The Unsustainable American State

ISBN: 9780195392135 出版年：2003 页码：360 Oxford University Press

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS PART 1. THE STRAINS OF GOVERNANCE 1. The Political Crisis of the American State: The Unsustainable State in a Time of Unraveling by Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King 2. Is Inequality a Threat to Democracy? by John Ferejohn PART 2. FROM NINETEENTH CENTURYLEGACIES TO TWENTIETH CENTURY ORTHODOXY 3. The Resilient Power of the States Across the Long Nineteenth Century: An Inquiry into a Pattern of American Governance by Gary Gerstle 4. The First New Federalism and the Development of the Modern American State: Patchwork, Reconstitution or Transition? by Kimberley S Johnson 5. The Missing State in Postwar American Political Thought by Desmond King and Marc Stears PART 3. THE MODERN AMERICAN STATE 6. No Class War: Economic Inequality and the American Public by Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs 7. Economic Inequality and Political Representation by Larry Bartels 8. Promoting Inequality: The Politics of Higher Education Policy in an Era of Conservative Governance by Suzanne Mettler 9. Moving Feminist Activists Inside the American State: The Rise of a State Movement Intersection and its Effects on State Policy by Lee Ann Banaszak 10. From Kanye West to Barack Obama: Black Youth, the State and Political Alienation by Cathy J. Cohen PART 4. THE INHERITED STATE MOVING FORWARD 11. American State Building: The Theoretical Challenge by Desmond King and Robert Lieberman. 12. A Historian's Reflection on the Unsustainable American State by Liz Cohen 13. Taking Stock by Stephen Skowronek