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Deficits, Debt, and Distributive Conflict : = American Fiscal Politics from 1974 to 2016.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Deficits, Debt, and Distributive Conflict :/
Reminder of title:	American Fiscal Politics from 1974 to 2016.
Author:	Crowley, Edward.
Description:	1 online resource (174 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-01A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379773960

Deficits, Debt, and Distributive Conflict : = American Fiscal Politics from 1974 to 2016.
Crowley, Edward.

Deficits, Debt, and Distributive Conflict :American Fiscal Politics from 1974 to 2016. - 1 online resource (174 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Fiscal policy-making is a persistent site of conflict in American politics, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. In three empirical papers, this dissertation explores several dimensions of American fiscal politics in policy debates and public opinion. The first paper uncovers themes in Congressional speeches about budget deficits and debt since the 1980s. It identifies a dominant narrative about a future fiscal crisis and illustrates how projections of future fiscal states are used to justify present policy action. The second paper describes American attitudes toward fiscal policy issues and examines sources of change in the salience of budget deficits and debt in public opinion. Results show that fiscal policy issue salience spikes after high-profile events in the policy-process, but this effect is mediated by partisan identification. The third paper looks to the effect of state and local government spending cuts on welfare chauvinist attitudes in American public opinion between 2010 and 2014. It finds that citizens who live in states that experienced deeper cuts to spending on public goods report greater support for laws that would exclude unauthorized immigrants from these benefits. Supplementing the main analysis with secondary sources, the discussion suggests that anti-immigrant policy entrepreneurs found in fiscal austerity an opportunity to mobilize welfare chauvinist sentiment in pursuit of more punitive immigration policies. Taken together, these papers widen the scope for the study of public finance from its traditional focus on fiscal performance and the formal budgeting process to include interactions between policy-makers and the mass public, the narrative construction of fiscal policy problems, and the relevance of public finance outcomes to debates over national belonging and deservingness.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379773960Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
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Distributive conflictIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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