This brief book, appropriate for an American Government course, examines the relevance of American politics to the bottom 60% of income earners in the United States. Harrigan establishes a theme in the first chapter that "the bottom 60% of income earners in the U.S. constitute a lower-status population," and the main institutions of politics today have a significant bias against the economic interests of lower-status people. The author presents the central institutions and processes of American politics on a chapter by chapter basis, demonstrating how each of them contributes to this bias.
- ISBN10 0321070453
- ISBN13 9780321070456
- Publish Date 28 November 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 May 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 337
- Language English