Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics or Political Life of Medicare

Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics

Author: Jack A Goldston

The aim of the book is to highlight and begin to give "voice" to some of the notable "silences" evident in recent years in the study of contentious politics. The coauthors hope to redress the present topical imbalance in the field. In particular, the authors take up seven specific topics in the volume: the relationship between emotions and contention; temporality in the study of contention; the spatial dimensions of contention; leadership in contention; the role of threat in contention; religion and contention; and contention in the context of demographic and life-course processes.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics: Introduction	1
2	Emotions and Contentious Politics	14
3	Space in Contentious Politics	51
4	It's About Time: Temporality in the Study of Social Movements and Revolutions	89
5	Leadership Dynamics and Dynamics of Contention	126
6	The Sacred, Religious, and Secular in Contentious Politics: Blurring Boundaries	155
7	Threat (and Opportunity): Popular Action and State Response in the Dynamics of Contentious Action	179
8	Contention in Demographic and Life-Course Context	195
9	Harmonizing the Voices: Thematic Continuity Across the Chapters	222
	References	241
	Index	267

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Political Life of Medicare

Author: Jonathan Oberlander

In recent years, bitter partisan disputes have erupted over Medicare reform. Democrats and Republicans have fiercely contested issues such as prescription drug coverage and how to finance Medicare to absorb the baby boomers. As Jonathan Oberlander demonstrates in The Political Life of Medicare, these developments herald the reopening of a historic debate over Medicare's fundamental purpose and structure. Revealing how Medicare politics and policies have developed since Medicare's enactment in 1965 and what the program's future holds, Oberlander's timely and accessible analysis will interest anyone concerned with American politics and public policy, health care politics, aging, and the welfare state.