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