Revised papers from the second and third of three conference held in Chicago throughout 1984-1985, and sponsored by the Project on the Federal Social Role. Includes ...

'American Government in a Changed World' is a compendium of original essays that analyze how the events of September 11, 2001, have impacted various aspects of our political ...

Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health ...

Monograph using Marxism occupational sociology to interpret relationships beween labour productivity, capitalism and monopoly in a factory in Chicago, USA - develops a theory ...

A historically grounded and theoretically informed analysis of two major governmental interventions into the US economy--the National Recovery Administration and the ...

The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an ...

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Explores the activities of members of Congress in their constituencies and in Washington

Skocpol (government and sociology, Harvard U.) explores the changing currents of domestic U.S. politics through the prism of the defeat of President Clinton's comprehensive ...