Ursula Hackett

America's Voucher Politics

How Elites Learned to Hide the State

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491419
• ISBN-10: 1108491413
• Artikelnr.: 58125302

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.