Executing Freedom : The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States / / Daniel LaChance |
Autore | LaChance Daniel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 pages) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Soggetto topico | Capital punishment - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
American political culture
capital punishment death penalty distrust of government executions freedom libertarianism rehabilitation retribution vigilantism |
ISBN | 0-226-06672-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. When Bundy Buckles Up -- Chapter 1. "Inside Your Daddy's House": Capital Punishment and Creeping Nihilism in the Atomic Age -- Chapter 2. "The Respect Which Is Due Them as Men": The Rise of Retribution in a Polarizing Nation -- Chapter 3. Fixed Risks and Free Souls: Judging and Executing Capital Defendants after Gregg v. Georgia -- Chapter 4. Shock Therapy: The Rehabilitation of Capital Punishment -- Chapter 5. "A Country Worthy of Heroes": The Old West and the New American Death Penalty -- Chapter 6. Father Knows Best: Capital Punishment as a Family Value -- Epilogue. Disabling Freedom -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136124803321 |
LaChance Daniel | ||
Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lobbying America : the politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA / / Benjamin C. Waterhouse |
Autore | Waterhouse Benjamin C. <1978-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
Disciplina | 324/.4097309045 |
Collana |
Politics and Society in Modern America
Politics and society in twentieth-century America |
Soggetto topico |
Business and politics - United States - History - 20th century
Corporations - Political activity - United States - History - 20th century Lobbying - United States - History - 20th century Political action committees - United States - History - 20th century Pressure groups - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
American big business
American business leaders American business American democracy American political culture Arch Booth Business Roundtable Carter administration Chrysler bailout Cold War Consumer Protection Agency Democrats John Connally National Association of Manufacturers New Deal Progressive period Ralph Nader Reagan administration Republicans U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S. Congress antistatists business community business leaders business lobbying business theorists business chief executive officers class-oriented battles conservative activists consumer perspective consumer protection consumerism corporate lobbying crisis of confidence economic actors economic crisis economic power employment equality federal budget finance free market global capitalism global outsourcing high finance industrial economy industrial lobbyists industrial manufacturing industrialists inflation legal construct liberal consensus liberalism lobbying firms lobbying operation modern corporation neoliberal doctrine neoliberal political culture neoliberalism organized labor pan-business lobbying party politics policymaking political mobilization political power politics power structure price instability productivity growth progressive politics public interest liberalism regulatory apparatus small-government conservatives stagflation tax cuts taxation unionization wage-price controls workplace regulations |
ISBN | 1-4008-4817-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: American Business, American Politics -- Chapter 1. From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence -- Chapter 2. A New Life for Old Lobbies -- Chapter 3. The Birth of the Business Roundtable -- Chapter 4. Business, Labor, and the Politics of Inflation -- Chapter 5. The Producer versus the Consumer -- Chapter 6. Uncertain Victory -- Chapter 7. A Tale of Two Tax Cuts -- Chapter 8. Every Man His Own Lobbyist -- Epilogue: American Politics, American Business -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790608103321 |
Waterhouse Benjamin C. <1978-> | ||
Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lobbying America : the politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA / / Benjamin C. Waterhouse |
Autore | Waterhouse Benjamin C. <1978-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
Disciplina | 324/.4097309045 |
Collana |
Politics and Society in Modern America
Politics and society in twentieth-century America |
Soggetto topico |
Business and politics - United States - History - 20th century
Corporations - Political activity - United States - History - 20th century Lobbying - United States - History - 20th century Political action committees - United States - History - 20th century Pressure groups - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
American big business
American business leaders American business American democracy American political culture Arch Booth Business Roundtable Carter administration Chrysler bailout Cold War Consumer Protection Agency Democrats John Connally National Association of Manufacturers New Deal Progressive period Ralph Nader Reagan administration Republicans U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S. Congress antistatists business community business leaders business lobbying business theorists business chief executive officers class-oriented battles conservative activists consumer perspective consumer protection consumerism corporate lobbying crisis of confidence economic actors economic crisis economic power employment equality federal budget finance free market global capitalism global outsourcing high finance industrial economy industrial lobbyists industrial manufacturing industrialists inflation legal construct liberal consensus liberalism lobbying firms lobbying operation modern corporation neoliberal doctrine neoliberal political culture neoliberalism organized labor pan-business lobbying party politics policymaking political mobilization political power politics power structure price instability productivity growth progressive politics public interest liberalism regulatory apparatus small-government conservatives stagflation tax cuts taxation unionization wage-price controls workplace regulations |
ISBN | 1-4008-4817-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: American Business, American Politics -- Chapter 1. From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence -- Chapter 2. A New Life for Old Lobbies -- Chapter 3. The Birth of the Business Roundtable -- Chapter 4. Business, Labor, and the Politics of Inflation -- Chapter 5. The Producer versus the Consumer -- Chapter 6. Uncertain Victory -- Chapter 7. A Tale of Two Tax Cuts -- Chapter 8. Every Man His Own Lobbyist -- Epilogue: American Politics, American Business -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824956403321 |
Waterhouse Benjamin C. <1978-> | ||
Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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