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What American Government Does
Stan Luger
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Description for What American Government Does
Paperback. What American Government Does represents a major contribution to the scholarly debate on the nature of the American state and the exercise of power in America. Num Pages: 400 pages, 4, 1 charts, 3 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. .
It has become all too easy to disparage the role of the US government today. Many Americans are influenced by a simplistic anti-government ideology that is itself driven by a desire to roll back the more democratically responsive aspects of public policy. But government has improved the lives of Americans in numerous ways, from providing income, food, education, housing, and healthcare support, to ensuring cleaner air, water, and food, to providing a vast infrastructure upon which economic growth depends. In What American Government Does, Stan Luger and Brian Waddell offer a practical understanding of the scope ... Read more
It has become all too easy to disparage the role of the US government today. Many Americans are influenced by a simplistic anti-government ideology that is itself driven by a desire to roll back the more democratically responsive aspects of public policy. But government has improved the lives of Americans in numerous ways, from providing income, food, education, housing, and healthcare support, to ensuring cleaner air, water, and food, to providing a vast infrastructure upon which economic growth depends. In What American Government Does, Stan Luger and Brian Waddell offer a practical understanding of the scope ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421422596
SKU
V9781421422596
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About Stan Luger
Stan Luger is a professor and the chair of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry. Brian Waddell is an associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The War against the New ... Read more
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