LEADER 03743nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910792249603321 005 20230721015348.0 010 $a0-19-539214-0 010 $a1-282-32842-5 010 $a9786612328428 010 $a0-19-973681-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000298781 035 $a(EBL)472055 035 $a(OCoLC)489708732 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344131 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11264997 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344131 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10306575 035 $a(PQKB)10548026 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000023896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC472055 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL472055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10335216 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL232842 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000298781 100 $a20090310d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe unsustainable American state$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-539213-2 311 $a0-19-985254-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe 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 606 $aEquality$zUnited States 606 $aState governments$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aEquality 615 0$aState governments 676 $a320.973 701 $aJacobs$b Lawrence R$0254421 701 $aKing$b Desmond S$0125728 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792249603321 996 $aThe unsustainable American state$93783687 997 $aUNINA