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A Democracy That Works: How Working-Class Power Defines Liberal Democracy in the United States

A Democracy That Works: How Working-Class Power Defines Liberal Democracy in the United States

Amberg, Stephen

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Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032345063
ISBN13: 9781032345062
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A Democracy That Works argues that rather than corporate donations, Republican gerrymandering and media manipulation, the conservative ascendancy reflects the reconstruction of the rules that govern work that has disempowered workers.

Using six historical case studies from the emergence of the New Deal, and its later overtaking by the conservative neoliberal agenda, to today's intersectional social justice movements, Stephen Amberg deploys situated institutional analysis to show how real actors created the rules that empowered liberal democracy for 50 years and then how Democrats and Republicans undermined democracy by changing those rules, thereby organizing working-class people out of American politics. He draws on multidisciplinary studies to argue that when employees are organized to participate at work, they are also organized to participate in politics to press for accountable government. In doing so, the book opens up analytical space to understand the unprecedented threat to liberal democracy in the U.S.

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