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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136697803321

Autore

Pacewicz Josh

Titolo

Partisans and Partners : The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society / / Josh Pacewicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

9780226402727

022640272X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 pages)

Disciplina

324.273

Soggetti

Political parties - United States

Keynesian economics

United States Politics and government 20th century

United States Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION. Partisans and Partners -- PART ONE. Keynesianism -- PART TWO. Neoliberalism -- PART THREE. Neoliberalism (continued): Politics Disembedded from Community Governance -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

There's no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in Partisans and Partners, Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic. Wheels-down in Iowa-that most important of primary states-Pacewicz looks to two cities, one traditionally Democratic, the other traditionally Republican, and finds that younger voters are rejecting older-timers' strict political affiliations. A paradox is emerging-as the dividing lines between America's political parties have sharpened, Americans are at the same time growing distrustful of traditional party politics in favor of becoming apolitical or embracing outside-the-beltway candidates. Pacewicz sees this change coming not from politicians and voters, but from the fundamental reorganization of the community institutions in which political parties have traditionally



been rooted. Weaving together major themes in American political history-including globalization, the decline of organized labor, loss of locally owned industries, uneven economic development, and the emergence of grassroots populist movements-Partisans and Partners is a timely and comprehensive analysis of American politics as it happens on the ground.