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America''s Voucher Politics - How Elites Learned to Hide the State

Inglese · Tascabile

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Drawing upon original datasets and candid interviews, Hackett explains how elites insulate their programs from legal challenge amid deep-seated religious, racial, and civic controversies in American politics. With education policy as a revealing case study, this book will interest scholars across political science, law, and public policy.

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Introduction. Subtle forms of circumvention; 1. America's foundational identity struggles; 2. Two dimensions of attenuated governance; 3. The racial struggle: segregation grants in the Brown era; 4. The religious struggle: vouchers and the church-state question; 5. The public-private struggle: union opposition and the educational establishment; 6. Tax credit scholarships in an era of Republican dominance; 7. Education savings accounts and controversies beyond; Conclusion. Attenuated governance and the state.

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Ursula Hackett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her Oxford doctorate won the Political Studies Association's Sir Walter Bagehot Prize in Government and Public Administration. She researches religion, race, public policy, and American Political Development, and speaks on American politics regularly at Chatham House and the UK Foreign Office.

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Drawing upon original datasets and candid interviews, Hackett explains how elites insulate their programs from legal challenge amid deep-seated religious, racial, and civic controversies in American politics. With education policy as a revealing case study, this book will interest scholars across political science, law, and public policy.

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