Title
- American Prospect
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edited by Robert KuttnerPublication Details
BookNew Press1996Availability
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With the rise of Newt Gingrich and Republican-controlled Congress, a wide range of political time bombs have been set, threatening the American republic. Ticking Time Bombs gathers today’s most distinguished authors from America’s premier liberal journal, the American Prospect, to explain these problems, examine their long-terms consequences, and offer solutions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "Essays from The American prospect"–Cover
- With the Rise of Newt Gingrich and a Republican-controlled Congress, a wide range of political time bombs have been set, threatening the American republic. People’s living standards are stagnant and the political process offers no solutions; the rhetoric about a balanced budget by 2002 creates an environment in which public policymakers are more concerned with scrapping programs than with solving problems; and the degradation of the political process itself has led to increasing domination by big money interests, the decay of both parties, and further declines in voter participation. All of these time bombs are linked; if our political process can’t sole real problems, democracy itself is discredited. Ticking Time Bombs gathers today’s most distinguished authors from America’s premier liberal journal, The American Prospect, to explain these problems, examine their long-term consequences, and offer solutions
Contents
- Introduction / Robert Kuttner
- Who Deserted the Democrats in 1994? / Ruy A. Teixeira and Joel Rogers
- After the Republican Surge / Stanley B. Greenberg
- Liberalism’s Third Crisis / Alan Brinkley
- How to Rebuild the Democratic Party / Jeff Faux
- The Crusade that’s Killing Prosperity / Lester Thurow
- The Inequality Express / Barry Bluestone
- How the Pie is Sliced: America’s Growing Concentration of Wealth / Edward N. Wolff
- Rising Tides, Sinking Wages / Lawrence Mishel
- The Skills Myth / David R. Howell
- The Surrender of Economic Policy / James K. Galbraith
- The Predator’s Accomplice: How High Theory Abetted Speculative Excess / Louis Lowenstein
- Is the American Economic Model the Answer? / Jeff Faux
- Senator Dole’s Greatest Harvest / Glenn R. Simpson
- The Pressure Elite: Inside the Narrow World of Advocacy Group Politics / John B. Judis
- How Money Votes: An Oklahoma Story / Robert Dreyfuss
- Political Snipers / Robert Dreyfuss
- How the West is Won / Samantha Sanchez
- Electoral Detox: A Twelve-Step Cure for Donor Dependency / Brooks Jackson
- Voters in the Crosshairs: How Technology and the Market Are Destroying Politics / Marshall Ganx
- The Strange Disappearance of Civic America / Robert D. Putnam
- What if Civic Life Didn’t Die? / Michael Schudson
- Unravelling from Above / Theda Skocpol
- Couch-Potato Democracy? / Richard M. Valelly
- Response / Robert D. Putnam
- Gingrich’s Time Bomb / Philip Harvey, Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Marshaw
- Come the Devolution / Lenny Goldberg
- The Populist Road to Hell / Peter Schrag
ISBN
- 1565843460
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