectory does not imply an impending collapse, but rather a gradual erosion of capacity and legitimacy. That is a more appropriate theoretical framework, they contend, because for all of its manifest flaws, the American state is durable. That durability, however, does not preclude a long relative decline.
Author : Jane S Flaherty
Release : 2015-09-30
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 972/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Revenue Imperative by : Jane S Flaherty
Download or read book The Revenue Imperative written by Jane S Flaherty. This book was released on 2015-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative, the need to keep pace with the burgeoning expenses of the conflict, governed the development of fiscal policy.
Author : Ian Shapiro
Release : 2009-08
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 960/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Political Contingency by : Ian Shapiro
Download or read book Political Contingency written by Ian Shapiro. This book was released on 2009-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political science & theory.
Author : Devin Caughey
Release : 2018-09-25
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Unsolid South by : Devin Caughey
Download or read book The Unsolid South written by Devin Caughey. This book was released on 2018-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Jim Crow era, the Democratic Party dominated the American South, presiding over a racially segregated society while also playing an outsized role in national politics. In this compelling book, Devin Caughey provides an entirely new understanding of electoral competition and national representation in this exclusionary one-party enclave. Challenging the notion that the Democratic Party’s political monopoly inhibited competition and served only the Southern elite, he demonstrates how Democratic primaries—even as they excluded African Americans—provided forums for ordinary whites to press their interests. Focusing on politics during and after the New Deal, Caughey shows that congressional primary elections effectively substituted for partisan competition, in part because the spillover from national party conflict helped compensate for the informational deficits of elections without party labels. Caughey draws on a broad range of historical and quantitative evidence, including archival materials, primary election returns, congressional voting records, and hundreds of early public opinion polls that illuminate ideological patterns in the Southern public. Defying the received wisdom, this evidence reveals that members of Congress from the one-party South were no less responsive to their electorates than members from states with true partisan competition. Reinterpreting a critical period in American history, The Unsolid South reshapes our understanding of the role of parties in democratic theory and sheds critical new light on electoral politics in authoritarian regimes.
