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Chapter 1 | Democracy's Challenge | 1 |
Introduction | 1 | |
Titanic Inequalities | 4 | |
Democracy and Capitalism | 8 | |
Standards of Democracy | 10 | |
Change, and More Change | 14 | |
Conclusion | 18 | |
Part I | Introduction to American Political Economy | 21 |
Chapter 2 | Global Capitalism and American Politics | 27 |
Introduction | 27 | |
The System of Capitalism | 28 | |
The Mobilization of Bias | 35 | |
Corporate Capitalism | 39 | |
Who Owns America's Private Government? | 44 | |
The Professionalization of Capital | 45 | |
The Structure of Employment | 48 | |
Conflict and Cohesion | 51 | |
The Unstable Character of Capitalism | 54 | |
The Current Situation | 56 | |
Conclusion | 59 | |
Chapter 3 | The American State and Corporate Capitalism | 61 |
Introduction | 61 | |
The First Wave of Expansion | 64 | |
Stagnation and Challenge | 65 | |
The Second Wave of Expansion | 67 | |
Corporate Capitalism Unravels | 68 | |
A New Deal | 70 | |
The Road Not Taken | 72 | |
Conservative Keynesianism | 74 | |
The Golden Age of Capitalism | 75 | |
Economic Policy Making | 7 | |
Fiscal Policy | 78 | |
The Budget Process | 81 | |
Monetary Policy | 84 | |
The End of the Golden Age of Capitalism | 87 | |
Reaganomics | 88 | |
Clintonomics | 90 | |
The Global Marketplace | 92 | |
Conclusion | 95 | |
Part II | The Many Faces of Political Participation | 99 |
Chapter 4 | Movement for Change: Workers and Work | 101 |
Introduction | 101 | |
Work Transformed: The Decline of the Independent Middle Class | 104 | |
Creating Unions | 107 | |
The Growth and Decline of Unions | 112 | |
Future Labor Prospects | 122 | |
Social Movements and Democratic Citizenship | 126 | |
Conclusion | 130 | |
Chapter 5 | Political Parties, Elections, and Movements | 133 |
Introduction | 133 | |
The Disappearing American Voter | 135 | |
Party Systems | 138 | |
A Two-Party System | 139 | |
Critical Elections | 141 | |
Party Decay | 142 | |
The Decline of Party Organization | 144 | |
Party Structure and Orientation | 145 | |
Money and Elections | 148 | |
The PAC Phenomenon | 153 | |
Media and Elections | 156 | |
Political Consultants | 158 | |
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Coalition | 160 | |
A New Republican Party | 162 | |
A Magical Mystery Tour: the 2000 Presidential Election | 164 | |
Contemporary Party Coalitions | 168 | |
A Postelectoral Era? | 172 | |
Conclusion | 174 | |
Part III | Political Institutions | 177 |
Chapter 6 | The Presidency: Imperial or Imperiled? | 181 |
Introduction | 181 | |
The Historical Presidency | 185 | |
The Imperial President? | 188 | |
The Imperiled President | 193 | |
Presidential Styles | 196 | |
Bill Clinton as President | 198 | |
The Exercise of Presidential Power | 200 | |
The President's Response: End-Running the Bureaucracy | 211 | |
Behind the Velvet Glove | 214 | |
Conclusion | 215 | |
Chapter 7 | Congress | 217 |
Introduction | 217 | |
The Origins of Congress | 220 | |
The Historical Congress | 228 | |
Congress as a Career | 232 | |
Money and Congressional Elections | 233 | |
Safe Seats and Turnover | 235 | |
Members of Congress | 237 | |
The Legislative Process | 242 | |
How a Bill Becomes Law | 243 | |
The Senate | 247 | |
The House of Representatives | 253 | |
Congress, the Bureaucracy, and Interest Groups | 259 | |
Lobbying and Congress | 261 | |
Conclusion | 263 | |
Chapter 8 | The Judiciary | 265 |
Introduction | 265 | |
Politics and the Law | 269 | |
A Dual Court System | 270 | |
The Law and the Development of American Capitalism | 278 | |
The Supreme Court in History | 280 | |
The Modern Court: From Warren to Rehnquist | 285 | |
Politics by Lawsuit | 292 | |
Conclusion | 294 | |
Part IV | Public Policy | 297 |
Chapter 9 | Corporate Capitalism, Foreign Policy, and the Global Political Economy | 299 |
Introduction | 299 | |
American Foreign Policy Before World War II | 302 | |
Cold War Rivalry | 304 | |
Global Expansion and the Invisible Empire | 306 | |
A New Era of Globalization? | 308 | |
Globalization and Multinational Corporations | 311 | |
Multinational Corporations | 315 | |
The Military Establishment | 316 | |
Political and Economic Influence | 319 | |
The Military-Industrial Complex | 319 | |
Foreign Policy in the Post--Cold War Era | 323 | |
Rationalizing and Restructuring American Military Dominance | 325 | |
The New Global Economy: Whose Globalization? | 328 | |
Promoting Democracy Abroad | 332 | |
Conclusion | 334 | |
Chapter 10 | The Welfare State | 335 |
Introduction | 335 | |
The Historical Welfare State | 342 | |
The New Deal | 343 | |
Conservative and Liberal Welfare States | 347 | |
Beyond the New Deal | 349 | |
The Great Society and Its Backlash | 355 | |
Clinton Democrats and the Welfare State | 361 | |
Conclusion | 364 | |
Chapter 11 | Conclusion: American Politics, Past, Present, and Future | 367 |
Introduction | 367 | |
The Reagan Revolution? | 369 | |
The New Politics of Inequality | 370 | |
The Clinton-Gore Administration: Bold Centrism or Broken Compact? | 372 | |
The Compassionate Conservatism of the Bush Presidency | 381 | |
Conclusion | 384 | |
Credits | 385 | |
Index | 387 |
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