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POLITICS, LAW, AND GOVERNMENT



                NEW                               FORTHCOMING                       NEW

              Meltdown                          Presidents and Mass               The Dysfunctional

              The Financial Crisis,             Incarceration                     Politics of the
              Consumer Protection,              Choices at the Top,               Affordable Care Act
              and the Road Forward              Repercussions                     GREG M. SHAW
              LARRY KIRSCH AND                  at the Bottom
              GREGORY D. SQUIRES
                                                LINDA MANCILLAS
              FOREWORD: AN INTERVIEW WITH
              ELIZABETH WARREN
              AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL BARR











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                                                                                    American public from thinking
                                                administrations’ policies from the late
                seeking to evaluate continuing   1960s to 2017 have led to rampant   and acting in level-headed
                debates over the future of the   over-imprisonment and a public policy   ways. ”
                     ”
                CFPB.                           catastrophe in the United States.      —Robert Y. Shapiro, Wallace Sayre
                  —Howell E. Jackson, James S. Reid Jr.,   FEATURES                 Professor of Government at Columbia
                                                                                           University, February 23, 2017
                Professor of Law, Harvard Law School,   •  Explains how presidential “tough-
                             November 28, 2016    on-crime” rhetoric fueled by the   While analyzing the contentious debate
                                                  public’s fear of crime led to the war
              Meltdown reveals how the Consumer   on crime, the war on drugs, and the   over health care reform, this much-
              Financial Protection Bureau was     war on gangs, resulting in the nation   needed study also challenges the
              able to curb important unsafe and   becoming known as “Prison America”  argument that treating medical patients
              unfair practices that led to the recent   •  Presents undeniable evidence that   like shoppers can significantly reduce
              financial crisis. In interviews with key   U.S. presidents have played a major   health expenditures.
              government, industry, and advocacy   role in America’s imprisonment   FEATURES
              groups along with deep archival     tragedy                         •  Explains why the two political parties
              research, Kirsch and Squires show where                               have staked out such different
              the CFPB was able to overcome many   LINDA K. MANCILLAS, PhD, is      positions on health care reform
              abusive practices, where it was less able   assistant professor of political science
              to do so, and why.                at Georgia Gwinnett College.
                                                                                  GREG M. SHAW, PhD, is professor
              LARRY KIRSCH is managing partner                                    and chair of the Political Science
              of IMR Health Economics, Portland, OR.                              Department at Illinois Wesleyan
                                                                                  University.
              GREGORY D. SQUIRES is professor at
              George Washington University.
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