The new majority
Subtitle: toward a popular progressive politics
By: edited by Stanley B. Greenberg and Theda Skocpol.
Contributors: Greenberg, Stanley B., 1945-; Skocpol, Theda.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Democratic Party (U.S.); Progressivism (United States politics); United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001; United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001; United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
Description: In an era of widespread and unsettling change in families, businesses, and communities, most Americans yearn for a government that will take their side. The contributors to this bold and visionary book argue that America is ready for a progressive politics with substance and bite. They contend that by embarking on a popular progressive course, the Democratic Party can become the moral voice and practical partner of American families striving for a better life.

This provocative book is a dialogue among Stanley B. Greenberg, Theda Skocpol, and other well-known thinkers. They reject conservative answers to America's most pressing problems - fraying social ties, hard-pressed families, sluggish economic growth, and widening gaps between the circumstances of the most privileged and those of everyone else. They urge a renewal of the nation's social contract, explain how to revitalize American democracy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-314) and index.
Contains essays first presented at "the New Majority conference ... [at] Airlie House in Virginia on January 10-12,1997"--P. xi.
Table of contents: title: Politics for our time -- Theda Skocpol and Stanley B. Greenberg; title: You are not alone -- Jeff Faux; title: Economy, the community, and the public sector -- Alan Brinkley; title: New social inequality and affirmative opportunity -- William Julius Wilson; title: Case for social insurance -- Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw; title: Partnership with American families -- Theda Skocpol; title: Political economy of citizenship -- Michael J. Sandel; title: Reconnecting people and politics -- Margaret Weir and Marshall Cox; title: Battle for the states -- Karen M. Paget; title: Championing democracy reforms -- Miles S. Rapoport and Marc Caplan; title: Emerging Democratic majority -- Paul Starr; title: Reversing Southern Republicanism -- Ira Katznelson; title: Globalization, the racial divide, and a new citizenship -- Michael C. Dawson; title: Popularizing progressive politics -- Stanley B. Greenberg.