While this should not be surprising with respect to the presidency of George H.W. Bush,Reagan's vicepresident and immediate successor, continuity wasalso exhibited intheClinton presidency. Clinton won the 1992 election with 43 percent ...
This chapter extends my earlier work on the United States in Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr., with Douglas Rivers and Nicholas Vasilatos, "On the Demand for Economic Outcomes: Macroeconomic Performance and Mass Political Support in the United ...
Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.
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 ...
David Hyman, Medicare Meets Mephistopheles (Washington, D.C.: Cato Insti- tute, 2006), 43. Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, “National Health Expenditure Projections 2008–18.
In this work, politics and policy played at most a peripheral role in explaining the ebb and flow of American inequality. But newer scholarship has given politics a more central place in our understanding of income disparity"--
Hibbs identifies which groups “win” and “lose” from inflations and recessions and shows how voters’ perceptions and reactions to economic events affect the electoral fortunes of political parties and presidents.
This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy.