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The New Politics of Insecurity. Politics, social theory, history of ideas, American government, politics, policy, Comparative politics
List of contents
1. Introduction: The New Politics of Insecurity Frances Rosenbluth and Margaret Weir: Part I. People: 2. Race, Remembrance and Precarity: Nostalgia and Vote Choice in the 2016 US Election Andra Gillespi; 3. The End of Human Capital Solidarity? Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich; 4. Public Opinion and Reactions to Increasing Income Inequality Kris-Stella Trump; 5. Engendering Democracy in an Age of Anxiety Alice Kessler-Harris; Part II. Place: 6. Keeping your Enemies Close: Electoral Rules and Partisan Polarization Jonathan Rodden; 7. America's Unequal Metropolitan Geography: Segregation and the Spatial Concentration of Affluence and Poverty Douglas S. Massey and Jacob S. Rugh; 8. Redistribution and the Politics of Spatial Inequality in America Margaret Weir and Desmond King; Part III. Politics: 9. Electoral Realignments in the Atlantic World Carles Boix; Political Parties in the New Politics of Insecurity Christian Salas, Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro; 11. The Peculiar Politics of American Insecurity Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson; 12. The Anxiety of Precarity: the United States in Comparative Perspective Kathleen Thelen and Andreas Wiedemann; 13. Increasing Instability and Uncertainty Among Low-Wage Workers: Implications for Inequality and Potential Policy Solutions Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines and Yulya Truskinovsky.
About the author
Frances McCall Rosenbluth is Damon Wells Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. She writes widely about the politics and political economy of democratic accountability. Her books include Women, Work, and Power (with Torben Iversen, 2010), Forged Through Fire (with John Ferejohn, 2016), and Responsible Parties (with Ian Shapiro, 2018).Margaret Weir is Wilson Professor of Public and International Affairs and Political Science at Brown University. She has written and edited several volumes on social policy, race, and employment in the United States. Professor Weir also served as director of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Building Resilient Regions and is currently working on a book entitled, The New Metropolis: The Politics of Spatial Inequality in Twenty-First Century America.
Summary
This book is for undergraduates, graduate students, and general readers interested in how growing insecurities undermined the politics and policies of the postwar era in Europe and the US. Integrating social sciences and history, chapters examine how politics exacerbated social and economic divisions among individuals, places, and parties.
