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How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy
“Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler’s provocative and timely book...
The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
“A lively read about the cracks in the system. What’s more, it offers some good ideas for how we might go about fixing them.” —Jelani Cobb, Th...
How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
America’s higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the wo...
The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation
"A hell of a gift, an opportunity." "Magnanimous." "One of the greatest advantages I ever experienced." These are the voices of World War II veterans,...
Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality
Over the past three decades, the contours of American social, economic, and political life have changed dramatically. The post-war patterns of broadly...
Americans’ relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time ...
Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy
The New Deal was not the same deal for men and women - a finding strikingly demonstrated in Dividing Citizens. The book provides a historical account ...
Barack Obama’s galvanizing victory in 2008, coming amid the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s, opened the door to major reforms. But the pres...