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Disciplining the Poor

Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

By: Joe Soss,Richard C. Fording,Sanford Schram

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Disciplining the Poor

Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

By: Joe Soss,Richard C. Fording,Sanford Schram

This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226768767

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9780226768762

Unwanted Claims

The Politics of Participation in the U.S. Welfare System

By: Joe Soss

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Unwanted Claims

The Politics of Participation in the U.S. Welfare System

By: Joe Soss

Presents a political analysis of the U.S. welfare system as a site of politics for recipients

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260

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University of Michigan Press

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0472089021

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9780472089024

The Factors and Behaviors Associated with Legislator Use of Communication Technology

By: Joe West,Jingjing Gao,Sojin Jang

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The Factors and Behaviors Associated with Legislator Use of Communication Technology

By: Joe West,Jingjing Gao,Sojin Jang

Few will doubt the importance of the role that communication technology played in American politics in 2020. The Factors and Behaviors Associated with Legislator Use of Communication Technology examines the various factors and behaviors associated with legislator use of communication technology. Offering both macro and micro level perspectives as well as quantitative and qualitative data analyses, a broad perspective of the role that communication technology plays in driving legislator behavior is provided. Building a theoretical structure, this book begins with an examination of how communication technology can destabilize the policymaking process and offers an overview of media and policy process theories, and legislator roles and the association of these roles with the use of communication technology. Moving to the micro level, the authors present quantitative and qualitative evidence associated with legislator behaviors associated with the use of communication technology including compromise behaviors and political ideological polarization, closing with an examination of the use of communication technology by legislators during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498597815

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9781498597814

Legislator Use of Communication Technology

The Critical Frequency Theory of Policy System Stability

By: Joe West

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Legislator Use of Communication Technology

The Critical Frequency Theory of Policy System Stability

By: Joe West

Political use of communication technology is rapidly changing the nature of politics; one need look no further than President Trump’s use of Twitter to realize the impact that communication technology is having on political processes. Communication technology has long been recognized as part of the policy feedback process, but until now, has received relatively little focus, often relegated to a line or two in a policy process theory system diagram labeled “feedback." This book takes a fresh look at the role that communication technology plays in the policy process by applying natural science control and electrical engineering concepts such as bandwidth, latency, phase crossover, and positive and negative feedback to develop the critical frequency theory of policy system stability. This theory suggests that every policymaking institution has some critical frequency of communications from the policy environment that once exceeded, causes the policymaking institution to go unstable, and it is this instability that causes the policymaking process to speed up. With the theory developed, data collected on approximately 2,000 state legislators from every state in the U.S. is analyzed using linear and nonlinear regression models to understand the statistically significant relationships between communication technology frequency of use and importance, and the demographic, political, and institutional variables that contribute to policy process stability and instability. Additionally, interviews with legislators uncover many novel and interesting examples of the use of communication technology in the policy process. For example, legislators note that lobbyists sitting in legislative chambers listening to floor debates are actually texting questions and answers to legislators as they debate; legislators participating in this process are acting as policymaking puppets for the lobbyists sitting in the gallery. This single use of a communication technology has the capability of changing the very nature of what it means to be a legislator; with lobbyists acting as surrogate legislators.

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279

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Lexington Books

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1498565301

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You Blew It!

An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life

By: Josh Gondelman,Joe Berkowitz

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You Blew It!

An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life

By: Josh Gondelman,Joe Berkowitz

A hilarious examination of faux pas for readers of Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened Humankind is doomed. Especially you. It’s already too late. From overstaying your welcome at a party, to leaving passive-aggressive post-its on your roommate’s belongings, to letting your date know the extent of the internet reconnaissance you did on them—you're destined to embarrass yourself again and again. In You Blew It!, Josh Gondelman, comedian and co-creator of the “Modern Seinfeld” twitter account, teams up with Joe Berkowitz, an equally wry and ruthless social-observer, to dissect a range of painfully hilarious faux pas. Breaking down the code violations of modern culture—particularly our fervent, ridiculous addiction to technology—Gondelman and Berkowitz will keep you laughing as they explore how social blunders are simply part of the mystery that is you.

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226

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Penguin

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0698190106

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9780698190108

Welfare, Deservingness and the Logic of Poverty

Who Deserves?

By: Joe Whelan

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Welfare, Deservingness and the Logic of Poverty

Who Deserves?

By: Joe Whelan

Who deserves to get what and what should they have to do in order to get it? These are questions that societies have grappled with since antiquity, and they continue to echo today. This book explores questions of social deservingness by tracking how it has been treated across the centuries, from ancient Greece to the present day, taking in many notable thinkers along the way. In doing so, it focuses, in particular, on what different thinkers have had to say on and about poor relief and social welfare. Modern welfare systems are also examined to show how particular logics of poverty, while they may be ancient in origin, continue to inform our notions of who deserves to get what today. This book will be of interest to those studying or working in the areas of social welfare, social policy and sociology.

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155

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527567540

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Avengers

Live Kree Or Die

By: Bob Harras,Joe Edkin,John Ostrander,Kurt Busiek,Mark Waid,Richard Howell

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Avengers

Live Kree Or Die

By: Bob Harras,Joe Edkin,John Ostrander,Kurt Busiek,Mark Waid,Richard Howell

Collects Avengers (1963) #365, 378-379; Iron Man (1998) #7; Captain America (1998) #8; Quicksilver (1997) #10; Avengers (1998) #7; material from Avengers (1963) #364, 366. The Kree Empire has fallen! The rogue faction known as the Lunatic Legion blames the Avengers — and plans to destroy Earth with a massive Nega-Bomb in retaliation! Can the Avengers locate the fanatics and defuse the situation before the clock ticks down? Meanwhile, the enigmatic Collector has a secret scheme all his own: to kidnap as many Avengers as possible! Years later, the Lunatic Legion returns with a new goal: to mutate mankind into a new Kree race! Quicksilver races to the Avengers’ side as the battle to save Earth takes them to the moon — but can Carol Danvers aid the team while dealing with an intensely personal struggle of her own?

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Marvel Entertainment

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1302521217

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A Piece of the Action

How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

By: Joe Nocera

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A Piece of the Action

How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class

By: Joe Nocera

Winner of the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism One of Business Week’s “Ten Best Business Books of the Year” When it was published in 1994, A Piece of the Action was wildly acclaimed by Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, authors Michael Lewis and Brian Burroughs; it won the Helen Bernstein Prize and was a national bestseller. Joseph Nocera describes the historical process by which millions of middle class Americans went from being savers—people who kept their money in the bank, and spent it frugally—to being unrepentant borrowers and investors. A Piece of the Action is an important piece of financial and social history, and with a new introduction, Nocera’s 2013 critique of the uses of the revolution is a powerful warning and admonition to understand what is at stake before we act, to look before we jump.

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480

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Simon and Schuster

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1476734798

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9781476734798

Hidden Voices

Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space

By: Joe Whelan

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Hidden Voices

Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space

By: Joe Whelan

Welfare states are a major feature of many societies. This book draws on qualitative interviews with people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to analyse welfare conditionality and explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor.

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198

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Policy Press

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1447360931

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Pigeons From Hell

By: Joe R. Lansdale

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Pigeons From Hell

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Master horror storyteller Joe R. Lansdale throws his scathing wit and wild, otherworldly creations into the mix as he brings Robert E. Howard's classic tale of dark revenge to the present . . . and into the unwilling lives of the Blassenville mansion heirs, twin sisters Claire and Janet. When Griswell fled the Blassenville estate those many years ago, he couldn't have imagined the grotesque horrors that would eclipse the ones he saw then — but they're here! With more than twenty books to his credit, Joe R. Lansdale is an acclaimed storyteller. He's been called "an immense talent" by Booklist; "a born storyteller" by Robert Bloch; and The New York Times Book Review declares he has "a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace." He's won a ton of awards, including five Bram Stoker horror awards, a British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Horror Critics Award, the "Shot in the Dark" International Crime Writer's award, the Booklist Editor's Award, the Critic's Choice Award, and a New York Times Notable Book award.

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Dark Horse Comics

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1630084816

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Disciplining the Poor

Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

By: Joe Soss,Richard C. Fording,Sanford Schram

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Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

By: Joe Soss,Richard C. Fording,Sanford Schram

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University of Chicago Press

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0226768767

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Remaking America

Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality

By: Joe Soss,Jacob S. Hacker,Suzanne Mettler

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Remaking America

Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality

By: Joe Soss,Jacob S. Hacker,Suzanne Mettler

Over the past three decades, the contours of American social, economic, and political life have changed dramatically. The post-war patterns of broadly distributed economic growth have given way to stark inequalities of income and wealth, the GOP and its allies have gained power and shifted U.S. politics rightward, and the role of government in the lives of Americans has changed fundamentally. Remaking America explores how these trends are related, investigating the complex interactions of economics, politics, and public policy. Remaking America explains how the broad restructuring of government policy has both reflected and propelled major shifts in the character of inequality and democracy in the United States. The contributors explore how recent political and policy changes affect not just the social standing of Americans but also the character of democratic citizenship in the United States today. Lawrence Jacobs shows how partisan politics, public opinion, and interest groups have shaped the evolution of Medicare, but also how Medicare itself restructured health politics in America. Kimberly Morgan explains how highly visible tax policies created an opportunity for conservatives to lead a grassroots tax revolt that ultimately eroded of the revenues needed for social-welfare programs. Deborah Stone explores how new policies have redefined participation in the labor force—as opposed to fulfilling family or civic obligations—as the central criterion of citizenship. Frances Fox Piven explains how low-income women remain creative and vital political actors in an era in which welfare programs increasingly subject them to stringent behavioral requirements and monitoring. Joshua Guetzkow and Bruce Western document the rise of mass incarceration in America and illuminate its unhealthy effects on state social-policy efforts and the civic status of African-American men. For many disadvantaged Americans who used to look to government as a source of opportunity and security, the state has become increasingly paternalistic and punitive. Far from standing alone, their experience reflects a broader set of political victories and policy revolutions that have fundamentally altered American democracy and society. Empirically grounded and theoretically informed, Remaking America connects the dots to provide insight into the remarkable social and political changes of the last three decades.

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300

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Russell Sage Foundation

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0871543516

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9780871543516

Miles O'Smiles

By: Joe Homan

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Miles O'Smiles

By: Joe Homan

With forty eight Transistor radios in his suitcase, Joe, an Englishman, lands at Trichy Airport in the summer of 1965. The Custom's officer confronts him, but on hearing about Joe's mission, lets him go scot-free!

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Melrose Book Company

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1908645113

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9781908645111

Joe Louis

50 Years an American Hero

By: Joe Louis Barrow,Barbara Munder

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Joe Louis

50 Years an American Hero

By: Joe Louis Barrow,Barbara Munder

The son of the legendary "Brown Bomber" presents the private side of the fighter, weaving into the account reminiscences from siblings, former wives, trainers, opponents, and sportswriters

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0816148511

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9780816148516

Planet Joe

By: Joe Cole

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Planet Joe

By: Joe Cole

Life on the road as seen through the eyes of Black Flag/Rollins Band roadie and Rollins confidante, Joe Cole. Tour journal documenting the final Black Flag tour and first Rollins Band tour.

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2 13 61

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1880985098

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Disciplining the Poor

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Unwanted Claims

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The Factors and Behaviors Associated with Legislator Use of Communication Technology

The Factors and Behaviors Associated with Legislator Use of Communication Technology

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Legislator Use of Communication Technology

You Blew It!

You Blew It!

Welfare, Deservingness and the Logic of Poverty

Welfare, Deservingness and the Logic of Poverty

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A Piece of the Action

A Piece of the Action

Hidden Voices

Hidden Voices

Pigeons From Hell

Pigeons From Hell

Disciplining the Poor

Disciplining the Poor

Remaking America

Remaking America

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Joe Louis

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