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Author : Paul Peretz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315482033
A reader on American government and the economy. It contains wide-ranging articles by people such as Richard Musgrave, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Alan Greenspan.
Author : Paul Peretz
Publisher : M E Sharpe Incorporated
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0873324072
Author : Thomas Ferguson,Joel Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315495798
The Political Economy is ideally suited as a supplementary text for courses in American government and politics, policy studies, business-government relations, and economic issues and policy making. It integrates selections from the very finest new and classical works of political and economic analysis, by distinguished scholars, into a comprehensive overview of the American political system.
Author : Nicholas Carnes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226087283
Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has spent less than two percent of his or her adult life in a working-class job. Why is it that most politicians in America are so much better off than the people who elect them— and does the social class divide between citizens and their representatives matter? With White-Collar Government, Nicholas Carnes answers this question with a resounding—and disturbing—yes. Legislators’ socioeconomic backgrounds, he shows, have a profound impact on both how they view the issues and the choices they make in office. Scant representation from among the working class almost guarantees that the policymaking process will be skewed toward outcomes that favor the upper class. It matters that the wealthiest Americans set the tax rates for the wealthy, that white-collar professionals choose the minimum wage for blue-collar workers, and that people who have always had health insurance decide whether or not to help those without. And while there is no one cause for this crisis of representation, Carnes shows that the problem does not stem from a lack of qualified candidates from among the working class. The solution, he argues, must involve a variety of changes, from the equalization of campaign funding to a shift in the types of candidates the parties support. If we want a government for the people, we have to start working toward a government that is truly by the people. White-Collar Government challenges long-held notions about the causes of political inequality in the United States and speaks to enduring questions about representation and political accountability.
Author : Joel W. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351034609
How have the policies of recent administrations shaped today’s economy? To what extent has federal policy contributed to growth in income inequality? Why have the parties become so polarized and how has polarization influenced economic policy? This book provides an introduction to the contemporary political economy of the United States. It examines the politics of economic policymaking, the influence of federal policies and programs on the economy, and the co-evolution of politics and the economy over the past five decades. Along the way, it explains the causes and consequences of many contemporary phenomena, such as the government’s deficits and debt and the ideological polarization of the parties. The book is divided into two parts. The first half explains how America’s political economy "works." It explains what the federal government does, why it does what it does, and how its policies influence the economy. The second half explains "how we got here" with a review of major political and economic developments since the 1970s, all the way up to the early years of the Trump Administration. This weaving together of theory and history provides both the tools and the context so that readers can properly understand the nation’s current-day politics and policy debates.
Author : Saranna Thornton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429981609
This book discusses the principal concepts, the most prominent theories, the primary processes, and the language of American economic policy. It is intended for students of American politics as an introduction to the American political economy.
Author : Chris J. Dolan,John Frendreis,Raymond Tatalovich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461666530
The health of the American economy is a topic of discussion among undergraduate students in public policy and the American presidency. Policymakers and citizens also are concerned with economic prosperity and the problems associated with unemployment, taxation, health care, trade, and inflation as well as other economic issues. While the study of the economy may be a primary concern for scholars, most people care more about how economic performance and presidential economic policymaking impacts their daily lives. Therefore, the purpose of this book is to provide undergraduates and laypersons with a blueprint of the performance of the economy and the ability of the president to manage economic policy. Little has been published on the specific nexus between the presidency and economic policy. The goal of this updated and streamlined text is to provide students with an examination of the historical and substantive policy issues that shape the relationship between the American presidency and the economy.
Author : Jeffrey A. Frankel,Ernesto Stein,Shang-Jin Wei
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881322024
Covers trends from 1957 to 1995.
Author : Gordon C. Rausser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 1139123009
"This book analyzes the links between political economics, governance structures and the distribution of political power in economic policy making. The book theoretically explains and empirically quantifies these interactions. The analysis includes both public good policies and redistributive policies. Part I of the book presents the conceptual foundations of political-economic bargaining and interest group analysis. After presenting the underlying theory, Part II of the book examines ideology, prescription and political power coefficients; Part III analyzes a number of specific structures; and Part IV presents a framework for political econometrics with a number of empirical applications and testable hypotheses. In all four parts of the book, four analytical dimensions of public policy are distinguished: governance structures, political economy, mechanism design and incidence"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Avinash K. Dixit
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262540988
The Making of Economic Policy begins by observing that most countries' trade policies are so blatantly contrary to all the prescriptions of the economist that there is no way to understand this discrepancy except by delving into the politics. The same is true for many other dimensions of economic policy. Avinash Dixit looks for an improved understanding of the politics of economic policy-making from a transaction cost perspective. Such costs of planning, implementing, and monitoring an exchange have proved critical to explaining many phenomena in industrial organization. Dixit discusses the variety of similar transaction costs encountered in the political process of making economic policy and how these costs affect the operation of different institutions and policies. Dixit organizes a burgeoning body of research in political economy in this framework. He uses U.S. fiscal policy and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as two examples that illustrate the framework, and show how policy often deviates from the economist's ideal of efficiency. The approach reveals, however, that some seemingly inefficient practices are quite creditable attempts to cope with transaction costs such as opportunism and asymmetric information. Copublished with the Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute
Author : Douglas A. Irwin,Richard Sylla
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226384757
Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.
Author : Martin Gilens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691153971
Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poor Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and Influence definitively explores how political inequality in the United States has evolved over the last several decades and how this growing disparity has been shaped by interest groups, parties, and elections. With sharp analysis and an impressive range of data, Martin Gilens looks at thousands of proposed policy changes, and the degree of support for each among poor, middle-class, and affluent Americans. His findings are staggering: when preferences of low- or middle-income Americans diverge from those of the affluent, there is virtually no relationship between policy outcomes and the desires of less advantaged groups. In contrast, affluent Americans' preferences exhibit a substantial relationship with policy outcomes whether their preferences are shared by lower-income groups or not. Gilens shows that representational inequality is spread widely across different policy domains and time periods. Yet Gilens also shows that under specific circumstances the preferences of the middle class and, to a lesser extent, the poor, do seem to matter. In particular, impending elections—especially presidential elections—and an even partisan division in Congress mitigate representational inequality and boost responsiveness to the preferences of the broader public. At a time when economic and political inequality in the United States only continues to rise, Affluence and Influence raises important questions about whether American democracy is truly responding to the needs of all its citizens.
Author : Herbert Stein
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4390702
With rare wit and lucidity, Herbert Stein examines the events, policies, and personalities that have shaped the American economy for a half-century. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Marc Allen Eisner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134612802
Policy debates are often grounded within the conceptual confines of a state-market dichotomy, as though the two existed in complete isolation. In this innovative text, Marc Allen Eisner portrays the state and the market as inextricably linked, exploring the variety of institutions subsumed by the market and the role that the state plays in creating the institutional foundations of economic activity. Through a historical approach, Eisner situates the study of American political economy within a larger evolutionary-institutional framework that integrates perspectives in American political development and economic sociology. This volume provides a rich understanding of the complexity of U.S. economic policy, explaining how public policies become embedded in bureaucracy and reinforced by organized beneficiaries and public expectations. This path-dependent layering process helps students better understand the underlying historical dynamics, which provide a clearer sense of the constraints faced by policymakers now and in the future. The revisions to the second edition include: Complete rewrite of the chapter on the recent financial crisis, adding in commentary on the debt ceiling, the fiscal cliff, and other recent events. New material added and existing material updated in the chapter discussing the two welfare states. Extensive updates to the coverage of the global economy Expanded and updated discussion of Obama’s economic policies. Updates to figures and data throughout the text.
Author : G. John Ikenberry,David A. Lake,Michael Mastanduno
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801495245
How has the U.S. government made the nation's foreign economic policy over the last hundred years? Social scientists have traditionally presented the American state as relatively weak, its policies as directly reflecting the domestic balance of strength among interested social groups and economic sectors. This collection of essays by seven notable young political scientists provides a theoretical reevaluation of the forces at work in national policy making and present evidence that the effectiveness of the national government in shaping U.S. policy has been greatly underestimated.