Categoría: Comportamiento electoral
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Hillbilly, una elegía rural
Hillbilly, una elegía rural es un relato apasionado y apasionante de una clase social en decadencia, la de la clase trabajadora blanca en Estados Unidos. Los hillbillies, término peyorativo que hace referencia a los habitantes de la cordillera de los Apalaches, forman parte de este grupo social cada vez más empobrecido y radicalizado del país.…
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El Desmoronamiento
El desmoronamiento narra los últimos treinta años de la historia de Estados Unidos, la época del declive americano, a través de las vidas de varias personas: Dean Price, hijo de granjeros, que se convierte en un abanderado de la nueva economía en el Sur rural; Tammy Thomas, una obrera del cinturón industrial del país que…
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Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World
Emotions matter in politics – enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry…
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Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square, he was subsequently reelected. How…
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¿Qué pasa con Kansas?: Cómo los ultraconservadores conquistaron el corazón de Estados Unidos
“El enigmático espectáculo de un suicidio colectivo a gran escala siempre resulta fascinante. Pensemos en los cientos de seguidores de la secta de Jim Jones que ingirieron, obedientes, veneno en su campamento de la Guyana. En el terreno económico, eso mismo está sucediendo hoy en Kansas. Ése es el objeto de este excelente libro de…
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The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality
It wasn’t so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown…
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR’s 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR’s Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle’s Best of 2016: 100 recommended books…
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Populist Explosion
«Far and away the most incisive examination of the central development in contemporary politics: the rise of populism on both the right and the left. Superb.» – Thomas Edsall, New York Times columnist What’s happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and…
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land **A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week‘s 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle‘s 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017** «A devastating read…For anyone wondering why swing-state America voted against the establishment…
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Listen, Liberal: or, what ever happened to the party of the people?
With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank exposes how, in the last few decades, the American Left has made an unprecedented shift away from its working-class roots. Financial inequality is one of the biggest political issues of our time: from the Wall Street bail-outs – where bankers still…