American Insecurity [electronic resource] : Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction.
Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn'...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2015.
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| Summary: | Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn't happen, and the resulting inaction carries consequences for political debates and public policy. Moving beyond previously studied barriers to political organization, American Insecurity sheds light on the public's inaction over economic insecurities by showing that the rhetoric surrounding these issu. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400852130 1400852137 |