Stephen Amberg

A Democracy That Works (eBook, ePUB)

How Working-Class Power Defines Liberal Democracy in the United States

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Democracy That Works argues that rather than corporate donations, Republican gerrymandering, and media manipulation, the conservative ascendancy reflects the changes in how work is governed that have disempowered workers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000785364
• Artikelnr.: 65997502

Autorenporträt

Stephen Amberg is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He was a Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the Copenhagen Business School (2009-10) and a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at the New School for Social Research (2004-05). His Ph.D. is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987). Amberg studies American political development, comparative political economy of the advanced countries, labor and employment policy and political movements. He has authored a book on governing the automobile industry and published articles in such journals as Studies in American Political Development, Social Science History, Polity and the Socio-Economic Review.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: America's Puzzling Semi-Democracy 2. Rules for
Representation and Participation at Work: How New York's Multi-Party
Politics Created Collaborative Workplaces and Influenced the New Deal 3.
Extending the New Deal to the South: The Struggle for Liberal Democracy in
Texas 4. How Having It Both Ways with Labor Rights During the New Deal Era
Undermined U.S. Support for a Just Global Economy 5. Liberals Labors Lost:
How the Democrats Lost Control of Their Narrative of Liberal Democracy 6.
Reconfiguring Work and Politics in the Automobile Industry during the Obama
Administration 7. Beyond Liberal Oligarchy: The New Working-Class and
Democratic Politics