Winner-take-all politics :

Hacker, Jacob S.

Winner-take-all politics : how Washington made the rich richer-and turned its back on the middle class / Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. - 1st Simon & Schustser hardcover ed. - New York : Simon & Schustser, c2010. - 357 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-340) and index.

The thirty-years war -- The puzzling politics of winner-take-all -- The winner-take-all economy -- How the winner-take-all economy was made -- A brief history of Democratic capitalism -- The rise of winner-take-all politics -- The unseen revolution of the 1970s -- The politics of organized combat -- The middle goes missing -- Winner-take-all politics -- A tale of two parties -- Building a bridge to the 19th century -- Democrats climb aboard -- Renewal denied.

9781416588696 (hardcover) 9781416588702 (pbk.) 9781416593843 (ebook)

2010014515

HN89.S6 / H33 2010

306.3/42097309045