Remaking America Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality by Joe Soss,Jacob S Hacker,Suzanne Mettler ISBN 087154816X 978-0871548160

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ISBN 10: 087154816X 

ISBN 13:978-0871548160 

Author: Joe Soss, Jacob S Hacker, Suzanne Mettler

 Over the past three decades, the contours of American social, economic, and political life have changed dramatically. The post-war patterns of broadly distributed economic growth have given way to stark inequalities of income and wealth, the GOP and its allies have gained power and shifted U.S. politics rightward, and the role of government in the lives of Americans has changed fundamentally. Remaking America explores how these trends are related, investigating the complex interactions of economics, politics, and public policy. Remaking America explains how the broad restructuring of government policy has both reflected and propelled major shifts in the character of inequality and democracy in the United States. The contributors explore how recent political and policy changes affect not just the social standing of Americans but also the character of democratic citizenship in the United States today. Lawrence Jacobs shows how partisan politics, public opinion, and interest groups have shaped the evolution of Medicare, but also how Medicare itself restructured health politics in America. Kimberly Morgan explains how highly visible tax policies created an opportunity for conservatives to lead a grassroots tax revolt that ultimately eroded of the revenues needed for social-welfare programs. Deborah Stone explores how new policies have redefined participation in the labor force―as opposed to fulfilling family or civic obligations―as the central criterion of citizenship. Frances Fox Piven explains how low-income women remain creative and vital political actors in an era in which welfare programs increasingly subject them to stringent behavioral requirements and monitoring. Joshua Guetzkow and Bruce Western document the rise of mass incarceration in America and illuminate its unhealthy effects on state social-policy efforts and the civic status of African-American men. For many disadvantaged Americans who used to look to government as a source of opportunity and security, the state has become increasingly paternalistic and punitive. Far from standing alone, their experience reflects a broader set of political victories and policy revolutions that have fundamentally altered American democracy and society. Empirically grounded and theoretically informed, Remaking America connects the dots to provide insight into the remarkable social and political changes of the last three decades.

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Introduction

I. Policies and Institutions in the New Politics of Inequality

• Chapter 1. The New Politics of Inequality: A Policy-Centered Perspective
  Jacob S. Hacker (Yale University), Suzanne Mettler (Syracuse University), Joe Soss (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Chapter 2. Constricting the Welfare State: Tax Policy and the Political Movement Against Government
  Kimberly J. Morgan (George Washington University)
• Chapter 3. Entrepreneurial Litigation: Advocacy Coalitions and Strategies in the Fragmented American Welfare State
  R. Shep Melnick (Boston College)

II. Elite Efforts to Reshape the Political Landscape

• Chapter 4. The Implementation and Evolution of Medicare: The Distributional Effects of “Positive” Policy Feedbacks
  Lawrence R. Jacobs (University of Minnesota)
• Chapter 5. A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback
  Joe Soss (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sanford F. Schram (Bryn Mawr College)

III. Policies and Participation: The Interplay of Structure and Agency

• Chapter 6. Universalism, Targeting, and Participation
  Andrea Louise Campbell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Chapter 7. Institutions and Agents in the Politics of Welfare Cutbacks
  Frances Fox Piven (City University of New York)

IV. The People that Policies Make: Roles, Identities, and Democracies

• Chapter 8. Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of Racial Inequality
  Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard University), Vesla Weaver (Harvard University)
• Chapter 9. Welfare Policy and the Transformation of Care
  Deborah Stone (Dartmouth College)

V. The State’s New Look: Decentralization, Inequality, and Social Control

• Chapter 10. The Promise of Progressive Federalism
  Richard B. Freeman (Harvard University), Joel Rogers (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Chapter 11. The Political Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
  Josh Guetzkow (Harvard University), Bruce Western (Princeton University)

VI. Putting the Pieces Together: Constructivist and Institutionalist Perspectives

• Chapter 12. Poverty, Policy, and the Social Construction of Target Groups
  Helen Ingram (University of California-Irvine)
• Chapter 13. Policy, Politics, and the Rise of Inequality
  Paul Pierson (University of California-Berkeley)

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