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Margaret Weir
Politics and Jobs [EPUB ebook]
The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States

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Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States? To answer this question, Margaret Weir highlights two related elements: the power of ideas in policymaking and the politics of interest formation.

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Margaret Weir is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. With Ira Katznelson, she is the coauthor of
Schooling for All: Class, Race and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (Basic Books/University of California).

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 262 ● ISBN 9780691227856 ● File size 1.9 MB ● Publisher Princeton University Press ● City Princeton ● Country US ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7728687 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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