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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Act has ensured that it will remain the law of the land. The new law extends health insurance to ...
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The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government. This work fe ...
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Tells the story of the most visible African American fraternal associations. This book demonstrates how African American fraternal groups played key roles in the struggle for civil rights and racial integration. It reveals an important chapter in the story of civic democracy and ...
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The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government. This work fe ...
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The contributors to this volume discuss the influence of the best-known work of Barrington Moore, Jr - Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy . Their individual perspectives combine to delineate Moore's contributions to the transformation of comparative and historical socia ...
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The description for this book, The Unsolid South: Mass Politics and National Representation in a One-Party Enclave, will be forthcoming.
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From the 1850s to the 1920s, laws regulating the industrial labor process, pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and measures to educate and ensure the welfare of children were enacted in many industrializing capitalist nations. This same period saw the development of ...
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A dialogue among Stanley B. Greenberg, Theda Skocpol and other thinkers. They argue that the USA is ready for a progressive politics with substance, and contend that by embarking on a popular progressive course, the Democratic Party can become the moral voice of American families ...
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In this penetrating new study, Skocpol of Harvard University, one of today's leading political scientists, and co-author Williamson go beyond the inevitable photos of protesters in tricorn hats and knee breeches to provide a nuanced portrait of the Tea Party. What they find is so ...
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An account of how health care reform under the Clinton administration went from being one of the Democrats' most popular policies to the most divisive.
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