The United States as a divided nation : past and present

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Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing lines within U.S. society actually becoming too deep and too wide to bridge, with potentially grave consequences for American social, political as well as economic development? This book discusses important contemporary U.S. wedge issues such as gun rights, racial and economic inequality, the role of the state, the politics of culture, interpretations of history and collective memory, polarization in national politics, and factionalism in domestic and foreign policy. It provides readers with conceptual tools to grasp the complexity of the current processes, policy formation, and political and social change under way in the United States. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Other Authors

Marcin Grabowski, 1980-
Kryštof Kozák, 1977-
György Tóth

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

319 stran : ilustrace ; 22 cm

Published

Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, 2014

Series

Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen

Subjects

21. století

politická kultura > Spojené státy americké

political culture > United States

Spojené státy americké > společnost a politika > 21. století

United States > society and politics > 21st century

kolektivní monografie

collective monographs

Bibliography

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ISBN

978-3-631-65108-7