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Author Edsall, Thomas Byrne.

Title The age of austerity : how scarcity will remake American politics / Thomas Byrne Edsall.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2012]
©2012

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 Moore Stacks  JK2261 .E37 2012    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: the noose -- Austerity -- The moral underpinnings of partisan conflict -- The economics of immigration -- Race -- Brutality, coarseness, and the fracture of American politics -- The big one.
Summary 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.
Subject Divided government -- United States.
Divided government.
United States.
Political parties -- United States.
Political parties.
Social conflict -- United States.
Social conflict.
United States -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
ISBN 9780385535199 alkaline paper
0385535198 alkaline paper
9780385535205 electronic
0385535201 electronic