Books written by Suzanne Mettler
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The Government-Citizen Disconnect
Pierson 1994, 65; Campbell 2003, 90. 43. Campbell 2003, 93. 44. Campbell 2003, 104. 45. In 1982, Social Security was stripped of its minimum benefit, which was intended for workers who had contributed to the system for forty quarters ...
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Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation
Campbell, Women at War with America, 45. Benjamin J. Atlas, “What Future for the Servicewoman?” Independent Woman, May 1945, 126–28, 140. Claudia D. Goldin, “The Role of World War II in the Rise of Women's Employment,” American Economic ...
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Obama and America's Political Future
Andrea Louise Campbell, How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003). Bartels, Unequal Democracy, esp. ch. 9; Martin Gilens, “Inequality and ...
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Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
30 Alan I. Abramowitz, The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump (New Haven, ... /02/08/for-the-fifth-timein-a-row-the-new-congress-is-the-most-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-ever; Fredrick C. Harris ...
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Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation
1970), 100–105; on Asian Americans, see Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian ... Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Cambridge: Harvard ...
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The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy
Mettler analyzes three Obama reforms—student aid, tax relief, and health care—to reveal the submerged state and its consequences, demonstrating how structurally difficult it is to enact policy reforms and even to obtain public ...
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Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality
Remaking America explores how these trends are related, investigating the complex interactions of economics, politics, and public policy.
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Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality
Remaking America explores how these trends are related, investigating the complex interactions of economics, politics, and public policy.
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Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
In Four Threats, Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments in history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate.
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Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
In Four Threats, Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments in history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate.
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The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
Neem, Creating A Nation of Joiners, pp. 6–7. 2. Neem, Creating A Nation of Joiners, p. 5. 3. Quoted in Arthur Schlesinger, “Biography of a Nation of Joiners,” p. 8. 4. Arthur Schlesinger, “Biography of a Nation of Joiners,” p. 6. 5.
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Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many.
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Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy
Rich with implications for current debates over citizenship and welfare policy, this book provides a detailed historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life.
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The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy
Neither do they realize that the policies of the submerged state shower their largest benefits on the most affluent Americans, exacerbating inequality.
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Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy
The New Deal was not the same deal for men and women - a finding strikingly demonstrated in Dividing Citizens. The book provides a historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life.
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The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.
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Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality
Remaking America explores how these trends are related, investigating the complex interactions of economics, politics, and public policy.
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The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development
The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Howard, C. and Berkowitz, E. D. 2008. 'Extensive but Not Inclusive: Health Care and Pensions in the United States,' in ...
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Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization?
The volume bridges the conventional divide between institutional and behavioral approaches to the study of American politics and incorporates historical and comparative insights to explain the nature of contemporary challenges to democracy.
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Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many.