Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want It That Way

Richard A. Cloward; Frances Fox Piven

ISBN: 9780807004494
Publisher: Beacon Pr
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover

In a revised study of twentieth-century American voter registration and elections, the authors of Regulating the Poor looks at the history of U.S. elections, explains how barriers are put up to discourage the poor from voting, and discusses the possibility of reform. Original.

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The Breaking of the American Social Compact

Richard A. Cloward; Frances Fox Piven

ISBN: 9781565843912
Publisher: New Pr
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover

Piven and Cloward have spent their illustrious careers making sense of large questions of public policy and the dynamics of power. In this, their first new book in nearly ten years, they focus on the tumultuous politics of the past three decades that have culminated in an all-out assault on the American social compact.

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Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare

Richard A. Cloward; Frances Fox Piven

ISBN: 9780679745167
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Softcover

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Why Americans Don't Vote

Richard A. Cloward; Frances Fox Piven

ISBN: 9780679723189
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Softcover

Updated with a post-election preface by the authors. A masterful examination of American voting patterns and the American political system in the 20th Century.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1988, 1988

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The Mean Season: The Attack on the Welfare State

Richard A. Cloward; Fred L. Block; Frances Fox Piven; B. Ehrenreich

ISBN: 9780394744506
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Softcover

Four leading social thinkers analyze Reagan's war on the poor and on the welfare state to reveal its true beneficiaries and its true target.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1987

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The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences

Richard A. Cloward; Frances Fox Piven

ISBN: 9780394523187
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 1982

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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail

Richard A. Cloward; Frances Fox Piven

ISBN: 9780394488400
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 1977

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Theoretical Studies in Social Organization of the Prison

Richard A. Cloward; Conference Group on Correctional Organization

ISBN: 9780527033033
Publisher: Kraus Reprint Co
Publication Date: 1975

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The Politics of Turmoil: Essays on Poverty, Race, and the Urban Crisis

Richard A. Cloward; Frances Fox Piven

ISBN: 9780394713830
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1975

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Other editions: 1974

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Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs

Richard A. Cloward

ISBN: 9780029055908
Publisher: Free Pr
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Softcover

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