The Political Development Of American Debt Relief di Emily Zackin, Chloe N. Thurston edito da The University Of Chicago Press
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The Political Development Of American Debt Relief

EAN:

9780226832357

ISBN:

022683235X

Pagine:
248
Formato:
Hardback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione The Political Development Of American Debt Relief

"This book is about why debt relief was a salient political issue for so long and why it then ceased to be one. It is also about the United States' constitutional tradition, and the contradictions it embodies. Tracing the geographic, sectoral, and racial politics of debt relief over time--and examining the roles that social movements, interest groups, and constitutional interpretation played--Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston show how the politics of debt relief has interacted with race and other social hierarchies that have conditioned both state action and debtors' opportunities to mobilize. Although the twentieth and early twenty-first century saw the erosion of debt protection, history reminds us that Americans once mounted large-scale grassroots campaigns for debt relief. These activists made radical claims about economic justice, and they reshaped constitutional law and the American state"--

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