03126cam a2200385 i 4500 113224 113224 BJBSDDR 20230411090141.0 ta 190912s2017 mdu b 001 0 eng 9781421422596 (pbk. :acidfree paper) 142142259X (pbk. : acidfree paper) DLC eng DLC spa pcc n-us--- JK 275 L951w 2017 320.973 23 Luger, Stan, 1956- autor. What American government does / Stan Luger, Brian Waddell. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 385 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The significant state -- The tax state -- The welfare state -- The national security state -- The domestic security state -- The regulatory state -- The developmental state -- The moral state. It has become all too easy to disparage the role of the US government today. Many Americans are influenced by a simplistic anti-government ideology that is itself driven by a desire to roll back the more democratically responsive aspects of public policy. But government has improved the lives of Americans in numerous ways, from providing income, food, education, housing, and healthcare support, to ensuring cleaner air, water, and food, to providing a vast infrastructure upon which economic growth depends. In What American Government Does, Stan Luger and Brian Waddell offer a practical understanding of the scope and function of American governance. They present a historical overview of the development of US governance that is rooted in the theoretical work of Charles Tilly, Karl Polanyi, and Michael Mann. Touching on everything from taxes, welfare, and national and domestic security to the government's regulatory, developmental, and global responsibilities, each chapter covers a main function of American government and explains how it emerged and then evolved over time. Luger and Waddell are careful to both identify the controversies related to what government does and those areas of government that should elicit concern and vigilance. Analyzing the functions of the US government in terms of both a tug-of-war and a collaboration between state and societal forces, they provide a reading of American political development that dispels the myth of a weak, minimal, non-interventionist state. What American Government Does represents a major contribution to the scholarly debate on the nature of the American state and the exercise of power in America United States Politics and government. Estados Unidos Política y gobierno 2202 Waddell, Brian, author. 7963 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK LYD 0 0 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2019-09-12 0 JK275 L951w 2017 00000128136 2019-09-12 00:00:00 1 2019-09-12 BK