The age of austerity : how scarcity will remake American politics
/ Thomas Byrne Edsall.
- First Anchor Books edition.
- New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc. , 2012.
- 256 p. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-238) and index.
Prologue: the noose -- Austerity -- The moral underpinnings of partisan conflict, part I -- The moral underpinnings of partisan conflict, part II -- The economics of immigration -- Race -- Brutality, coarseness, and the fracture of American politics -- The big one.
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.
English.
9780385535199
Divided government---United States Political parties---United States Social conflicts---United States