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Author Edsall, Thomas Byrne.

Title The age of austerity : how scarcity will remake American politics / Thomas Byrne Edsall.

Imprint New York : Doubleday, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  320.973 Ed75a 2012    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: the noose -- Austerity -- The moral underpinnings of partisan conflict -- The economics of immigration -- Race -- Brutality, coarseness, and the fracture of American politics -- The big one.
Summary Provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years--and how citizens might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.
Subject Divided government -- United States.
Political parties -- United States.
Social conflict -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
ISBN 9780385535199 (alk. paper)
0385535198 (alk. paper)
9780385535205 (electronic)
0385535201 (electronic)

 
    
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