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  • Democracy Vouchers and the Promise of Fairer Elections in Seattle

    par Jennifer A. Heerwig, Brian J. McCabe ...
    Collections series PLAC: Political Lessons from American Cities
    In 2017, Seattle inaugurated a new way for citizens to be involved in democracy: they introduced publicly financed vouchers for voters to donate to local candidates. The innovative plan is designed to level the playing field in campaign financing. Through the vouchers, residents allocate dollars to candidates of their choice in local elections, putting political money directly in the hands of ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Sociology of Housing

    How Homes Shape Our Social Lives

    Modifié par Brian J. McCabe, Eva Rosen ...
    A landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life.In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association, Louis Wirth, argued for the importance of housing as a field of sociological research. Now, seventy-five years later, the sociology of housing has still not developed as a distinct subfield, leaving efforts to understand housing’s place in society to other disciplines, ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • No Place Like Home

    Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership

    par Brian J. McCabe ...
    In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United States, and for many Americans, buying a home is the most important financial investment they will ever make. We are deeply committed to an ideology of homeownership that presents homeownership as a tool for building stronger ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

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    The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s—and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions todayFor decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of ... En savoir plus

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  • Poor Numbers

    How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

    par Morten Jerven ...
    Collections series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... En savoir plus

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  • The System Worked

    How the World Stopped Another Great Depression

    par Daniel W. Drezner ...
    International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Daniel W. Drezner, like so many others, looked at the smoking ruins of the global economy and wondered why ... En savoir plus

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  • Progress for the Poor

    par Lane Kenworthy ...
    One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that, drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s. The book addresses a set of questions at the heart of political economy and public policy: How much does economic growth help the poor? When ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • Social Democratic America

    par Lane Kenworthy ...
    America is the one of the wealthiest nations on earth. So why do so many Americans struggle to make ends meet? Why is it so difficult for those who start at the bottom to reach the middle class? And why, if a rising economic tide lifts all boats, have middle-class incomes been growing so slowly? Social Democratic America explains how this has happened and how we can do better. Lane Kenworthy ... En savoir plus

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  • Laboratories against Democracy

    How National Parties Transformed State Politics

    par Jacob M. Grumbach ...
    Collections series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the ... En savoir plus

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  • Making Social Spending Work

    par Peter H. Lindert ...
    How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the development of public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and addresses key questions ... En savoir plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

    Modifié par David Brady, Linda M. Burton ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity and behavior. Nevertheless, the study of poverty has remained disconnected across disciplines. The ... En savoir plus

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  • The Government-Citizen Disconnect

    par Suzanne Mettler ...
    Americans’ relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five saying they trust the government or believe that it operates in their interest. Yet, at the same time, more Americans than ever benefit from some form of government social provision. Political scientist Suzanne Mettler calls ... En savoir plus

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