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Off Center : The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy; with a New Afterword

Name: Off Center : The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy; with a New Afterword
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Author: Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
ISBN: 9780300119756

by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

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9780300119756
ISBN10:
0300119755
Format: Trade Paper
Copyright: 2006-09-26
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

While most Americans remain politically moderate, American politics has careened to the right. Why? What can be done? This book explains how the popular will is being subverted and proposes important reforms to return American politics to the center. In a new Afterword, Hacker and Pierson expose how the present crisis of faith in American governance flowed directly from the patterns of off-center governance described in Off Center and explore prospects for an emerging new political center. Book jacket.

Author Biography

JACOB S. HACKER is Peter Strauss Family Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University. PAUL PIERSON is professor of political science (Avice Saint Chair in Public Policy), University of California, Berkeley.

Introduction

(24)

PART I: ABANDONING THE MIDDLE

1 Off Center

(20)

2 Partying with the "People's Money"

(24)

3 New Rules for Radicals

(40)

PART II: BROKEN CHECKS AND BALANCES

4 The Race to the Base

109

(26)

5 The Republican Machine

135

(28)

6 The Center Does Not Hold

163

(22)

Conclusion: Meeting the Challenge

185

(39)

Afterword

224

(14)

Notes

238

(23)

Acknowledgments

261

(3)

Index

264

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